Frederic Forrest, who starred in "The Rose" and "Apocalypse Now," is dead at 86, his former co-star Bette Midler announced Friday on Twitter.

Apocalypse Now is about an American, perhaps a human madness. It searingly depicts, and finally embodies, the spiritual wounds men inflict on themselves and one another in the name of war.

Apocalypse Now is about an American, perhaps a human madness. It searingly depicts, and finally embodies, the spiritual wounds men inflict on themselves and one another in the name of war.