Posted AT 4:44 AM EDT on 07/04/08
Charlton Heston: a hero for his time
From age nine until about age 15, I thought Charlton Heston was the best actor in the world.The love affair started, unsurprisingly, with Ben-Hur which, to a bucktoothed Prairie boy in Grade 4, was nothing short of miraculous, the first movie I ever saw with an intermission (!) and whose naval battle scene and climactic chariot race seemed the sine qua non of nail-biting action.
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