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The Daily Scrapbook 4/19/13 — (1978) Movie magazine sneak preview of ST:TMP

Posted on April 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

Here’s today’s flashback:  From the movie magazine I mentioned yesterday, here’s the article that would surely soothe Michael Jackson’s concerns about the Trek movie. The opening page had a good notion for ‘Then and Now” photos of the crew, yet in typical dashed fashion, the editor failed to notice that it’s Spock, Kirk and Scotty in the ’68 and Spock, Kirk and McCoy in the ’78. and of course the newer photo is printed backward! (Backward pictures and mis- identifications were always one of my pet peeves!) Also, note the quality of the magazine itself– it could only afford one glossy full color page among the newsprint pages; very common in cheaper magazines at the time, unfortunately, I didn’t write down which movie magazine this was from, but Rona Barret and Doug Rowel wrote for it.  Also, a ‘Close Up” info page all about Bill Shatner from the same magazine. V2-021-A V2-021-B V2-021-C V2-021-D V2-022

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The Daily Scrapbook 4/18/13 (From 1978)Trek Tidbits and a question from Michael Jackson?

Posted on April 18, 2013 | 1 comment

A few more tidbits from around the pre-release of ST:TMP. That dramatic photo  of Bill as Captain Kirk got a lot a circulation, even backward (as it was in this post).  Nimoy says he’s more like Spock in ’78 than ’68, and a fan question from a movie magazine to Rona Barrett, gossip columnist to the stars, concerned that the new Trek may not live up to the old.  Rona reassures the reader that everything’s just rosy and encourages him to read the Trek feature in that magazine.  By the way, the questioner’s name is Michael Jackson (could it be THE Michael Jackson?).  Jackson did live in Encino, CA at the time, and was indeed a Star Trek fan, as you can hear here. (around 4:00)  (I’ll post the article Rona refers to tomorrow)V2-020

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The Daily Scrapbook 3/17/13 (1978) Seventeen Magazine preview of ST:TMP

Posted on April 17, 2013 | 2 comments

Here’s today’s flashback:  From mid-1978, Seventeen magazine presents some behind the scenes looks at the new Star Trek movie.  Funny, I was 17 in 1978, and yet, this was the first Seventeen magazine I ever bought!   Maybe if I had bothered to read the OTHER articles in there I might have had one stinkin’ date in High School! (But the geek in me won out and  wouldn’t get a date ’til college.) No matter, but you gotta love the dated references in headline paragraph: Travolta, Annie, Affirmed and Bee Gees!  Yep, these were the glorious disco days, and even though I loathed disco and stuck with my Beatles, I’d still go with the gang from my high school Drama Club and school paper to go dancing at The Bachelor Button, so my teenage social life wasn’t a total disaster… and a lot of fun.         Note the highlighted quote from the article on the third page:

Star Trek movemakers are bent on eclipsing recent science fiction hits as Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind…

And therein lied the rub about ST:TMP, as the production poured more and more $ into special effects, it lost sight of keeping it’s script tight and exciting.  The result was a very pretty, if immensely boring, snorefest.

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The Daily Scrapbook 3/22/13 (August,1978) Starlog Magazine From the Bridge of the Enterprise”

Posted on March 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

Here’s today’s flashback: From an August 8, 1978, Starlog Magazine their monthly update on the set making the Trek movie.   I gotta say, the black and white picture I saw in a previous article didn’t have me too thrilled about the new Starfleet uniforms, and seeing the color pictures in this article had me even less thrilled.  Gray and Beige Uniforms?  Ugh!  How non-original technicolor dream Star Trek uniform could you get? Even the cast doesn’t look too happy in these shots, maybe they sensed something wasn’t quite right… Well, at least it was nice to see that The Enterprise bridge would have a ceiling! Dig the very hairy disco dudes in the background of the first picture! V2-018AV2-018B

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The Daily Scrapbook: 3/14/13 (October 1978) Nichelle Nichols in Ebony Magazine/1st look at ST:TMP

Posted on March 14, 2013 | Leave a comment

Here’s today’s flashback:  From Ebony Magazine in October 1978, a quick blurb about Nichelle Nichols non-Trek, real life work for NASA. You Go Girl! Love her.   My late Dad had an enormous crush on her and used to joke that he’d leave my mother and marry her!    Also, a first look on the set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.   I remember seeing this and, although I was happy to see Trek coming back, my first thought was:  “What the HELL have they done to the Uniforms!”  (Jeez, they were hideous, weren’t they?)V2-015

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The Daily Scrapbook 10/23/12

Posted on October 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Here’s today’s flashback:  A 1977 review from Starlog magazine of Nimoy’s new weekly documentary series “In Search Of...”   ( I can still hear the theme song) And more delays on that supposed Star Trek movie.  Roddenberry wanted a script that would please the fans, but Paramount found his original script “too much like a TV series”.  Unfortunately, the final result was too much like a a very slow, very boring documentary, not like the original at all, (and don’t get me started on those hideous footie-pajama uniforms!)  Glad Wrath of Khan came along in ’82 as of much better representation of what Trek should be.                  In Search Of… was an interesting series, although I’m sure much of its info is outdated now. The episode that really bugged me was about a cult around ‘St Germaine’; creepy.  As a youngster, I was willing to believe that there was a Loch Ness Monster, and maybe even that ancient civilizations etched big pictures into the deserts to communicate with aliens, although I mostly watched for the Nimoy segments.   In a later episode, Nimoy ‘searched’ for Vincent Van Gogh, and cleverly plugged his new one-man-show Vincent.

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