I knew it had cheesy lyrics, but didn't realize they were that cheesy. Was that the real lyrics?
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Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I knew it had cheesy lyrics, but didn't realize they were that cheesy. Was that the real lyrics?
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Yeppers...they was!
and here they are!
Also Nichelle Nichols - Theme from Star Trek discoized! (I know discoized isnt a real word).....
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Backstory on the lyrics:
Alexander Courage wrote and had the theme music done. He was therefore entitled to a royalty *each* time that theme was played. Which meant 'awesome' for him if it went syndicated (and it did!)
But Roddenberry, in a complete **** move, knew that if he simply wrote lyrics and attached them to the song, he'd split whatever profits that song would get. And so he wrote the words, attached them, and cut Courage's profits by 50%.
No, really:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek.asp
Although I like me some Star Trek, and quite a bit of it, Roddenberry was the total jerk, and I hate that he profited in the ways he did for something that was as awesome overall as it was.
/In case that matters to anyone.
//yeah yeah, CSB. Whatevs.
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Yeah....that was a total d*** move by Roddenberry.... Greedy bastich!
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Originally Posted by houtex
Backstory on the lyrics:
Alexander Courage wrote and had the theme music done. He was therefore entitled to a royalty *each* time that theme was played. Which meant 'awesome' for him if it went syndicated (and it did!) But Roddenberry, in a complete **** move, knew that if he simply wrote lyrics and attached them to the song, he'd split whatever profits that song would get. And so he wrote the words, attached them, and cut Courage's profits by 50%. No, really: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek.asp Although I like me some Star Trek, and quite a bit of it, Roddenberry was the total jerk, and I hate that he profited in the ways he did for something that was as awesome overall as it was. /In case that matters to anyone. //yeah yeah, CSB. Whatevs. |
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Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum - Nick Cave
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Courage apparently agreed to it beforehand. If you tell someone they can have some of your french fries they're hardly a jerk if they take some of your french fries, but if you get all indignant when they take some of your fries at that point it does make you a bit of a prat.
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Besides as unsavory as this deal by Roddenberry seems I'm willing to bet this kind of thing happens ALL the time in Hollywood. I'm not saying that makes it completely fine and ethical, I'm just saying there's no point in thinking that Roddenberry was especially unusual or remarkably naughty in this area. I'm quite sure people like George Lucas have done 100x worse than this in their time. |
Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Courage apparently agreed to it beforehand. If you tell someone they can have some of your french fries they're hardly a jerk if they take some of your french fries, but if you get all indignant when they take some of your fries at that point it does make you a bit of a prat.
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Not to mention that he had no respect for woman, even his wife, if you were a good looking woman and you wanted to be on an episode of Star Trek, well rumor has it you had to sleep with him, I know he is not the first man in Hollywood to pull that and his wife was kinda derp to stay with him, if she knew he did that.
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Originally Posted by houtex
Backstory on the lyrics:
Alexander Courage wrote and had the theme music done. He was therefore entitled to a royalty *each* time that theme was played. Which meant 'awesome' for him if it went syndicated (and it did!) But Roddenberry, in a complete **** move, knew that if he simply wrote lyrics and attached them to the song, he'd split whatever profits that song would get. And so he wrote the words, attached them, and cut Courage's profits by 50%. No, really: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/trek.asp Although I like me some Star Trek, and quite a bit of it, Roddenberry was the total jerk, and I hate that he profited in the ways he did for something that was as awesome overall as it was. /In case that matters to anyone. //yeah yeah, CSB. Whatevs. |
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I find it a little hard to believe that he was hitting the "casting couch" all that often for the original series. It just was not that popular when it originally aired.
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Not to mention that he had no respect for woman, even his wife, if you were a good looking woman and you wanted to be on an episode of Star Trek, well rumor has it you had to sleep with him, I know he is not the first man in Hollywood to pull that and his wife was kinda derp to stay with him, if she knew he did that.
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
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So Kirk got sloppy seconds?
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Not to mention that he had no respect for woman, even his wife, if you were a good looking woman and you wanted to be on an episode of Star Trek, well rumor has it you had to sleep with him, I know he is not the first man in Hollywood to pull that and his wife was kinda derp to stay with him, if she knew he did that.
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Not to mention that he had no respect for woman, even his wife, if you were a good looking woman and you wanted to be on an episode of Star Trek, well rumor has it you had to sleep with him, I know he is not the first man in Hollywood to pull that and his wife was kinda derp to stay with him, if she knew he did that.
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Originally Posted by ZephyrWind
I find it a little hard to believe that he was hitting the "casting couch" all that often for the original series. It just was not that popular when it originally aired.
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I'm certainly not going to try to argue that Gene Roddenberry was a saint by any means. But I hardly think he was all that much worse than the average Hollywood writer/producer type of the 1960's.
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