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6:00am Bad for Each Other (1954) 7:30am Buccaneer, The (1958) 9:32am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Wrong Way Butch (1950) 9:51am Short Film: One Reel Wonders: Egypt Speaks (1951) 10:00am Khartoum (1966) 12:30pm Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1965) 4:00pm Ben-Hur (1959) 7:44pm Short Film: From The Vaults: Ben-Hur: Behind The Scenes With Glenn H. Randall & Yakima Canutt (1959) 8:00pm Big Country, The (1958) 11:00pm Major Dundee (1965) 1:30am Soylent Green (1973) 3:11am Short Film: From The Vaults: Look At The World Of Soylent Green, A (1973) 3:30am Hawaiians, The (1970) http://www.tcm.com/schedule

My grandfather was a college football star who even played for the NFL champs back in 1928, so I was looking forward to seeing George Clooney’s new 1920s football movie, Leatherheads, this weekend. That’s before I found out how Clooney, like many lefties in Hollywood and the news media, had treated the late Charlton Heston. Clooney’s offense took place a few years back. According to Life Site News, “For his conservative stands, however, Heston was attacked and reviled by his Hollywood colleagues. In 2003 actor and leftist political activist George Clooney joked about Heston’s illness [Alzheimer’s disease], and, after Heston...

When Charlton Heston died, not only did Hollywood lose an icon, the world witnessed the passing away of a man worthy of respect outside of his acting credentials. With the exception of a few extreme loon bloggers, the much-deserved tributes poured in. Heston will be remembered by many for his legendary performances. A rule at my uncle’s house every year around Easter is, “Thou shalt watch 'The Ten Commandments.'" The fact this Cecil B. DeMille-directed movie still plays on television on a regular basis more than 50 years after its release is a testament to Heston’s powerful on-screen presence and...

Charlton Heston played one of his most effective cameo roles in Idaho - and it wasn't in a film. Heston...was a critical figure in Idaho's Right to Work law, approved by voters in 1986 after the most expensive ballot-measure campaign in state history. Heston's TV ad in support of (the) law...ran for five months. "It really did get people's attention," said Lorna Auld, co-chairwoman of the campaign. "His voice was so memorable and for him to stand there like Moses and say, 'This is what I believe,' was good for us and good for Idaho." ...Gary Glenn, who ran the...

My Friend Charlton Heston, The Political Pariah of Hollywood When President Reagan made it possible for me to re-invent myself in Hollywood in 1986, I was befriended by one of “Dutch’s� closest political supporters and Hollywood friends, Charlton “Chuck� Heston and his wife Lydia. Peter Paul Threw a Reception For Lydia Heston’s Photography Debut at Gallery Tatou owned by Paul with his friend Tony Curtis in Beverly Hills Paul arranged for President and Nancy Regan to Open the Exhibit for the Hestons(Incredibly, I had to cajole President Reagan into doing this first favor ever asked on behalf of Chuck Heston, who would...

In my first race, I was an unknown candidate running for the United States Senate against a three-term incumbent. Most political figures believed I couldn't win so did nothing to help. There was a major exception: Charlton Heston. When others didn't have time for me, he did. I didn't win that first race, but his encouragement is something I'll never forget. Six years later, I was an incumbent governor running for reelection and Charlton Heston came to two small communities in South Arkansas to do campaign events. The events were stunningly successful, bringing record crowds to these communities who were...

TCM Host Robert Osborne: Actor Was ‘Genuine Movie Star’ By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/7/2008 2:44:00 PM Turner Classic Movies slated a 15-hour marathon April 11-12 (2:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m. April 12) to salute the late Charlton Heston. Heston, who died over the weekend at age 84, was an Oscar-winning actor whose imposing frame and voice made him the film industry's choice for a number of classic roles. TCM's lineup includes an interview and lesser-known films -- The Buccaneer, Major Dundee, The Hawaiians (such tributes are circumscribed by the films to which a channel has rights) -- bracketing his...

LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) -- Turner Classic Movies said it plans to pay tribute to late Hollywood film star Charlton Heston with a marathon of his movies. Heston, who had suffered from Alzheimer's disease in recent years, died Saturday at the age of 84. The movie marathon honoring him is to take place Friday and will include screenings of his famous films "Ben-Hur," "The Buccaneer," "The Hawaiians," "Khartoum" and "Major Dundee," as well as two showings of an in-depth conversation between Heston and TCM host Robert Osborne in the TCM original special "Private Screenings: Charlton Heston." "Charlton Heston was...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683 Statement of Wayne LaPierre Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association of America Sunday, April 06, 2008 Today, my heart is heavy with the loss of Charlton Heston. America has lost a great patriot. The Second Amendment has lost a faithful friend. So have I, and so have four million NRA members and eighty million gun owners. And so has every American who cares about the Bill of Rights, individual liberty, and Freedom. My heart is heavy, but not without a sense of pride. Pride in a man who devoted his...

WASHINGTON — The death of a former president of the National Rifle Association, Charlton Heston, throws a spotlight on a debate over gun control that has largely moved off center stage in recent years. The actor, who died Saturday, became synonymous with the issue of gun rights late in his life through his leadership of the NRA, as he helped energize the organization with the rallying cry “from my cold, dead hands!” But the fight over the Second Amendment rarely has dominated the national discourse in the years since Heston faded from the public eye in 2002, despite recent highly...

Heston was a former Democrat who had a wake-up call in the 80s, and his position on gun rights earned him the deep lifetime animosity of the Hollywood left - from the likes of disingenuous “directors” like Michael Moore, and mediocre actors like George Clooney, who infamously spat out the following back in 2003: In receiving a special filmmaking achievement award from the National Board of Reviews, actor George Clooney joked that “Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.” Clooney still had a chance to apologize for the bad humor day. When questioned about the remark...

April 7, 2009 at 9:00am Oscar-winning actor, Interview, Special. The noted star of such epics as The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur discusses his career. Hosted by Robert Osborne. TCM Schedule

Charlton Heston in a TV ad supporting voter approval of a state Right to Work law on Idaho's 1986 general election ballot: "I've played men like Tom Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, all of them heroes defending American freedom. There are Americans still carrying on that fight in Idaho, where citizens want the Right to Work without being forced to join a union. Now, as a former union president, I believe Americans should be free to choose. We're all watching, Idaho. Strike a blow for freedom. Vote YES on Referendum One."

Winning the Cultural War Charlton Heston delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. "My Daddy," he said, "pretends to be people." There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including Michelangelo. If you want the ceiling re-painted I'll do my best. There always seem to be a lot...

Monday's headlines screamed about the "brawl" between Clinton and the NRA on ABC's Sunday talk show, "This Week." The confrontation made the radio talk shows and the TV news for several days. It started because the NRA is airing ads in which NRA President Charlton Heston chides President Bill Clinton for "lying." When it was the NRA's turn to be interviewed, it took three reporters, Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and George Will, to confront NRA Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre. Cokie Roberts began the questioning by asking Mr. LaPierre if he thought the NRA's new advertisement, which quotes NRA President Charlton Heston...

Howie Carr thread; columns, discussion of his show. Is there a winner in the death pool? Charlton Heston won't be down for bkfst...also if there's a Sunday Herald column today we'll lead off with that

Charlton Heston Winning the Culture War audio and text of speech One of the best I have ever heard "God Bless Charlton"

My favorite Amendments: appreciation - First and Second Amendments to the Constitution Charlton Heston THIS may surprise you, but I'm not the only man in Hollywood with an appreciation for the Second Amendment. There are numbers of gun owners -- collectors, hunters, sport shooters -- in the film community, plus many more who keep firearms for protection. I suspect, in fact, that there are more filmmakers who are closet gun enthusiasts than closet homosexuals. Steven Spielberg has one of the finest gun collections in California, but never refers to it, and never shoots publicly. Can you imagine the most famous...

Actor Charleton Heston has died at age 84 according to KABC radio news.

With a view to Monday's deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, European newspapers are blaming the lack of gun control measures in the United States and implying that Charlton Heston is indirectly responsible for the scope of the killings. Across the continent on Tuesday, European media rubber-neck at Monday's massacre in the United States. Most seem to agree about one thing: The shooting at Virginia Tech is the result of America's woeful lack of serious gun control laws. In the strongest editorialized image of the day, German cable news broadcaster NTV flashed an image of the former head of the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Neighbors who live down the hill from Charlton Heston filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the actor, alleging their property was damaged two years ago when heavy rain sent hillside debris pouring into their home. The lawsuit by Jerome and Flora Heilweil alleges that ''slope failure'' on Heston's property caused substantial damage to their home in January 2005, diminishing the market value of their property. The couple seek at least $1.2 million, as well as punitive damages. Jeff Briggs, Heston's attorney, said the actor owns 10 percent of the hillside, while the Heilweils own the rest. ''It's...

