Shatner faces final frontier as Priceline.com spokesman Priceline.com has decided to milk the last dregs from an increasingly portly franchise by roasting spokesman William Shatner in a fiery death. Shatner has milked many iconic roles, not least Captain James Tiberius Kirk, singer, sanitized Twitter soap star, and the best-forgotten TJ Hooker, but his regular appearances as …
The only role I ever enjoyed Shatner in was his time as Denny Crane in Boston Legal I think the humour they injected into a sensitive subject was very well written - even if some scenarios were a little OTT.
If we had a few Denny Cranes in IP law, Then that whole rats nest might be more bearable
Shatner $old his Priceline $tock during the Dot-Com bust, and lost out - BIG time.
If he'd kept his shares, their current price (even including the recent reverse 6-for-1 split) would have been valued at US$5.5M. Not that huge a lump. But still, more than he has now.
(Shared anelevator with him once, for about 15 floors - He's a funny guy, in person)
Where he was the flight-phobic and unbalanced business traveller who saves a passenger plane from an evil wing-destroying gremlin that only he can see. The end of the episode has Shatner being carted away in a straight jacket blathering on about how he saved the plane, and the camera backs up from that scene to show the wing of the plane, torn up by the gremlin's claw marks. The episode was enough of a classic that it was remade as a part of the Twighlight Zone movie that came out in the 80s.
And Star Trek just wouldn't be the same without the hammy Shatner's uncanny ability to PUT the emphasis on the wrong WORDS in a SENTENCE!!
I just remembered thatt same Twighlight Zone episode was parodied in the Simpsons as a Treehouse of Horror episode, with Bart saving a schoolbus from the gremlin, and at the end of the episode Flanders picks up the injured gremlin and starts mothering the little monster because even though its evil incarnate, it is one of God's creatures.
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