Sunday, April 06, 2008
RIP Charlton Heston
I don't know how I missed the news, but I'm truly sad to hear that Charlton Heston passed away yesterday. He was one of my very favorite actors, and a big reason why a number of my all-time favorite movies are my all-time favorite movies. The final scene from the original Planet of the Apes still (literally) gives me chills every time I see it.
It's hard to know exactly what to make of a legacy as polarized as Heston's. He wasn't always the "cold, dead hands" guy he's mostly known as today; neither did he remain the committed Civil Rights activist he was in the sixties. But, whatever. I'll always be thankful for his movies. Here's another of my favorite Heston scenes, this one from 1971's The Omega Man.
Unfortunately, there isn't a youtube clip of the scene from the same movie where Heston injects his blood into the foxy late-sixties black power chick while delivering the line (in the way that only he could), "That's genuine 180-proof Anglo-Saxon, baby!" It really must be seen to be believed. But here's one last clip for you, from Heston's other great sci-fi classic. This one's pretty indispensible:
Nobody did climaxes like Charlton Heston.
It's hard to know exactly what to make of a legacy as polarized as Heston's. He wasn't always the "cold, dead hands" guy he's mostly known as today; neither did he remain the committed Civil Rights activist he was in the sixties. But, whatever. I'll always be thankful for his movies. Here's another of my favorite Heston scenes, this one from 1971's The Omega Man.
Unfortunately, there isn't a youtube clip of the scene from the same movie where Heston injects his blood into the foxy late-sixties black power chick while delivering the line (in the way that only he could), "That's genuine 180-proof Anglo-Saxon, baby!" It really must be seen to be believed. But here's one last clip for you, from Heston's other great sci-fi classic. This one's pretty indispensible:
Nobody did climaxes like Charlton Heston.
# posted by Marcus : 8:25 PM
