The World Reacts to the Death of Charlton Heston …

Say what one will about his political positions, especially his staunch defense of the right to bear arms, Charlton Heston meant alot to alot of Americans. In homage to his death, WORLDMEETS.US will be posting foreign press reaction to his death throughout the next few days.

We have begun by posting articles from the British, beginning with the The Times obituary, and from Australia’s The Age.

The Times writes, “Heston was a rare creature in Hollywood, a town of often unthinking democrats. He walked behind Martin Luther King in the march on Washington of 1963, and was president of the Screen Actor’s Guild for six terms during the Sixties. But in the Eighties Heston switched his allegiance from the Democrats to the Republicans and from 1998 to 2003 he served as president and spokesman for the National Rifle Association, becoming the rugged public face of rigid opposition to gun control and, more broadly, of a distinctively American spirit of defiant self-reliance.”

Australia’s The Age writes, “He liked his films big and he liked to be big in them. … few actors – of his or any generation – can lay claim to having been responsible for so many of cinema’s definitive big-screen moments.”

READ MORE foreign press reaction to the death of Charlton Heston on WORLDMEETS.US throughout the day