I want to see that photo too!!!!
What was the name of the book, I'll go on Amazon.com. I need me some Ben Dover dick. I mean Ben Hur!

Damn, I can't remember. I was hoping you people would help. I think it was a big name photographer, maybe Avedon. But none of my online searches are coming up with anything. I know I didn't imagine this.

Yummy, I heard both Gwen and Norma are having a blast at Charlton's "welcome" party. Love, Mitzi

From one of the obits:
"....After a World War Two stint as a gunner in the Army Air Corps, Heston headed to Broadway, where he briefly supported himself with nude modelling between acting jobs...."

Thanks for that, Topper. I ddn't know that. But the shot I'm talking about was taken when Heston was already a big star. It was an arty nude portrait. I'd love to find those early ones too.

He was practically nekked in Ben Hur and Planet of the apes. Wasn't that enough?

He was stark naked in Planet. I seem to remember one has a brief glimpse of the said piece when the astronauts take a bath, briefly after entering ape territory.

Michael,

You are so funny again.

There have been a number of photos of Heston through the years wearing very little. There was a photo of him while making Julius Ceasar in Rome.
I hear on the first release the film had a fair amount of male nudity which was then cut I guess to be shown in classrooms. I wonder if these cut scenes still exist.
Anyway this was Heston from the front with a tiny roman g string looking like a god with a gorgeous extra next to him wearing just as little.

I bet your photo was from "Hollywood Life," only 5,000 copies printed, bound in velour. Published by Greybull Press. Photos by Eliot Eliofson of homes of the stars and often the stars who inhabited them. Foreward by the peerless Gavin Lambert. There is a two-page B&W photo of Heston in a sauna reading a script absolutely starkers and glorious, with a very small white cloth molded around his jumbo junk. A truly huge Heston hum-dinger. I remember at the time being astonished he would pose for such a pitchuh, but then, it's a very "AWTY" book. Come down for Southern Decadence for a look-see. Or when I get back to work I'll Xerox it for ya.

Southern Dave

that's exactly the shot, david! anything you could send me would be great.

Here's the site for the publisher. They show the pic briefly

http://www.greybullpress.com/

hope it helps

thakns, keith, but I clicked on hollywood life on that site and didn't see the heston shot flash.