#Lawrence Selleck

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

I was finally able to find some images of actor Lawrence Selleck getting into Spock make up! His transformation is INCREDIBLE, you can tell people put SO much work into this.

here is Leonard Nimoy (left) and Lawrence Selleck (right) in a make up test (minus the ears which i think is really funny)

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[vulcanspacedragon]

Lawrence Selleck, who played Spock in Unification

[speedygal]

I think you should look up more because Lawrence Selleck had a very strong resemblance to Nimoy, all they needed was prosthetics and make up.

I have linked you a post featuring the very scary resemblance.

im actually kinda frustrated by the hyped fuss around the spirk reunion. its deepfake and its soulless. it doesnt even bring anything new its just a reshoot of the handholding scene

it feels like latest disneу live action remakes - its unnecessary and forced and lacks everything that made spirk interactions so moving

original spirk was priceless. this doesnt cost anything at all

[decks-darkest]

im confused. people are saying that unification was created via the usage of ai/filters/heavy cgi but ive seen that they used prosthetics on lawrence selleck ? is it both? just one? or did they not use any on sam witwer?

[mazarinememories]

Forgive my error in assuming it was AI used in the Unification video. I'm thankful to know it was ethically produced after all. Lawrence Selleck was perfect for Spock, appearance wise. They did so well in using special effects to enhance the makeup.

[star-trek-pop-quiz]

Star Trek POP-QUIZ #57

( 26 / 11 / 2024 )

Question 1. How does Spock appear in the short film "Unification"? a. AI Deep-Fakes b. CGI c. An actor using prosthetics d. It was filmed in advance

Bonus Question: What does 765874 mean?

Question 2. TRUE OR FALSE The writer for the episode 'Amok Time' is credited with the first positive portrayal of homosexuals in media.

Bonus Question: What is the writer's name?

Question 3. Which of these women in Star Trek did not play a Talosian? a. Georgia Schmidt b. Serena Sande c. Meg Wyllie d. Sandra Lee Gimpel

Bonus Question: Who does the last actress play?

Question 4. Which of these actors were not considered for the role of Spock? a. Deforest Kelley b. Nichelle Nichols c. Michael Dunn d. Carl Shelyne

Question 5. Fill-in Question! Which state was the Gorn fight-scene in the episode "Arena" filmed?

Score: __/ 5 + 3 bonus ( Answers under cut )

Question 1. c. An actor ( Lawrence Selleck ) using ( both physical and digital ) prosthetics

+ It is the service number of Yeoman J.M. Colt as shown in "Star Trek: Early Voyages" (1998) comics.

Question 2. FALSE. He is credited as the first positive-portrayal of homosexuals in science-fiction, with his short story 'The World Well Lost'.

+ Theodore Sturgeon

Question 3. d. Sandra Lee Gimpel

+ She plays the Salt-Vampire or Species M-113.

Question 4. d. Carl Shelyne

Question 5. Vasquez Rocks, California.

[marlinspirkhall]

Sorry I got distracted by the fact that the body double for Spock was LITERALLY CALLED SELEK?

So, anyway, there's another video from the Roddenberry Archive

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

yall im finding SO many behind the scenes images

Also who TF is J.M. Colt?? This is the first ive seen her in an AOS uniform. She has lore guys?? she should get her own movie holy shit

part 1

[helianthus-hellion]

i'm really confused why people keep calling it a CGI film? it's not. it's enhanced by CGI, but it's live action - william shatner is there playing kirk, and they had actors lawrence selleck (in prosthetics) and sam witwer playing spock and young kirk (respectively). i feel like it's kind of shitting on the talents of those actors and their portrayal of characters we love to call it a CGI film?

