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@LanieASassyVet @themilliemeter She bought out her husband's Desilu production and sold it to Gulf Western for 17 million, and turned it over to Paramount Productions. She might have been the first female vice president had she desired it.

@themilliemeter That is something I didn't know, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Yeah, Lucille Ball was more than an actress and comedian - she was a savvy business woman.

In 1969, William Shatner’s career ended on national television. Not metaphorically. Not slowly. It stopped abruptly, with a network decision and a canceled time slot. NBC canceled Star Trek after three seasons of modest ratings. Executives who had never fully understood the show—and who had nearly ended it earlier before a fan campaign saved it, finally pulled the plug. The Enterprise’s mission ended early. And William Shatner, who had played Captain James T. Kirk with intensity and unforgettable pauses, suddenly had no role left. He was thirty-eight. Divorced. Financially struggling. And facing an industry that had little interest in an actor tied to a canceled sci-fi show many dismissed as a fad. Shatner found himself living out of a camper, traveling between small theater jobs that paid minimal wages. The man who once commanded a starship was now performing in regional productions, hoping audiences would show up. This was not the plan. Most actors would have left the industry and found stability elsewhere. Shatner didn’t. He doubled down. In the early 1970s, something unusual began. Fans of Star Trek started gathering - small conventions in hotel ballrooms, dismissed by mainstream culture as niche and strange. The industry mocked them. “Trekkies,” they were called. Most actors avoided these events. Shatner didn’t. He met fans. Signed autographs. Answered questions. Showed up when others wouldn’t. Because while others saw failure, he saw something different. Star Trek wasn’t gone. It was evolving. The show thrived in syndication. Viewers rewatched episodes, shared recordings, built communities, and kept the story alive. The audience was growing. By the mid-1970s, Star Trek had become something larger than television - a cultural force driven by its fans. And Shatner, who stayed connected, became its living symbol. Hollywood had overlooked it. The audience had not. In 1979, Paramount Pictures revived Star Trek as a feature film. Shatner returned and not as a fading actor, but as someone the audience had kept alive. The film succeeded because the fans showed up. They had waited. They had believed. And so did he. Years later, Shatner admitted something revealing: At first, he didn’t understand the fans. “I thought they were obsessed,” he said. Then he realized that they were sustaining him. They kept the character alive. The story alive. His career alive. They weren’t obsessed. They were committed. Shatner learned from them. He learned respect for audience passion. He learned reinvention. He adapted. He starred in T.J. Hooker. He took on new roles. He embraced self-awareness. He appeared in commercials that leaned into his persona, recorded music, and kept working. Then came Boston Legal. At seventy-three, he played Denny Crane, a role that blended humor and vulnerability, and won two Primetime Emmy Awards. The same style once mocked was now celebrated. He had never stopped evolving. And then - something unexpected. At ninety, Shatner went to space. On October 13, 2021, he flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. The actor who once imagined space travel finally experienced it. He returned visibly moved, reflecting on Earth’s fragility, beauty, and significance. It completed a journey few could imagine. From struggling actor to cultural icon. From canceled show to lasting legacy. From fiction to reality. William Shatner didn’t just play Captain Kirk. He embodied the idea: exploration, persistence, and reinvention. He entered spaces others avoided - fan conventions, unconventional roles, unfamiliar paths, and turned them into opportunities. He proved that failure isn’t permanent, that audiences matter, and that reinvention is always possible. The fans once dismissed as outsiders were right. The story mattered. The vision mattered. And William Shatner learned to see it.They didn’t just preserve nostalgia. They preserved possibility. They kept something alive... and in doing so, they kept him alive too. That’s the story. Not just success - but understanding. Not just survival - but transformation. William Shatner played Captain Kirk for only three seasons. But he spent decades living the message: Keep moving forward. Keep adapting. Keep exploring. The mission continues.

@LanieASassyVet @JesseMock4 Changing motion into light.

@JasonKn07430666 @MarkHalperin @2waytvapp I'll meet you at LAX we'll get it done.

@DNoggle719op7 @MarkHalperin @2waytvapp Not looking to get banned for another week so Ill just nod and agree

On it on @2waytvapp

@Pontifex The stumbler removing stumbling blocks as he stumbles over his mote.

While our suffering world greatly needs the #peace of Christ, the divisions among Christians weakens our capacity to be effective bearers of that peace. If the world is to take our preaching to heart, we must, therefore, be constant in our prayers and efforts to remove any stumbling blocks that hinder the proclamation of the Gospel. #ChristianUnity vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@bungarsargon Strange that violence rips across the nation for 12 years from bars to schools, and it finally ends up at a political leaders' legacy media event, The perpetrators of the violence they created now looking for justice. The actor of the violence is now vindicated by the groomers.

"It’s incumbent upon all us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy" says President Obama. But we aren't all at fault. The bullets are only flying in one direction. Polling shows the more liberal you are, the more you support political violence. My column: We Don't Have a Political Violence Problem in America. We Have a Left-Wing Political Violence Problem in America: batya-us.com/p/we-dont-have…

@MarkHalperin @2waytvapp x.com/patrickbetdavi… What time will announce Kimmel's guests tonight?

@JasonKn07430666 @MarkHalperin @2waytvapp J this mother f-er needs a f ing beat down.

@BasedMikeLee Did you see who Omar endorsed in Utah? Did you see what is taking place? x.com/AmyMek/status/…

@AmyMek @BasedMikeLee No, I see she endorsed @FrancescaHongWI for governor who is indorced by Kirk Bangstad, who is buying free beer for who ever 8647. There's an illegal immigrating of murder going on here.

Do you think she might be part of the problem?

I can’t stop laughing! 😂 This guy goes into fast food joints and yells their company slogans after buying their food. 😂 The reactions he gets are hilarious! 🤣

@AnaKasparian @HarrisonHSmith Blow me you do to.

@HarrisonHSmith Tim sucks. He knows what’s going on.

This clip is gold. Leonarda is relentless against their constant attempts at obfuscation.

@alexbruesewitz @CorridorScanner The watch too much @jimmykimmel

What is happening in my beloved home state of Wisconsin? This sick person should not be allowed near students. Disgusting!

This little girl stops at the pizza shop window and the guy behind the counter starts writing a big tic tack toe board in the flour on the counter… She points to the squares and plays watching closely as he finishes his next move, all while cars and people move past on the street outside. You are seeing a random sweet moment between a kid and a worker that turns the whole sidewalk stop into something special. Do you think it is wholesome and the kind of small kindness that makes the day better or do you say it is unprofessional and he should focus on making pizzas instead of playing games in the flour with children?

@Old_But_Gold50s I hear bagpipes when a cello plays, and when bagpipes play, I hear a cello. I like hearing them together.

Bach in the rain. For anyone who needs something beautiful right now.

🚨 Cole Allen is not just political radicalization. It is spiritual emptiness. When people lack roots, faith, family, duty, and purpose, politics becomes a substitute religion. Men rooted in faith, family, duty, and love do not need a manifesto to prove they matter.

This woman and her tandem instructor leap off the high cliff in Moab and the massive parachute opens above them as they glide over the red rock canyon. She smiles big and holds on tight while the instructor steers them smoothly through the air with the huge landscape dropping away below. You watch someone trust a stranger completely and fly high over one of the most beautiful places on earth. Do you think it is an incredible adventure everyone should try at least once or do you say the risk of something going wrong up there is too high to justify for fun? Would you jump off that cliff or stay safely on the ground?

@RCEY28 @maggiewise111 Jump odds on adventure survival are good.