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One of the paratroopers literally takes the gun from his dead hands, shoves it in his own belt, and then leaves. In the 1997 film Men in Black, a farmer named Edgar threatens a recently landed evil alien with a shotgun. Told to place the projectile weapon on the ground, Edgar says, "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."
"Cold Dead Hand" is a single and accompanying music video created for Funny or Die by comedian Jim Carrey with The Eels, playing as "Lonesome Earl and the Clutterbusters".The title is a reference to a statement Charlton Heston made while acting as spokesperson for the National Rifle Association, "I'll give you my gun when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands."
Charlton Heston, a NRA president, has been quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations saying "It's not the guns that kill, it's the maladjusted kids." [ 20 ] The base slogan, when combined with a Handgun Control Inc slogan, [ note 2 ] "working to keep handguns out of the wrong hands", results in an adapted NRA slogan "guns don't kill ...
Charlton Heston [1] (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor.He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, science-fiction films and action films.
Getting into territory where I do have solid memories is the annual airing of the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic movie "The Ten Commandments," starring Charlton Heston, on ABC.
[3] [12] Since the 1990s, some NRA presidents have made controversial statements such as when James W. Porter II referred to Barack Obama, whose administration he perceived as hostile to gun rights, [13] as a "fake president" and when Charlton Heston proclaimed to gun control advocates that they could only have his firearm after taking it "from ...
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The singer-songwriter, now the subject of the excellent documentary 'Sheryl,' also opens up about mental health, saying, "I know what it feels like to not want to wake up."