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HESTON'S EMBARRASSMENT OVER BALDNESS Movie icon CHARLTON HESTON was so embarrassed by his thinning hair he wore two wigs on stage, according to STAR TREK's GEORGE TAKEI.

For my top 10 list of movies from the future - errrr, movies that take place in the future - I focused slightly more the film's setting than its quality.

The sole virtue of slasher movies is there's just one human-size killer trying to send the main characters to their reward.

Would we have had Alien, Planet of the Apes and The Time Machine if it weren't for a certain bearded Victorian? Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston, offers an uncomfortable glimpse of the far-distant future of primate evolution.

What do you think the future holds for mankind? Is your version anything like these? Planet of the Apes The future isn't bright for the human race in the Planet of the Ape series.

Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 18, 1959, Ben-Hur,'' MGM's Biblical-era spectacle starring Charlton Heston and directed by William Wyler, had its world premiere at Loew's State Theatre in New York.

Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future.

I Am Legend is one of the few blockbusters of recent years that seemed destined to NOT have a sequel , but that might not prevent Hollywood from revisiting that apocalyptic wasteland of the future.

From Earth-shaking asteroid collisions to hyper-contagious mutant viruses, movies have killed us in a kaleidoscope of ways.

Nov. 13, 2009 11:34 p.m. Last month, over 1000 people stood in the rain for hours at Cedarburg High School, waiting for the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine.

Just about everyone involved in this 1966 epic about Britain's imperial adventure in Sudan deserves to have sand kicked in their faces Not a tent-pole release a Charlton Heston as Gordon, Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi and Richard Johnson as Stewart in Khartoum.

"Planet of the Apes" A war between humans and simians ends with the apes ruling the planet.

One of the great things about being in the western movie business is the wonderful people one is privileged to work with.

The end of the world arrives Friday the 13th in '2012' and later this month in 'The Road.' Which makes us wonder what's the best doomsday movie ever:'The Day After,' the TV movie where Kansas City gets nuked and KU copes with the aftermath.'The Day After Tomorrow,' where global warming somehow creates perpetual winter.'I Am Legend,' where people ...

Moses Wasn't Charlton Heston >> Posted By pacodecabra 9 hours, 39 minutes ago in Religion Because of the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, for several generations now when people think of Moses, the face they see is Charlton Heston's. But the real Moses was no Hollywood he-man. He was a man with flaws and faults just like us, and if we are open to ...

Caveats Thursday, October 29, 2009 Vincent Price Online Halloween is approaching, and one of the things I like to do around Halloween is watch Vincent Price.

The "conventional wisdom" of internet intellectuals is that its a foregone conclusion that the future of content delivery is via the internet.A Furthermore, the same internet panel populaters seem to be of the mindset that traditional entertainment and content companies "just dont get it".A History has written that if it can be gotten for free, it ...

Lloyd Grove attended Gore Vidal's talk here last night, and re-capped the night at The Daily Beast : ...Vidal gathered steam as the evening progressed, and Parini showed slides of photos from his book - which Vidal, with some difficulty, turned around to glimpse.

"Touch of Evil" opens with a mind-blowing traveling shot that starts at the level of a belt buckle and then swings left and right and up as a quicksilver figure sets a time bomb and places the device in the trunk of a car.

Project is first acquisition for Chernin Entertainment, the new company founded by former Rupert Murdoch right-hand man Peter Chernin As seen on screen a Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments .