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.
How I successfully treated my father for Charlton Heston DisorderWhen I visited my 75-year-old father in the U.S., I discovered he owned a handgun ? despite being legally blind
Hollywood legend Julie Adams visits Little RockTHV 11's Matt Buhrman caught up with screen icon Julie Adams at the Clinton Presidential Center where she was attending an alumni banquet for UALR.
Father, son bond over old moviesMy son, Jesse, and I like to stay up late Sunday night watching movies. Most weeks, mind you, these are not kids' movies we watch.It's movies like "Planet of the Apes" ? not the 1968 original with Charlton Heston, but the 2011 remake, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," with James Franco. Grante...
Remote locations: TV picks for the weekendFriday: Beware of giant slugs. In the first of a two-part series finale of Merlin,
Major Dundee (Blu-ray)Highly Recommended Major Dundee (1965) is famous, even legendary as the movie director Sam Peckinpah made prior to The Wild Bunch (1969), a potential masterpiece had the film not been taken out of his hands and ruined by others in a ham-fisted effort to salvage it. Charlton Heston and Richard Harris star as Civil War soldiers pursuing Apache Indians responsible for a massacre and who've ...
Much ado about the Bard: The Cinematheque celebrates ShakespeareWith Joss Whedon's low-budget, modern retelling of Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" opening June 7, the American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre is getting into the Elizabethan spirit with a new series, "Much Ado About Shakespeare: The Bard on Film."
Seduced and Abandoned: Cannes ReviewJames Toback and Alec Baldwin -- along with Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain -- show what it's like to bring a project to Cannes. read more
My five?Ben-Hur William Wyler This film released in 1959 was one of the most expensive Hollywood films of that time and won as many as eleven Academy Awards out of twelve n...
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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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