10:29PM Defamer Hollywood | Charlton Heston, whose turns in epics including
The Ten Commandments and
Ben-Hur reset the leading-man standard in Hollywood and who later won all of our hearts as the president of the National Rifle Association,
has died in Beverly Hills. He was 83. A family spokesman declined to specify a cause of death, but Heston had been suffering from “symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer’s disease” since 2002.
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