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[marlowe1]

I remember reading the script to City on the Edge of Forever and thinking that Harlan Ellison was right. Roddenberry screwed with the script. Shatner is a blowhard and television sucks the life out scripts. Then I read The Glass Teat and Ellison's awful melodramatic crap script for a show called The Young Lawyers - and his next dozen articles on why the actors screwed it up (because it was so great from the beginning). And now there's this boob grabbing incident. He's not a gay fashion designer.

After innumerable anniversaries, interviews, conventions, books, press junkets, red carpet arrival lines, DVD featurettes and commentaries, it's abundantly clear: They are so over "Star Trek."

If you ask them what still gets them fired up about the late producer Gene Roddenberry's creation after all these years, you get an answer that -- underneath the glibness -- is very telling:

SHATNER: Money.

NIMOY: Yeah. The big, the big bucks.

SHATNER: Money. The money gets you fired up.

TOGETHER: The biiiig bucks.

Seriously?

SHATNER: Yes, that was serious. We were very serious about that.

NIMOY: Yeah. But seriously, folks.

They aren't the only ones whose affections are waning.

It's official. I like Shatner better.

Comments

[goudagirl.livejournal.com]

they had an interview on one of the entertainment shows that was hysterical. shatner really grew on me when he joined boston legal, er, the practice before boston legal. but he and nimoy were giong on about how they get risiduals on their friendship was well as trek. was cute =)

[highway-west.livejournal.com]

I loved the Shatner roast. It was awesome!

[jafinnola.livejournal.com]

William Shatner has grown on me over the past 10 years or so. He's a hoot on Boston Legal.

[simchaorah.livejournal.com]

The roast was funny. I just missed his and Nimoy's appearances in Vegas for the Star Trek Convention a few weeks ago. Too bad.
No, I'm not one of those dressed up Trekkie fans but I did take lots of pictures of them. I was there for a union convention that was wrapping up the same weekend they were starting. Our hotel had the "Quark Bar" in it, and believe me it was hopping! Couldn't get anywhere near the place and they required convention credentials to get in.
Love Shatner on Boston Legal, one of my favorite shows. I also think some of his songs are hilarious.

...from an online article

[livia-llewellyn.livejournal.com]

The Star Trek legend was offered a ticket by Richard Branson onboard Virgin Galactic's first passenger flight in 2008. But Shatner, fearing he would be ill in space or the starship would crash, ironically revealed he's terrified of space travel.

The 75-year-old actor said: "I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me."

This is why I love Shatner!