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NEW YORK, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The One Club (www.oneclub.org) announced today that George Takei, famed actor of the original Star Trek, will be the host of The One Show, the most prestigious worldwide competition celebrating the year's best in advertising. With a career spanning five decades, George Takei is known around the world for his founding role in the acclaimed television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: The world premiere of LARRY CROWNE LARRY CROWNE writer/director/producer/cast member Tom Hanks; cast members Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Cedric the Entertainer, Taraji P. Henson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wilmer Valderrama, Pam Grier, Rita Wilson, George Takei, Ian Gomez, Rami Malek and Maria Canals-Barrera; writer Nia Vardalos; producer Gary...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- George Takei joins the cast of Nickelodeon's brand-new live-action comedy series, Supah Ninjas, one of five original series premiering on Nickelodeon in early 2011. Comic book in tone and cinematic in style, the half-hour series follows three unsuspecting kids who are drafted into the secret world of crime-fighting after Mike Fukanaga, an average high school student, discovers he is descended from a long line of ninjas. He is helped...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Just as former President Bill Clinton told CNN's Anderson Cooper this past week, "I was wrong" about same-sex marriage referring to the law against it that he had signed early in his administration, and revealed that he is now in support of it, "Mr. Right," a film from director Jacqui Morris and screenwriter David Morris, is set to premiere in Hollywood, October 9, at the Laemmle's Sunset Five Cinema. Just as "Star Trek" star, George Takei and his...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- GSN (Game Show Network) announced today the return of two of its most popular original series--THE NEWLYWED GAME and CATCH 21--each with new features for the new season. The second season of THE NEWLYWED GAME, hosted by Carnie Wilson, will premiere on Monday, October 12 and air weekdays at 6:00pm ET. Season three of CATCH 21, hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, will premiere following THE NEWLYWED GAME at 6:30pm ET. THE NEWLYWED GAME returns with 65...
George Takei and Kathy Griffin will play embattled U.S. reality television couple Jon and Kate Gosselin in a segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC said. The Gosselins, who recently announced plans to divorce, star along with their twins and sextuplets on the TLC series Jon & Kate Plus 8. ABC said Star Trek veteran Takei and comedian Griffin will be seen impersonating the infamous couple in a trailer for a mock bio-pic called Kate is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story on Wednesday night's Jimmy...
Star Trek's original 1960s Capt. Kirk, William Shatner, skipped the glittery Los Angeles premiere of the 2009 film, observers said.With a galaxy of stars at Grauman's Chinese Theater to attend the official unveilingThursday of the Paramount feature Star Trek, including the original television series' Spock, Leonard Nimoy, and Chris Pine, who plays Kirk in the new movie, Shatner was a no-show, Britain's Daily Mail reported.The apparent snub came after Shatner complained he hadn't been cast in...
About 300 people, some in Star Trek costumes, attended the Los Angeles funeral of Majel Barrett Roddenberry on Sunday, E! News reported.The woman known as the First Lady of Star Trek died Dec. 18, reportedly from leukemia, at the age of 76. She was married to late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry from 1969 until he died in 1991 at the age of 70. She played Nurse Christina Chapel on the original Star Trek TV series and also lent her voice to the USS Enterprise's computer in various other...
By Tony Hicks Britney Spears' comeback from her failed comeback, from which we're not sure from what she was coming back, is nevertheless in full swing. Just call her the "Comeback From a Comeback Kid. She's due to release new album "Circus" on Dec. 2, her 27th birthday, a little more than a year after she released "Blackout," which was perhaps her most critically acclaimed CD but came during her infamous year of erratic behavior, rehab, custody battles and at least one hospitalization....
By Jennifer Choi, The Baltimore Sun Jul. 10--Michael Schilling is tired of the bum rap sci-fi convention-goers have gotten from "Mundanes," those who think the fandom is only comprised of one type of human. "On TV, they don't show the eloquent doctors or lawyers who attend these conventions," said Schilling, a member of the Star Trek Association of Towson. "They only show the pointy-eared guy." Marilyn Mann, programming coordinator for Shore Leave, a local,...
