Remembering Charlton Heston on his 100th birthday

He was one of the finest screen actors of his generation and remains a symbol of American strength

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Charlton Heston (Getty)

“The grand picture of life lies in the little moments,” the Indian author Abhijit Naskar reminds us in his incongruously long poem “Visvavictor.” In that same spirit, I always like to remember Charlton Heston, who would have turned 100 on October 4, not for his larger-than-life Oscar-winning roles, but the fleeting cameo he played in that underrated social satire of American suburbia in the 1990s, Wayne’s World 2.

Heston is on screen for all of thirty seconds, and dare I say it he steals the show. Near the end of the movie, Wayne — Mike Myers…

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