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Encounter With Greatness
Something I forgot to tell you about my trip to Kansas City.
I was walking around the Plaza towards FAO Schwartz, or possibly I had just come out of there. It was still light outside. And as I was walking, I suddenly saw something that made me stare in amazement.
Now, I dislike celebrities intensely. Most of them don't deserve the fame and riches that they have, and most of them are only celebrities because of family connections. Even the ones without famous names usually turn out to have very famous or influential relatives. It's a new nepotism, leading towards a new American "noble" class that is anything but. Talentless pretty-boys and girls, most of them, and products of the surgeon's knife at that.
Of the lot of them Johnny Depp is the only one I even half-way respect. He's a real actor, unlike virtually everyone else on TV and film under the age of 40.
For the rest of them, it would give me great pleasure to say "Who the hell are you?" to help deflate their inflated egos.
Some older actors are impressive, though. And as I was walking down the street in KC, I saw someone...well, I couldn't help but stare. And stare. Was it really HIM? It couldn't be. He wouldn't be standing on the street in Kansas City, and certainly not discussing a fender-bender with a couple of other people. But I still couldn't help but stare in amazement. The resemblance was absolutely perfect.
What would William Shatner be doing in Kansas City?
I was walking around the Plaza towards FAO Schwartz, or possibly I had just come out of there. It was still light outside. And as I was walking, I suddenly saw something that made me stare in amazement.
Now, I dislike celebrities intensely. Most of them don't deserve the fame and riches that they have, and most of them are only celebrities because of family connections. Even the ones without famous names usually turn out to have very famous or influential relatives. It's a new nepotism, leading towards a new American "noble" class that is anything but. Talentless pretty-boys and girls, most of them, and products of the surgeon's knife at that.
Of the lot of them Johnny Depp is the only one I even half-way respect. He's a real actor, unlike virtually everyone else on TV and film under the age of 40.
For the rest of them, it would give me great pleasure to say "Who the hell are you?" to help deflate their inflated egos.
Some older actors are impressive, though. And as I was walking down the street in KC, I saw someone...well, I couldn't help but stare. And stare. Was it really HIM? It couldn't be. He wouldn't be standing on the street in Kansas City, and certainly not discussing a fender-bender with a couple of other people. But I still couldn't help but stare in amazement. The resemblance was absolutely perfect.
What would William Shatner be doing in Kansas City?
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(Anonymous) 2003-12-17 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)Well, shucks, couldn't Shatner being doing a gig at a local theatre?
Certainly not impossible; it is a sizeable metropolitan area (1.7 million
roughly in the last census) so there should be theatres.
Presumably he'd be doing such a thing as a favor for a friend or as a lark
since he's richer than dirt from priceline.com stock options he sold before
it crashed in value.
Or it could have just been Captain Kirk. :)