Charlton Heston dead at 84

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Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure."

Sleep well, sweet prince...
 
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I am honored that I got to see someone like Heston. I loved his courage to stand up and be counted for what he believed in. He is a great man.

I think I need to watch The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur tomorrow.
 
He was a beacon to the cause during a very dark period. A brave man in the truest sense of that word. He'll always be my President.
 
A great man and wonderful actor, my prayers and condolences to his family ..RIP :(
 
Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except bad people.
- Charlton Heston
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Rip mr heston the best nra president ever may we all live a long time like u did and keep or guns and make them take them from or cold dead hands when we die of old age
 
Details of his life which no doubt resonate with many of us here

At his birth in a Chicago suburb on Oct. 4, 1923, his name was Charles Carter. His parents moved to St. Helen, Mich., where his father, Russell Carter, operated a lumber mill. Growing up in the Michigan woods with almost no playmates, young Charles read books of adventure and devised his own games while wandering the countryside with his rifle.

Charles's parents divorced, and she married Chester Heston, a factory plant superintendent in Wilmette, Ill., an upscale north Chicago suburb. Shy and feeling displaced in the big city, the boy had trouble adjusting to the new high school. He took refuge in the drama department.

"What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people," he said in a 1986 interview. "In those days I wasn't satisfied with being me."

Calling himself Charlton Heston from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's last name, he won an acting scholarship to Northwestern University in 1941. He excelled in campus plays and appeared on Chicago radio. In 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Force and served as a radio-gunner in the Aleutians.

In 1944 he married another Northwestern drama student, Lydia Clarke, and after his army discharge in 1947, they moved to New York to seek acting jobs. Finding none, they hired on as codirectors and principal actors at a summer theater in Asheville, N.C.
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Besides Fraser, who directed his father in an adventure film, "Mother Lode," the Hestons had a daughter, Holly Ann, born Aug. 2, 1961. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1994 at a party with Hollywood and political friends. They had been married 64 years when he died.
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I watched "Omega Man" on DVD last weekend and friends and I had been out
shooting AR-15s, AK47s and various pistols yesterday morning.

RIP.
 
The man was sexist, racist, and actually knew very little about guns themselves--hence, he was an ill-advised choice for NRA president.

I've never harboured an ounce of respect for the man.

I hope he learns a bit of tolerance on this journey of his, wherever it may lead. (I believe in reincarnation.)
 
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