Charlton Heston Dies, Damn Dirty Apes Held for Questioning
Charton Heston died this past Saturday night at the age of 84, and it makes me sad. I know that his last decade or so was spent leading the NRA, waving guns and being incredibly conservative, but in his prime, Heston was awesome?he sacrificed his pay to help Orson Welles make Touch of Evil, he campaigned against the Hollywood blacklist, and even marched for civil rights. That, and he made films like Ben Hur, The Omega Man, and so many others. I think he deserves to be remembered for both, although I admit I’m partial to the era where he crusaded against monkeys.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.