Re: Abrams Talks About Trek XI Movie

In article <fuvbpm.3s0.1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddollnofeckingspam1958@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Wiseguy" ..
> > "Wickeddoll®":
> >
> >> "bc_gisele" ...
> >>> "Steven L.":
> >>>
> >>>> Let's say ST III derived from Star Wars which derived from TOS.
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually, you could also argue that the Star Wars bar scene
> >>> ripped off
> >>>> the scene with the Tellarites and Andorians in "Voyage to
> >>> Babel,"
> >>>> which we could consider the first intergalactic *su**** bar*
> >>> scene.
> >>>> :-)
> >>>
> >>> But weren't bar fight scenes or bar scenes period a staple in
> >>> Westerns way before TOS?
> >>>
> >>> Gisele
> >>>
> >> Well, of course, but that's not the point.  The point is that TOS was
> >> the first to show aliens vs. humans in a bar setting.
> >>
> >> Natalie
> >>
> >>
> >
> > As a trivia note, the fight scene in Tribbles was based on a scene
from 
> > the
> > movie "The Great Race" (1965) starring Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
where
> > one character (I forget who) walks through a fight without getting
hit.
> > David Gerrold even contacted the writer of the movie to ask if it was
OK 
> > to
> > parody the scene.
> 
> Ah, the things you learn online.
> 
> :-)

I . . . wouldn't commit that one to hard copy quite yet.  That's not a 
version I've ever heard before.  There were concerns that the 'coming 
through unscathed' bit was too close (it's Tony Curtis btw, and he gets 
a pie in the face at the end) but I've never heard that the scene 
started OUT as an intentional parody, and it wouldn't be Gerrold 
contacting anybody for permission, and it wouldn't be the writer (Arthur 
A. Ross) he'd contact anyway.

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