..or looking beyond one's first impressions, when I watched a news report this morning that told of the death of Charlton Heston my immediate thought was of the image of Chuck brandishing his rifle aloft for the benefit of the gun horny folks of the NRA as well as some of his less savoury comments about people who use the internet, but then I got to thinking about how I enjoyed him in The Omega Man, Planet Of The Apes etc. and so I looked a little deeper, ripped off the mask of wax and instead of finding a disfigured Lionel Atwill underneath, the monstrous mask of reactionism that had been my recent impression of Heston, when removed revealed quite an articulate civil rights activist and not a bad actor really, a flawed soul, definitely but we all take up our flaming torches without thinking sometimes, don't we?.
Worth considering now and again, what goes on behind the masks, wax or otherwise, though my Gran always told my that first impressions are the most important, maybe she was only partly correct? Her minced beef pies were 100% though, nevertheless she never ever needed a firearm to protect them.
Worth considering now and again, what goes on behind the masks, wax or otherwise, though my Gran always told my that first impressions are the most important, maybe she was only partly correct? Her minced beef pies were 100% though, nevertheless she never ever needed a firearm to protect them.
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