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George Clooney said that--if he did--
five years ago
, not on hearing of Heston's death. Interestingly, Dreyfuss wrote his thoughtful tribute to Heston back in 2002. In that piece, in passing he makes a point an LA film critic did--Heston's most Hestonish movies were made to be seen in vast movie palaces on giant screens. That's who big screens were made for--Charlton Heston.
Clint Eastwood said that he and Heston always got along, even though, despite both being conservative, they disagreed on many issues. But the major example among movie stars of politics not interfering with their personal lives is the friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart. They became friends in the early 1930s, and were still close friends at Fonda's death. Stewart afterward was never quite able to overcome his grief at Fonda's passing, and then that of his own wife. Fonda was a die-hard lefty, Stewart well over on the right. In the late 1940s, when HUAC began questioning Hollywood types, Fonda was strongly opposed to it, Stewart in favor. They got into a blistering argument, then stopped when they realized it was endangering their friendship, more important to them than any political issues. So they never talked about politics after that.
Footnote on Jerry Lewis: it'll drive you crazy trying to sort him out into Good Guy or Bad Guy; he's both. Incidentally,according to various books and interviews, just about everyone who knew him and Dean say that offscreen, it was Dean who was the funny one. One of them, I think Lewis, said that they didn't consider their act a straight man and a funny guy, but rather two funny guys, one of whom also sang. But they couldn't get Hal Wallis to see it that way; he kept refusing to give Dean many funny bits. He had the same answer whether it was Dean or Jerry who complained to him about this. "You're the organ grinder," he said to Dean, "and he's the monkey."
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