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Celebrity Death: Charlton Heston


Charlton Heston
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Charlton Heston
Born: October 4, 1923
Died: April 5, 2008 (age 84)

Charlton Heston (real name: John Carter) was an actor best known for his heroic roles in epic movies, like The Ten Commandments (1956), Planet of the Apes (1968), and Ben-Hur (1959), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

In 1944, Heston enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served for two years. In the 1950s and 1960s, he spoke out against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. From 1998 to 2003, he was president of the National Rifle Association.

In 1998, Heston had a hip replacement and was diagnosed with prostate cancer. In August 2002, he announced he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In March 2005, newspapers reported the progression of Heston’s illness and that he was sometimes unable to get out of bed.

Heston died on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at his home in Beverly Hills, California. The cause of death is currently unknown.

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Episode 88: Monday, October 29, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 088

The Paunch Stevenson Show two-year anniversary special, part one!

In this episode:

  • the current top ten movies at the box office,
  • Jack Palance and Ripley’s Believe It or Not!,
  • David Hasselhoff starring in an upcoming Anaconda sequel,
  • the upcoming movie I Am Legend (2007) starring Will Smith,
  • The Omega Man (1971) starring Charlton Heston,
  • the upcoming movie Fred Claus (2007) starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti,
  • the onslaught of Bee Movie commercials,
  • microfiche and microfilm,
  • the Belleville Public Library in Belleville, NJ, in the 1990s,
  • the Dewey Decimal System,
  • horribly outdated computers in school,
  • Belleville High School’s CAD class,
  • an old pen plotter from the 1970s,
  • the uselessness of old computers,
  • fanfold printer paper,
  • Macintosh vs. PC prices,
  • old computer gimmicks (RAM Doubler, Stacker, etc.),
  • old internet service providers (Prodigy, Compuserve, etc.),
  • and receiving free AOL discs in the mail.

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Episode 26: Monday, April 24, 2006

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 026

In this episode:

  • Silent Hill (2006) starring Radha Mitchell,
  • Midway’s 1994 Aerosmith video game Revolution X,
  • Fever Pitch (2005) starring Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore,
  • Rosie O’Donnell’s fake crush on Tom Cruise,
  • celebrity deaths (Richard Fleischer and Buck Owens),
  • Charlton Heston,
  • Rocky Balboa Blog (www.rockybalboablog.com),
  • a get-rich-quick scheme (.ocm URL’s),
  • a listener get-rich-quick scheme from Dennis in NC (NASCAR chicken),
  • Born To Run (1993) starring Richard Grieco,
  • What About Bob? the video game,
  • and The Old Jingle of the Episode (Alvin and the Chipmunks theme song).

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