William Shatner
With a slew of wives and decades of adventures under his ever-widening belt, Shatner really isn't that different from his legendary TV alter ego, Captain James Tiberius Kirk on the original Star Trek....
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
03/21/1931
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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Miss Congeniality Review
July 20, 2001 1:13pm ESTA cute premise that fails to live up to its promise, this debutante is entirely dependent on Bullock's charm and should have prepped more for the box-office pageant
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"Enterprise" a "Trek" prequel
June 16, 2001 8:02am ESTTrekkies were faced with breaking off cold turkey from their Star Trek jones with Voyager's season finale (syndication of the four series notwithstanding) until UPN announced that it would carry this fall Enterprise, the fifth serial based on the 1960s original. And everyone exhaled. UPN announced May 17 that Enterprise would launch earlier than most other serials, sometime in mid-September, limiting fans' downtime to a mere 12 weeks or so.
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Bakula: Beam me up
May 14, 2001 9:24am ESTMeet the captain of the next Star Trek frontier: Scott Bakula. A veteran sci-fi actor, Bakula (TV's Quantum Leap) will play Capt. Jonathan Archer in the fourth spin-off of the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise. Bakula follows in the formidable shoes of William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew as leader of a Federation starship boldly going where no one else has gone.
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CHANNEL SURFER: Cody Gifford vs. The Rock
March 19, 2001 11:51am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 12, 2000 -- You can just imagine the meeting of NBC executives as they contemplate making a dent in the game-show-fueled ABC juggernaut: "What can we do to really lay the 'Smackdown' in the ratings? Who or what is big enough, tough enough, 'electrifying' enough to send Regis Philbin into the kitchen to open up that fridge and pour himself a nice tall glass of SHUT-UP JUICE?!" The answer? "Freaks and Geeks" is back Mondays! And The Rock is hosting "Saturday Night Live
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Shatner Buys Facility for Women
March 19, 2001 11:51am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26, 2001 -- “Star Trek alum William Shatner, 69, has purchased a house that will serve as a “sober living” facility in remembrance of his late wife, Nerine, who died in an alcohol-related accident 18 months ago.“I wanted to salvage some meaning out of all that experience,“ the actor told the Associated Press. “I thought the best way to do that would be in Nerine’s name to help other people.” The Nerine Shatner Friendly House will be an 11-room residential facility devoted to wome
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CHANNEL SURFER: Ratings Report
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., April 25, 2000 -- The good news is, there's plenty of room at the top, as a whopping 13 shows cracked TV's Top Ten last week! The bad news is, we're running out of Regis Philbin jokes. William Shatner If you've got any good Regis material, feel free to send us an e-mail and pass it along. If we use it, we'll even print your name! Make your friends (the ones who think their Regis jokes are just sooo funny) insanely jealous! Or, even better, join the campaign to replac
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TV STUFF: Return of the Flying Nun
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14, 2000 -- Sally Field is feeling just fine, but that isn’t stopping her from checking into the "ER." The two-time Oscar-winning actress ("Norma Rae," "Places in the Heart") will appear in six episodes of the NBC drama, in which she’ll play the estranged mother to series regular Maura Tierney. Field will first appear in two episodes during the November sweeps, then three more at the end of the season. Yes Sally, we like you. We really like you. At least the "ER" producers do, a
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CHANNEL SURFER: Fox Leaves 'City'
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, May 22, 2000 -- Coming into the home stretch of the final week of the final sweeps period before summer, we've got tearful farewells, wacky guest stars, tantalizing cliffhangers and best of all … sexy stories about Florence Henderson! ABC's "Spin City" (9 p.m. EDT/PDT Wednesday) will be back next season with Charlie Sheen as its new star. But the bigger news is that Michael J. Fox will make his network TV farewell (hopefully only temporarily) in the series' hourlong season finale. Fox
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CHANNEL SURFER: Ratings Report
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., April 25, 2000 -- The good news is, there's plenty of room at the top, as a whopping 13 shows cracked TV's Top Ten last week! The bad news is, we're running out of Regis Philbin jokes. William Shatner If you've got any good Regis material, feel free to send us an e-mail and pass it along. If we use it, we'll even print your name! Make your friends (the ones who think their Regis jokes are just sooo funny) insanely jealous! Or, even better, join the campaign to replace
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ROLE CALL: Capt. Kirk, Employed Male
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., April 20, 2000 -- William Shatner is working again. The old-school "Star Trek" dinosaur has joined the cast of "Miss Congeniality" as an embittered beauty pageant host. The film stars Sandra Bullock as a stalwart FBI agent who goes undercover as a Miss New Jersey pageant contestant in order to thwart a planned terrorist attack. Shatner's last film role was in the 1998 sci-fi send-up "Free Enterprise," wherein he poked fun at himself and his larger-than-life "Trek" characte
