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glennkenny.premiere.com - 4/7/2008

Charlton Heston

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Despite my enjoyment of much of Tim Burton's 1994 fantastic biopic Ed Wood , I've never been able to forgive the cinematic libel it commits near the end. My general principle concerning fictions about real people is that anything goes that plays, so I must consider my response here as completely emotional. It's in that scene near the end when Johnny Depp's Wood rushes into Musso and ...

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goldenfiddle — ... “Between (Planet Of The) Apes, Omega (Man) and Soylent Green, Heston became to certain late-Baby-Boomers what John Wayne was to their dads. Only in those films Heston was the John Wayne of the dystopia—the inescapable dystopia. He was, then, a pre-adolescent’s first effective intimation of Sisyphus.” ~ Glenn Kenny, Premiere ...

Charlton Heston Dies
SpoutBlog — My favorite anecdote about Charlton Heston, who died over the weekend at the age of 84, has to do with him fighting for the role of the Mexican cop in Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil. As Glenn Kenny tells it: …any self-respecting cinephile knows that it was only through Charlton Heston’s intervention that Welles directed Touch of Evil in the first place. Welles had only been contracted to co-star in the picture as corrupt bordertown cop Hank Quinlan. When the ...

Observations on the passing of Charlton Heston, movie star.
IFC: Indie Eye — ... Kehr at DaveKehr.com "It's funny--a few years back, one could really surprise people by pulling out that Michel Mourlet bit about Heston being an 'axiom of cinema;' now, thanks to the internet, almost everyone knows it. What we ought to acknowledge on his passing today is that Mourlet's pronouncement, dismissed as almost pathological hyperbole at the time and for some time after, was accurate."        —Glenn Kenny at Premiere [Photo: Heston in "Ben-Hur," MGM, 1959] + ...