"Who loves ya, baby?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgsfo0JDU4
An old Star Trek: The Motion Picture news piece: this old piece is really cool, because it shows some of the key players in the making of this film. This is pretty neat because there is very little behind the scene footage because director Robert Wise kicked out the Behind the Scenes Crew for visiting the set. He felt they were in his way.
Key points worth noting:
~ William Shatner is a total prick in this piece. He gets a little mad when the interviewer starts to ask him about becoming a Superstar. Shatner during this time wanted to distance himself from trek, but couldn’t become the big star he dreamed of. Watch the way he answers these questions.
~ Persis Khambatta talks about shaving her head for her role in the movie. She actually starts talking about ‘getting off’ on being bald in a sexual nature. (I kid you not). Watch Robert Wise’s reaction when she says it. Note: There is a rare photo floating around the Internet of Khambatta getting her head shaved and crying.
She was really a pretty woman.
~Some of the Klingon footage in this clip is very raw and edited differently than what’s in the film.
~This interview footage must have been filmed during the opening. Wise saw the final cut wasn’t too happy about it. He would later be embarrassed with the film and always felt he needed to re-cut it. It would take him nearly 25 years to re-cut the film.
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Persis Khambatta was definitely a very beautiful woman. She left this world much too early. And she was beautiful with and without hair.
I remember at the time the trailers were first being shown in 1979, how I wanted to find out more about this beautiful bald woman that was in this new movie. I fantasized abouthow I would love to be the husband or boyfriend of this sexy babe. A good friend of mine, when I told him about this, said making love to this woman would be like doing it with a man. But I reminded him that "no man has a body like that!!!"
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