Re: Fancy meeting YOU here!
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:23 am
I've got a 2fer. Kate Mulgrew on L&O:SVU and John Billingsly on Cold Case.
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justTripn wrote:OK, another two for one deal. I just watched an episode of William Shatner's Raw Nerve, where he interviewed LaVar Burton! [WARNING. All Quotes are paraphrases from my very feeble memory of the actual quote.]
As I've stated before, this show is simply facinating. Shatner interviews various celebrities for a half hour and they tell him very personal things about their life, or summarize their lives from childhood and what they've learned. These are very serious interviews, not "a funny thing happened to me on my way over here" type interviews. It's on the biography channel, so usually the interviewee is eager to give ancount of themeselves and their lives. So LaVar is very intense discussing his upbringing and how as a child he went to seminary and beleived (and believes) he has a calling in life, a mission. And how everything he has done from Roots through Reading Rainbow to the present is part of that mission. In discussing Roots, LaVar Burton said that the scene that was the hardest was when Kunta Kinta was whipped, and it was partly because of racial genetic memory. Shatner says, "You mean 'Cultural memory' because it it would be too soon for an actual genetic memory. There isn't enough time." Burton disagrees and Shatner lets it go. LaVar Burton goes on about the importance of reading and what he wanted to do for children, to tell them they are special and unique and that each one of them has a mission and they have to discover what that is. Shatner is very impressed with his intensity and says something about it and how glad his is to be able to learn from him or something, when Burton pratically jumps forward and grabs both Shatner's hands and says, "I LOVE IT. I love being here! I can't beleive I'm here talking to Bill Shatner! You don't know how important you were to me growing up. To be able to my race presented on screen. To see Black people presented as part of the future. You don't know what an impression that made on me!" And they were grasping each other's hands for like a minute like very moved by this moment. And I'm thinking, They haven't met before???!!!! Well then they cut to more discussion of LaVar Burton and his life and at the end. Shatner says, "Well I'm so glad to have met you. When I first saw you today, I knew this was going to be good." And Burton says, "Actually, we have met before. We were on some celebrity game show together and you were the team captian." And Shatner says, "Oh right, and we won."
Anyway, I highly recommend this show on any night, Star Trek tie in or no.
Silverbullet alerted me to this. I just watched William Shatner interview Scott Bakula on the TV show "Shatner's Raw Nerve" on the BIO Channel. I watch this show anyway because I love biography, but this was a special treat. (All the following quotations are a paraphrase based on my tenuous memory of the interview)
So this show always begins, "[Special Guest] is about to expose [his/her] raw nerve" then Shatner basically tries to get the star to relate some horribly painful information (the death of a parent, rejection, a drug addiction) and Shatner will share similar information in return. This show was about the only one that broke that mold. Scott Bakula came off as a completely normal, happy guy.
First Shatner asks about his singing career. Seems Scott Bakula thinks of himself primarily as a singer! He was always singing in musicals since high school at least and when asked what he sees himself doing in the future, he said, that's what he wants to do forever. He loves it. The inverview began when Scott was young in Missouri on a "float trip" with his friends and he lost his voice and wasn't able to sing campfire songs or whatever and it ruined the trip for him. This was the show's "raw nerve" moment, such as it was. So Shatner was like, "So what did it FEEL like? You loved singing and you lost that." Bakula was just like, "Well, I don't know. It was very emotionally difficult because I was in a show, but I accepted it, and my life was so busy I didn't have time to think about it too much. And then later my voice came back." Then he describes how in Quantum Leap he got many opportunities to sing. Then Shatner asks "And what about in Star Trek? Were you going to sing in Star Trek?" Bakula says, "YES! I think we all assumed that I would eventually, but then the show got canceled after only four years." Then he is all appologetic about saying "Only four years" like he had been insentive and they both laugh and acknowledge that Shatner had only three years. Then Shatner asks "Did you ever dream you'd grow up to be a starship captain?" And Bakula lights up, like "Never in a million years did I think that would happen. I loved Star Trek!" And they are both very exuberant. Then Bakula continues with the singing story, saying, in the middle of the third season, it suddenly seemed inapproriate to fit in an excuse for Captain Archer to sing, what with fighting the Xindi and saving Earth etc. Then that is the end of the Star Trek discussion. Then Bakula talks about how he quit college for his music career and how his father disapproved but didn't beat him over the head about it. After a year living at home, he took off for New York City, not knowing a soul and within a week had a job touring with a musical and everything clicked for him from there on out. Then Shatner asks about Bakula's children: What do they want to do? Bakula mentions that his oldest son wants to be a boxer and make jewlrey. Shatner is shocked and says, "So how do you explain to him that this is a bad idea?" And Bakula with this glowing smile says there is nothing he can do. He says he advises his son, and his son listens politely and probably ignores the advice. And that's all one can do. Just like his father couldn't talk him out of singing. You can tell he loves them and respects their choices.
