Charlton Heston Dead at 84

So it comes to pass.

Mr. Heston, thank you for Soylent Green (but not Earthquake!).

Thank you for Planet of the Apes (but not Beneath the Planet of the Apes).

Thank you for your fierce, desperate performance as a man spurned in The Naked Jungle, your clueless performance as a bisexual chariot-racer in Ben Hur and your unabashed drive to speak your mind and be the face for the causes you believed in in the last twenty years or so of your life (*but* NOT for your sexist, homophobic stances on the issues, NOT for bringing the National Rifle Association to Littleton, Colorado nine months after the shooting massacres at Columbine, and *most certainly not* for reading those Ice-T lyrics on national television).

Thank you.