TCM parts the waters of its schedule to allow a Charlton Heston marathon through

Now that Charlton Heston is dead, those damn dirty apes at Turner Classic Movies think it’d be a great time to show a bunch of movies that he appeared in, so that’s what they’ll be doing on Friday, because people like to commemorate celebrity deaths by discovering their work in a sort of posthumous fashion.

The bad news is that outside of “Ben Hur,” TCM isn’t showing his most celebrated stuff. The good news is, they’re not showing “Bowling for Columbine,” either.

Here’s the schedule. All times are West Coast, so adjust accordingly. And never forget: Soylent Green is people.

11:30 a.m. “Private Screenings: Charlton Heston”

12:30 p.m. “The Buccaneer” (1958) – co-starring Yul Brynner and Claire Bloom.

2:30 p.m. “The Hawaiians” (1970) – co-starring Geraldine Chaplin and John Philip Law.

5 p.m. “Private Screenings: Charlton Heston”

6 p.m. “Ben-Hur” (1959) – co-starring Jack Hawkins and Stephen Boyd.

10 p.m. “Khartoum” (1966) – co-starring Lawrence Olivier and Richard Johnson.

12:30 a.m. “Major Dundee” (1965) – co-starring Richard Harris, Jim Hutton and James Coburn.