shatner is such a whore
Friday, April 14, 2006
I love William Shatner. As any good Star Trek fan should. But I don't love him exclusively because of Star Trek.
Like everyone else on Earth, I of course know him first from his inimitable portrayal of James Tiberius Kirk in the original series.
But what I love about him the most is that no matter what he has been doing for the last 30 years or so, be it a movie, tv drama, reality show, documentary, commercial, or even music album, he is always taking a little poke at his own persona, in a way that endears him to his fans.
I think anyone in the entertainment industry that can make fun of themselves the way that Shatner does actually gets what a trite and silly thing fame really is.
Case in point: One of my favourite movies is Free Enterprise.
But this. The William Shatner DVD Club. This is just too much.
Btw, the t-shirt above can be found here, a killer vintage tee site that I completely coincidentally have done some web work for. I own one myself and wear it proudly. Though probably not as proudly as I did before I read about this latest silliness.
posted by raistlinsghost at 4/14/2006 09:07:00 PM
2 Comments:
lol. I thought the DVD club was a joke, at first. Did you sign up for it?
I thought about joining for about half of a second.
And then I realized that the chances that 1) Shatner actually watches these movies and 2) these movies are anything but B rated garbage that can't be disposed of through any other means are about as likely as the Enterprise swinging by to pick me up for a weekend trip to Risa.
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