William Shatner Rocks

[Yojimbo]

How old am I? Younger than some, but old enough to have watched this clip of Shatner at the 1978 Sci Fi Awards Show on live analog tv.


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I know the whole Shatner Sings thing is currently viewed and played out as if Shatner was always in on the joke, but the impression I got back in 1978 was that Shatner was taking this very, very seriously. The audience isn't laughing at him, and he looks like he intended to give a really dramatic "reading" of this song. Even though I was a kid at the time, I remember feeling oddly embarassed for Capt. Kirk.

[Kaos]

I remember watching the same show as a kid. Yeah, even as a kid it was absurd.

[MoonSylver]

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http://www.b3tards.com/u/420c52b7900bd7084f02/shatner-enterprise-bridge.jpg

I'm Sorry I STILL Can't Hear You Over The Sound Of How Awesome I Am!"

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Enter the mind of William Shatner if you Dare! Presenting....The Shatnotron!

http://rathergood.com/shatnotron

:stunned:

[clanglee]

Cant find a good version on youtube. . . damn copyrights. But here is the audio of Stewie Griffin's tribute to the Shat man

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well, here is a bad, filmed on tv version
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[ZombieGrrL]

LOL

Kirk out.

[wayzim]

Yep, Shat's pretty cool, he's one mean mother -(shut yo mouth )
We're talkin about the Shat Man.

Ok, enough of that.

I'm old enough to remember Bill not only from original trek, and those couple Zones he did, but also a version of Hound of The Baskervilles TV (72), where he played opposite Stewart Granger as Holmes.
Additionally he starred with two other future Sci Fi heros, Richard Basehart(Voyage to the Bottom of The Sea (TV) and Yul Brynner(Westworld) in a fun film romp called the Brothers Karamazov (58)
How many of us remember his fallen priest in Horror at 37,000 feet (73), battling evil druid spirits alongside Roy Thines (The Invaders )aboard a literally frozen passenger jet?
Also there was a short lived series called Barbary Coast(75), where Shatner was an Artemis Gordon style agent to Doug McClures cool gambler(a poor man's Maverick ) fighting crime in the wild and wooly days of San Francisco
Yes, there was T.J. Hooker, but he also played a veterinarian, fighting a whole lot of Tarantulas in Kingdom of The Spiders (77)

Yes sir, there was definitely a whole lotta Shatner goin on back then

Wayne Z

Bill: Guys, you gotta mix a little reality in with your imagination to achieve happiness in your life. And you've gotta overcome your programming - which in your case is a thirty-year-old television show.

Free Enterprise (98)

[MoonSylver]

Nimoy was on an episode of the Twilight Zone too.

It's really funny to see Shatner, Nimoy & DeForest Kelly in a lot of old westerns as well. I've seen Shatner in Gunsmoke. Nimoy in Bonanza. Kelly used to play the heavy in a lot of westerns. Those blazing blue eyes of his, he looked crazy.

Go back & check those guys IMDB credits sometime. They were some hard working TV actors out there hustling, that's for sure.

[ProfessorChaos]

mr. shatner is the shit in my book cuz he's the face behind the original michael myers mask.:skull:

[ZombieGrrL]

mr. shatner is the shit in my book cuz he's the face behind the original michael myers mask.:skull:
Thanks for the trivia ProfessorChaos! I had no idea about this until I read your post! I just Googled it, and saw a website with the original Shanter mask, and the Halloween one. I see the resemblance now! :D

[ProfessorChaos]

^

you're quite welcome. as one of my buddies says, "now you've got a new wrinkle in your brain.":cool:

[ZombieGrrL]

Yay! As long as it's in my brain and not on my face, that's fine! hehe!!!

[MikePizzoff]

The audience isn't laughing at him because wasn't it "hip" to be doing beatnik stuff like that back then? Or perhaps 1978's a bit late for the beatnik thing, but maybe they still "got" it?

[Yojimbo]

Thanks for the trivia ProfessorChaos! I had no idea about this until I read your post! I just Googled it, and saw a website with the original Shanter mask, and the Halloween one. I see the resemblance now! :D
Yeah, me too. Had no idea until the good Professor mentioned this. No wonder that mask looked so familiar to me!

Thanks ProfessorChaos!

[ProfessorChaos]

Yeah, me too. Had no idea until the good Professor mentioned this. No wonder that mask looked so familiar to me!

Thanks ProfessorChaos!

yeah, i've got a few movies in which my knowledge of random trivia and overall nerd-dom (like owning a michael myers mask or being a member on a webboard for romero fans) shines pretty brightly...:D

anyone seen that recent priceline commercial where that asian dude is talking like shatner? funny stuff...