cs2532aa@unm-cvax.UUCP (02/22/85)
Arrrgh! I was watching the end of '20/20' and I saw James Doohan doing a
commercial for Citibank credit cards. At the end of the ad, he hands his
wife the remote control for the newly installed (they bought it with
something they got for using the card) garage door opener and says to her
"Now it's your turn to beam us up!" The Star Trek theme rises, and so
does the garage door . . . Arrrrgh!
(Oh well, if Leonard Nimoy can do a Bangles video and Bill Shatner can do
T.J. Hooker . . .)
.rne.
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Real World . . Ernie Longmire / 311 Don St. SE / Los Lunas, NM 87031-9405
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-----barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) (02/22/85)
> Arrrgh! I was watching the end of '20/20' and I saw James Doohan doing a > commercial for Citibank credit cards. At the end of the ad, he hands his > wife the remote control for the newly installed (they bought it with > something they got for using the card) garage door opener and says to her > "Now it's your turn to beam us up!" The Star Trek theme rises, and so > does the garage door . . . Arrrrgh! > > (Oh well, if Leonard Nimoy can do a Bangles video and Bill Shatner can do > T.J. Hooker . . .) > > .rne. > > ----- > Real World . . Ernie Longmire / 311 Don St. SE / Los Lunas, NM 87031-9405 > UUCP . . . . . {{purdue,cmcl2,ihnp4}!lanl,ucbvax}!unmvax!unm-cvax!cs2532aa > ----- *** DEFACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Along these same lines, anybody ever see "Pretty Maids all in a Row?" This was a teen exploitation film (ca. 1972 -- lots of groovy mini- skirts, platform shoes, and bell-bottoms) written (and directed?) by Gene Roddenberry, featuring such luminaries as Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, and several other well known characters whose names I can't remember, as well as Doohan. The idea was that Hudson played a high school guidance counselor who is sleeping with half the female students in the school. An ultimatum issued by one of his partners to expose his extra-curricular activities leads him to a string of murders and eventually to his suicide. Well, let me tell you, after a few minutes, I was really embarassed, not only for myself, but for Gene and everyone else associated with this groaner. Unless I missed some deep inner meaning or brilliant plot twist, this film had almost no socially redeeming qualities. But, I suppose it is (sort of ) interesting ST-related trivia. Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett