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the set and said, "This came for ya,"
and I opened it up and there were these
dry muffins and these brownies. And I
kinda looked at the brownies, you know.
Everyone looked at the brownies. There
was a five minute pause where we all
(laughing) kinda eyed the whole thing.
They either could contain arsenic, or
pot, or just be bad cooking, (laughing)
And who was gonna "bell the cat" was
the idea. Finally, one of the stuntmen
said, "I can't take it any longer!"
He grabbed one of the brownies (laughing)
and he shoved it in his mouth and spit
it out and he said, "It's just bad cook
ing is all it is!" And that was one of
the more exotic gifts.
Karen: In some of the larger shows,
there are many extras. How many extras
do you usually have?
Mr. Shatner; Well, that depends mostly
on the budget of a show because extras
and things like that cost money that
doesn't go into script and film time.
So, if the show has a large budget or
is budgeted as a large show, it'll
have 20-30-4.0 people. If it's not
a large show, if they have to save
money, it'll be a crowd of 3....or 5.
Karen: And they use them often.
Mr. Shatner; Oh, yeah. They'll cut
back to the crowd of three.
Mr. Nicholson; With a low budget,
that's when you get stranded on a
planet?
Mr. Shatner; That's right! (laughing)
Alone, you know, haunted by a voice!
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OTHER LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT "STAR TREK"
1. All the special effects on "Star
Trek" are done in a special labor
atory. Highly skilled men develope
the film so that the crew of the
Enterprise appear to "beam up" and
"beam down" to the various "planets"
they encounter in space.
None of the cast of "Star Trek"
knows how the special effects will
look until they watch the show on TV.
2. Mr. Spock's pointed ears are made
of plastic. It takes about an hour
to put them on and these "props" are
so heavy that the makeup artist must
tape Leonard Nimoy's ears against
his head.
The ears are very painfixl and
Mr. Nimoy can hardly wait to take
them off at the end of the day's
shooting. He pops them off in a
second. Mr. Shatner says, "I don't
know how he could stand them! I
know I couldn't."
3. William Shatner does not believe in
UFO's. He haa on several occasions
tried to spot a UFO while riding
his motorcycle through the desert
at night, but he never saw one.
Although Mr. Shatner does not
believe in flying saucers, he does
believe there are other intelligent
beings in the universe.
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THE WAYNE COMMUNIQUE
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Editor. .... ..Karen R. Overholt
Co-Editor
James Joyner