Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Charlton Heston 1924-2008
posted @3:08 p.m. by Richard Kelly
"Left eye, right eye, take a look around", sang the late Warren Zevon. "Everybody's headed for a hole in the ground." On that note this site seems to becoming a bit of a blogging burial space since updates are occasioned mainly by fatalities at the moment. Charlton Heston was lucky his wealth protected him from meeting his maker via some trigger-happy loon packing heat in the manner that Heston considered an inviolable American right. A friend just gave me various ideas for Heston-inspired Tens but unfortunately I can't quite be doing with any of them. Confession: I couldn't get through most of his movies, the epics were just too damn long. By far my favourite of his movies and performances is Peckinpah's Major Dundee. To wit, the above. So long, Chuck.