At the end of the show, the guest always brings an object that means something to them. Well Bakula has brought a 10lb weight that was custom made, because "It represents health, and as you know in this job we have to be concerned about that."
End of show.
justTripn wrote:marchale, if you liked my report on the Shatner interview of LaVar Burton (above), here's my older report of his interview of Scott Bakula:Silverbullet alerted me to this. I just watched William Shatner interview Scott Bakula on the TV show "Shatner's Raw Nerve" on the BIO Channel. I watch this show anyway because I love biography, but this was a special treat. (All the following quotations are a paraphrase based on my tenuous memory of the interview)
So this show always begins, "[Special Guest] is about to expose [his/her] raw nerve" then Shatner basically tries to get the star to relate some horribly painful information (the death of a parent, rejection, a drug addiction) and Shatner will share similar information in return. This show was about the only one that broke that mold. Scott Bakula came off as a completely normal, happy guy.
First Shatner asks about his singing career. Seems Scott Bakula thinks of himself primarily as a singer! He was always singing in musicals since high school at least and when asked what he sees himself doing in the future, he said, that's what he wants to do forever. He loves it. The inverview began when Scott was young in Missouri on a "float trip" with his friends and he lost his voice and wasn't able to sing campfire songs or whatever and it ruined the trip for him. This was the show's "raw nerve" moment, such as it was. So Shatner was like, "So what did it FEEL like? You loved singing and you lost that." Bakula was just like, "Well, I don't know. It was very emotionally difficult because I was in a show, but I accepted it, and my life was so busy I didn't have time to think about it too much. And then later my voice came back." Then he describes how in Quantum Leap he got many opportunities to sing. Then Shatner asks "And what about in Star Trek? Were you going to sing in Star Trek?" Bakula says, "YES! I think we all assumed that I would eventually, but then the show got canceled after only four years." Then he is all appologetic about saying "Only four years" like he had been insentive and they both laugh and acknowledge that Shatner had only three years. Then Shatner asks "Did you ever dream you'd grow up to be a starship captain?" And Bakula lights up, like "Never in a million years did I think that would happen. I loved Star Trek!" And they are both very exuberant. Then Bakula continues with the singing story, saying, in the middle of the third season, it suddenly seemed inapproriate to fit in an excuse for Captain Archer to sing, what with fighting the Xindi and saving Earth etc. Then that is the end of the Star Trek discussion. Then Bakula talks about how he quit college for his music career and how his father disapproved but didn't beat him over the head about it. After a year living at home, he took off for New York City, not knowing a soul and within a week had a job touring with a musical and everything clicked for him from there on out. Then Shatner asks about Bakula's children: What do they want to do? Bakula mentions that his oldest son wants to be a boxer and make jewlrey. Shatner is shocked and says, "So how do you explain to him that this is a bad idea?" And Bakula with this glowing smile says there is nothing he can do. He says he advises his son, and his son listens politely and probably ignores the advice. And that's all one can do. Just like his father couldn't talk him out of singing. You can tell he loves them and respects their choices.
At the end of the show, the guest always brings an object that means something to them. Well Bakula has brought a 10lb weight that was custom made, because "It represents health, and as you know in this job we have to be concerned about that."
End of show.
Cogito wrote:Whenever I see Scott outside of Enterprise he comes across as a great guy, and I wish that Archer had been more like him and less of the opinionated, petulant and arrogant character that we saw. It is probably a testament to Scott's acting skills that he managed to portray a character that I dislike so much. (Just as I admire Brent Spiner for making Soong so unlikeable.)
This, I think, is why I liked Firefly so much - the characters there weren't all perfect, but they were all strong well defined characters who were likeable. (The fact that all the ladies were drop dead gorgeous didn't hurt one bit and I'm not ashamed to admit that.)
justTripn wrote:Marchale, just start a thread about V in General Chat. No problem. We have a thread about House, for instance.
justTripn wrote:Hi, thanks for the new fakes for the guys!
I was just going to mention that if you love watching Scott Bakula, you should be watching "Men of a Certain Age," which I was just watching a minute ago. It's on TNT (which I almost mistyped, lol . . . ) OK, so the actor is such a chameleon. His character on "Men of a Certain Age" is 180 degrees different from his Captain Archer. His Terry character is a charming, boyish aging actor who is so sexy that young women in their teens through themselves at him, but his friends feel sorry for him because he never married or settled into a steady job and so they consider him kind of pathetic. So he is a sexy charming loser. And he just embodies that character. Of course Captain Archer was strong and responsible, but not drop dead gorgeous or a magnet for the women. Captain Archer was the one who was missing out on a love life because of his responsibilities.
I'm pretty sure you can watch episodes of this show online. The first episode is atrociously horrible, so I hope you aren't put off by the first episode. It gets really good. Especially for us women of a certain age. (All the characters are exactly my age, so I really key into it.)
marchale wrote:head hunting and body snatching
Cogito wrote:marchale wrote:head hunting and body snatching
I suppose that's what you do, but I've never heard it described like that before.