So long, and thanks for all the Apes.

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I'm a bit sad to hear of the death of Charlton Heston. His gun control politics were the product of a certain time and place and mindset, and he defended them articulately, even if he did proceed from basic assumptions that entirely alien to an urban Canadian pinko. He marched with Martin Luther King and did a great deal of humanitarian work.

And, of course, he really was a charismatic actor.

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Actually, I thought he was already dead.

But I agree that Charlton Heston was a fine actor. One of the best things about him, I think, is that he starred in some of the best SF movies of all time, namely Soylent Green and Planet of the Apes. Of course, his best quote from the latter is, "GET YOUR STINKING HANDS OFF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!!"

Funny, that's the same thing I said on my honeymoon :)

On somewhat of a tangent, I like that clip from Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996). It reminds me of when doc_mystery and I went to see it in a small independent theatre in London, Ontario. At just under 4 hours, there was even a 15-minute intermission at which time one could recover from Numb-Bum Syndrome. We were so wiped at the end of the movie, we had to go home to recover from what we termed, "Post-Hamlet Fatigue Syndrome".