TCM is changing their programming line up to honor Charlton Heston. How do I know this? They sent me an email. They’re nice that way. The problem is– I much prefer the movies they are deleting!
Add: (All times ET)
2:30 PM Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
3:30 PM The Buccaneer (1958)
5:30 PM The Hawaiians
8:00 PM Private Screenings: Charlton Heston
9:00 PM Ben-Hur
1:00 AM Khartoum
3:30 AM Major Dundee
Delete:
2:30 PM When the Boys Meet the Girls
4:15 PM Where the Boys Are
6:00 PM Follow the Boys
8:00 PM Cyrano de Bergerac
10:00 PM Moulin Rouge
12:15 AM Enter Laughing
2:15 AM Attack of the Crab Monsters
3:30 AM The Thing from Another World
5:00 AM Watch the Skies
It’s not my favorite sampling of Heston. Had they consulted me, I would have chosen:
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer against a background of a circus spectacle. Charlie portrays the circus manager.
Diamond Head (1963) Charlie portrays a Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower who also happens to be quite a bigot. How dare his sister Yvette Mimieux hook up with “Hawaiian” James Darren!
Planet of the Apes (1968) You know the saying, “Human see, human do.”
Soylent Green (1973) It’s people!
I really think TCM should hire me.
I first realized Chuck Heston was an actor when I saw him throw a football as a quarterback in Number One. Brother. I used to live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the accent there is very distinctive. A high school pal’s cousin is Linda Harrison from Planet of the Apes. She had one line in the film and they had to dub it in! Ha!