RIP Heston

As Charlton Heston boldly claimed that a potential Al Gore administration could take away his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands", we can only assume that it’s go-go-Gore time. Still, dubious right-wing tendencies aside, Heston served up a number of memorable movies to be remembered by – ‘El Cid’, ‘Ben-Hur’, ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘Khartoum’, ‘Soylent Green’ and, my all-time favourite ‘A Touch of Evil’, which, despite the least convincing Mexican impersonation of all time – save Vincent Gallo’s hilarious cross-dressing nun attempt in ‘Confessions of a Trickbaby’- rocks royally. So, Heston we salute you and to your detractors say, “damn you! God damn you all to hell!”