Well…..I guess we can have his gun now…. Awwwww too soon?
Heston’s most controversial role was not in a movie but as leader of the National Rifle Association, the gun-rights lobby group, from 1998 to 2003.
He famously stood at a podium, holding an antique rifle above his head and telling gun-control advocates they would not get his gun unless they could pry it “from my cold, dead hands.”
Well, Charlton Heston is now gone. I always give credit to those who stand up for what they believe and the man was a sincere conservative and admirably lived his life that way. Yet, he was insane.
Moreover, what does it say about a group like the NRA to use a 70-plus year old man as there spokesperson. Was Wilford Brimley unavailable? After all, Wilford is just trying to keep our cholesterol down and prevent Diabetes. Charlton was leading a group who believes we can protect ourselves with personally owned weapons of mass destruction. We can’t get a kid to learn to read and write, not take drugs, not get pregnant at 12 and not walk into there schools and bust a cap in someone’s ass, but yeah we need guns to protect us from people. Heston was the man for these people. Someone not to intelligent, who, like many stars (Susan Sarandon), who should stick doing what, they are QUALIFIED to do best.
Heston will be remembered by my generation for the NRA, but generations before me and even myself, hopes he is remembered for playing Moses, his performance in Ben-Hur, and putting Science Fiction films relevant in the film business with the Planet of the Apes films. (Charlton Heston must be the actor William Shatner modeled himself after)
My personal favorite is Touch of Evil. If you haven’t scene it, I recommend.
He was a good man to many people, who actually knew him. I, being a movie snob, must say goodbye to one of films early mega-stars
