Possibly the most embarassing performance by anyone ever

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

No, you're wrong. It's talent, Rum, but not as we know it.

[Dasein]

Shalent

[Rum]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

No, you're wrong. It's talent, Rum, but not as we know it.

This is illogical Jim.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

No, you're wrong. It's talent, Rum, but not as we know it.

This is illogical Jim.

Thread's dead, Jim.

[devogue]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

Are you serious, Rum?

The guy is simply dripping with talent, and a rare charisma.

Okay, his delivery is idiosyncratic to say the least, but you can't take your eyes off him when he is on the screen.

[Bella Fortuna]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

No, you're wrong. It's talent, Rum, but not as we know it.

This is illogical Jim.

Thread's dead, Jim.

XC's the red-shirted staff member...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

No, you're wrong. It's talent, Rum, but not as we know it.

This is illogical Jim.

Thread's dead, Jim.

XC's the red-shirted staff member...

You mean I get to go on an away team? Really? Wow! My first away team mission. Mum and Dad and little Timmy will be so proud.

[Rum]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

Are you serious, Rum?

The guy is simply dripping with talent, and a rare charisma.

Okay, his delivery is idiosyncratic to say the least, but you can't take your eyes off him when he is on the screen.

No - I *am* serious. I agree he has charisma, but to quote his own reference in the book (a description that cut him deeply) he is 'wooden' in his acting . Way back Spock always drew the eye in my view.

Reading the book it was sheer perseverance and saying yes to everything that was offered him which got him work..plus the balls and brass nerve. Those songs (with the exception of Common People) show breathtaking lack of judgement on an artistic level but they show very big cajones!

[Animavore]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

Are you serious, Rum?

The guy is simply dripping with talent, and a rare charisma.

Okay, his delivery is idiosyncratic to say the least, but you can't take your eyes off him when he is on the screen.

No - I *am* serious. I agree he has charisma, but to quote his own reference in the book (a description that cut him deeply) he is 'wooden' in his acting . Way back Spock always drew the eye in my view.

Reading the book it was sheer perseverance and saying yes to everything that was offered him which got him work..plus the balls and brass nerve. Those songs (with the exception of Common People) show breathtaking lack of judgement on an artistic level but they show very big cajones!

Ah c'mon!

What about this?



Pure self-mocking genius.

[devogue]

Shatner gets by on balls and brass nerve. He hasn't a talented bone in his body - and good luck to the man I say!

Are you serious, Rum?

The guy is simply dripping with talent, and a rare charisma.

Okay, his delivery is idiosyncratic to say the least, but you can't take your eyes off him when he is on the screen.

No - I *am* serious. I agree he has charisma, but to quote his own reference in the book (a description that cut him deeply) he is 'wooden' in his acting . Way back Spock always drew the eye in my view.

Reading the book it was sheer perseverance and saying yes to everything that was offered him which got him work..plus the balls and brass nerve. Those songs (with the exception of Common People) show breathtaking lack of judgement on an artistic level but they show very big cajones!

I disagree completely.

Spock was pretty one dimensional (it was the nature of the character), so Shatner had to work twice as hard to make the characters work.

As for the songs, I love his take on them - art, especially performance of other people's work, is about interpretation - there is far more originality, thought and honesty in Shatner's mental version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds than in any of Sinatra's safe Beatles covers (Sinatra is wildly overrated). Most music is bland, safe, inhibited - Shatner is none of those things and I think he should be commended for his efforts. He takes the piss out of himself, and he has a great sense of humour but, to paraphrase, many a true piece of art has been forged in jest.