He's really great in the Columbo episode where he plays a TV detective who always solves every mystery. He way he ate celery was riveting.
Even as a birthday gift, that's being too genereous.
Shatner was constantly upstaged by the white suit and hat his TV character wore. I always wondered how Walter Koenig just happened to have that brief, walk-on role in that same episode.
[ Interestingly enuff, this final scene was SHOT on the last day of filming also, which lends the emotions of everyone concerned even more professionally-personal poignancy.
Not to mention Cliff Eidelman's triumphant trumpets. ]
I think this thread would attract more attention if Shatner's name was in the title.
It's interesting to note that Bill has been in show business for 66 years, and Star Trek was only three of them plus a few weeks here and there making movies. From his point of view, the amount of focus on ST must seem crazy.
It's interesting to note that Bill has been in show business for 66 years, and Star Trek was only three of them plus a few weeks here and there making movies.
In the TWILIGHT ZONE episode with the fortune dispenser, he starts asking where he'll move to. "Are we going to live in the East? In the West? In this country?!" Would have been funny if he'd continued with the next logical choice - "In outer space?" But one of his most memorable moments is in the other TWILIGHT ZONE episode when he realizes the plane pilot has been humoring him about seeing a gremlin. It's almost a magic trick the way he convinces you of his initial gullibility followed by his double-take.
Call it cheesy, sentimental pap, but man how I LOVE that signature bit at the end of STVI.
Not only was it the sendoff for our beloved original crew, it was also the last movie two of my dearest childhood friends and I saw together (one dead by his own hand fifteen years ago this August).
It was also the only time I ever saw a Trek film on opening night, and it was so much fun seeing the reactions of other fans to this final voyage. My childhood chums and I knew that we had seen a fine last hurrah for the Enterprise crew. Fond memories.
