Star Trek

[Unorthodox]

Probably the closest easily available...what, 10 years younger?

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[Buster's Uncle]

He's wearing a straight-up wig in the video - his hair began to thin in front VERY young, as the cowboy shot hints.

I have a cousin who was going bald -not a little; a LOT- at 22...

[Unorthodox]

hmm. 

I'm not sure on that.  The hair in the hat is pulled back, you can see a touch of widow's peak coming out of that cowboy hat.  It's theoretically possible to create that haircut given how it's all combed forward. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm given to understand it was a wig on Brothers Karamazov, if you're talking about that.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's the other time he was on Twilight Zone five or so years before...

[Unorthodox]

Pic won't come through here...

That the fortune teller doodad episode or the plane episode?  (I think there was 1-2 more he was in, but can't place it off top of my head)

[Buster's Uncle]

The fortune teller doodad.  I'm pretty sure that and the plane is it for TZ.

[Buster's Uncle]

Uno, I figure you'll have a serious look at my live review - I'd like your reaction, especially to my suggestion for the sandbag torso effect.  There's a lifesize baby doll in the living room a lot older than I am, who's played the baby in a number of shows over the years, and the sand body has been very effective for proper heft.  Feeling sorta realistic for the actors handling has no downside.

...His last show was a production of The Miracle Worker I was in about 18 years ago, and I saw the actress playing Mrs. Keller carrying him backstage during a show, patting his bottom and saying "There there" in a mommy voice...

Commencing Nemesis viewing.

Coulda done without the commercial for the abomination first.  This is gonna suck bad enough as it is....

[Unorthodox]

Uno, I figure you'll have a serious look at my live review - I'd like your reaction, especially to my suggestion for the sandbag torso effect.  There's a lifesize baby doll in the living room a lot older than I am, who's played the baby in a number of shows over the years, and the sand body has been very effective for proper heft.  Feeling sorta realistic for the actors handling has no downside.

...His last show was a production of The Miracle Worker I was in about 18 years ago, and I saw the actress playing Mrs. Keller carrying him backstage during a show, patting his bottom and saying "There there" in a mommy voice...

Commencing Nemesis viewing.

Coulda done without the commercial for the abomination first.  This is gonna suck bad enough as it is....

Honestly, I don't remember it well enough to comment much.  I've seen it once and maybe not all the way through at that. 

We've been slowly going through the house and cleaning things for storage, garbage, or yard sales in preparation of the remodeling...I found an unopened copy of it...

[Unorthodox]

Yyyyep.

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1:02:59  (Picard and Data just escaped the Scimitar in an over-obvious action sequence)

You know - this so far isn't a terrible, terrible story -the extra little action movie bit I just sat through aside- the important failures are all ones of execution.  Sure, the script could have used some more polishing (read: been made less stupid and 25% shorter), but the real problems are all in FX, timing, over-gratuitous over-obviousness of the ACTION! scenes inserted, and a miscast guest villain actor who thinks acting Shinzon as if he was doing hacky Shakespeare is the right part-reading for a Picard clone who is supposed to resemble a young Picard - when he makes a drunken undead William Shatner playing dinner theater Richard the Third to a house of four (booing) in Hackensack look like Laurence Olivier playing Lear before the Queen at the Royal Albert Hall at the peak of his powers, not Stewart as Picard at all.  Timing is everything, especially in a flawed production.  And the movie slams into slow motion every second he's on the screen, and a professional director let him do it.  -Probably TOLD him to.

I think that was my takeaway on the whole thing.  Let Frakes direct the movie and it might not have been half bad. 

[Buster's Uncle]

A ruthless edit could make it less-bad now - but recasting Shinzon is the only thing that could save it...

[Buster's Uncle]

This here's a shoop of TMP Kirk with close to proper Kirk hair...

[Buster's Uncle]

Here's Bill Shatner circa 2010 with Kirk hair.

[Buster's Uncle]

Here he is in 1955...

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Check at 3:00, Uno - that's not even trying.

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