My first recollection of a Charlton Heston movie was seeing “The President’s Lady” about Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel, one of my all-time favorite films. It was wonderful that he reprised the role in “The Buccaneer” with Yul Brynner. When I was 18, I went to a reshowing of “The 10 Commandments” and was duly impressed. The scene-stealing between Heston and Brynner is absolutely classical. I’ve seen about half of Heston’s films and loved most of them, including “Three Violent People”, “Will Penny”, “Mountain Men” and many others which the critics didn’t like, but the public did. And, I would agree with Heston wholeheartedly, Clooney and many others in Hollywood have “no class.” Heston was an actor who took on a role and consumed it, bringing life and dimension to the part. Much of Hollywood is currently filled with celebrities, not actors, and the movies made aren’t sufficiently interesting enough to watch on TV, let alone pay to see in a theater.
