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• Turning the Broadway Show The World of Suzie Wong from a drama about an Asian prostitute into a comedy about the same
• Starring as a featured voice in the movie 'Lil Pimp
• Killing a piranha with his teeth in Loaded Weapon One
• Canoeing from Canada to the USA
• Narrating the Biblical book of Exodus to music
• Having his eyes gouged out by Ernest Borgnine in The Devil's Rain
Now, these aren't things mentioned in this list; these are just a few of the other insane things Shatner's done besides Trek. I've picked 10 of my favorites, but this is only the tip of the Shat-berg, so to speak.
10) Got to Third Base with Koko the Gorilla
The first chapter of Shatner's excellent memoir, Up Til Now, describes how Bill met the infamous "talking gorilla" Koko. I remembered Koko from my childhood as the lovable gorilla who learned sign language and got a kitten. Later, I learned that as Koko grew up, she became an intolerable asshole. So the story goes that Bill got to communicate with Koko in her home (as much as I'd like to say it was a "palatial Hollywood estate," it was really just a zoo), and basically just repeated "I love you, Koko" to her. Then she grabbed his balls. Really hard.
9) Acted with a Giant Penguin
Even now, William Shatner will sell anything if the price is right. He's been the spokesman for Promise margarine, Commodore computers, Wendy's, Priceline, Blockbuster Video, Western Airlines, and... Loblaws grocery stores. I was going to include the hilarious Commodore computer ad, but this Loblaw's ad where a trustworthy Shatner holds up Loblaw's as the golden god of frozen food is even better. The Shat is followed by a creepy man in a penguin costume, possibly not for the first time in his life.
8) Shilled World of Warcraft
Maybe you remember a game called World of Warcraft. Maybe you remember the advertising campaign where famous people described their characters. You might even remember how Bill Shatner admitted he is a shaman, a "conduit for the ancient forces of nature" while dressed in a druid's robe. However, he chose not to reveal if he pays Koreans to farm gold for him.
7) Land of No Return
Here's the premise: Mel Torme is an animal trainer who crashes his plane full of circus animals in the woods and has to survive, while William Shatner is the guy back home who searches for him. Shatner's scenes are, like those of many "guest stars" of movies in the '70s, phoned in and filmed completely separate from the main action. Just check out the trailer, how much screen time is wasted with Bill's line reading. Most of the trailer is just scenes of animals swatting at each other, intercut with a flat Shatner-ian line read. And it was based on a book!
6) Dealt in Frozen Semen
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He bought some type of old wheel on american pickers once haha http://www.thepadrino.com/
A quick googling reveals she either has nipple fetish, or it just sounds like that because 'nipple' rhymes with 'people' and her keeper got confused of what she really liked to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
The Vegetarian World.
William Shatner talks about being a vegetarian.
I wonder how long that lasted.
Actually, he breeds Saddlebreds...I've run into Shatner (literally) at more than one horse show. The shame...
RE: " I've run into Shatner (literally) at more than one horse show" So when you "literally" ran in to Shatner was it with your car, your horse, or your body? And why do you keep doing it? After the 1st time shouldn't you be a little more careful when you're around other people? Or did you mean you've seen\meet him at more than one horse show? If that is the case then "I've run into Shatner" was meant Figuratively NOT Literally
Esperanto is not a "made-up" language, it is a *constructed language* and people still speak it to this day. Do research.
In 2006 the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that Klingon had overtaken Esperanto to become the most widely spoken constructed language.
Yep, head over to www.lernu.net to join close to 100000 people who no longer speak it! And for the claims on its lack of natural development ... all I have to say is "Ĝis revido!"
You missed a perfect opportunity to connect the frozen horse semen story to the LOBLAW'S commercial. (Just imagine a pantomime horse following him around in the frozen food section, instead of a penguin.)
yes. yes it is. he meant it was created to be an international language and did not develop "naturally" as most languages. he didn't mean it doesn't exist if that's what you thought.
Most linguists I know would call it a "constructed language". Of course, all languages are constructed to at least some extent, but that's another can of worms.
You know, when I read that title, I thought it was going to be a list of crack-whores and ten dollar prostitutes from Patpong. Well, several chicks and a dude, maybe. This IS Shatner, after all. XD
Henry Rollins has a great story on one of his own spoken word albums, about the track he recorded for "Has Been" with Shatner. I think it's on vol. 4 of his "Talk is Cheap" series.
Hmph. I thoroughly (and unironically) love Incubus. I love the weird, foreign arthouse horror movie feel of it, and I also enjoy the fact that it comes across as more or less an extended episode of The Outer Limits. (It was written and directed by Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens.) In my opinion, it's a bit of an unsung masterpiece.
I agree, and Shatner himself does a great job. He's the only one in the film who always sounds like he KNOWS what he's saying!
Being about 30 minutes from where invasion Iowa happened all I gotta say is what a schmuck. The towns mayor presented him with a letter from his William Schattner's own dead mother that written to the mayor when he proposed a captain kirk statue and Paramount refused (this being riverside, and the future birthplace of captain kirk and all) Will broke down in tears to read these words, but of course rather than use this as a human ending for his crapfest, it's so much more fun to make Iowans look like a bunch of rube. Jackass.
Shatner has got to be the greatest person in the world. He is definitely the greatest Canadian of all time.
Best part of his singing career: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...Second best part: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Sorry Mel, you weren't believable as a hardened street punk in Girl's Town and you're not believable as a wilderness survivor either.
was going to be surprised if shats music career was not at least mentioned. that and if the legendary incubus would wind up on the list. given in fits the theme. coco and williams little incident with the shat shat's junk proves even animals can not resist the charm of william shatner.. this list proves how diverse william shater can be career wise. not to mention getting sued over frozen horse sperm.
Wasn't Shatner, around the time of Judgment at Nuremberg, considered to be the next Brando?
I think this list shows that, in some ways, he very much is like an aging Brando. His waistline still has a few inches to go before he hits Marlon's figure, and he's nowhere near a recluse, but he's just as batshit insane.
I hope we're all not above low blows, because killing his wife should have at least gotten an honorable mention.
He gave a keynote address at an IBM conference I attended a few years ago. It was an hour long and loosely had something to do with Tek Wars. I still have no idea wtf he was talking about. Don't ever start making sense Bill. :-)
