MikeTheMook wrote:
I agree. Heston was as big a star as Newman or any other of his era.

It reminds me of when Mitchum died. He got alot of press, until the very next day, when Jimmy Stewart died. People suddenly forgot Mitchum died.

And I'll never forget, the day after Mitchum died, when I hadn't yet heard the news about Stewart, my friend Jim says to me, "Hey, you heard who died?" I said, "You mean Robert Mitchum, right?" And he says, "No. Worse! Jimmy Stewart!"
That kind of pissed me off, that he said "worse". I mean, Mitchum was the first star who I actually shed a tear for.

But it's probably like you said, a public persona thing. I mean, there were no two people more different than Mitch and Jimmy Stewart, to the public anyway.


In a similar vein, Princess Diana is killed, and the media coverage spirals into overdrive. A few days (or was it a day?) later, Mother Theresa died. The news hardly made a blip.

Rod