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      <title>Comments On: The legend of Charlton Heston
    
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      <![CDATA[Oh, but Andrew, Charlton was a Second Amendment activist! Therefore, he must be a terrible, terrible man! I mean, Chicago has some of the most stringest gun regulations in the country, and there hasn't been a shooting death in what, minutes?
        
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      <![CDATA[I always thought legendary meant people told stories about you, i.e. "legends". Are there famous stories about Heston that have been told over and over (well, other than Lee Sandlin's anecdote)? Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, those guys... legendary. But Heston? "Yeah, I remember the time Charleton... complemented me on my shirt." Maybe the characters he played were legendary, but him... I dunno.
        
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      <![CDATA[Whoops -- meant to include the link to what I wrote about these things:
    
    http://viewfromhere.typepad.com/the_view_from_here/2008/04/one-never-knows.html
        
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      <![CDATA[None of the above discuss either Heston's Chicago-area origins and training or his not insignificant role in the Civil Rights Movement both of which make him at least interesting if not "legendary."
        
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      <![CDATA[I met Heston about thirty years ago when he signed copies of his autobiography at a bookstore where I was working. He was a pleasant and good-humored guy who treated the bookstore staff with respect -- all of which made him such a shattering change from the average  celebrity author that I'm still in awe. I had just seen "Touch of Evil" for the first time -- back then very few people  even knew about that movie -- and when I mentioned it to him, his face lit up and he spent five or ten minutes telling me stories about Welles. I remember him saying that when he looked back at his own performance, he didn't think he was actually all that good, but was proud that he hadn't played a cliche Speedy Gonzales Mexican. And also, he laughed very convincingly at a lame joke I made, which suggests that he was a much better actor than people gave him credit for being. I never had any use for his politics, but compared with some of the nightmare hell-on-wheels celebs I met at that job he really did come off like Ben Hur and Moses combined. (And here, I don't know why, but somehow the names Shirley Maclaine and Susan Sontag float through my brain.)
        
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      <![CDATA[Doesn't legendary mean there are a lot of stories about it.  There are certainly a lot of stories about Heston.
    
    What exactly is lacking here?  The stories themselves?  They are not all that hard to find.
    
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