Tribute to Charlton Heston!
...I was 12 when I first saw Ten Commandments. Since then - for the last 18 years, one character has refused to die from the memories! It was Heston's Moses...the imagery of he walking through the ocean, splitting it into two, with both his hands thrown up has likewise enchanted millions of cinema lovers.
Yesterday, April 5, Charlton Heston became immortal, and and though he will live on through the roles he played, it will be a true loss to all movie lovers who enjoyed watching him playing cameo and heroic roles all through his career!
Heston's characteristic was in playing epic heroes like the Moses, his title role in Ben-Hur (for this role he won an Oscar), or Mark Antony in 'Julius Ceasar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'!
He continued to enthrall movie lovers like me with his roles in Omega Man, The Agony and the Ecstasy (where he played Michaelangelo), and Earthquake. The last I got a chance to see him in action was in 'True Lies' where he played big boss in the Super Spy agency Sector' and the remade 'Planet of the Apes ', where he played the dying aged chimpanzee....! Both of them were indeed cameo roles which brought out the exuberance in him even at this age.
From today onwards, we, all movie buffs, will be one actor poorer on whom we were proud of! Charlton Heston will be missed, at the same time, he continues to live through this immortal roles!
...I was 12 when I first saw Ten Commandments. Since then - for the last 18 years, one character has refused to die from the memories! It was Heston's Moses...the imagery of he walking through the ocean, splitting it into two, with both his hands thrown up has likewise enchanted millions of cinema lovers.
Yesterday, April 5, Charlton Heston became immortal, and and though he will live on through the roles he played, it will be a true loss to all movie lovers who enjoyed watching him playing cameo and heroic roles all through his career!
Heston's characteristic was in playing epic heroes like the Moses, his title role in Ben-Hur (for this role he won an Oscar), or Mark Antony in 'Julius Ceasar' and 'Antony and Cleopatra'!
He continued to enthrall movie lovers like me with his roles in Omega Man, The Agony and the Ecstasy (where he played Michaelangelo), and Earthquake. The last I got a chance to see him in action was in 'True Lies' where he played big boss in the Super Spy agency Sector' and the remade 'Planet of the Apes ', where he played the dying aged chimpanzee....! Both of them were indeed cameo roles which brought out the exuberance in him even at this age.
From today onwards, we, all movie buffs, will be one actor poorer on whom we were proud of! Charlton Heston will be missed, at the same time, he continues to live through this immortal roles!
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