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Further Commandments of Charlton Heston

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:04:22 -0400

According to today's Los Angeles Times, the late Charlton Heston was more than just the star of Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, he was "an avid newspaper reader, eager to share his opinions." Heston wrote letters to the editor on everything from Manuel Noriega to the long-forgotten '90s game show Stud. (Whither, Mark DeCarlo?)

The paper reprints several of Heston's epistles, including this one about O.J. Simpson trial jester Brian "Kato" Kaelin:...

TCM Tribute: 15 Hours of Heston

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:31:18 -0400

Since Charlton Heston was the king of the epic—Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Touch of Evil, to name a few—it's only fitting that Turner Classic Movies honor the actor with an epically long 15-hour marathon. It'll start at 2:30 p.m., Friday afternoon, April 11, and end at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 12.

The programming announcement arrived on the heels of the news that Mr. Heston died Saturday night at his home in...

McCain Reminds Voters He's Pro-Second Amendment

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:58:14 -0400

Even though he's in the Middle East, John McCain issued a statement on the case that the Supreme Court is debating today, District of Columbia v. Heller.

The decision of the court will either uphold or strike down the Washington, D.C. ban on handguns, which was passed in 1976 and has become a rallying point for the gun-rights organizations and gun-control advocates alike. Here's McCain's statement:

"Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments...

Seasoned Chef Swaps Boulud For Reliable, Rustic Italian

Sun, 14 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

When I called to make a reservation, I was brought up short for a second when a male voice answered “A Voce. Dante speaking.” Dante Camara (not Alighieri) is the maître d’ at A Voce (which means “word of mouth”), a new Italian restaurant near Madison Square Park. The team behind this venture is impressive. Chef Andrew Carmellini cooked for six years at Café Boulud, where he earned a Michelin star and two James...

P.T. Anderson's Limp Neuroticism

Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:00:00 -0400

Fresh from several baffling stops on the festival circuit, the alleged comedy Punch-Drunk Love , starring the inexplicably bankable Adam Sandler, finally lands for a commercial run this week like a bloated dirigible fresh out of helium. Some critics are hailing it as a new kind of masturbatory humor from the Farrelly Brothers school of deluded frat-house vulgarity. I call it the modern equivalent of the kind of 15th-century torture that would have had...

To Quote Heston: Noo-oo! Gorilla Days Numbered

Sun, 26 Aug 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Earlier this summer at a media forum in Cambridge,

John Scherlis, a zoologist, rose from the audience to issue a challenge to Hollywood. "All the best data show that the great apes are headed for extinction," he said. "Possibly in just 20 years. Best case, 100-but that will only be isolated pockets of apes who happen to be in protected areas where research is going on. Meanwhile, $80 million is spent on a movie like Mighty Joe Young that says...

Ernie Borgnine in Love

Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:00:00 -0400

Ernie Borgnine in Love

Ernest Borgnine was at Bravo Gianni, a Italian restaurant on East 63rd Street, where you can always get a table and there's always someone there like Anthony Quinn, Ben Gazzara, Don King or, once upon a time, John Gotti. The 82-year-old actor was just back from Milwaukee, where since 1972 he has served as the head clown at the Great Circus Parade. Now he was wearing a blue serge Brioni jacket,...

Let Us Dialogue InteractivelyOn a Bridge to the 21st Century

Sun, 21 Dec 1997 19:00:00 -0500

My fellow Americans: Thank you for focusing on this latest in our series of national town meetings concerned with the defining questions of this defining moment, when the fall is in urgent dialogue with the winter, and the sound of the catalogues dropping on doorsteps is heard from coast to coast. Nothing could be more appropriate than to let the national conversation multiply, and resonate, and resound, and fill the airwaves with the sweet...