In the last couple of days, we've seen a lot of memorial tributes to Charlton Heston (starting with our own Paul Clark's fine obituary for the Screengrab), but so far, our favorite may be this short animated personal essay by Korey Coleman of Spill.com, which deftly balances its appreciation of Heston's accomplishments as a movie star with the most honest, sanest reaction yet expressed to his impassionaed public espousal of his late-life politics: "Even if you didn't agree with him, you were like...damn!" It's convincingly loving and funny as hell, too. I imagine Heston grimly nodding in approval.
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