There's some thing outside the plane.
There's. Some. Thing.
Posted on 09/22/2004 5:36:47 PM PDT by Rakkasan1
RIVERSIDE, Iowa -- Capt. James T. Kirk came home to Riverside this week.
William Shatner, who played the commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the '60s ``Star Trek'' series, arrived in Riverside Tuesday to hold auditions for four small parts in a low-budget, sci-fi movie he wrote with ``Star Trek'' co-star Leonard Nimoy.
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Hint: Say each word emphatically, with dramatic pauses every two words.
Shatner and Nimoy wrote a screenplay? Cool!
He's dead, Jim
No blah blah!
best show ever-"TJ Hooker".
show premise:
old guy cop outruns young guy cop Adrean Svmed, then makes fun of him while buxom babe Heather Locklear quips and looks
good.
There's some thing outside the plane.
There's. Some. Thing.
"That walk-on is dead Jim" "Yes Leonard......I do... think he's bad."
LOL!
set phazers to stun.
Remake of the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins?
http://www.tolkiencollector.com/bilbo5.mov
I'm a FReeper, not an actor!
I hear the preliminary working title is "When Silos Fly".
I wonder if there is a Star Trek tie in since James T. Kirk was from Iowa.
Yes it is.
BTW, how old are those guys now? anyone know.
Kirk is supposed to be born in Iowa.
Yeah, the other day this blond haired kid said something about sending some folks out to the cornfield.
Yes, but they also sang the soundtrack...
For those with a cast-iron stomach:
You beat me to it.
About minus 300 by my count.
"...low-budget, sci-fi movie ..."
About US Sen Tommie "The Commie" Harkin's (SOCIALIST-IA) so-called "career", in screwing America?
Shatner is 73.
We're doomed!
Doomed!
Doomed!
stuned by beebers
"Shatner and Nimoy wrote a screenplay? Cool!"
Sure it isn't a Priceline commercial?
Corn Wars?
They're both 73, with birthdays 4 days apart.
"Heather be thy name...Shwing"!
LLS
That old, huh. I thought he was a bit younger. Closer to my age. lol
(Ya know you're gettin' on up there when you can remember listening to "Ma Perkins" on the old Philco radio.lol)
Boy, you're a real Herbert! :-)
"Oh, by the way, William Shatner is a very bitter man."
James Tiberius Kirk was ("will be") born in Riverside, IA.
In a city park, there is (or at least was) a parade float of the U.S.S. Riverside, NCC-1968, IIRC. The nacelles are 6 or 8" PVC pipe, and the rest scaled to match.
I'm not a Trekie, but here's the info you requested.
| Crew of the Starship Enterprise | ||
| POSITION/RANK | CREW | ACTOR |
| Captain | James T. Kirk | William Shatner |
| 1st Officer | Spock | Leonard McCoy |
| Chief Medical Officer | Dr. Leonard H. McCoy | DeForest Kelley |
| Chief Engineer | Montgomery "Scotty" Scott | James Doohan |
| Navigator | Pavel Chekov | Walter Koenig |
| Helm Officer | Hikaru Sulu | George Takei |
| Communications Officer | Uhura | Nichelle Nichols |
| Head Nurse | Christine Chapel | Majel Barrett (Widow of series creator Gene Rodenberry. Also played Computer Voice and Lwaxana Troi) |
Actually, I was being sarcastic since Shatner gets the most publicity. However, thanks for the info.
I know, but I just couldn't resist after checking your home page & seeing your age. I grew up with StarTrek (the original - not reruns), and have fond memories of the shows.
Did you know that many episodes were based on scenes and/or plays from Shakespear, rewritten for sci-fi future?
With those funky earphones, the three big dials, and the dry batteries....
Hey Bill, I'll fly on over! :)
You have to sing a duet.
First time I've heard the Kerry campaign called that.
we'll sing Rocket Man together...
Shatner refusing to acknowledge his DARK side. Regards, Penny & Pamela
ROFL!
No. Old "console". (Big "floor model". Almost as big as the televisions that came later.)
