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After They Were Famous
After They Were Famous
| In the special "Star Trek: After they were famous"
the actors
of the original series, Gene Roddenberry and others take an in-depth look at the
making of Star Trek The Original Series.
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| I always knew that I was lucky | Is here anyone on this ship who only remotely reminds of Satan | It was the ears and the arched eyebrows which we developed | I started studying Sherlock Holmes to find out about the logical issue what it was all about | I was the one in the crew . . . |
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| . . . who was sitting there stone- faced when everybody was laughing | they tried to make me laugh. | [about De Forest Kelley] - The chemistry between he and I developed very quickly | "I am trying to
thank you, you pointed ear gobblin." "You are welcome, I believe, is the correct response." |
The show was sold very, very inexpensively |
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| Our rocks looked like paper machee because they were | [about the transporter room] - It was very good for actions... and for creating problems with the transporter | ... filmed by Billy Blackburn... | Get out of ... | ... the shot, Billy ( of course it was a joke) |
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| He always had these wonderful Dobermans... | ... I enjoyed them, they were great, they would attack me ... | He would threaten me with the dogs - Look out, we'll get you! | But it wasn't the dogs who were after Mr. Spock. He was becoming something like a pointed ear sex symbol. | I was pleasantly surprised by it. |
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| There was something for a woman who wants to be nurturing | I never thought of myself as anything other than a supporting actor ... | ... working equally as hard as Bill Shatner, not being paid as well by the way... | ... I was competitive... | ... but I never misunderstood what role I was having |
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| I had great discipline and I always thought - Get enough sleep ... | ... head down on the pillow at 9; 30 at night and up the next morning at 5;30. | It wasn't the ears, the eyebrows were very time consuming, they were put on hair by hair each morning. | I could learn lines during that time... | ... sometimes the pages were getting down late |
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| It (the show) was very current, very much going on with the zeitgeist which was going on in the world. | [about the letter campaign] It was something like 120,000 letters coming in a period of 4 to 5 weeks | The audience was intense and vocal... | ... it worked | [on the decline of the stories' contents] I was frankly hoping that we either made a drastic change or stop |
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| [on the end of ST] I was relieved that it was over... I was frustrated and unhappy, and I was happy to see it end | This world that ST creates and the kind of mentality it invites... | ...you run into people occasionally who don't live in the real world any more | At a special ceremony in 1976 - a real space shuttle was named in their honor | First ST movie |
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| I had very mixed feelings and... | ... I was not eager to jump into Spock again. | And then I got to the point where everyone else had signed on... | ... and I had not... | ... and I found myself in a position where... |
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| ...For no really good reason, as far as the audience was concerned, I might be the only one who did not come back. | ... and I didn't want to be in that position... | ... frankly, I don't want to be that spoiled sport. | ... so I signed on | And then 3 Men and a Baby, so for 2 years in a row I am top ten movies as a director. |
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| Just because I said: "I want to do this" |
[comment to - it took a toll] I was waiting for a drink the moment the show finished | From - Spitting Image - I will not be stereotyped | It just didn't matter these days. It's fine. I am happy with it. | Shekhina... |
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| I have a couple of Galleries carrying the work. | I never drank during the day | I didn't realize at the time that I was depressed | Years later, when I entered this marriage, and I professed to my wife how my life was now worth... | ... and how happy I was .. she said - why do you do so much drinking? And I said - you are right - and I looked for help and I got it. |
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| Live long and prosper | ||||
