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  • Lt. Starbuck, in the Age of Starbucks

    02/28/2009 11:28:38 AM PST · by ReformationFan · 8 replies · 625+ views
    National Review Online ^ | February 27, 2009 | Mark Hemingway
    Lt. Starbuck, in the Age of Starbucks A retired space cowboy takes on a neutered age. By Mark Hemingway If you’re a man of a certain age, it’s impossible not to harbor affection for actor Dirk Benedict. While he is a veteran of a number of serious films and impressive stage productions, he’s best known for two roles — Lt. Starbuck, the roguish, cigar-chomping space cowboy always ready with a quip on the original Battlestar Galactica; and Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck on The A-Team — not coincidentally, a roguish, quip-ready soldier-of-fortune who had one arm wrapped around the waist of...
  • Lt Starbuck. Lost in Castration

    02/26/2009 6:09:23 PM PST · by GSP.FAN · 45 replies · 1,394+ views
    Big Hollywood ^ | 01 19 099 | Dirk Benedict
    Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood (but is now a state of mind and everywhere), a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called “Battlestar Galactica.”
  • Lt. Starbuck … Lost In Castration.

    01/20/2009 8:30:14 AM PST · by EveningStar · 280 replies · 5,753+ views
    Big Hollywood ^ | January 19, 2009 | Dirk Benedict
    Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood (but is now a state of mind and everywhere), a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called “Battlestar Galactica.” Fortunately, I was young, my imagination fertile and adrenal glands strong, because bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives... Witness the “re-imagined” “Battlestar Galactica,” bleak, miserable, despairing, angry and confused. Which is to say, it reflects in microcosm the complete change...