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Bobby Charlton
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Yakima Canutt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, but his best-known work is the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959), starring Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Yakima Canutt, was one of five children of John Lemuel Canutt, a rancher, and Nettie Ellen Canutt... Read more
William Wyler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...such as Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, John Barrymore, Henry Fonda, Barbra Streisand, Charlton Heston, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Huston, Kirk Douglas, and Greer Garson. All told, 14 actors received Academy... Read more
National Rifle Association
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...to 1999, the NRA contributed some $8.4 million to political candidates sympathetic to its cause. The movie actor Charlton Heston, famed for his role as Moses in The Ten Commandments and for many other films, served as president of the NRA from... Read more

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Charlton
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Charlton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, originally a local name from any of numerous places, mainly in southern England, named in Old English as the ‘...settlement of the free peasants’, Old English ceorlatun (compare Carlton ). Its use as a given name is largely as a result of the fame of the film ... Read more
Touch of Evil
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...designer: Bill Thomas. Cast: Charlton Heston ( Ramon Miguel "Mike" Vargas...York, 1985. Crowther, Bruce, Charlton Heston: The Epic Presence , London...Orson Welles , New York, 1995. Heston, Charlton, In The Arena: An Autobiography... Read more
Wyler, William
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Month," in Films and Filming (London), July 1957. Heston, Charlton, "The Questions No One Asks about Willy," in Films...of William Wyler," in Film (London), Autumn 1963. Heston, Charlton, "Working with William Wyler," in Action (Los Angeles... Read more
Redgrave, Vanessa
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Up Your Ears (Frears) (as Peggy Ramsay) 1988 Consuming Passions (Foster) (as Mrs. Garza); A Man for All Seasons (Charlton Heston — for TV) (as Alice More) 1990 Diceria dell'untore ( The Plague Sowers ) (Cino) (as SisterCrucifix); Romeo-Juli... Read more
Basinger, Kim
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Moxey — for TV) (as Laury Medford); Hard Country (David Greene) (as Jodie Lynn Palmer) 1982 Mother Lode (Charlton Heston and Joe Canutt) (as Andrea Spalding) 1983 Never Say Never Again (Kershner) (as Domino Petachi); The Man Who Loved... Read more

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male
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...masculine or manly and is applied only to mature men; it suggests the vigor, muscularity, and forcefulness—and especially the sexual potency—associated with mature manhood (a virile man who looked like Charlton Heston in his youth). Read more

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Parting the waters.(From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 10/23/2006; ; 700+ words ; From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics, by Emilie Raymond (Kentucky...the rare uncloseted Hollywood conservative was Charlton Heston. As in: Charlton Heston, crazed gun nut. Or: Charlton Heston, aging... Read more
The Hollywood Collection: Charlton Heston For All Seasons.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 6/1/2008; 136 words ; The Hollywood Collection: Charlton Heston For All Seasons Janson Media 88 Semmens...Collection series now includes a DVD tribute to Charlton Heston, the star of over sixty movies. Charlton Heston For All Seasons pays homage to Heston... Read more
Statement on the death of Charlton Heston.(Week Ending Friday, April 11, 2008)(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 4/14/2008; 117 words ; ...and I are saddened by the death of our friend Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston was one of the most successful actors in movie...these reasons, in 2003, I was proud to award Charlton Heston the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nations... Read more
Minneapolis Urban League asks actor Charlton Heston to apologize for 'racist' statement. (actor's comments at Republican campaign rally) (Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet; 11/21/1994; 99 words ; ...Urban League recently asked actor Charlton Heston to apologize for what the organization...called a racist statement made by Heston during a campaign rally for Republican...Clinton and his administration, Heston said: This cannot stand. It's time... Read more
From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics by Emilie...Raymond's From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics is that...discussing the consolidation of Heston's masculine screen image amusingly... Read more
Searching the past.(Charlton Heston)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of the death of its star, Charlton Heston, on April 5. I had been planning...considerable achievement not just by Heston himself but also by two great...I was able to interview Heston twice--three times if you...was at first a little shy--Heston proved a thoughtful and ... Read more
Ruido blanco. (Carta de Nueva York).(equipo de sonido en cuartos de hoteles; mujeres guardaespaldas; Charlton Heston, actor)(TT: Blank noises. (Letter from New York).)(TA: sound systems in hotel rooms; woman bodyguards; actor Charlton Heston)(Artículo Breve)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 9/1/2002; ; 646 words ; ...nucleares? Y, bueno, ¿por qué no? El actor Charlton Heston, Moisés, Ben-Hur, Gordon y tantos otros inquietos...frecuencia, de una cortesía francamente versallesca. Heston tiene a su favor haber sido líder del sindicato... Read more
Acts of faith: In which our man in Washington hears Charlton Heston talk to himself and prays for relief from tax-funded religious charity. (Capital Letters).(Conservative Political Action Committee conference)
Magazine article from: Reason; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...intend to change the tone in the city of Washington. Charlton Heston made an inadvertent case for concealed-carry permits...pirate theme. Why there's Andrew Jackson.... Sadly, Heston failed to run into Taylor, the gun-toting, shit-out... Read more
Touch of Genius. (excerpt from Charlton Heston's autobiography, due in 1993)
Magazine article from: National Review; 2/3/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...course he should direct! How come we didn't think of it? What a smart guy that Chuck Heston is. More likely it was, Ahh, let him direct it. How bad can it be? Heston'll just get sore if we don't. F---in' actors. I was delighted. It seemed to me, remembering... Read more
Insomnia and Charlton Heston. (Film).(film critiqued; memories of famous actor)(Movie Review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; AS AMERICAN film genres like the western and the gangster film and the police procedural have evolved, the closer they have come to classic tragedy. Not just the films that borrowed devices and plots from Shakespeare such as Broken Lance with Spencer Tracy as a King Lear-like cattle baron, or Read more