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George Clooney's mocking of Charlton Heston's fatal disease has largely been ignored by the press, which may be the result of Heston's status as the president of the National Rifle Association, an organization many in the media loathe. As first reported by syndicated columnist Liz Smith, Clooney opined at a National Board of Review event that "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." When asked by Smith if the remark went over the line, Clooney replied: "I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the NRA; he deserves whatever anyone says about him." Having had...

MIDI - LODI Just a short time ago…he'd really been dissing Chuck We all sent him our greetings -- George Clooney, man, you suck He tore his Achilles and as his career's heading south He can't stick his foot in his mouth I will no longer pay…to see anything he makes I heard that at SOLARIS…no one could stay awake He tore his Achilles and as his career's heading south He can't stick his foot in his mouth He appeared in THREE KINGS…a stinker beyond belief Those fools who had invested…shared suicidal grief He tore his Achilles and as...

Movie veteran Charlton Heston has fired back at George Clooney after the hunk mocked his Alzheimer's condition on TV in America on Monday night. A ranting Clooney appeared on The Charlie Rose Show to attack both President George W. Bush's war policies and National Rifle Association president Heston's pro-gun stance. But an ill-judged joke about Heston's illness has left the Ben-Hur star firing back - using Clooney's dead aunt Rosemary Clooney. Clooney quipped, "Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's." And Heston hit back, "It just goes to show that sometimes class does skip a generation."...