The words on the picture pretty much sum up my thoughts on the man. Cool guy, scruffy and hard, like a classic hollywood actor should be. Those eyebrows, like caterpillars, and that jaw, like Iron. Of course I am writing this because today he passed on, at the ripe old age of 84. Hell of a long run for an NRA spokesman. He won an Oscar in 1959 for Ben Hur, a Christmas day staple, when someone forgets the copy of Jason and the Argonauts. Of course the role of his most dominant in my mind is Planet of the Apes, I know the movie is pure cheese by modern standards but I still love it, shoes that Markey Mark didn't even come close to filling. In our age of antiheros we will likely never see a powerful figure like the one Heston was every day of his life. May god rest his soul.
p.s. With all our 3 hour movies about hobbits and Oil barrons becoming the norm, Go out and rent one of Heston's kick ass epics They'll put hair on your ass!
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