Charlton Heston

TV This Week for March 24th-30th: 'Phil Spector' on HBO

2013-03-23 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 24 - 30, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � SUNDAY There is nothing like a dame:...

Oscars 2013: Early reviews on host Seth MacFarlane are not kind

2013-01-11 05:45:00

If Seth MacFarlane was using Thursday’s Academy Awards nominations announcement as a test-run for his Oscar show hosting patter, he might consider changing directions. Fast.� Early reviews of MacFarlane’s jokes were strongly negative, with...

Oscars 2013 host Seth MacFarlane: ‘I’m the wrong guy’ for the job

2013-02-20 12:54:03

Oscars 2013: Watch the Academy Award nominations live Thursday

2013-01-10 05:00:00

The nominations for the 2013 Academy Awards will be announced Thursday morning at precisely 5:38 a.m. and 30 seconds (yes, it's that precise). You can watch Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announce the Oscar nominations live above. The event at the...

Video mocks celebrity gun control PSA

2013-01-04 11:13:00

After last month's Newtown, Conn., school shooting�reignited debate about the causes of gun violence in the U.S., some in Hollywood weighed in by appearing in a public service announcement calling for stricter gun control measures. Now the star-...

Seth MacFarlane will announce Oscar nominations along with hosting

2013-01-07 08:50:00

For the first time in 40 years, the host of the Academy Awards also will announce the nominees. Seth MacFarlane, tapped in October as the emcee for the 85th annual Oscars, will help read the nominations early Thursday morning, the Academy of Motion...

Letters: America's tragedy

2012-12-18 00:00:00

Re "'Evil visited this community,'" Dec. 15 I've been a school principal for 34 years and am obligated to provide a safe and secure environment. Educators and mental health professionals know that people just don't "snap." There usually are warning...

Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

2012-09-02 17:15:00

As far back as Louis Lumi�re's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.�There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author

2012-07-31 22:56:00

Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...

Review: 'Dropped Names' by Frank Langella dishes on fellow actors

2012-06-03 00:00:00

Dropped Names Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them Frank Langella Harper: 356 pp., $25.99 Frank Langella's "Dropped Names" is a different kind of memoir. Rather than recapping his life story, the veteran stage and screen actor offers a series of...

Gun control fears, not Colorado shooting, spook gun buyers

2012-07-26 05:00:00

In the days following the Aurora theater massacre, gun sales in Colorado shot through the roof. But all the arms and ammo moving across gun shop counters are not being purchased in anticipation of another anonymous misfit springing out of nowhere with...

Gore Vidal's spat with Charlton Heston over gay 'Ben-Hur' subtext

2012-08-01 12:13:00

Back in the Jurassic Age before Twitter, celebrities used to settle scores in public by writing letters to newspapers. One of the liveliest dust-ups in memory took place in the pages of the L.A. Times between actor Charlton Heston and�Gore Vidal, the...

Charlton Heston as Moses during a sequence of the film "The Ten Commandments."

2013-04-04 15:09:00

Billy Curtis, in a gorilla costume, chats with Charlton Heston on the set of "The Planet of the Apes" in 1967.

2012-11-21 18:16:00

A chariot driven by actor Stephen Boyd, left foreground, smashes into camera crew on June 17, 1958, during filming of "Ben Hur" in Rome. Charlton Heston, center, veers his chariot away from the mishap. Sun umbrellas topple and crewmen scatter, foreground, as the camera position is overrun.

2012-10-17 16:10:00