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Article: Parting the waters.(From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics)(Book review)
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- October 23, 2006
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From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics, by Emilie Raymond (Kentucky, 416 pp., $27.95)
BEFORE neocon became standard liberal code for Bush-lover or warmongering Jew, the usual insulting reference tossed at the rare uncloseted Hollywood conservative was Charlton Heston. As in: Charlton Heston, crazed gun nut. Or: Charlton Heston, aging, ultra-square star of corny hit movies like The Ten Commandments or Planet of the Apes. You can't be serious! Charlton Heston? Why would anyone be on the same political side as him?
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Other than being employed as terms of disapproval and having some overlap in political ...