Charlton Heston, simply put, is the greatest leading man in film history. The charisma, dignity, grace and strength he conveyed on the silver screen define what it is to be a leading man. Heston has screen presence in biblical proportions, and its appropriate that his prime came about while Hollywood had an obsession with making epics -- the gravitas he embued in his characters made him a perfect fit in Tinsel Town's Golden Era. There has never been anyone else quite like him before or since and there may never be.
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Publ.Date : Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:36:57 GMT8 tonight TCM Eleven Oscars went to this 1959 epic of childhood friends, a Jew (best-actor winner Charlton Heston, right) and a Roman (Stephen Boyd), who become enemies during the time of Christ. Directed by William Wyler.
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Publ.Date : Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:58:28 GMTPresidents of the Screen Actors Guild don't get to live in the White House or walk into parties to the strains of "Hail to the Chief," but they do occasionally get a night-long tribute on TCM. The slate: Charlton Heston, left, in "Ben Hur" (7 p.m.), Ronald Reagan in "Stallion Road" (11 p.m.), Barry Gordon and William Daniels in "A Thousand Clowns" (12:45 a.m.), Patty Duke in "The Miracle Worker" ...
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:32:56 GMTED Asner - still fuming over the cancellation of "Lou Grant" in 1982 - blames late CBS boss Bill Paley and conservative icon Charlton Heston for killing his career. Asner had become increasingly vocal about his leftist politics, including softness...
Publ.Date : Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:05:42 GMT
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Charlton Heston actually played President Andrew Jackson twice in unrelated films, thanks in part to their similar striking features. His first turn as Jackson came in Harry Levin's The President's Lady in 1953 and Anthony Quinn called on him to play Jackson again in the 1958 swashbuckler The Buccaneer.
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