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Happy Birthday, William Shatner!
Trek News ^
| March 22, 2013
| Tom Caldwell
Posted on 03/22/2013 11:02:11 AM PDT by EveningStar
Today, William Shatner, the actor who played the legendary Captain James Tiberius Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series and seven Star Trek motion pictures, turned 82 years old.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: captainkirk; happybirthday; shatner; startrek; williamshatner
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To: Revolting cat!
no, as kirk he is/was pretty decent.
He still is superior to much of the dregs today.
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:15:28 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:19:52 PM PDT
by
yadent
To: mylife
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:21:57 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: yadent
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:21:58 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: andyk
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:22:35 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: OB1kNOb
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:24:26 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(I'm done with the GOP. Let them wither and die. We need to start over.)
To: EveningStar
I would like to live long and prosper with great medical care and eat anything I want.
Oh Cr@p.
NOOOOO!!!
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:25:39 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
To: Slyfox
I swear I had that devil doll head when I was a kid.
I paid Terry Shelton $5 for it. LOL
I thought Pop was going to have a fit trying to figure out what it meant LOL
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:27:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: EveningStar
And in four days, Leonard Nimoy will ALSO be 82.
And guess who’s birthday is RIGHT in the middle of those two icons?
Me!
(But, I’ll only be 44)
Kinda cool that I share a birthday with Steve McQueen, too.
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:31:07 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Hoffer Rand
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:35:07 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: Revolting cat!
When it comes to “singing”, he’s like almost A-OK, but acting? The worst. Actor. Evah! One of the funniest online DVD reviews I can recall was of Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, in which the reviewer summed it up as "the greatest-ever cinematic clash of ham vs. ham". :-)
But seriously, Shatner is (or at least was in his younger days) an old-school Shakespearean stage actor. If Bill had been about 6'6" tall and had a smooth baritone speaking voice, his Alexander the Great TV pilot would've probably been a success and he would've never ended up on the bridge of the Enterprise. He *can* act, if given good direction.
In fact, there's a lot of similarity between Shatner and the late Charlton Heston in terms of acting style. Heston simply had more stage presence and consequently was able to carry off the epic movie roles. Note that both of them did a lot of "B" movies; Bill was not able to move beyond that aside from the Star Trek films.
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:39:39 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: yadent
Seen it 50x; still laugh my butt off every time I see it again!
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:43:49 PM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(The Most Insidious Power The Corrupt, Criminal Media Has, Is The Power To Ignore The Truth.)
To: mylife
Can you send me the link privately? :)
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:50:20 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: Signalman; Dr. Sivana
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posted on
03/22/2013 12:57:26 PM PDT
by
EveningStar
("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
To: Old Sarge
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posted on
03/22/2013 1:32:37 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
(Straighten up and fly right!!)
To: EveningStar
When I see the commercial with Shatner and the Blonde “Big Bang Theory” chick wherein he plays her FATHER I laugh. Turns out he’s even older than I thought. Happy birthday, Bill.
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posted on
03/22/2013 2:56:42 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
03/22/2013 3:13:07 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
To: EveningStar
Watched Wrath of Khan last night, for first time in 20 yrs or so. Shatner was great and the 1982 flick really holds up
To: mylife; SortaBichy
I always referred to him as "T. J. Hooker, faggot cop"
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posted on
03/22/2013 3:50:26 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Piffle....)
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