Remembering Charlton Heston, a.k.a. Chuck

Clash Daily ^ | 4-1-13 | Andrew Linn

[ReformationFan]

This upcoming Friday, April 5, will be the 5th year anniversary of the death of Charlton Heston, one of the greatest actors of all time. His best known roles include The Ten Commandments, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Ben-Hur, The Greatest Show on Earth, Midway, Planet of the Apes, and Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

But Chuck was also known for his political activism. He was originally a liberal Democrat, even supporting the Gun Control Act of 1968 (when asked why he did that, he replied, “I was young and foolish”).

But soon aftewards he became a conservative Republican. He eventually took the cause of the right to bear arms. He also compared supporting the Second Amendment to supporting the Civil Rights Movement by saying that he was promoting “freedom in the truest sense.” Chuck later became involved with the National Rifle Association, even being elected its vice-president (1997) and president (1998). His other political activism includes serving on the advisory board of U.S. English (which advocates making English the official language of the United States) and opposing calls for a nuclear freeze in the late twentieth century.

Now for some of his famous quotes:

“You can take my rifle … when you pry it from my cold dead hands!”

[Oratam]

His portrayal of Michelangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy opposite Rex Harrison’s Julius II is an acting master-class.

[dsutah]

Skyjacked-where he played a airline pilot who’s plane was hijacked by a young man played by James Brolin!

[Ron C.]

Chuck was a friend, a Christian man, and a hard-core conservative that never once was too proud to stop and talk to anyone about politics, the Bible or the anything Hollywood. His wife Lydia is among the most gracious and kind women on the face of this planet.

[ReformationFan]

Of all Hollywood actors who’ve passed on, he would be one of the ones I’d most like to have met along with James Stewart and Ronald Reagan. His last interview with the lovely Lydia by his side-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkS5i8qpEXA

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Charlton Heston considered the best movie he ever made and liked it better than any other was, “Will Penny”.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There were some very interesting ironies in the movie Skyjacked. First of all, the hijacker was a Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD, “which had made him psychotic”, but technically, it is recognizable as schizophrenia on top of his PTSD, which has to be an awful combination.

Amusingly, a combination that made him attracted to communism. The attraction that was not mutual, as the Soviet military demonstrated at the end of the movie, a lot.

One other thing, the hijacking actually punched through the professionalism of the plane captain, Heston, and the toothsome head stewardess, Yvette Mimieux, so that they realized they were in love with each other.

And her name was “Thatcher”. Not Margaret, but Angela, but amusing none the less.