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.
Shutter postal services on Saturday The U.S. Postal Service is seriously contemplating closing several district offices and offering "early-out" retirement packages to veteran employees. While the latter has merit ---- it was accomplished several years ago utilizing the 70 formula: age plus years in service ---- the former appears to be a move that an overburdened Starbucks would institute. ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:32:51 GMTThe rationale for formally designating Israel a Jewish state – as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands – rests on three religious-political pillars: God’s purported covenant with Moses instructing the ancient Israelites to conquer the land, the injustice of the Roman-era Diaspora that supposedly removed them centuries later, and the brutal persecution of European Jews in the Holocaust.
Publ.Date : Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:00:04 GMTOhio today has 31 drive-ins, including the South (3050 S. High St.) and the Skyview (2420 E. Main St., Lancaster). The former opened in 1950; the latter, in 1948. The following memories were culled from five decades of buttered popcorn, rooftop reclining and foggy windows.
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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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