Legendary actor Charlton Heston passed away Saturday evening at the age of 84. He had been battling Alzheimer’s disease for the past six years, according to the AP:
“Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life,” Heston’s family said in a statement. “We knew him as an adoring husband, a kind and devoted father, and a gentle grandfather with an infectious sense of humor. He served these far greater roles with tremendous faith, courage and dignity.”
The actor died at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife, Lydia, at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said. He declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details Sunday.
I like to believe somewhere in the hereafter Charlton Heston is doing what he loves best: Hunting damn, dirty apes with an Uzi. Rest in Peace, Moses. You were one of the greats.
Twenty-one gun salute after the jump. Or maybe just a trailer mash-up of The Ten Commandments if you want to get technical.
Kathleen | April 7, 2008 at 12:06 am
Good riddance.
Mo | April 7, 2008 at 12:13 am
Moses! Moses!
Gonna miss you, big guy.
Kathleen? You clearly have no life.
Eva | April 7, 2008 at 12:14 am
Although it has always been hard for me to sit through his movies, I always did have respect for him. It’s a pity he died, but at least he lived a full life. His time came. It’s like only Liz Taylor is left now out of the clan of the olden days.
Lurch | April 7, 2008 at 12:31 am
r.i.p
MONDO | April 7, 2008 at 12:46 am
Soylent green is still people!!!! They didn’t change the recipe like they said they were going to!!! It’s still people!!!!!
MONDO | April 7, 2008 at 12:47 am
Soylent Green is still people!!!! They didn’t change the recipe like they said they were going to!!! It’s still people!!!!!
Nathan Sprinkle | April 7, 2008 at 12:49 am
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ahahahahahahahahaahahahahhahahahahahah wow i did really laugh about that hard at that headline. Awesome… see ya Hestie old boy.
shimmy | April 7, 2008 at 12:52 am
He’s hot. was hot. When he was alive. And young.
better than all of you | April 7, 2008 at 2:02 am
in before anti-gun retards try to make themselves sound big and important by mocking his death.
fake boobs | April 7, 2008 at 2:25 am
Too late. The anti-gun freaks are already here. They won’t ever mention how he was one of the few in Hollywood who dared to march next to MLK. To them, he will always be the racist old gun nut.
PovRayMan | April 7, 2008 at 2:26 am
Hello anti-gun retards, Charlton Heston did more for civil rights (zomg other than firearms!) than you could ever hope to accomplish.
Nathan Sprinkle | April 7, 2008 at 2:33 am
what anti gun nuts are you talking to other than the i guess first person… maybe. maybe she didnt like his acting or something. i just thought the headline was a pretty good. As far as the actual death, sad i guess. I only say I guess because it really won’t have an effect on my life or anything. But Hopefully everyones doing well thats his family and friends. He was quite old. Obviously lived a really long and fruitful life. Had Alzhimers, it was time. death is a lot better than alzhimers. No one wants to live like that. But yeah all in all its sad just like any death aside from… like Hitler and the like.
SaraDevil | April 7, 2008 at 3:08 am
is it wrong that I see him in those old films and consider touching myself? It feels so sacrilegious, and yet, I still want to do it.
Good Riddance The Sequel | April 7, 2008 at 3:53 am
One fewer creepy gun nut to worry about. I guess we’re just lucky he didn’t shoot up his family as he sunk further into dementia. He has a lot of blood on his hands.
WhoTown | April 7, 2008 at 6:00 am
#9…if he’d stuck to acting maybe he wouldn’t be remembered for being a gun wielding psycho!
Narf | April 7, 2008 at 6:34 am
Deaths are always sad. People who die young: sadder. People who die at age 84 while suffering from Alzheimers… Slightly less sad.
And even though he marched alongside Marten Luther King and even called for public support for President Johnson’s Gun Control Act of 1968, I think that in later life his influence on American society through his work with the NRA has been detrimental to the US. Especially when viewed from the outside.
Heston and Hitler | April 7, 2008 at 7:00 am
That was funny than shit Fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If America hates Hitler so much, why did we make him so powerful? Well, ya’ll retards need to read up on that one.
Fuck Heston, he was JUST an actor and NOTHING more. A big guy with a handsome face and body (for the time).
Bubba Jones | April 7, 2008 at 7:24 am
Good riddance to another crazy rich asshole.
Mike Jewell | April 7, 2008 at 7:40 am
dear superficial author,
if you’re calling Cheston ‘one of the greats’ you obviously haven’t seen ‘bowling for columbine’. Cheston is a sick fuck, and i wish i could have shot him myself.
