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Charlton Heston, a towering star of the 1950s and 1960s who continued to command the stage in recent years as the face and defiant voice of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84. Family ...

Charlton Heston, 83, one of the most prominent and politically active movie stars of his era, who won an Academy Award and played the hero in many major epics, died last night at his home in Beverly ...