BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff

Subject: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 12:23 PM

CALGARY (CBC) - William Shatner, the Canadian acting veteran whose career has spanned Stratford to Star Trek, is to be honoured for his career at the upcoming Banff World Television Festival.

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The 78-year-old Montreal-born Shatner will be in Banff, Alta., to receive the festival's lifetime achievement award in June, to lead a master class and to discuss his career, organizers announced in a statement Tuesday.


Calling Shatner "one of the most celebrated pop-culture icons in the 21st century," festival executive director Peter Vamos said the actor's ability "to keep pace with the times, leverage the latest industry and technology trends, and inject humour every step of the way have been the keys to an unbelievably successful, decades-long career."


Seen Sunday performing a tongue-in-cheek ode to Canada during the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Shatner's upcoming projects include starring in a TV pilot based on the popular Twitter microblog Shit My Dad Says.


His resumé spans television (Star Trek, T.J. Hooker, Boston Legal, 3rd Rock from the Sun), theatre (Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Broadway), film (The Brothers Karamazov, The Intruder, Star Trek, Miss Congeniality) as well a host of notable spoken word performances.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:13 PM

A lot of peeps heep crud on the guy, but he done purdy good I'd say.

BRAVO!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:18 PM

A great entertainer.

ECHO THAT BRAVO!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 10 - 02:35 PM

opps... heAp... geepers eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 05:25 AM

Actor?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:10 AM

The Great Communicator is a proud Canadian. I don't understand why there isn't already a Mudcat thread 319 posts long on whast was for me THE highlight of the 2010 games.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:10 AM

Hell, yeah. Didn't you ever see him in "Terror at 20,000 Feet"?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:15 AM

But having spent time in the hot springs there, doesn't Banff have enough hot air?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:21 AM

You can never have too much hot air! The US Senate, for example, could adopt that as their official motto....and so could Canada's parliament. Then there's Don Cherry... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 11:37 AM

'Banff' is the sound of a skier running into a tree " Robin Williams

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 01:28 PM

It must have been the last thing Sonny Bono ever heard then.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: GUEST,bankley
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 07:09 PM

or.."I got you Babe"

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner to be honoured in Banff
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 07:11 PM

Ouch. You bad.