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• 1 cornel // Apr 8, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  Your few sentences on the passing of an industry giant were somewhat offensive, albeit in a mild way. Surely his career deserves something better than the silly arsenal remark. He was a decent man by all accounts, a gentleman, a faithful husband, and a damn fine actor. His exercise of his constitutional rights along with many millions of like-minded Americans, something you might not agree with, shouldn’t translate into mockery at his death. To quote you, a paragraph lower down, “What ever happened to class?”. Indeed.

• 2 buckeye_67 // Apr 8, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  I agree. I named my son, Chuck, after mister Heston, and I’d prefer to raise him in a world where decent people can get movie industry news without being subjected to half-assed obituaries of oscar-winning American Patriots.
  How many oscars have you won? How many national organizations have you been president of? Coin a phrase like “from my cold, dead hands!” and then maybe you’ll be good enough to attempt to sum up that man’s life in a single blog post.
  Until then, your lame efforts are just slaps in the face to true fans who know that Charlton Heston stood for quality entertainment journalism if nothing else.

• 3 ill informed douches // Apr 8, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  Stop being so fucking preachy, you talk about constitutional rights and then berate the writer for speaking freely about Charlton Heston, a bigot, a racist and a misogynist.

  Charlton was a loathsome human being!

  Maybe a little more reading and a little less indignation would do you some good.

  http://www.gabbr.com/blogs/2008/4/9754/Charlton-Heston–actor–bigot–homophobe–women%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-rights-opponent–dies-at-84/

• 4 stephanie // Apr 8, 2008 at 4:16 pm

  All I really knew about him was the “cold dead hands” and NRA stuff, but I guess that gladiator outfit was pretty hot for back then
  Wikipedia says he helped out the civil rights movement… but then Michael Moore kind of made him look like a bad guy, and he’s usually pretty fair from what I’ve seen.

  I think maybe the author needs to take a position on him being a bad person or not so I know what to think…

• 5 Emberly Modine // Apr 9, 2008 at 12:06 am

  It’s an obituary. I don’t think the writer is supposed to make a statement as to his like or dislike of Heston.

  also - a few comments to some commentators:

  “How many oscars have you won? How many national organizations have you been president of? ”
  - do these things give someone any more right over something random than anything else? hitler was also a pretty accomplished public figure. dumbass.

  “Coin a phrase like “from my cold, dead hands!” and then maybe you’ll be good enough to attempt to sum up that man’s life in a single blog post.”
  - that was actually written by “The Citizens Committee for the Right to Bear Arms”, and was a popular NRA slogan in the 70’s, he just repopularized it. which came along with being a celebrity. no real effort there.

  also, maybe it’s a bit hard for you believe, but some people don’t give a flying fuck about who charlton heston is. and it’s ok. they don’t have to.
  so pick your self-righteous little panties out of your asses and relax.

• 6 cornel // Apr 9, 2008 at 11:12 am

  These comments have taken a wrong turn and missed the point of what I originally intended. I can not agree with any of the succeeding posts to my original one. Quickly resorting to name calling and vitriol, ad hominem’s, is unnecessary. The issue is class, how we respond to the passing of a human being who, whatever his faults, was respected and well-liked by all who came into personal contact with him. I don’t like Moore or his work, but at his death, were I given the task of doing the obit, I wouldn’t mock him. It would be unseemly and reveal a pettiness that is unbecoming. Finally, the comments included by ‘ill informed douches’(?) on Heston are lifted from the VPN web site. Violence Policy Center, an anti-second amendment ‘group’ funded by the Joyce foundation which runs a number of other anti-gun groups. Such a source is ok for debating the gun issue, but hardly credible in assessing Heston’s life and career. Ideologues give me a headache. Gillian’s rights are not the issue here, only her style. Hardly worth all this invective.

• 7 Courtney Leonard // Apr 9, 2008 at 11:27 am

  Who said this was an obit? It’s a brief recount of what’s going on in entertainment news. Look at the title. And how do you know that we was “respected and well-liked by all who came into personal contact with him”? Aside from the fact that you would have NO way of knowing that, that is a ridiculous statement.

  I think I can guarantee that NO person who has ever existed has been that well liked. Not, the sweetest granny, not Ghandi, not even Jesus. You expect someone who lead a very publicly controversial life to be liked by everyone who knew him? Who are you kidding?

• 8 rambo goddam // Apr 9, 2008 at 11:35 am

  I read an obit about Ghandi that only spoke of how he made the best ghee - cookies in town.

• 9 cornel // Apr 9, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  When you note someone’s passing, it is in essence an obit, regardless of how small and under what column heading. Aside from the fact that you have NO way of knowing whether or not ANY person has EVER existed who has been that well liked, your guarantee is worthless. WHO are YOU kidding? Besides, you’re off the point, Courntey Leonard. [isn't this fun?]

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