R.I.P. Charlton Heston 6 April 2008

After battling Alzheimers since 2000, Charlton Heston passed away last night, ending the remote chance that we’d get to see a final Planet of the Apes installment.

Did you know Charlton Heston marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Civil Rights protests? Yes, he was known mostly in his later years for his NRA-affiliation (a natural extension of civil rights, many argue), but he was a helluva family man, larger than life, and in the end, at least in my eyes, a deeply sympathetic figure.

Check the video link below. If it doesn’t give you some deeper feelings about the man, well, I’ve once again overrated humanity.

Heston’s Final Interview