Will be thinking about this forever gang

[tabloidtoc]

National Examiner, April 13

Cover: Hollywood’s Heroes in Crisis 

Page 2: The secrets behind Urban Cowboy 

Page 4: Your Spring Horoscope 2020 

Page 6: Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively donate $1 million to two major food banks 

Page 7: How to save yourself from a heart attack 

Page 8: Hold onto those shoebox packets 

Page 9: Nostradamus saw plague coming centuries ago 

Page 10: Right outside Defiance, Mo. stands a cabin full off hope -- inside are Marines getting a new lease on life thanks to a program that just hit its ten-year mark -- FOCUS Marines Foundation is an all-expenses paid program that reaches out to those who need a jump-start to get their lives and careers and sense of well-being back on track after serving 

Page 11: Your Health -- go bananas for a better life 

Page 12: Kenny Rogers -- his life in pictures 

Page 14: Dear Tony -- Believers in messages are more likely to receive them 

Page 15: Pope Francis is trying to pull some strings -- he says he has put in a special plea with God to stop the coronavirus in its tracks 

Page 16: Tom Selleck admits he’s a big crybaby and he loves it -- at 75 he’s unafraid to show emotion thanks to his dad 

Page 18: William Shatner has tried to go where he has gone before -- and the Star Trek legend still cannot do the famous Vulcan salute -- the former Captain James T. Kirk just returned from a Star Trek-themed Caribbean cruise where passengers did the V shaped gesture instead of shaking hands to reduce the odds of spreading the coronavirus 

Page 19: Churchgoing’s the way to good health 

Page 20: A salute to Hollywood’s heroes -- stars who’ve stepped up in a crisis to save lives -- Patrick Dempsey, Mila Kunis, John Krasinski, Jamie Foxx, Mark Harmon, Harrison Ford, Kate Winslet 

Page 21: Arnold Schwarznegger, Simon Cowell, Gerard Butler, Sean Penn, Heidi Klum, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence 

Page 22: At the tender age of 13 Tony has already known grief but that’s behind him now that a bighearted man has adopted him so he will never be without love and family again 

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Page 26: The Good Doctor 

Page 28: Martha Stewart’s special tea for sore or itchy throats -- Ginger Lemon Brown Sugar Tea 

Page 30: Find your footing with the four elements -- water, earth, air, fire 

Page 32: Alan Alda loving life at 84 

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Michael Strahan on GMA, Willem Dafoe out in NYC, due to coronavirus Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi may quietly tie the knot before a priest with only two witnesses and then throw a big bash at a later date, other famous folks postponing their nuptials include James Middleton and Alizee Thevenet, Emma Stone and Dave McCary and Lala Kent and Randall Emmett, Rosario Dawson has signed on for season two episodes of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian as fan favorite Ahsoka Tano, Kathy Griffin’s mother Maggie Griffin passed away 

Page 45: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas and her dog, Pierce Brosnan and wife Keely Shaye Smith in Hawaii, a production assistant Amanda Smith is paralyzed from the waist down after suffering serious injuries during an accident on the Vancouver set of the TV series Batwoman, Fiona Apple says she ditched cocaine after spending one excruciating night in the company of directors Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson who bored her with their bragging, pregnant Michelle Williams and beau Thomas Kail were spotted in NYC wearing wedding rings, Olga Kurylenko is dealing with coronavirus and a broken heart after splitting with actor Ben Cura, Demi Moore sent birthday wishes to ex Bruce Willis as the actor turned 65 via Instagram 

Page 46: The average woman owns 20 pairs of shoes but 15 of them are taking up space because she doesn’t wear them 

[kingkirkwall]

they really said lord i've seen what you've done retroactively in canon for others (destiel) and i want you to do that for me for real this time

article under the cut

Watch: William Shatner’s Captain Kirk Returns In “Unification” Short Film From Roddenberry Archive

November 18, 2024 | By: Anthony Pascale

Today is the 30th anniversary of the film Star Trek Generations, which marked the final film appearance of William Shatner as James T. Kirk, who sacrificed his life to save the day on Veridian III. Now you can see Kirk return in a short film in honor of the Generations anniversary.

Kirk returns

The film released today by the Roddenberry Archive and their technology partner OTOY (in cooperation with Paramount) is titled Unification. It launched on The Archive web portal (at roddenberry.x.io) and via the Apple Vision Pro app. This is the fourth from the Archive’s “765874” series of films tied into Star Trek using a combination of live-action footage and computer generated imagery. William Shatner and other Star Trek vets were involved in the making of this new film. Check out what they describe as a “mind-bending Star Trek experience celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek Generations.”

