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Charlton Heston is better known today for its emblematic lamentations at the end of 1968 Planet of the Apes , a science fiction classic that some called Campy but that no one would describe as a barrel of laughter. According to a memory by scene and screen actor Frank Langella , such gravity was equal during the end of the star, which also delivered indelible performance in non-comediums noted as The ten Commandments ,, Ben Hur ,, Singlent green , And The Omega Man . In his 2012 book, Abandoned names: famous men and women as I knew them , Langella shared a few stories on Heston and described it as "without humor like a cat scan". Continue reading to learn more.

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During a career of almost 60 years as an actor, Langella, 85 years old Richard Nixon In the 2006 play Frost / Nixon ), in films (and he appeared in more than 50 of them, from Schlock as 1987 Masters of the universe to the 2008 cinematic adaptation of Frost / Nixon , for which he was nominated for the best actor Oscar) and on television ( Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ,, Americans ).

Along the way, he collected an equally impressive list of famous co -stars and knowledge - and it was more than happy to move around them in his 2012 memories. The book is filled with frank assessments of Langella (without puns) of famous personalities, of Anne Bancroft ("So vain, she fell in love with her own reflection") to Paul Newman ("dull").

And despite the admission that Heston "is acquired on the exceptional level" Ben Hur and appeared in one of his favorite films, Orson Welles' Evil key , Langella was also impatient to speak of the former president of the Screen Actors Guild in the pages of Abandoned names .

"He had an original jaw, I will give him that", that's what passes for a compliment from Langella, and he is certainly the most beautiful thing he has to say on the attraction on the screen d 'Heston. In Abandoned names , He characterizes him as "a big movie star ... under the impression that he was also a great actor".

According to Langella's words, Heston, who died in 2008, "had as much sex appeal as a rail tie and was about as without humor as a cat scan". The best he can say about Heston's development Evil key (Which, if you will remember, the author proclaims love) is that the film "demonstrates how weak it could be of a piece of wood".

Telling his experience by seeing Heston on stage in a performance of Arthur Miller The crucible In the early 1980s, Langella remembered a companion turned to him during the intermission to ask him if they could arrest citizen due to the rigid performance of Heston. "Unlikely. Chuck was on the board of directors of the theater," joked Langella.

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For all these criticisms of her work, Langella seems to have found Heston even more exasperating in real life. Although they did not work together, they frequently crossed paths while moving in Hollywood circles, and Langella said that Heston would always do everything possible to make the center of attention on each occasion.

"What function we have attended, he would greet you as if he were the host," he wrote in Abandoned names . "It could be at the Oscars, the Golden Globes or a dinner at someone. It was as if he had named Numero Uno forever on the call sheet."

According to Dracula Star, Heston loved the guests of the corner as a party to puncture the first amendment ... and the second. (Heston was famous president and public face of the National Rifle Association in the late 90s, saying at one point in a speech only if the presidential candidate of the United States. Al Gore I wanted more stringent laws on the control of firearms, Gore should show the firearm of his " Cold and dead . ")

"So endemic to his personality was a certainty of his place on the planet that you tended to look for thick and twisted roots emerging from wherever he was standing," wrote Langella.

Langella's memories enter into detail by telling the pretendes of Heston's egocentric tendencies being fully exposed during a dinner in honor Laurence Olivier , held at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1983.

After welcoming each guest as if he was the host of the party, Heston would have done his best to focus on himself during the event, who was also assisted by people like Dustin Hoffman And George C. Scott .

"[Heston] launched itself in a 10 -minute tribute to [Olivier] which was mainly centered on the description of Chuck of what it took to be a great actor," wrote Langella. He said that the speech was so heartbreaking to finish that he had caused an exchange of sarnces between Tony Curtis And the Langella companion for the evening, Maggie Smith .

"Tony Curtis said aloud to our little table:" Doesn't Chuck make great speeches? "" Oh yes, "said Maggie." He should never be allowed to do something else, "wrote Langella.

Heston had passed several years before the Langella book hit the shelves, but the actor and the memorist told the Associated Press that he tried to connect with the family members of his subjects where he could. He also said that even more gossip and opinions were left on the cutting room when he found them inappropriate to include.

"A big one, a lot has been cut. Twice the book has been cut," he said. "Because I wrote completely without censorship. I wrote with abandonment and I wrote exactly what I felt and exactly what happened in a huge quantity, which was very cathartic. And then I said, "Ok, it was cathartic for me, but now he enters the fireplace. '"