{"id":907,"date":"2007-03-21T18:34:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T18:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2007-03-21T18:34:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T18:34:47","slug":"shatner_on_shatner_action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/21\/shatner_on_shatner_action\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner on Shatner Action!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tvguide.com\/thread.jspa?threadID=800011164\">a fun idea<\/a>: an upcoming episode of William Shatner&#8217;s television series <i>Boston Legal<\/i> will incorporate footage from <i>The Defender<\/i>, a courtroom drama that Shatner filmed 50 years ago, back in the days of live TV (it&#8217;s available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Studio-One-Defender\/dp\/B00006RJHB\">DVD<\/a>, oddly enough), as a flashback to explain why a hostage taker has a grudge against Shatner&#8217;s BL character, Denny Crane. No word on if the old clips will be colorized or digitally massaged in any way, but with <i>Boston Legal<\/i>, you never can tell &#8212; they may run them in grainy black-and-white for effect.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think much of <i>Boston Legal<\/i> the first couple times I watched it &#8212; I have the same problem with it that I have with most of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_E._Kelley\">David E. Kelley<\/a>&#8216;s shows, which is that no people in the real world behave remotely the way his eccentric characters do &#8212; but it&#8217;s growing on me, in large part because of Shatner. Readers of this blog know that I like him anyway because of the <i>Star Trek<\/i> connection, but in the role of Denny Crane, he&#8217;s finally shed any lingering typecasting from having been Captain Kirk and seems, for the first time (and the first performance) in years, to be really comfortable and happy in a role again. And his chemistry with James Spader is simply delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fun idea: an upcoming episode of William Shatner&#8217;s television series Boston Legal will incorporate footage from The Defender, a courtroom drama that Shatner filmed 50 years ago, back in the days of live TV (it&#8217;s available on DVD, oddly enough), as a flashback to explain why a hostage taker has a grudge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}