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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Arrrgh! (Doohan Commercial)
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 13:18:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 13:18:32 1985
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> Arrrgh!  I was watching the end of '20/20' and I saw James Doohan doing a
> commercial for Citibank credit cards.  At the end of the ad, he hands his
> wife the remote control for the newly installed (they bought it with
> something they got for using the card) garage door opener and says to her
> "Now it's your turn to beam us up!"  The Star Trek theme rises, and so
> does the garage door . . . Arrrrgh!
> 
> (Oh well, if Leonard Nimoy can do a Bangles video and Bill Shatner can do
> T.J. Hooker . . .)
> 
> 		.rne.
> 
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Along these same lines, anybody ever see "Pretty Maids all in a Row?"
This was a teen exploitation film (ca. 1972 -- lots of groovy mini-
skirts, platform shoes, and bell-bottoms) written (and directed?) by
Gene Roddenberry, featuring such luminaries as Rock Hudson, Angie 
Dickinson, and several other well known characters whose names I can't
remember, as well as Doohan.  The idea was that Hudson played a high
school guidance counselor who is sleeping with half the female students
in the school.  An ultimatum issued by one of his partners to expose
his extra-curricular activities leads him to a string of murders and
eventually to his suicide.

Well, let me tell you, after a few minutes, I was really embarassed,
not only for myself, but for Gene and everyone else associated with
this groaner.  Unless I missed some deep inner meaning or brilliant
plot twist, this film had almost no socially redeeming qualities. 
But, I suppose it is (sort of ) interesting ST-related trivia.


Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

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