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To: Richard Kimball

After exposure to enough concentrated Shatner, almost any man will feel gay by comparison. Chuck Norris, on the other hand, is the only man who could turn Shatner gay.


73 posted on 05/11/2009 12:59:40 PM PDT by Sloth (The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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To: Sloth
Yeah, if you do a Google search for Chuck Norris, it just comes back and says, "NO! Chuck Norris searches for you."

BTW, I saw an interview with Shatner, and he was talking about the time after TOS was canceled. He was divorced, none of the other series were on the horizon, he hadn't made that much money from the series (there's a lot of information on how DesiLu screwed the original cast) and he was living in a camper-trailer, watching the first moon landing. Interesting story.

Couple of other trivia notes: In TOS, McCoy's medical tools were originally designed to be futuristic salt and pepper shakers. Nobody could tell what they were, so they became McCoy's medical tools and they just used regular salt and pepper shakers. The automatic doors on the show preceded real automatic doors, and they had stage hands slide them open and closed. There were several outtakes where cast members walked into the doors when the stage hands missed their cues. The original transporter effect was done by putting the characters against a blue screen, reversing the cut out, and making the sparkle effect by blowing a fan over long strands of Christmas tinsel. Desilu demanded that their studios make all the props, and charged a little over $500 for each communicator, and close to a thousand for the tricorder. This was one of the screwings they gave to the original producers, by requiring them to buy all their props from Desilu.

One of the reasons making the movie took so long was because many of the actors never received royalties from the original series, and therefore demanded much larger salaries. Desilu did some VERY creative bookkeeping where they would bill the Series budget every time it was shown in reruns, by making the series budget pay the prop department, distribution services, etc, each time TOS was shown. They were able to make it look like they lost money every time the show was shown in rerun. This kept the contract clause that gave the cast a payment after the series showed a profit from ever kicking in.

76 posted on 05/11/2009 1:40:10 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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