Charlton Heston News

FIFTY years ago Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars, including a Best Actor trophy for Charlton Heston as the galley slave who vows vengeance on his treacherous best friend.

Boris Sagal. Sometime in the mid-late 1970s, a biological war broke out between China and Russia, resulting in the transformation of 99.9% of the world's population from normal human beings into monkish, cloak-wearing beings with white eyes, blue/white make-up, and are allergic to sunlight.

My prof's demand seemed eccentric at the time. Lately, however, the wisdom of savouring language has come home to me, as the dumb clucks of the Twitter fad have started to rule the roost.

I Am Omega With its main protagonist the lone survivor of a global plague that has turned the rest of humanity into murderous corpses, the Asylum's low-budget I Am Omega was clearly motivated by the high-profile arrival of the big-budget Will Smith vehicle I Am Legend .

Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is truly a holiday destination for adventurers.

Hello Mr. Inman: I saw an article about our declining fish population, and it brought up a memory of a Charlton Heston movie set in the future.

ORGANISERS of a new multi-million pound live version of swords and sandals epic Ben-Hur have signed up their mane man... a horse whisperer.

To mark the 50th year since the release of the epic film Ben Hur, Sky News Online has three copies of a three-disc collector's edition DVD to give away.

Stonewall - Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park invites the public to attend a free movie screening of Will Penny, a 1968 Western starring Charleton Heston, on Saturday, June 13 at 9:00pm. The movie will be projected onto an 18 by 25 foot outdoor screen that includes a professional sound system.

The late Charlton Heston's triptych of tragedy attests that man-made apocalypse is nothing new.

Alex Skanavis was watching "The Ten Commandments," starring Charlton Heston, when it happened.

Definitely Gone With the Wind . I've seen it on TV dozens of times, but to see it in its big-screen glory would be fabulous.

With so many film adaptations of "Treasure Island," including versions with Orson Welles and Charlton Heston as Long John Silver, why would anyone try to adapt it for the stage, and who would be willing to produce it? To answer the first question, how about Ken Ludwig? Yes, the Ken Ludwig who wrote the popular farce "Lend Me a Tenor" but whose ...

"We finally really did it. You maniacs... damn you! God damn you all to Hell!" -- Charlton Heston as Colonel George Taylor in Franklin J. Schaffner's Planet of the Apes .

A Touch of Evil Orson Welles, 1958 "The strangest vengeance ever planned!" declared the film's publicity poster in 1958.

WASHINGTON - Not since Charlton Heston told a "dirty ape" what to do with his stinking paws has an actor been so tormented by a monkey.

Our review of Wayne's World 2 , published July 17th, 2001, is also available. You'll laugh again! You'll cry again! You'll hurl again! Wayne, Garth, Cassandra, Christopher Walken, Charlton Heston, a female version of Garth, and Aerosmith - they're all in the house for the second and final chapter in the Wayne's World saga.

Actor Charlton Heston is gone, but "Ben-Hur" will ride again -- this time as a remake produced as a television mini-series. Daily Variety reported on Wednesday that the new TV version is being produced at a cost of $30 million by David Wyler, whose father, the late William Wyler, directed the 1959 big-screen biblical epic.

In which Jen Chaney and I wade through time and space to bring you our final show analysis of the season.

Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play ill-accented brothers in Cassandra's Dreams.