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Feb 05 | Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton and Denise Crosby will be part of Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed – a full-cast reunion of Star Trek: The Next Generation® to be held at the Calgary Expo April 27-29, 2012. The special reunion event will be held at Calgary Stampede Corral on the evening of Saturday, April 28, 2012. This auspicious occasion marks the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation® and will be the first time in over twenty years that the cast has participated in an event such as this. Included in the evening’s program is a 90 minute panel discussion, a Q&A session, and a video presentation in honour of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation®. A commemorative guide will produced solely for this event along with exclusive merchandise. This is a separate ticketed event with tickets going on sale through Ticketmaster on February 18, 2012 at 10 AM MST. Although the cast will be participating in various panels throughout the course of the weekend, Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed will be the only opportunity to see all nine of the cast members in one incredible panel. Tickets will be available at www.ticketmaster.com and range from $40-$125 CDN.
Jan 30 | A large, heavy pewter sculpture that Paramount
commissioned, commemorating the series finale of DS9 in 1999 is available on eBay.
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By GustavoLeao / 01:07, 14 February 2008 / Feature Films
After yesterday story about the delay on the release date of J.J. Abrams Star Trek prequel movie, here is more info on the move of the movie from December 2008 to May 2009 from Variety's Blog (thanks to TrekMovie.com for the links and quotes)
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Paramount Pictures reshuffling was due to a rethink after the strike and regarding the Star Trek movie, it was not related to any problems with the movie's script.John Lesher is starting to make his imprint felt at Paramount. (And make no mistake, he's still overseeing Vantage too.) Paramount is changing a number of release dates on their 2008 and 2009 skeds, moving J.J. Abrams' Star Trek from Christmas, 2008 to May 8, 2009. David Fincher's Brad Pitt-starrer The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will move from November 26 to December 19, 2008.
DreamWorks Pictures' comedy Tropic Thunder, originally scheduled for July 11, will now be released on August 15 by DreamWorks-Paramount. And Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, originally announced as a DreamWorks-Paramount release, will now be distributed by Paramount Vantage. Which makes perfect sense; who better to handle it as an Oscar contender?
Dramatically underscoring the need for movie-side execs to review slates following the long writers strike, Paramount on Wednesday bounced six films to new dates and moved two unslotted films to next year's calendar.
Other distributors were scrambling to complete similar reviews of their upcoming productions to determine what can or can't be delivered on scheduled dates. In some cases, films will move because of talent issues, but many film projects have been frozen in time when script rewrites weren't completed before the 100-day scribe walkout.
"Star Trek" arguably was the biggest film moved, with the intended Christmas Day release now set for the first prime date in the following summer boxoffice season: May 8, 2009. But "Trek" appears something of an exception in the mix of itinerant pics, with its shift unrelated to script or cast considerations.
" ‘Star Trek' is moving to summer because its has so much boxoffice potential," Par spokesman Michael Vollman said. "It does not need any script tweaks. They're two-thirds of the way through shooting, and we would have delivered a great movie at Christmas."
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Well, I think there's something more insulting than the mere homo-eroticism of liking an overweight 76-year-old's gentitals on your face.
What's implied by the use of irrelevant homo-eroticism as insult?
You add advanced age to the equation. The visual mockery posted in this thread is of a person who's chubby and balding. All of these attributes have been western culture's choice of social pariahs. Old. Fat. Gay. Trekkie. In some near time and place, the photo might also be of a non-Caucasian. None of these characteristics are intrinsically "bad", they're posed as disgrace by the local moral majority.
Unless these wide demographic attributes have empirical relevance to individual cries of "He's a liar!", their scorn here is no different than any other arbitrary bigotry.
The "something more insulting" that you mention is what, exactly?
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