Charlton Heston Is Dead

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Touch of Evil is great -- very artfully made (fantastic framing, mise en scene, lighting, editing, and sound design -- Orson Welles was after all the same guy who, a generation earlier, had made Citizen Kane) but also very pulpy so that even if you don't know (or care) a thing about technical filmcraft you can still appreciate it as straightforward entertainment (as opposed to something like Mr. Arkaddin, which you pretty much have to be a movie-nut to get anything other than boredom and confusion out of). Touch of Evil is often described as "the greatest b-movie ever made," and with good reason.
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AWJ wrote:
Semaj Khan wrote:Sad thing is: I know many liberals will be celebrating his death because he was a big deal in the NRA.
Projecting much? There's a helluva difference between disagreeing with (some of) an individual's politics and celebrating their death.
I think you misunderstand me, and that's my fault since I left a word out of my OP. It should have read "I know many liberals who will be celebrating..."

And I do.

That was my fault, so forgive me. However, I suspect there will be a lot of liberals I don't know who will be doing the same thing... not because they're liberals, but because they're petty trash. Rosie O'Donnell is the first to spring to my mind.
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I have experienced in person the rantings of some who hold that anyone who advocates private ownership of firearms is, by (their) definition, violently insane and should be institutionalized.


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