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Feb 08 | While his "Lost" co-stars prepare to pack up and leave Hawaii, Daniel Dae Kim can plan to remain there for at least a few more months. Mr. Kim, who plays the time-traveling tough guy Jin on "Lost," has been the first actor cast in a coming remake of the crime drama "Hawaii Five-O," The Hollywood Reporter said. He has been cast as Chin Ho Kelly, a detective played by Kam Fong in the original series, which began in 1968. The "Hawaii Five-O" revival is being developed by the screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ("Star Trek," "Fringe") and Peter Lenkov, an executive producer of "CSI: NY."
Feb 03 | William Shatner has paid tribute to his former Boston Legal co-star Justin Mentell, who died in a freak car accident on Monday. The 27 year old was thrown from his Jeep after swerving off the road near Madison, Wisconsin and died at the scene of the tragic crash. The Star Trek legend was saddened to hear of Mentell's passing - as he's convinced the actor was destined for a glittering career. In a post on his Twitter.com page, Shatner writes, "I'm deeply saddened to hear about Justin Mentell. There's no telling how far up the ladder he may have climbed. My sympathies to his family."
Feb 01 | Journalist Edward Gross posted an article at SciFiTVZone.com called "The Making of the Star Trek Pilots, Part 3: "Assignment Earth"" which takes a retrospective look at the making of the Gene Roddenberry unsold TV pilot "Assignment Earth" filmed at Desilu Studios as a second season Star Trek episode. The article feature rare interviews - including authors involved with the character of Gary Seven in comics and in novels.
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By TRexx / 08:44, 27 October 2005 / People
On October 18th, William Shatner was rushed by ambulance from the set of BOSTON LEGAL to Little Company of Mary Hospital. While in a cold sweat and shaking with pain, the erstwhile sci-fi rocketman received the attention of a medic: "Can I have your autograph?"
Denny Crane!
Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, hosts of the LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY morning talk show, listened in astonishment on Monday as Shatner recounted how it took just 30 seconds for a tabloid to get whiff of his 911 scramble. "I got in the ambulance and the siren goes off, and the producer tells me [later] that -- he saw me off, waved goodbye, went up to his office, the phone rang, and it was a tabloid."
A pain in his lower back turned out to be a kidney stone en route to the world outside Shatner's body, a process that's said to be as painful as childbirth. "My wife said it's a girl," Shatner joked while holding up an object large enough to wring tears of urological terror from a stoic Mr. Worf.
The New York Times noted that an ACCESS HOLLYWOOD reporter approached Shatner at the formal dinner during which he was inducted to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, to ask if the kidney stone toss had been painful.
"Have you had children?" Mr. Shatner asked the reporter.
"I have."
"Was it painful?"
"No, because I had an epidural," she said.
"Well, I didn't."
Shatner was back at work the day after passing his stone, and he'll saddle up with wife Elizabeth at a horseman competition this weekend in Los Angeles. Seems all that turns 74 year-old Shatner Orion green are the cigars he must puff on in the balcony at BOSTON LEGAL. "And 20 takes... the 20th cigar... you're sick. You're going, 'If I have to smoke another cigar!!'"
Through it all, does he enjoy the show? "Oh, it's a great -- it's a gas. It's full of humor, sex, and violence."
A transcript of Shatner's TV talk show interview, with screen images and MP3 clip, is at VRRRM.
Catch BOSTON LEGAL on ABC, Tuesday nights at 10/9c.
William Shatner's TWIST IN THE TALE (1998) DVD went on sale this month in the U.S.A., Canada, and United Kingdom.
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