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In a couple of hours from now on, the US of A, will decide who will reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Avnue, or more popularly the White House. A million Americans from US and across the world, will cast or would have already done so. The voters are a mixed group, ranging from blue collar workers in Ohio to yuppies in Manhattan, from wine growers in California to auto industry workers in Detroit, from well off suburbanites to inner city folks, grappling with poverty and unemployment.

In a way these polls are crucial not just for US, but the world also. This election would officially bring an era to the Bush years in US history. 8 years of rule, marked by sheer ineptitude, bungling, show boating and ego pandering. George W Bush , would go down in history as one of the worst candidates to have ever sat in Oval Office, …

One of my favorite movie stars, the great Charlton Heston has died, at 83.

His birth name was John Charles Carter, and he was from Evanston, Illinois.

I won’t dwell on his illness, other than say it’s a dirty trick when our powers are taken, and one of the quick and strong is laid low. Which happens to us all.

And I won’t discuss his politics, except to say any Hollywood movie star, of whatever political bent, who stands up for personal liberty, in this dark age, gets my vote.

I interviewed Charlton Heston for tv, at a 1997 Palm Springs Tennis Tournament. I’ve met lots of movie stars, but he was in a class by himself, perhaps the starry-est.

I learned something extremely valuable from him. I asked him some silly question, one he just didn’t want to answer, and you know what he did? He just smiled. That’s all …