{"id":234,"date":"2008-04-10T09:50:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2008-04-10T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T13:50:38","slug":"on-charlton-heston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/on-charlton-heston\/","title":{"rendered":"On Charlton Heston."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick note &#8211; there will be a KlawChat today at 1 pm over at the four-letter, and I&#8217;ll be on our Omaha affiliate (1620 AM) today at 2:30 CDT.<\/p>\n<p>I was saddened to hear of Charlton Heston&#8217;s death, but I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m all that familiar with his work, having never seen any of his most famous movies. The Heston role that I know the best only lasts for a few minutes, although it was a tour de force on par with Judi Dench&#8217;s turn as the Queen in <i>Shakespeare in Love<\/i>. Heston appeared in the definitive adaptation of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWilliam-Shakespeares-Hamlet-Two-Disc-Special%2Fdp%2FB00005JLCI&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">William Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> as the King of the Players. Kenneth Branagh&#8217;s film is, as far as I know, the only complete adaptation of the text of <i>Hamlet<\/i>, and Heston dominates the screen each time he appears. The entire film is four hours long and probably only for Shakespeare devotees and high school English students, but a clip of Heston&#8217;s work in the film is, unsurprisingly, <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8nonx0JmrcQ>available on Youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick note &#8211; there will be a KlawChat today at 1 pm over at the four-letter, and I&#8217;ll be on our Omaha affiliate (1620 AM) today at 2:30 CDT. I was saddened to hear of Charlton Heston&#8217;s death, but I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m all that familiar with his work, having never seen any of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[157,215,229,274],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-chat","category-dvds","tag-hamlet","tag-movies","tag-obits","tag-shakespeare","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}