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Still Boldly Going Strong

By Tom Lennon ⋅ March 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

William Alan Shatner turned 80 earlier this week. Shatner is – and most likely always will be – one of my favourite screen icons, and I say that without so much as a trace element of irony. Seriously: he’s up there with Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Orson Welles in my personal pantheon and all-time [...]

Shatner and the Old Vic

By Tom Lennon ⋅ December 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Courtesy of my good pal Jez, here’s Lord William of Shatner advertising 80′s 8-bit home computer, the VIC-20: I know that Captain Kirk was promoted to Admiral in the Star Trek movies, but I don’t recall any mention of him being made a Commodore. Maybe that was TJ Hooker.

Today… is… International Talk Like William Shatner Day

By Tom Lennon ⋅ March 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

So declareth Maurice LaMarche – the voice talent behind such animated greats as ‘The Brain’ from Pinky and the Brain and the self-proclaimed “third most prominent imitator of William Shatner” – and who are we to argue? The mighty Shat turns 78 today, and LaMarche urges us all to celebrate this great man’s birthday by [...]

Johansson, Illinois

By Tom Lennon ⋅ May 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

My significantly better half Clare (Bless ‘er) bought me Scarlett Johansson’s new album of Tom Waits’ covers this week, Anywhere I Lay My Head. Now, I’m a bit of a unrepentantly obsessive Tom Waits fan (you noticed?), so when I first heard about this project I was more than a wee bit sniffy. Over the [...]

Canadian Ham on the Dashboard

By Tom Lennon ⋅ August 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

[Originally published in my MySpace blog 22/08/2007] You know how it is: you’re having a grim and vicious day at the office – the workload’s piling up, the mood’s turning ugly and there’s no end in sight – and somewhere between that afternoon’s 18th and 19th nervous breakdown it hits you. It’s that sudden flash [...]