Fl The Flo | April 7, 2008 at 7:44 am
All and all, he probably did more harm than good during his time on earth.
fuck him.
Sam Adams | April 7, 2008 at 8:02 am
Bowling for Columbine? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. You, my friend, are what the KGB would call a “useful idiot.”
Micheal Moore is an commie propagandist, who serves up warm steaming bowl of his own shit and calls it journalism. Of course it is lapped up by vapid idiots, first year liberal arts majors, and others who fancy themselves intellectuals.
Micheal Moore | April 7, 2008 at 8:12 am
Please love me, Europe! I’m like you, France! America is dumb! Buy my movies! Charlton Heston is responsible for that mother leaving her child in a crackhouse! Minorities can’t be held responsible for their actions! All their problems come from rich white people! Except me and Sean Penn, we know what’s best for them.
bigSTEAMYone | April 7, 2008 at 8:16 am
best trailer i have seen , that almost made me wanna wanna watch that movie, but alas , !! NO!!!!!
Cherry | April 7, 2008 at 8:21 am
What do americans actually DO with guns, there can’t be that many gun battles in and around the home?
cookiepuss | April 7, 2008 at 8:35 am
Charlton Heston was a mans man. Not the pussy pants, democratic metrosexual fags of today. He is a dying breed . He will be missed
FRIST!!! | April 7, 2008 at 8:40 am
In honor of Mr. Heston’s passing, I propose that we declare today “No Comments By Damn Dirty Apes Day” on the Superfish (so: bye, bye, n i g g e r s).
Dee | April 7, 2008 at 8:43 am
#21-couldn’t have said it better myself!
Elliot_Spitz_On_Her | April 7, 2008 at 8:48 am
I hope they use his disease ridden corpse for target practice. He can pry my nuts out of his cold dead mouth.
EPISIOTOMY BOY | April 7, 2008 at 9:07 am
Sam Adams, so that wasn’t footage of Heston in Bowling for Columbine? Interesting.
EPISIOTOMY BOY | April 7, 2008 at 9:10 am
Check out this footage of Heston shooting dogs. http://www.blogdar.com/ugotnegams/
Andrea | April 7, 2008 at 9:12 am
Charlton Heston is too conservative. George Clooney is too liberal. Jennifer Love Hewitt is too fat. Kate Bosworth is too thin.
This is what happens when you post comments from a group of anonymous bitter nobodies.
Easydoesit87 | April 7, 2008 at 9:22 am
Wow, I’m amazed at the vitriolic hatred towards this man and am comforted by the humanity of others. CH was a great man.
My guns sits on my night stand and in my car waiting for some “victim of the mean-bad-society-in-which-he/she-lives-in” trying take what isn’t theirs. And, CH helped me keep that CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to fuck them up should they want to infringe on my right to protect my property and life.
Auntie Kryst | April 7, 2008 at 9:36 am
Wow, all these comments and just one Soylent Green joke? Well played Mondo.. RIP Chuck.
Elliot_Spitz_On_Her | April 7, 2008 at 9:42 am
#32 – Isn’t it great to live in fear? Here’s a thought: move to a town with a lower crime rate. Your fellow “law abiding” gun owners are the ones selling their legally obtained firearms to those same criminals, you quack. There aren’t any gun factories in poor neighborhoods…..
What’s best is, whenever some Holywierd type turns out to be a left wing nut, he or she gets told that espousing their political views is inappropriate. But when it’s on the red side, it’s not only ok, but necessary and revered. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight…..
SmokingGirl | April 7, 2008 at 9:45 am
Charlton Heston was a good man, a decent actor, and an amazing activist for things that he believed in.
and @22, that was hilarious.
And yes, soylent green is people!
whatever | April 7, 2008 at 10:06 am
#21 & 22 – Can I take both of you out for drinks?
judah ben-hur | April 7, 2008 at 10:12 am
RIP Charlton.
Great actor, will be missed =(
havoc | April 7, 2008 at 10:13 am
Right on #21.
RIP.
Great example of a man in this current world of pussies….
.
DB | April 7, 2008 at 10:32 am
I spontaniously shouted “YES!” when i read it.
francis | April 7, 2008 at 11:02 am
Funny headline.
Spammy | April 7, 2008 at 11:02 am
The Spammy of the Day goes to #40 Lucia! Way to tie homosexuality, the recent passing of hollywood legend, and internet fraud together. “Too soon?” Not for you Lucia, way to keep on spamming!
