BS: Shatner immortalised!

Subject: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Gurney
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 02:30 PM

Madame Tussaud's has unveiled a wax effigy of W.S. in his Star-trek uniform. The man himself was there to see it!
That should please L.H.



Just goes to show that you don't need to be good, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:12 PM

Wow. I get shivers just thinking about it. Why couldn't I have been there?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:21 PM

I hope a sigh was in place to let folks know which one was not the real thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:22 PM

a sigh, or a sign:)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:27 PM

It's amazing how many wrinkles can be removed with shrink wrap.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: bubblyrat
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:30 PM

At least,when he dies,they can put,as his epitaph on the tombstone,"Boldly Gone ".

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:35 PM

He was and will be immortal.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:39 PM

At first, I thought it said "immoralized". But then I realized that he is much too boring to be immoral.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 03:46 PM

Only a complete dullard would describe Shatner as "boring". Drop and give me 50, artbrooks. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 04:12 PM

Which year was represented? Pre girdle or post? Pre hairpiece or post?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 05:03 PM

Given the list of who has been immortalized at the waxworks, I'm not sure it's exactly an 'honor'.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 06:39 PM

Well, it's recognition anyway. You can't deny that.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Lox
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 07:35 PM

Well I don't know if immortalized is quite the right way to put it ...

... I mean, as any Sci Fi geek knows the earth will eventually be swallowed up by the sun at which point the wax is bound to melt ...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 07:46 PM

Actually Ed, Sins has it right.......The real one was easily identified since it was twice the girth of the wax one and had a really bad rug that was popped up at both the front and back..........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 07:52 PM

Little Hawk:

I am sorry to have to tell you this, but your use of the expression "drop and give me fifty" is illegal, and unauthorized, and without any operative merit or substance. No-one is ever going to drop for you except your wiener, and even he isn't going to give you fifty without some sort of manual intervention on your part.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 08:26 PM

Fifty what is the question, isn't it, Amos?

Drop and give me 100, buster.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 08:38 PM

http://blog.newsok.com/ofinterest/2009/04/03/creepy-wax-people-need-new-homes/

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Nov 09 - 10:34 PM

Truth be told, I always kind of liked Shatner. He can take a joke and poke fun at himself. Self-depricating humor is scarce in Hollywood. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Ernest
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:28 AM

If we only had star trek technology.....



...we could have freezed the man himself a long time ago. Would have saved us a big chunk of perfect servicable wax.

;0)
Ernest

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:54 AM

Good point, Ernest. Of course, you have to consider that the hairpiece could be, in fact, a wick, and one careless match.....

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:14 AM

You know, people who are immortalized, are cast in something more permanent than wax. Who knows? Perhaps Mr. Shatner will have another life as a candle....
At least he'll be useful, for a change.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 09:41 AM

There he is, along with Al Roker. How the mighty have fallen...and can't get up.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 10:24 AM

Come back Jeff Hunter! All is forgiven.

Actually I quite liked Shatner in 3rd Rock.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Amos
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 10:46 AM

He's been immoralized? Is that an improvement?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 10:54 AM

Proof of Shatner's immortality

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 11:02 AM

The unveiling.

The wax statue is the 80's movie Shatner from when the state of hair pieces and girdles were quite advanced. Note that the thick polyester uniform was like a belly holding exoskeleton unto its self.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:04 PM

Wow. I'm speechless. Breathless. Stunned. Deeply moved. Etc.

Subject: Shatner--again
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:14 PM

He was on Conan O'Brian the other night and was intentionally humerous to music.

Shatner channels Levi Johnston

Shatner channels Levi Johnston

Subject: RE: BS: Sh*tner vs Sh?tner (?????)
From: GUEST,HSERFER
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:19 PM

Whooaa - BIG TIME

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:23 PM

I just began another thread about his performance the other night on Late Night   

Shatner channels Levi Johnston

Perhaps there is more talent that he has been hiding.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 12:38 PM

Sorry, EBarnacle, but the one-active-thread-per-subject applies to Shatner, too. Otherwise, the BNP geeks are going to want equal space. Who knows? maybe they'll give Shatner honorary membership in the BNP...

I combined the threads.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 01:54 PM

Weren't the threads part of Anne McCaffrey's Pern series?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: artbrooks
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 02:16 PM

Didn't we have a long discussion of merkins in a thread recently? I was wondering what that wig looked like...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 02:58 PM

It's only because the guy has been too much with us! He's been blessed with a certain longevity---and because of that he has gotten to be a parody of himself.--- That's not his fault. It is ours for morphing his mannerisms into the stuff of dreams that, horribly, happen night after night after night after...the same damn imagery.

The fault, dear people, is not in Bill Shatner. It is in our modern technology --- which allows us to rewind ad infinitum -- and play Bill over and over.

But the first time around---Star Trek was magic!!!

Just one guys opinion...

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 04:30 PM

True Art, indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 04:34 PM

It would be sort of comparable if we had to keep hearing about Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the rest of the Peanuts gang over and over and over again...

Fortunately, that isn't really happening, although that comic was magic the first time around too. It hit its best days in the 60s, I think, but it declined steadily from about the time Peppermint Patty and Marcie showed up.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 04:43 PM

I keep hearing about Charlie Brown et al. Even when I was in Canada the place kicking analogy was oft used to describe the naive. I still see Snoopy in the MetLife ads. He's no gecko but he is still a great spokes animal.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 04:49 PM

Yes, of course, one does hear about them to some extent, Jack, but they aren't the overwhelming and mighty presence on the current entertainment scene that Mr Shatner is...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:01 PM

I have to disagree. In many circles, they are much more influential than Shatner.

