Posted
8:50 AM
by Gene

We are sorry to learn that
Charlton Heston has died. He was a link between the golden age and the SUPERMEGAPLATINUM AGE that is our own, starring in the big CinemaScope Biblical epics that drew hordes into the drive-ins while the industry marked time, preparing to make
Bonnie and Clyde and works of true genius that chased mere moviegoers away. (He also made a few high-profile clunkers in the VALENTI Era, but that's a price to pay for encouraging genius.) Later of course he headed the NRA, and whatever you think of that august body he never did back down from it. He is thought to have had Alzheimer's, just as Ronald Reagan did, and now he is free from an awful disease.