At 09:04 AM Sunday 4/6/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleton_Heston > >I'd link to an obit, but aside from the New York Times, the more reputable >papers got the age wrong - sure, he was born in 1924 and died in 2008, but >he died before his birthday in 2008, so simple mindless subtraction is not >going to result in an accurate age at death. :P > >NYT obit requires registration: > >http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/movies/06heston.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1207627200&en=68723c5e35a1af24&ei=5087%0A&oref=login > >And the URL is too long, so http://tinyurl.com/5wom85 > >(Let me know if you get to it without logging in.) > >He did some acting in science fiction stuff; his filmography is at >http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000032/ . > >I think my favorite role of his was as the airplane captain in A Thousand >Heros (listed on IMDB as "Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232"). > > Julia
Yeah, I hated to wake up to that announcement. Although unlike his most famous role, his natural force was abated during the past few years by Alzheimer's . . . . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
