![]() What triggered the smackdown between Heston and Vidal was the release of the 1995 documentary film “The Celluloid Closet,” which outed the coded gay subtexts - and closeted gay performers - in a number of Hollywood films. Times between actor Charlton Heston and Gore Vidal, the consummate American man of letters who died Tuesday at his Hollywood Hills home at age 86.Īs a screenwriter and actor, Vidal had a hand in a number of movies, including “Suddenly Last Summer” and the epically awful “Caligula.” But Vidal also was involved in a very different sword-and-sandals affair, the 1959 remake of “Ben-Hur.”And Vidal had some unorthodox ideas about the reasons why Judah Ben-Hur, played by Charlton Heston, and the Roman tribune Messala (Stephen Boyd) had gone from boyhood pals to deadly enemies, culminating in their chariot-race showdown. ![]() One of the liveliest dust-ups in memory took place in the pages of the L.A. ![]() ![]() Back in the Jurassic Age before Twitter, celebrities used to settle scores in public by writing letters to newspapers. ![]()
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