Goodbye To A Great Actor

[cabinetman]

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[DaveS]

[insert "soylent green" joke here]

[Shipwreck]

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America's "greatest generation" just got smaller. He was a good man.

[Whaler]

A class act. He will be missed.

[jussi]

Seemed like a good guy even if the media didn't paint him that way.

[Uncle Cracker]

"Take your stinking paws off me, you danmed dirty ape!"

An actor's actor. RIP

[eccentrictinkerer]

During a stump speech, here in Minnesota in 1994 for Rod Grams, Heston said, "We have to get back to the values and perceptions of those wise old dead white guys who invented this country."

Gram's opponent for the Senate raised **** about this politically incorrect statement.

Heston taped a reply: "Let's see now," I said, "they were wise, they were old, they're dead, they were white guys, and they invented this country. Which word in that sentence don't you understand?"

They don't make them like that anymore.

Heston announced his diagnosis of Alzheimer's the same day as my mother was diagnosed with this terrible disease, so I guess his death strikes kind of close to home for us.

[Uncle Cracker]

I fear that Kirk Douglas will be next. We are truly witnessing the end of an era here. The days when a great actor can take a mediocre production and a lame script, put the whole picture on his back and carry it through sheer presence... well... they're gone. The pampered and primped weenies in the bizz today couldn't carry the jockstraps of Wayne, Mitchum, Fonda, Tracy, Cooper, Cagney, Peck, Grant, and a host of others. When the Nicholsons, DeNiros, and Eastwoods are likewise gone, we may as well just turn out the lights in the theater, and go home.

[Pappy]

America's "greatest generation" just got smaller. He was a good man.

Amen to that!