Behind the scenes

The characters from Star Trek history were brought to life through live-action performances, including Sam Witwer as young James T. Kirk and Lawrence Selleck as Spock. According to OTOY, they were filmed in costume, performing as Kirk and Spock on set, aided by “both physical and digital prosthetics resulting in period-accurate portrayals matching the appearance of the characters as they originally appeared in TV and film at the time.” William Shatner and Susan Bay Nimoy, widow of the late Leonard Nimoy, served as executive producers on the production.

The 8-minute video connects multiple decades of Star Trek lore, with nods to Robin Curtis’ portrayal of Saavik (1984’s Star Trek III: The Search for Spock), J.M. Colt (1964’s “The Cage”) played by actress Mahé Thaissa and Gary Mitchell, Kirk’s friend from the second Star Trek pilot episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” performed by original actor Gary Lockwood. The short also incorporates the character Yor (Gordon Tarpley) from Star Trek: Discovery who crossed from the Kelvin Universe to the Prime Universe.

According to OTOY, Shatner worked with them to “fine-tune the technical and creative direction required to bring his interpretation of Kirk back to live action.” This included “the addition of his voice to narrate a key moment in the experience.” The film was previewed on Sunday with Shatner at the Star Trek Tour in Ticonderoga, New York. Describing the film, Shatner said it “takes years off of your face, so that in a film you can look 10, 20, 30, 50 years younger than you are.”

765874: Unification was directed by Award Winning Spanish filmmaker Carlos Baena, from a story by Jules Urbach and features original music by Academy award-winning Star Trek composer Michael Giacchino. Production design was provided by Star Trek: Picard production designer David Blass.

Emmy award-winning visual effects supervisor Mark Spatny led OTOY’s team of artists and animators, who combined digital and physical prosthetics with live-action location photography, virtual production, and CG set extensions. According to OTOY, each major scene in “Unification” was filmed twice, “ensuring coverage to create video and spatial content mastered for Apple Vision Pro.” These locations were scanned in and merged with CG set extensions to become part of The Archive’s growing library of 3D worlds and locations. The visual effects in Unification were created using OTOY’s “Octane” rendering software and the “Render Network” decentralized GPU rendering platform. Characters and props were digitized using OTOY’s Academy-Award winning “LightStage” scanning system.

765874: Unification is accompanied by new interactive sets, props, and worlds from Star Trek Generations on The Roddenberry Archive. The full experience with all related extra content is available in its entirety in Digital Cinema 4k HDR and spatial video, “exclusively mastered at peak fidelity” for viewing on Apple Vision Pro.

hey so what the actual fuck

[pasttenselibrarian]

Set in 1936, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas, not to mention the first of four movies starring Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones, was the biggest box-office smash of 1981, a $200 million-grossing blockbuster that ABC and CBS hoped to duplicate on the small screen. ABC’s Tales of the Gold Monkey starred Stephen Collins (top photo, right) as ’30s pilot Jake Cutter alongside Caitlin O’Heaney and Jeff MacKay, while CBS’s Bring ‘Em Back Alive was headlined by Bruce Boxleitner (middle photo*, right) as ’30s big-game trapper — yes, “trapper,” not “hunter” — Frank Buck, with Cindy Morgan as the series’s female lead. Both shows debuted in September of ’82 and were canceled by the end of the season. (Boxleitner and Morgan had previously costarred in the movie Tron, released three months prior to Bring ‘Em Back Alive’s series premiere.) Boxleitner had better luck the following season with Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King, which ran for four seasons on CBS, the network where Tales of the Gold Monkey creator Donald P. Bellisario already had a hit show: Magnum, P.I. (1980-’88) was entering its fourth season in the fall of ’83. Jeff MacKay played a recurring role on Magnum in its first two seasons, but his character was killed off right around the time Gold Monkey debuted. The star of Magnum, P.I., Tom Selleck, was Spielberg and Lucas’s first choice to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but he couldn’t take the part because he’d already signed a contract with CBS for Magnum. Selleck was later able to take on big-screen roles in movies such as High Road to China (1983), Runaway (1984), and the highly successful Three Men and a Baby (1987) in addition to TV movies like CBS’s The Shadow Riders (1982), costarring Sam Elliott (bottom photo, middle).

