[Inspectorette]

oWf - thank you so much for posting the Dose, I'm still praying for your Eric.

Regarding these pix, hoow tragic this is. Charlton Heston used to be the most glorious, tall, strapping beautiful man. For anyone of you young folks out there who have never seen "Ben-Hur", I urge you to rent it. He was magnificent - his acting was incredible (he won the Best Actor Oscar that year), and he was absolutely gorgeous - brilliant blue eyes, curly brown hair, strong jaw, and a raw sexuality that turned this then 14-year-old teenaged girl into a puddle of mush.

This makes me so sad...

[ohioWfan]

The last one is especially sad, isn't it Inspectorette?

He looks so old and feeble......

And I'm with you on recommending Ben Hur, or even the Ten Commandments. He was quite a man!

[Fawnn]

Or Heston in "The 10 Commandments." Bittersweet memories associated with Heston films. We'd see them at the drive-in. Mom would pop up supermarket bags full of popcorn -- always white because dad didn't like yellow popcorn and never too salty, on the way there dad would stop and run into the store and get a bag of Brachs wrapped candies, and we'd each have our frosty Pepsi in a 12-ounce bottle! (Dad passed away earlier this year, before I started posting on the Dose.)

[Hopey]

yep, a real man's man. i always liked him in 'touch of evil'... classic! he plays a police inspector in a mexican border town, who goes after a corrupt older cop (orson welles). beautifully filmed, delicious score, and not some sappy moralistic hollywood crud that's inflicted us for the past 30 years...

[DrDeb]

The President looked and sounded great today! It makes me feel incredibly secure knowing that he, Rummy, General Myers, and Paul Bremer are LEADING our efforts in Iraq (love the pix of the 4 of them together!).

GREAT article from Tony Blankley today, PARTICULARLY HIS LAST PARAGRAPH!!!:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0703/blankley.html

Excerpts [I added the 'all caps' for emphasis!]:

It is not yet thunder on the right, but President Bush should begin to keep a weather watch for a potentially unstable storm front forming on his right flank. Of course, conservatism is a house of many mansions, and it is a LOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY to have policies that satisfy us all. Conservatives are both muscular military interventionists and isolationists; free traders and protectionists; libertarians and cultural traditionalists.

. . . But, crosscutting all these varieties of American conservatism is a deeply visceral distaste for political compromise and expediency. And that distaste turns quickly to distrust of conservative leaders when they reach the national governing level.

That instinct is the most dangerous phenomena for elected conservative leaders. A PROMINENT CONSERVATIVE ACCUSED RONALD REAGAN OF SELLING OUT THE REAGAN REVOLUTION in the spring of 1981 (he had only been in office a few months).

. . . only about 35 percent of American voters are conservatives, President Bush needs to pick up the difference through some combination of: the strength of his personality, leadership, policy compromises and shrewd campaigning. Conservatives (both rank-and-file and activist) tend to think that leadership should be sufficient to that end. Professional political advisors almost invariably lean hard toward policy compromise. A successful conservative elected leader must not listen too much to either of those siren songs.

. . . But on the war front, he should not compromise an iota. He must do what he judges to be in the national interest, whatever the electoral effect. Not that he needs my advice on that point. He is a patriot and would gladly sacrifice his career, and even his life, on behalf of his nation's safety. That is why, as a conservative, I will vote for him, no matter what. We are damned lucky to have this man at the helm in these perilous times.

EVERYONE AT FR NEEDS TO RE-READ THIS LAST PARAGRAPH EVERY SINGLE DAY BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 2004!

[I believe Mr. Blankley is also the editor of the "Washington Times"!]

[PoisedWoman]

I saw Heston in Pasadena in 1997 and he was outstanding then, handsome, awake, alert, alive, just a terrific man. This Alzheimer's has come upon him suddenly and with horrible force.

[McLynnan]

OWF, thank you so much. Great pictures tonight. Inspectorette, I have the same memories of Charlton Heston. The man was a major hunk in his younger days, not to mention he's always been an exemplary human being. The change in his appearance since he made his Alzheimer's announcement is sad.

[DaughterofEve]

For anyone of you young folks out there who have never seen "Ben-Hur", I urge you to rent it.

I second that!