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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Star Trek actors
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:10:45 +0000
Patrick Stewart is more of a Shakespeare / stage actor - he's often asked
if he regrets 'lowering' himself to Star Trek ;-)

Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Stewart>:

   1. Sir Patrick Stewart OBE is an English film, television, and stage
   actor, who has had a distinguished career on stage and screen...


On 16 December 2014 at 18:52, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >So where was Capt. Picard? <g>
> >
>
>      Patrick Stewart is the only one from Second Generation who moved on
> significantly, taking on the role of Dr. Xavier in the X-Men movies.  He
> also did a very good portrayal of Capt. Ahab in the Turner remake of "Mody
> Dick".  Overall, though, that movie was not well done as there is no Arctic
> scene in the book, and they left out the extremely significant scene where
> Ahab is laced to the side of the whale with his arm beckoning the others to
> follow him to a watery grave, which was predicted by the seer on the warf
> at the beginning of the book.  A very, very serious omission.
>
>      George Takaei (sp?) has made brief appearances on Big Bang Theory.  I
> recently saw him in a brief appearance in a somewhat obscure Jerry Lewis
> movie "Which Way to the Front?".
>
>
> Chris
>
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