(Warning: This is a Harry-Knowles-like remembrance (contains melodrama and nostalgia galore). Click here for Harry's Harry-Knowles-like remembrance of Heston.)
Growing up, I watched Planet of the Apes on TBS at least once a year. Although it's been parodied so much in our culture that it's lost its meaning, I can still remember the strangeness of the film, the weirdness of the chimps walking, the blank look of Taylor's mate, and the shock at the end of the movie.
Later on, as an undergraduate, I fell in love with Touch of Evil, discovering it, luckily, in the DVD re-edited based on Welles's memo.
So, I was sad to see Heston in Bowling for Columbine, old and flaky, hunched over in his easy chair, and I was sad to hear that he's died.
Some nice pieces:
I've never loved Mahnola Dargis's reviews, but now I feel a kinship.
A nice story about Heston and his pants.
Excerpts from Heston's letters to the LA Times editors.
Growing up, I watched Planet of the Apes on TBS at least once a year. Although it's been parodied so much in our culture that it's lost its meaning, I can still remember the strangeness of the film, the weirdness of the chimps walking, the blank look of Taylor's mate, and the shock at the end of the movie.
Later on, as an undergraduate, I fell in love with Touch of Evil, discovering it, luckily, in the DVD re-edited based on Welles's memo.
So, I was sad to see Heston in Bowling for Columbine, old and flaky, hunched over in his easy chair, and I was sad to hear that he's died.
Some nice pieces:
I've never loved Mahnola Dargis's reviews, but now I feel a kinship.
A nice story about Heston and his pants.
Excerpts from Heston's letters to the LA Times editors.
