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Nov 06 | J.J. Abrams is in talks to direct the opening episode of "Undercovers," his Warner Bros. secret agent pilot at NBC. Schedule permitting, Abrams, who also serves as executive producer and co-writer for the pilot, will make "Undercovers" the first TV pilot he has directed since 2004's "Lost" two-part opener, which is considered one of the best-directed pilots of all time and helped launch Abrams' career into helming such theatrical films as "Mission: Impossible 3" and "Star Trek." The NBC pilot has been described as a mix between "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "The Bourne Identity." The original report is at the Hollywood Reporter.
Nov 05 | The upcoming MMORPG Star Trek Online has been given a release date. The game will be launched on February 2 in North America, and February 5 in Europe
Nov 02 | Journalist Edward Gross posted in his SciFi TV Zone.com website an animation that takes place on the bridge of the Enterprise, and it's where you can hear his... lord help us... impersonation of William Shatner. The url for the video is this.
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy narrates a new documentary about a historic synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The film profiles Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., the only synagogue designed by the renowned architect. The building, a National Historic Landmark, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. A screening of the film will be shown at the dedication of the synagogue's newly designed visitors center on Nov. 15. Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine, will be on hand
Oct 27 | Leonard Nimoy is celebrating Halloween by taking pictures of the most crazily outfitted attendee at the Santa Monica Museum of Art's Halla Gala. Nimoy, who has practiced fine art photography since the age of 14, is offering a private portrait session at the Viceroy Santa Monica hotel to whomever wins the gala's Secret Self costume contest.
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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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