Charlton Heston, simply put, is the greatest leading man in film history. The charisma, dignity, grace and strength he conveyed on the silver screen define what it is to be a leading man. Heston has screen presence in biblical proportions, and its appropriate that his prime came about while Hollywood had an obsession with making epics -- the gravitas he embued in his characters made him a perfect fit in Tinsel Town's Golden Era. There has never been anyone else quite like him before or since and there may never be.
AUSTIN – A campaign ad featuring Charlton Heston as Moses and mocking Barack Obama as the "anointed" one was never a TV commercial at all – yet millions of people saw it.
Publ.Date : Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:16:23 GMTOrson Welles' 1958 classic has some great extras. Also out this week: Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty from 1959.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:57:39 GMTTHE HAPPENING (2008, Fox, R, $30) — When an eco-disaster strikes the Northeast, a science teacher (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee Philadelphia in search of a safe haven. That's basically all that happens in "The Happening."
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:11:52 GMTJust so you know, it's really "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Plastic Skull." With a light bulb inside.
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:10:57 GMTJust so you know, it's really "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Plastic Skull." With a light bulb inside. And the skull is hooked up to a dimmer switch so it emits the requisite intensity of other-worldliness. And don't call it an alien, because director Steven Spielberg really didn't want to do another alien movie after "E.T." and "Close Encounters." Producer/writer George Lucas got him to ...
Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:20:08 GMT
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Charlton Heston actually played President Andrew Jackson twice in unrelated films, thanks in part to their similar striking features. His first turn as Jackson came in Harry Levin's The President's Lady in 1953 and Anthony Quinn called on him to play Jackson again in the 1958 swashbuckler The Buccaneer.
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