Selleck finally got to play Indy, kinda sorta, in a tongue-in-cheek final-season episode of Magnum titled “Legend of the Lost Art,” and Indy became a TV character himself when ABC premiered The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on March 4, 1992. (Harrison Ford made a cameo as a 50-year-old Indy in an episode that aired the following March.) And if you’ve seen the 1983 movie The Big Chill, you may remember that Tom Berenger played a mustachioed, Selleck-esque actor with a hit TV detective show called “J.T. Lancer”; The Big Chill was cowritten and directed by Raiders of the Lost Ark screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan.

* The text accompanying the press photo for Bring ‘Em Back Alive states, in small print, “This is recycled paper.” I appreciate your environmentally conscious forward thinking, 1982, or at the very least your sarcasm regarding Bring ‘Em Back Alive’s Raiders-inspired premise.

[papermoonloveslucy]

LUCY ON THE DAIS - Part Two

“All-Star Party for Carol Burnett”

December 12, 1982 on CBS

Directed by Dick McDonogh

Produced and Written by Paul Keyes

Music by Nelson Riddle

THE PARTY-GOERS

Carol Burnett (Honoree) got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry Moore Show.” In 1959 she made her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress, which she also appeared in on television three times. From 1960 to 1965 she did a number of TV specials, and often appeared with Julie Andrews. Her second Broadway musical was Fade Out – Fade In which ran for more than 270 performances. From 1967 to 1978 she hosted her own highly successful variety show, “The Carol Burnett Show.” Lucille Ball made several appearances on “The Carol Burnett Show.” Burnett guest starred in four episodes of “The Lucy Show” and three episodes of “Here’s Lucy,” subsequently playing a character named Carol Krausmeyer. After Lucille Ball’s passing, Burnett was hailed as the natural heir to Lucy’s title of ‘The Queen of TV Comedy.’

Lucille Ball was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes.

Monty Hall – Chairman of Variety Clubs International

Carol Burnett's Family (center table)

Joe Hamilton – Carol's Husband

Erin Hamilton – Carol and Joe's daughter (age 14)

Jody Hamilton – Carol and Joe's daughter (age 15)

Carrie Hamilton – Carol and Joe's daughter (age 19)

Credited Entertainers & Speakers (with credits shared with Carol Burnett)

Tim Conway - “The Carol Burnett Show” (1967-78)

*Sammy Davis Jr. - “The Carol Burnett Show” (1975 & 1976), “Sammy & Co.” (1976)

Bette Davis

Glenda Jackson – HealtH (1980)

*Steve Lawrence - “The Garry Moore Show” (1959-63), “The Carol Burnett Show” (1967-78)

Vicki Lawrence - “The Carol Burnett Show” (1967-78)

*Jim Nabors - “The Carol Burnett Show” (1967-76), “Gomer Pyle: USMC” (1967 & 1969), “The Jim Nabors Hour” (1969 & 1970), “The Jim Nabors Show” (1978)

Jack Paar - “The Jack Paar Tonight Show” (1957-58)

Burt Reynolds - “The Carol Burnett Show” (1972), “Evening Shade” (1993)

Nelson Riddle and his orchestra

Tom Selleck - “Magnum P.I.” (1984 & 1988)

Beverly Sills - “Sills & Burnett at the Met” (1976)

James Stewart - “The Joey Bishop Show” (1969), “A Special Evening with Carol Burnett” (1978)

Uncredited Attendees (with credits shared with Carol Burnett)

Steve Allen

Loni Anderson

Fred Astaire

Ned Beatty

Sammy Cahn

*Ellen Corby

Altovise Davis – Wife of Sammy Davis Jr.

Dom DeLuis

Angie Dickinson

Mike Douglas

Morgan Fairchild

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Harold Gould

Florence Henderson

Ted Lange

Michele Lee

*Dick Martin

*Jayne Meadows

Rita Moreno

Lynn Redgrave

Jean Stapleton

Loretta Switt

*Danny Thomas

Daniel J. Travanti

Abe Vigoda

Betty White

* Appeared with Lucille Ball on one of her television series'

Two years later, “All-Star Party for Lucille Ball” also featured Monty Hall, Sammy Davis Jr., Burt Reynolds, James Stewart, and Vicki Lawrence.