NRAnews.com blogger/radio host Cam Edwards wondered why CBS News allowed 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace to appear at an anti-gun Brady Center event late last month. Edwards describes the appearance: That's Mike Wallace two weeks ago at a Brady Center fundraiser in Washington, D.C. At the event, held at the French Embassy, Wallace played a clip of his "60 Minutes" interview with then-NRA president Charlton Heston, whom he described as the "self-righteous enemy of the Jim and Sarah Brady Bunch". Afterwards, he mocked Heston by holding his hands above his head (as if holding a rifle), and said "in my...

NRA says Kaine ad misleading, wants it halted Candidate defends spot that uses remark by Charlton Heston The National Rifle Association is shooting at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Timothy M. Kaine. In a news release that invoked the name of actor and former NRA President Charlton Heston, Chris W. Cox, chairman of the NRA's political victory fund, accused Kaine of "a shameful and dishonest" attempt to mislead voters in a recent radio commercial. The ad uses Heston's name. (SNIP) In a conference call with reporters, Kaine stood by the ad. It is "extremely accurate," he said. The Kaine ad says he...

Charlton Heston (1924 - ) Biography from Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film Born Charles Carter in Evanston, IL; educated at Northwestern University. Commanding male lead, a one-person Hollywood trek through the pages of world history and a forceful, Republican vision of a world in which America always wins. An acting student at Northwestern, Charlton Heston first acted on film in a student production of PEER GYNT (1941). After WW II service, he and wife Lydia Clarke worked as models in New York and ran a theatre in Asheville, NC, before Heston found success on Broadway in Katherine Cornell's production of Antony...

Charlton Heston, the Academy Award-winning actor who headed the National Rifle Association and now has Alzheimer's, was awarded the Medal of Freedom on Wednesday by President Bush. An eclectic group received the nation's highest civilian award, including master chef Julia Child, whose television show brought gourmet cooking into millions of American homes, and the late Dave Thomas, the Wendy's hamburger magnate and philanthropist. Others included nuclear bomb pioneer Edward Teller, concert pianist Van Cliburn, former Czech Republic president and playwright Vaclav Havel, former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, the late Hall of Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente and the late...

NRA Members' Councils of California Please Distribute Widely To All Gun Owners/Groups ----------------------------------- NRA MEMBERS' COUNCILS OF CALIFORNIA07/15/2003 ----------------------------------- At a ceremony to be held at the White House on July 23, 2003, President Bush will award the Nation's highest civil honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NRA former President Charlton Heston (and 10 other individuals). http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030718-2.html * Charlton Heston is an Academy Award winning actor and an eloquent, early voice on behalf of civil rights in the United States and democracy around the world. His films include The Greatest Show on Earth, El Cid, The Greatest Story...

A couple of folks pointed out to me that some of the terminology in the original article might be cannon fodder for media communists who want to smear this site the same way they keep smearing Heston. I've reworked the article, but I'll only post the link so nobody with an agenda can blame the site for it. To summarize, I was saying that I had fallen for the media portrayal of Heston without having all the facts, and that the more I learn about him (primarily from this site) the more I feel he merits admiration and respect. Plus,...

NRA bids a loving farewell to Heston By Frank Cerabino, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 27, 2003 ORLANDO -- The National Rifle Association bid a loving farewell to actor Charlton Heston, who took the stage Saturday for the final time at the group's annual convention, and managed to briefly hold a rifle in the air, and muster up one more, "From my cold, dead hands!" The homage to Heston put a surreal layer on this annual event, which brings together 50,000 gun owners -- nearly all of them white, and most of them ardent Republicans -- for a...

This ought to annoy all the anti-gun, anti-hunting peacenik hippy Hellywood freaks.