Lucia couldn’t make it tonight, but sent a prepared statement. She wants to thank Charlton Heston, the Academy, Dramanine (couldn’t have made it across the ocean in that tanker hold without you.) and her slave sponsor. She get a full hour outside of the basement today and an extra egg roll. Congratulations Lucia!
menotrouble | April 7, 2008 at 11:18 am
Great actor. Terrible lobbyist. but a dead man now, so let him rest in peace. Shall we remember the Hollywood legend, not the notorious gunslinger’s wet dream he became later on. And to all youoh-so-manly-right-wing-rednecks here: a gun won’t make you ‘real men’, sorry. A brain could do that. Or balls. Both of which you lack. A man’s man, cookiepuss? Well, that’s what Rock Hudson was, too. But just like you, he was ashamed to tell the world about it.
PostmortemG | April 7, 2008 at 11:19 am
Yesterday, i just learned that Heston died [ Sunday ]. While he was dying Saturday evening, i was watching The Ten Commandments. Wow.
“Charlton Heston was a mans man. Not the pussy pants, democratic metrosexual fags of today.”
So true. To each and every one of you who dislikes the man: *FUCK YOU* and *DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL*. I don’t recall Heston’s career being an unending series of pitiful, attention seeking ‘scandals’, unlike the usual parade of fuck-meat ‘celebrities’ the kids admire now. The man loved his family and backed up his shit… if he loved guns as well, that’s fuckin’ fine with me. Fare thee well, Charlton Heston. My deepest sympathies go out to his friends/family.
UNCLE NED | April 7, 2008 at 11:22 am
I don’t want a gun, but I don’t want government do-gooders telling people they can’t have guns. What’s so hard to understand about that? Heston was a great actor – see The Buccaneer with the great Yul Brenner, excellent. He did a movie back in the 50s called The Naked Jungle that was based on the greatest short-story of all time “Lennigan vs. The Ants” – great stuff. I’m kinda glad he pissed off the anti-gun nuts, serves ‘em right for being against the Bill of Rights.
Use2bdecentcountry | April 7, 2008 at 11:24 am
You anti guns nuts, let see what they say when you die. Just remember, next time some crazed nut walks across campus, blowing away people (and you think the police are going to send out a message for you to stay in your dorm????), wouldn’t be nice to exercise your right as a citizen of the US and blow the ahole way?
. | April 7, 2008 at 11:32 am
honestly.
he wasn’t that great an actor.
Elliot_Spitz_On_Her | April 7, 2008 at 11:37 am
#47 – You obviously hate America.
a different Kathleen | April 7, 2008 at 11:46 am
He was a good actor, but he also happened to be smokin’ hot when he was a young man. Whenever I see a movie based on the bible his portrayal of Moses is what I compare all others to. I don’t know much about the NRA, although I’ve heard of them and know he worked with them, but any white guy who marched with Martin Luther King, when it would have been easier to stay at home and smoke a stogie, is alright by me.
David | April 7, 2008 at 12:08 pm
To #37…LAW ABIDING gun owners DO NOT sell their firearms to anyone for any amount of money. You say to move to a neighborhood with a lower crime rate? Research shows that the communities with stricter gun control have higher crime rates than those communities that allow the law abiding private individual to possess a firearm.
You want to know what law abiding gun owners do with their firearms? Some collect them. Some go sport shooting (clay pigeons, target practice, shooting tournaments). Others, such as myself, use them to hunt. And some want them solely for protection.
And to all of you that cannot or will not refrain from attacking Charlton Hesston because you do not like his views, why don’t you grow up? You, in my opinion, are no better than Fred Phelps that goes around protesting the funerals of gays and soldiers because he has nothing better to do with his life than try to force his views down everyone else’s throats.
Why don’t you all just show this man the respect you would like to have when you die?
roop | April 7, 2008 at 12:17 pm
To #1.
He stood up for the constitution. That’s that. He believed in the constitution. A living document to our democracy. If you don’t understand that you seriously need to move. To say “good riddance” is one of the most ignorant statements I’ve ever read on the superficial by another poster. Kathleen you sir are an ASSHOLE!
To #43.
How is a gun lobbyist any different from an environmentalist lobbyist? Both are pushing our legislatures to do what’s in the best interest of their cause, but you know what? My quality-of-life has not being penalized because of the NRA! It’s the environmentalists who have taken away more of my freedoms! So fuck that shit, the NRA lobbies to allow citizens to have the rights to stay armed for the very reason the environmentalists try to stop the progress of our country. Liberals take peoples rights away! Liberals thrawt a capitalist society, and prompt socialist values, you take my gun away, I am unarmed to defend myself from a bad guy or bad government. LEARN SOMETHING IDIOT.