Excerpt from the Official Biography of Charlton Heston

… but Mr Heston is perhaps best known for his role in the 1981 masterpiece, Planet of the Ten Commandments, in which he first uttered those immortal words: “Let my people go, you damn dirty apes!

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#1 Kater on 05.11.08 at 9:49 pm

My friend pointed out that the Onion missed a perfect opportunity when Heston died. They should have had the headline: Gun Control Activists Pry Guns from Charleton Heston’s Cold, Dead, Hands.

#2 lapsed.cannibal on 05.12.08 at 10:30 am

:) Ha, that’s great. And it turns out The Onion couldn’t pass that opportunity up, after all: http://www.theonion.com/content/from_print/charlton_hestons_gun_taken

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