(Los Angeles) – Academy Award winning actor and civil rights activist Charlton Heston, and his wife Lydia, sent the following message of support to U.S. military troops: "There is no duty more noble than that which has called you across the world in defense of freedom. Yours is a mission of hope and humanity for the oppressed. Rest assured that while pretend-patriots talk of supporting you, even as they condemn your noble cause, an unwavering vast majority of Americans share and take pride in your mission. You represent all that is good and right about America and are the true...

Former screen icon Charlton Heston sends message of support to US troops Thu Apr 10, 8:13 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Former screen icon and conservative gun advocate Charlton Heston sent a message of support to US troops in Iraq and attacked Hollywood's critics of the war. "There is no duty more noble than that which has called you across the world in defense of freedom," stated the message from the star of the classic gladiator flick "Ben Hur" and his wife Lydia. "Yours is a mission of hope and humanity for the oppressed. "Rest assured that while pretend-patriots...

Received news from NRA HQ today that Charlton Heston will step down at the NRA's Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida on April 25,2003.VIP tickets are available on a limited basis. General Admission tickets will be available on February 1, 2003.To order tickets, call 1-800-325-SEAT.

It is difficult to get a handle on the real Charlton Heston. On the one hand, he is the towering actor who starred in some of the biggest films of the 20th century — The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes. On the other hand, Heston has become one of the country's most polarizing figures as the fiery spokesman for the National Rifle Association. In August, Heston, now 79, announced that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He invited Peter Jennings to his home for what may be his last opportunity to go on record in an in-depth...

Van Hilleary, Heston, Lamar Heston fires up NRA rally Tour for GOP is ailing actor's exit By James W. Brosnan (albore's water carrier) brosnanj@shns.com November 2, 2002 NASHVILLE - Charlton Heston stood with Tennessee politicians for the last time as president of the National Rifle Association on Friday. More than 300 NRA members stood more than an hour in an Opryland Hotel conference room to hear other NRA leaders and finally Heston plug the candidacies of Lamar Alexander for the U.S. Senate and Rep. Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.) for governor. Heston, 79, has Alzheimer disease and is stepping down as the...

<p>Today, Mary Matalin, assistant to President Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney, addresses a fund-raising lunch on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Van Hilleary at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville.</p> <p>Tomorrow, Cheney returns to Tennessee for a Hilleary fund-raising lunch in Chattanooga.</p>

Charlton Heston says he feels at home in South Dakota. The 78-year-old actor, author and civil rights activist, who is serving an unprecedented fifth term as president of the National Rifle Association, spoke to a largely Republican crowd Wednesday evening at a rally supporting NRA-endorsed candidates. Although he did not appear as robust as when he played Ben-Hur, or possess the command presence of Moses, the Academy Award winner owned the crowd of more than 400 the instant he walked onto stage. Heston, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, reminisced about the two months he spent in Rome learning to drive...

Hollywood icon and National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston is shrugging off disease and old age to make perhaps his final fight for political candidates who support the Second Amendment. He still knows how to play a crowd. About 700 fans in Manchester, N.H., went wild Monday when he held a rifle in front of him and uttered his most famous line: "From my cold dead hands." "It is an honor to me to stand here in front of you all and be received as generously as you have done not only tonight but through the years," he said. Many...

Charlton Heston's voice is softer than when he bellowed as Moses, his body frailer than when he commandeered a chariot as Ben-Hur. He shuffles stiffly now across a room, his upper body angled forward. He leans on a lectern because standing tires him. It takes prodding from a colleague for Mr. Heston, 79, to raise a flintlock over his head in his signature pose and challenge his critics to pry the rifle "from my cold dead hands." Still, the gesture brings whoops at a campaign rally here from the party faithful, the party being the National Rifle Association. Mr. Heston...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Aging and suffering from Alzheimer's disease (news - web sites), National Rifle Association president and actor Charlton Heston launched a two-week campaign tour for candidates who support gun rights. AP Photo Heston spoke Monday to a crowd of about 700 in New Hampshire as part of the NRA's "Vote Freedom First" campaign. He held a rifle in front of him, then uttered to the roaring crowd his famous line, "From my cold dead hands." Heston, president of the NRA since 1998, announced in August that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. His speech in Manchester...

Richard Johnson, in this morning's Page Six, writes that 'shockumentary' director Michael Moore, "shoots himself in the foot by bullying Charlton Heston" in Moore's new movie Bowling for Columbine. One industry insider went on record with Page Six: "It comes across as picking on a nice guy ... Don't forget that Heston invites Moore into his house to do the interview. Then, in essence, Moore pushes him against a wall and pounds him with so many questions - questions about death caused by weapon owners - that anyone's head would reel. It doesn't take a genius to make someone look...