Sure Shatner does TV ads and happens to have zepplin like body type, but does price line have a blimp named after him?

and of course there's the influence on Psychiatry of Lucy, The popularization of Beethoven by Schroeder, and the invention of the "Santa Claus of Halloween", the immortal Great Pumpkin. Not to mention a popular song and the only Christmas classic based upon real events of The Great War.   

Yeah, Shatner is influential, AND he has a huge round head, Good Grief! He even PLAYED a big giant head! But he is no Charlie Brown.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 05:09 PM

Hmm. Actually, the wax image looked more lifelike than Shatner did on the Stat Trek TOS.

Nice head of hair. Did Shatner's hair ever look that good?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 06:35 PM

No....but his rug did.

Have they done Paris Hilton in wax yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: GUEST,jts
Date: 06 Nov 09 - 08:50 PM

Yes LH they have

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 01:54 PM

By Etan Vlessing

BANFF, Alberta (Hollywood Reporter) - The world knows William Shatner as the former "Star Trek" captain. Canadians know Shatner for his Montreal roots and early classic stage career in Stratford, Ontario.

So Canadian pay TV channel Movie Central will combine those two worlds in "The Captains," a documentary that captures Shatner's career arc to overnight success as Captain James T. Kirk. Shatner will direct the film, which will start production in July for broadcast in winter 2011.

Movie Central also acquired the Canadian broadcast rights to "William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet," which features a ballet by Margo Sappington set to music from Shatner.

Shatner returns to TV in the fall with the CBS sitcom "$#*! My Dad Says," a series based on a popular Twitter feed.

***********************************************************
Can you wait?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 02:05 PM

And if GOOGLE anything, you are treated to a conversation between some big guy and Shatner about saving money while they walk across your screen. Maybe if I can source the code I can bring it here.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 02:09 PM

Dammit, I thought for a minute that someone had made a sixty two foot high statue of him with his arms raised.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Jun 10 - 02:56 PM

They should use my song about Shatner, set to a tune by the Rolling Stones:

Shatner

Shoop, shadooby, Shatner (2x)
I'm from Star Trek T.O.S.
Which still survives at conferences
Look at me, I'm getting' fatter!
Shoop, shadooby, I'm Bill Shatner.
Shoop, shadooby, Shatner.

Fans are so alarming
My agent's never charming
Life's just a cocktail party at the "con"
Big Hilton
People dressed as Klingons
Giving lectures
About Gene Roddenberry
(Shatner)

Counselor Troi and Doctor Crusher - sexy sexy sexy sexy!
Look at me, I'm getting' fatter!
Shoop shadooby, I'm Bill Shatner!
Shoop, shadooby, Shatner

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
DS9 and The Enterprise -- I can't give it away at this con
These people need to get a life (shadooby)
Work and work to plug your book
Don't you want my autograph? Ograph ograph ograph ograph!
Does it matter? (shadooby--Shatner) Does it matter?
I'm Shatner.
(Shadooby) -- Shatner.

You got Ferengi in the west ballroom
Ferengi in the break-out session
What a mess this con is in
Uh-huh, this con's full of money grabbers
Go ahead, buy my book! You bunch of [expletive]s!
There's no intelligent life here,
Scotty, beam me up Up UP UP!

Look at me!
(shoop shadooby) I'm Bill Shatner! (etc. repeat and fade)

© Mousethief Etc

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:31 PM

"Police will once again question DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, after the convicted serial killer said for the first time in a TV interview with actor William Shatner that two other men were initially part of the bloody plot that terrorized the Washington area and left 10 people dead in 2002.

D.C. sniper Lee Malvo talks to William Shatner about the shootings."There were two others, there were two other people who were supposed to be involved - but in the end, they ended up backing out," said Malvo, who was 17 when he was arrested for his role in the deadly attacks. He spoke to Shatner, most famous for his role as Capt. Kirk on the 1960's TV show "Star Trek," via telephone from a Virginia prison where he is serving a life sentence.

"What was supposed to happen was that there was supposed to be three to four snipers with silenced weapons, silenced rifles and in this way you could do a lot more damage along the entire Eastern Seaboard then what-- in the end there was only Muhammad and myself," Malvo, now 25, told Shatner. "

Maybe the punk thought Shat would negotiate for him...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:40 PM

I am sure Shat would like to spring him and get 5 minutes in a room with the little prick. Trash like that should be in the ground.

Hmmm... he would have to supply their names to a judge or he would be committing perjury, no? After all, he has just implicated them in a conspiracy to commit a major crime. That'll get ya a lot a years up here. Give the scum some more prison time.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:45 PM

How bizarre.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 05:18 PM

No kidding I have a signed copy of a circa 1960's star trek technical manual ... tells how the phasers work and warp drives and all kinds of stuff. Now who the heck gave it to me so many years ago I dunno ... cause I don't remember a heck of a lot in those days :-) it is still on my bookcase .. I think ... hmmmm where did I put it ... gotta look now

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 04:26 PM

Isn't Malvo serving a life term?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 10 - 05:06 PM

Unfortunately yes... perhaps many.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 02:48 PM

the man featured in the NY Times Magazine - 6 screens of Shat! Screen test video! Disappointingly few pictures!

You're welcome.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 02:53 PM

I just read the first one. I shall contain myself and save the next screen for tomorrow. Don't wanna Shat myself out in one day.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 03:00 PM

WHOA!!!! What a great article!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 10 - 04:56 PM

Yeah... Jimbo is quite a lad.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: robomatic
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 08:28 PM

For those who care:

New York Times Sunday edition TODAY covers William Shatner.

Pages and pages of Shatnery goodness.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 08:29 PM

Can the day be far off when he is made World President by acclamation?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner immortalised!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 10 - 08:48 PM

He would never accept acclamation. He is far to modest. He would at laest have to "run" against some chimps amd weeners.