Variety, the Children’s Charity is an organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the Variety Club. On Christmas Eve 1928, a baby was left on the steps of the Sheridan Square Film Theatre. When efforts to trace the mother failed, the Variety Club named the child Catherine Variety Sheridan, after the club and the theatre on whose steps she was found, and undertook to fund the child’s living expenses and education. Later the club decided to raise funds for other disadvantaged children. The discovery of the baby inspired the film Variety Girl (1947).

In 1986, Ball served as Hostess for the “All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood.”

THE ALL-STAR PARTY

Previous “All-Star Party” honoree 1981 Burt Reynolds introduces the show. After the first commercial break, Lucille Ball is introduced. She kisses Carol and walks to the stairs to speak. While she does, Carol bows to her as 'the Queen of Comedy.'

Lucy says they are there to honor three women: 

Carol Burnett, the singer 

Carol Burnett, the legitimate actress, and 

Carol Burnett, the comedienne  

Lucy: “Good for you, kid.  You've done it all, and you've done it well.”

Carol Burnett would often remark how Lucy affectionately called her 'kid'.  Lucy reads a letter from the White House signed by Ronald Reagan. Reagan would be the guest of honor in 1983. He would also send notes of congratulations and regrets in 1984 (for Lucille Ball) and 1986 (for Clint Eastwood). The latter two notes were read by Cary Grant. 

Lucy introduces Sammy Davis Jr.  Sammy wanted to sing, but defers to Steve Lawrence, who sings Cole Porter's “You're The Top” with special lyrics for the occasion by Sammy Cahn.

Jim Nabors wheels on a large projection TV and Tom Selleck (in a Hawaiian shirt, naturally) appears on it to pay tribute to Burnett.  His seductive tone causes Carol to cuddle up to the TV set.

Nabors brings on Bette Davis if, for no other reason, to introduce Jimmy Stewart. Davis and Stewart had just done a picture together, the TV film Right of Way, released in 1983. It was Stewart's penultimate screen acting role. Surprisingly, Davis says that Stewart will sing!

Jimmy Stewart, not known as a singer, croons Cole Porter's “Easy to Love,” the evening's second song from the 1934 stage musical Anything Goes. The song was also included in the 1936 film Born To Dance starring Stewart and Eleanor Powell (whose voice was dubbed). Stewart manages to get through the first chorus (although sadly out of key).  For the second chorus he asks that the lights be dimmed so it is just him singing to Burnett.  It is a truly intimate and lovely moment considering that the only time the two ever saw each other was on award, talk, or tribute shows. Burnett and Stewart never appeared together in a dramatic context.    

After a break, Tim Conway does an elaborate comedy bit with a bank of telephones designed for viewers to call in to pay tribute to Carol. Despite the large number of phones (and corresponding lights) – no one calls. Conway reads Carol a telegram from Garry Moore.  

Jack Paar talks about their early days on “The Tonight Show” and recalls Burnett singing “I Was A Fool For John Foster Dulles” by Kenny Welsh in August 1958. Paar introduces Vicki Lawrence to re-create the song.  

John Foster Dulles served as United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world.

Glenda Jackson steps out to unveil a photograph of the UCLA Medical Center where a wing will be renamed the Carol Burnett Wing for Handicapped Children.

Carol expresses her thanks to everyone. She tells how she and her grandmother used to go to the movies to see many of the folks in the room: Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire, and Bette Davis.  

Carol is coaxed into singing her theme song “I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together.”  Another voice joins in from behind her – it is her old friend opera singer Beverly Sills. The song continues, with special lyrics for the occasion (likely written by Sammy Cahn).

This Date in Lucy History – December 12

“Ricky's European Booking” (ILL S5;E10) – December 12, 1955

"Lucy and the Efficiency Expert" (TLS S5;E13) – December 12, 1966

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

I am so glad that post you made cleared up the production of Unification.

There's an image floating around of Sam Witwer in the TOS Kirk outfit without the makeup and all that stuff in the video, I think Dave Blass posted it somewhere.

...I would like to see it

But yes the make up transformations are INCREDIBLE. I was finally able to find a photo of him without the prosthetics. from what i can tell, they did his forehead, nose, eyes, and lip lines

honestly id mostly like to know how they did older jim. i know Shatner was involved but i dont know if he acted and they digitally made him younger or if he also had an older double??

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