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Charlton Heston: National Rifle Association
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[N]ow, Charlton Heston is stepping down as the High Lord Gunmaster Poobah (or whatever they called him) of the phallically righteous increasingly paranoid adorably manly National Rifle Association. They are sighing in tribute. They are hugging each other and giving reassuring pats though not in an icky scary gay way. They are raising their rifles in salute.
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Since 1950, Charlton Heston has appeared in more than 100 movies. Along the way, he has played some of history’s extraordinary men including Moses, Michaelangelo, El Cid, John the Baptist, and Marc Antony. Charlton was elected president of the National Rifle Association in 1998 and has been re-elected to serve an unprecedented three terms.
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Actor Charlton Heston announced today that he has symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Heston is the president of the National Rifle Association and owns firearms. If he is diagnosed with full-blown Alzheimer's, will he have to give up his guns?
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In his earlier years, Heston was a civil rights activist, accompanying Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights march held in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In subsequent years, he embraced conservative causes, such as anti-affirmative action and anti-gun control, about which he makes at times provocative statements. As an honorary life member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and its president and spokesman from 1998 until his resignation in 2003, Heston sought an unprecedented fourth term in 2001 as president, at which time he declared, while holding an American Revolutionary War era musket over his head, to anyone who would take it from him: "I have only five words for you — From my cold, dead hands." Heston ... serves on the National Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group. In a speech to the Harvard Law School on February 16, 1999, Heston said the following:
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Outside of his filmwork, Heston served six terms as the president of the Screen Actors Guild and ... chaired the American Film Institute. Active in such charities as The Will Rogers Institute, he was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1977 Oscar ceremony. Known as a conservative Republican and proud member of the National Rifle Association, Heston worked closely with his long-time colleague and friend President Ronald Reagan as the leader of the president's task force on arts and the humanities. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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