American movie star Charlton Heston shows his medal after he was named Commandor in the Arts and Letters Order by French culture minister Philippe Douste-Blazy in Paris Monday March 17, 1997. Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz, FILE)

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