Charlton Heston: Complex Icon

By Gareth Higgins
Apr 7, 2008
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Charlton Heston died this weekend at age 84, following Roy Scheider and Richard Widmark as the latest in a series of powerful cinematic actors to pass away -- although Heston was probably best known to a younger generation as the old guy who walked out of a Michael Moore interview in Bowling for Columbine. His was an ambivalent life

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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