4 posts and columns on Charlton Heston

Viral Video: Going Ape for James Franco

in News on April 15, 2011 at 2:25 am PT

BoomTown is a major fan of the entire “Planet of the Apes” Hollywood movie franchise and will not apologize for one single second about this freakish apocalyptic series. Here comes another and, as the late Charlton Heston said: “Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.”

The Omega Men of the Internet?

in News on June 4, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

BoomTown hates to miss any possible opportunity to reference a Charlton Heston movie and, thus, was struck by a report by a Wall Street analyst that Google and Amazon will be the sole survivors of the most recent digital age. Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay said as much in a 310-page report, “U.S. Internet: The End of the Beginning” he penned, noting that only the search giant and the e-commerce pioneer had legs.
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One More Charlton Heston: The Moses Mashup

in News on April 9, 2008 at 12:02 am PT

In BoomTown’s Charlton Heston tribute earlier this week, we left out this gem of a parody for our other favorite of his movies, “The Ten Commandments.” In the words of Yul Brynner’s rocking Ramses: So it was mashed up, so it shall be posted. Do not miss this video, as it is quite perfect:

Charlton Heston: The End of His World as We Know It

in News on April 8, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Everyone can have their own personal opinion about Charlton Heston, the rugged movie legend who died Saturday. But a trio of his movies–1968′s “Planet of the Apes,” 1971′s “Omega Man” and 1973′s “Soylent Green“–have been geekish (and cheesy) favorites of mine for as long as I can remember. All three films, which have that cynical [...]