| | I enjoyed him in one role that gets less attention than Moses, Ben Hur and Taylor (in Planet of the Apes), as Michealangelo in The Agony and the Ecstasy. This was the artist as hero. In one scene when he's on the scaffold painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling a bunch of priests are complaining, as Pope Julius (Rex Harrison) looks on, that "A naked body is not a fit subject for art." Michaelangelo/Heston yells down that God "created man with pride, not shame. It was left to the priests to invent shame. I will paint man as God made him, in the glory of his nakedness." And finally, to the Pope, "Why do you bring fools to judge my work?"
(Edited by Ed Hudgins on 4/07, 7:15am)
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