It had a 15" speaker. (Or maybe it was 18"...not sure) That's one of the reasons the cabinet was so big.
(The one my family owned had AM and "shortware"...no FM...that wasn't around yet. My dad put up an "outside aerial" ....they weren't called antennas in those days. Us kids used to "turn it up as loud as it could go" and get as close to the speaker as possible......)
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040930/NEWS01/40930005/1079
Invasion Iowa-The joke is on the locals, not William Shatner!
(Limited series; Spike, Tues. March 29, 9 P. M.)- Brian Lowry, TV, Hollywood Variety March 29, 05
Filmed in Iowa by Reese Wernick Prods and GRB Entertainment. Executive producers, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Gary R. Benz, William Shatner; co-executive producers, Mary Jester, J. Holland Moore; super is- producers, Ronnie Lynn Weinstock. Paul J. Coyne; producer, Andrew Green; director, Brendon J. Carter; writers, Andrew Green, Moore, Reese, Wernick, Jonathan Green, Gabe Miller; production designer, Michael Carney; editors, Coyne, Adam Davis, Eric Torres, Audrey Capotosta, Josh Lennox, Heather Miglim, George Escobar; music, Vaughn Johnson & Scorekeepers Music; casting, Jennifer Buster.
Cast: William Shatner, Kirk Ward, Desi Lydic, Ernie Grunwald, Garz Chan, Michael J. O'Hara.
Upping the ante on ridicule by creating an entire town of Joe and Josephine Schmos, "Invasion Iowa" doesn't push quite hard enough to be truly memorable, but it probably goes too far to leave any of those duped feeling sanguine about the experience. Some pundits, in fact, might even see this silly exercise as another sign of Hollywood's disdain for the heartland, though it's really more a case of frat-boy humor run amok and a star so accustomed to spoofing his inflated image that he'd rent himself out for such shenanigans.
Exhausting most of its cleverness in the conceptual phase, this limited series features William Shatner and a fake film crew descending on the Iowa hamlet of Riverside, where "Star Trek" alter ego James T. Kirk was legendarily born a few centuries from now. The idea is that Shatner has come "home" to direct and star in a low-budget sci-fi feature, casting locals in supporting parts - the twist being that it's all fodder for a huge practical joke on the unwitting participants. Most of the foolishness hinges on lampooning Shatner's version of himself, as well as the fact that ordinary folk will believe any sort of idiocy coming from showbiz types. So Shatner comes across as an egomaniac that greets the crowd waving his Emmy, travels with a "spiritual adviser" and employs a leading lady who clearly appears to have earned the job with something other than her acting chops.
Ultimately, though, as in "Joe Schmo" and its sequel, the key lies in testing how far the producers can push such eccentricities before the rubes begin to suspect it's all a charade. The answer comes during the second hour, when a burly fellow muses out loud that some of the goings-on feel "very reality- showish,'' causing Shatner to concede in one of those ' asides to the camera, "If they say ... 'You're making fools of us,' we're dead." Beyond bad manners, the biggest problem facing "Invasion Iowa" and its ilk is that at a certain point the show becomes all about the "reveal" - that is, the moment when the hopefully still-unsuspecting marks learn they've been punk'd. Sustaining interest between the setup and that moment, alas, often proves difficult, which seems especially true here, since the show really doesn't go for the throat during the first two episodes. As it stands, the funniest bits belong to "Gryffyn" (Desi Lydic), the spandex-clad ingénue who keeps being "accidentally sexual" (as she puts it) and has a penchant for shoplifting. On the downside, a gag in which a foul-mouthed "Sean Connery" (actually a bad impersonator) phones in to discuss his role in the movie would fall thuddingly flat even if "Saturday Night Live" hadn't done it first.
Doubling as an exec producer, Shatner at least appears to be having a ball, down to a riff on his awful spoken-word rendition of "Rocket Man. " Still, there's no getting around the fact that those perpetrating this stunt have abused the gullible locals' naiveté, all for the purpose of filling a few hours on Spike.
While it's not clear how the cast and crew feel about that, their roles in this scenario bring to mind another short-lived Spike offering: "I Hate My Job."
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