Charleton Heston died today. Guess the dirty apes win.
· Apr 5, 2008
Not so sorry to say goodbye to a man who was a poster boy for the NRA, and made a lot of bad, bad movies. Weird, though, that there has been all this talk about Planet of the Apes, and he dies. He was 84.
Somewhere in the seventies Chuck went terribly wrong. He started out marching with Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights way before it became fashionable and spoke out about racism when it was a dangerous thing to do. He was also for gun control after Robert Kennedy was killed. Then... he voted for Richard Nixon! What happened? How can a thoughtful person do a 180 like that?
Who knows.. but at least now we can pry that rifle away from him.