So long, and thanks for all the Apes.

[pyat]

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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Which makes me wonder why he was wasting his time with the Planet of the Apes for so long. :D

Well, remember that Planet of the Apes was, at the time, a Really Big Deal. It was a serious SF movie with a huge budget.