VIDEO: Conan O’Brien Apologizes To Levi Johnston For Twitter Sketch
Posted on Nov 06, 2009 @ 05:53AM - 1 comment
Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien apologized to Levi Johnston on Thursday night, because of an earlier skit that featured Star Trek icon William Shatner reading a montage of bizarre Twitter quotes falsely attributed to the father of Sarah Palin's grandson.
“I’d like to apologize personally to Levi Johnston and his lawyer and publicist for misrepresenting him in any way,” O’Brien said. “Levi is clearly a great American. We wish him the best of luck as he trains for his upcoming naked photo shoot.”
VIDEO: Levi Johnston Takes Action Against Twitter After Conan O’Brien Skit
Posted on Nov 05, 2009 @ 04:54PM - 23 comments
Levi Johnston is spitting mad after a series of tweets falsely attributed to him were read by William Shatner Wednesday night on the Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien.
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Before Shatner read the tweets Conan declared, “All real, we did not make these up.”
Shatner then went on to read, in a poetry style, a series of tweets including “Anyone know where I can get some good weed” and “"What’s the deal with the taxi drivers not speaking English, is there a law against it?"
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Johnston's rep denied the authenticity of the messages though, releasing the following statement, "My client, Levi Johnston, is being impersonated on your media (Twitter) and this is leading to libel and slanderous statements being attributed to him. ... We want you to put an immediate end to this illegal activity. ... You are being used as a medium to promote this illegality and we want immediate action. ... You are now on notice and must take steps to put an end to what is clearly against the law and against your policy. ... We want to know what steps you will be taking to correct what is clearly a problem which is escalating."
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com Johnston’s rep says, “"Levi has never ever possessed a Twitter account. He feels violated. He feels awful, but that's the nature of the beast. You've got to expect this stuff and take the good with the bad. He doesn't mind some of it but he has a real problem with someone being an outright liar.
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“I can't believe these people at the Tonight Show reporting this stuff without verifying their sources. They even had some actor to recite that crap on TV. They don't understand the legality of it. I'm going to see what they say on the show tonight and then we're going to decide what to do about it."
EXCLUSIVE: Balloon Boy’s Dad Lied About William Shatner Connection
Posted on Oct 19, 2009 @ 04:40PM - 6 comments
Star Trek’s William Shatner has shot-down UFO balloon hoaxer Richard Heene’s claims he was to go into business with him.
Heene - who is facing felony charges along with his wife Mayumi Heene in connection with the prank which falsely claimed his 6-year-old boy Falcon had taken-off in a home-made balloon – claimed to have once spoken with the star about hosting a show.
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But Shatner told RadarOnline.com: “His story is overblown. He’s inflated the amount of contact we’ve had.”
Heene and his wife both appeared in the reality show Wife Swap after the pair originally met at an amateur theatre in Los Angeles.
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The science fiction buff’s former video editor Vincent LeGrow confirmed that Heene had spoken with screen legend Shatner about a business venture.
Back in 2001 Heene produced an instructional video about turning cardboard boxes into forts for children.
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“He was very ambitious and wanted to get some sort of show going,” said Vincent LeGrow, who edited actors’ reels for a small company Heene founded.
Heene was the co-host of a show called The Science Detectives, and sometimes said he was affiliated with the Science Detective Research Group, though few records exist for the company.
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Some of the Science Detectives segments now appear on YouTube, alongside Heene's theories about UFOs and civilization on Mars.
He told a Tennessee newspaper in 2006 that he had produced a tornado-chasing documentary and was seeking a TV distributor, and two years later, according to an entry in an academic journal, he was producing a different documentary about electromagnetic fields in storms.
Heene's projects never attracted measurable attention, but his propensity for chasing tornadoes and building flying saucers attracted the producers of Wife Swap who cast the family for two episodes, including one last March.
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The production company behind Wife Swap, RDF, developed a standalone show about the Heenes at one point but it never went into production.
It’s understood that Heene was apparently pursuing a reality TV job as late as last month, when he signed up for an account on RealityWanted.com - a Web site that connects reality television casting agents and aspiring contestants.
William Shatner Gives Conan O'Brien "The Finger"; NBC Censors Blur Image
Posted on Jun 18, 2009 @ 10:48AM - Add a comment
Conan O'Brien had his hands full Wednesday night with William Shatner.
The former Captain Kirk -- slouching, sweating and watery-eyed -- mumbled throughout his interview, before O'Brien teased Shatner for not flashing a Star Trek Vulcan hand signal correctly. Shatner struggled, eventually opting to flash Conan the middle finger, which NBC blurred out with pixels.
A frazzled O'Brien then stole back the spotlight, jumping on his table and asking Shatner, "What is wrong with you?!?"
EXCLUSIVE: William Shatner Speaks Out About New Star Trek
Posted on Apr 30, 2009 @ 12:29PM - Add a comment
He has boldly gone where no man has gone before. He has fought Klingons, Romulans and found romance with countless alien females.
But William Shatner, considered by purists as THE Captain James T. Kirk is nowhere to be found in the new Star Trek movie that premieres Thursday night in Los Angeles. Instead movie goers will see Chris Pine starring as a young Kirk, while Paramount tries to reinvigorate the 43-year-old franchise with director J.J. Abrams.
Chris Pine Meets The Real Captain Kirk
Posted on Apr 27, 2009 @ 06:53AM - Add a comment
Star Trek’s original Captain Kirk William Shatner has given his approval to Chris Pine’s performance of the famous space traveler in the new $150 million blockbuster.
The two actors finally met for the first time at a charity equestrian event in Los Angeles over the weekend. And Pine - who is about to become a breakout star in JJ Abrams re-invention of the space saga - admits he was a ‘little scared’ of meeting the original Captain James T. Kirk.
