* William Shatner's musical career

# REDIRECT William Shatner's musical career

# REDIRECT William Shatner's musical career

Has Been ( 2004 ) is William Shatner's second musical album after 1968's The Transformed Man.

# REDIRECT William Shatner's musical career

* William Shatner's cover of " Everybody Hates Ned Flanders "-actually voiced by Maurice LaMarche-is an obvious parody of his infamous musical career, including his performance of Elton John's " Rocket Man " at a 1978 science-fiction film awards ceremony.

In commercials that began airing January 22, 2012, Shatner's Negotiator character apparently dies as a bus falls off a bridge and explodes.

Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and William Shatner's novel set in the Shatnerverse The Ashes of Eden ( 1996 ) depicts the Enterprise-A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

Roger's cheating is, along with Raemes T. Quirk, an homage to William Shatner's Star Trek character, who famously cheated on his own Starfleet exam by reprogramming a " no-win " scenario so that he could successfully complete it.

The gesture actually emulates the initial Shin of the Shema ( Nimoy has also commented that the " sh " could also indicate Shaddai, or the Almighty ; more recently, on William Shatner's Raw Nerve, he associated it with Shekhinah.

He has remained good friends with co-star William Shatner ( also of Ukrainian-Jewish descent ) and was best man at Shatner's third marriage in 1997.

The Scott character, as conceived, would have been a semi-regular, but with fellow cast members Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) and DeForest Kelley ( Dr. McCoy ), was elevated in importance to leads alongside William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk.

Although he continued to work with William Shatner in the Star Trek movies, in private life Doohan didn't care for him, and was once quoted as saying " I like Captain Kirk, but I can't say that I'm very fond of Bill ," declining to be interviewed by Shatner for Shatner's first Star Trek: Memories book about the show.

In 2004, Jackson performed a cover of Pulp's " Common People ", with William Shatner for Shatner's album Has Been.

No one else sees the Gremlin and Shatner's character is removed from the aircraft on a stretcher with symptoms of psychosis.

* A Tiny Toon special titled Night Ghoulery ( a spoof of Night Gallery, with Babs presenting in Rod Serling's style ) has a segment named " Gremlin on a Wing ", which parodies " Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet " as well, with Plucky in William Shatner's place, accompanied by Hamton in an aircraft, and a gremlin similar to that which appeared in Bugs ' short Falling Hare.

Shatner's spoken-word style was also parodied on The Simpsons, with a spoken-word version of Homer's Christmas carol, " Everybody Hates Ned Flanders " playing on the radio in the episode " Dude, Where's My Ranch?

Along with William Shatner's TekWar, also made by Capstone in 1995, Witchaven was one of the first games released to use an early version of the Build engines.

The album was produced and arranged by Ben Folds and most of the songs are co-written by Folds and Shatner, with Folds creating arrangements for Shatner's prose-poems, and feature guest appearances from Joe Jackson ( on a cover of Pulp's " Common People "), Folds and Aimee Mann ( backup vocals on " That's Me Trying "), Lemon Jelly ( on " Together "), Henry Rollins and Adrian Belew ( on " I Can't Get Behind That "), and Brad Paisley ( on " Real ", which he wrote specifically for Shatner ).

This footage became William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet, a feature film with a very well received world première at the Nashville Film Festival on 17 April 2009.

These compilations contributed to Shatner's revived celebrity, albeit with overtones of self-parody.

Folds abruptly replaces Shatner's voice with that of " bitter Cockney " singer Joe Jackson, and then alternates and blends the two into a duet, bringing along a large chorus of young voices on the line " sing along with the common people ", which finally replace Shatner and Jackson's vocals in the song's concluding crescendo.

The album is best remembered for showcasing Shatner's now-famous vocal style — spoken word with dramatic pauses and flourishes.

* William Shatner recorded a cover version with Toots Hibbert on Shatner's 2011 album Seeking Major Tom.

The track " Anywhere the Wind Blows " appears in the film Seven Girlfriends ( as does Christy herself, in a bit part ) and " Satellite " can be found on the closing credits to William Shatner's Free Enterprise, though neither song has seen a commercial release outside of the movie appearances.

Club gave the episode an ' A -' rating, noting that while the last act of the episode was somewhat redundant, the first two run smoothly, and describing Shatner's acting as Kirk's good half as " very solid stuff.

In mid 2011 Paice took part in the all-star recording of William Shatner's Seeking Major Tom, the actor's fourth album, a collection of space-themed cover songs.

The song was also sung ( solo ) by Sheryl Crow in a new arrangement on William Shatner's 2011 album Seeking Major Tom.

In 2004, Ben Folds produced a cover version of " Common People " for William Shatner's album Has Been that brought the song to a new international audience outside of the British Isles.

The Transformed Man is actor William Shatner's debut album.

After Hornby mentioned he was a fan in Songbook, Ben Folds contacted him and Hornby wrote the song " That's Me Trying " for William Shatner's album Has Been.

The video features a parody of William Shatner's video of " Rocket Man ".

TVSquad ranked Shatner's " Get a life " sketch alongside " The Last Voyage ..." as one of the most famous parodies of the show.

* William Shatner's third wife drowned in a pool.

Both Shatner and test audiences were dissatisfied that Kirk was fatally shot in the back in the original ending of Generations ; an addendum inserted while Shatner's Star Trek Movie Memories memoir was being printed expresses his enthusiasm at being called back to film a rewritten ending.

In preparing to play Kirk, Pine decided to embrace the character's key traits – " charming, funny, leader of men " – rather than try to fit the " predigested image " of Shatner's portrayal.

However, Shatner's mannerisms when portraying Kirk have become " instantly recognizable " and Shatner won a Saturn Award for Best Actor in 1982 for The Wrath of Khan.

Slate. com described Shatner's depiction of Kirk as an " expansive, randy, faintly ridiculous, and yet supremely capable leader of men, Falstaffian in his love of life and largeness of spirit ".

On January 6, 2009, he was interviewed by William Shatner on Biography Channel's Shatner's Raw Nerve.

William Shatner, in his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, speaks about how later in their lives Nimoy tried to help Shatner's alcoholic wife.

However, Nimoy would express relief in later interviews and appearances that when he explained the concept to William Shatner, he understood it immediately, and Nimoy credits Shatner's reaction to the nerve pinch in the episode as what really sold it.

However, Doohan consented to be interviewed for William Shatner's second book, Star Trek: Movie Memories, and an Associated Press article, published at the time of Doohan's final convention appearance in late August 2004 stated that Doohan had forgiven Shatner and they had mended their relationship.

In contrast, Nimoy and Shatner's memoirs report that after the screening he called his lawyer and demanded a quarter of the scenes be cut ; the producers refused, and within 48 hours he was dead.

His music was also featured in several of William Shatner's TekWar movies from 1994 to 1996 ( he is listed as " theme music composer " in the opening credits, and his song " Real or Not " was used as the show's theme song.

In William Shatner's novel Avenger, Captain Christine McDonald of the USS Tobias tells Captain Kirk that in her time, the Kobayashi Maru scenario is no longer used to test character, but rather to evaluate the very " original thinking " for which Kirk had received a commendation.