<p>The Republican challenger in Alabama's race for governor is accusing the Democratic incumbent of taking advantage of National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston to secure a "suspicious" endorsement from the 77-year-old actor, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.</p> <p>The endorsement of scandal-plagued Gov. Donald Siegelman occurred while Mr. Heston was visiting Alabama to campaign for Republicans.</p>

Laura's Weekly E-Blast! http://www.LauraIngraham.com THE TODAY SHOW VERSUS GUNS: WHY WE CARE For those of you who missed our shows last Thursday and Friday, you missed hearing my outrage over the interview conducted by NBC’s Matt Lauer last Thursday with screen legend and probable Alzheimer’s sufferer Charlton Heston. While Lauer acknowledged Heston’s formidable screen and stage career in the interview, he devoted most of the second day to grilling Mr. Heston on his NRA activities and political advocacy on behalf of gun rights. Lauer’s rather soft tone notwithstanding, his objective was clear: he hoped to get Mr. Heston to “do...

The following is a transcript of Lauer’s biased questioning of Mr. Heston on guns. Be your own judge. LAUER: What are you most proud of in [the political part] of your life? Mr. HESTON: I suppose the leadership of the NRA. LAUER: Why? Mr. HESTON: I believe in the right to keep and bear arms. Thomas Jefferson and all those smart old dead white guys that invented the country, that's what they were in favor of, and so I'll go with him. LAUER: Have you ever gotten up one morning, read the newspaper or seen the news, about a particularly...

Scott's World -- UPI Arts & Entertainment By VERNON SCOTT, United Press International HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Charlton Heston, who announced this month he is afflicted by early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, always has been a Hollywood anomaly -- a man from another time and place. A throwback. Heston belongs to Elizabethan England, to that era's elite gentry -- respecting honor, loyalty, impeccable manners, aristocratic lineage and scholarly achievement. Although resonating a Scottish/Anglo-Saxon heritage, Heston finds himself in his sunset years an Academy Award-winning actor, a player of parts on movie screens who also sought to create good for...

Monday, Aug. 12, 2002California Could Take Charlton Heston's Guns If Charlton Heston is diagnosed with full-blown Alzheimer's disease, California can take away his gun rights. According to Slate, "state law requires that anyone who represents a threat to others because of a mental disorder or illness can't own a firearm. The state also denies gun ownership to those suffering from any kind of grave illness. For Heston to lose his Second Amendment rights, a court would have to find that he has a grave illness or represents such a threat." If Heston's doctor deems him unfit, California law requires...

With the recent announcement by Charleton Heston that he has Alzheimer's and, as a result, will have to give up his position as President of the National Rifle Association, someone will have to be nominated to the Presidency. As this is primarily a PR position, I nominate Tom Celek in the hope that should he accept, he will credit Rosie O'Donnell for his decision Shall we petition the NRA to ask that Celek be considered? Here's an example of an on-line petition we could build.

Brain-Ray 2000     Actor Charlton Heston announced he is the latest conservative leader to be stricken with a brain disorder.  Alzheimer's disease struck former President Ronald Reagan during the last year of his presidency, while brain cancer killed Sen. Paul Coverdell and Republican strategist Lee Atwater.  Coverdell's death eventually cost Republicans their Senate majority.  "This is just bad, bad luck," one Republican leader said, after hearing the news.

Charleston Heston has announced he has contracted a debilitating neurological disorder in the family of Altzheimers Disease. Heston asked the media to be understanding in the coming weeks if he repeats things he has just said and that he is entering a battle that will ultimately end in a draw.

Charlton Heston "Winning The Cultural War" Harvard Law School Forum February 16, 1999 I remember my son when he was five, explaining to his kindergarten class what his father did for a living. "My Daddy," he said, "pretends to be people." There have been quite a few of them. Prophets from the Old and New Testaments, a couple of Christian saints, generals of various nationalities and different centuries, several kings, three American presidents, a French cardinal and two geniuses, including Michelangelo. If you want the ceiling re-painted I'll do my best. There always seem to be a lot of different...