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Old 08-17-2007, 04:42 PM   #16
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How about Paris Hilton playing Ellen Levinson in Lambs Hide, Tigers Seek?
Pfft! Ellen would kick Paris' a$$... I was thinking Famke Janssen or Tricia Helfer...
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Old 08-20-2007, 02:42 PM   #17
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Speaking of this topic, I was at the beach on Saturday, and tried to read an e-mail I'd gotten. I'll tell you one thing: The Japanese aren't reading e-books on Motorola Razrs in the full sun...
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or on their PSP's! I could barely play the darn thing with all the reflectivity. Made me feel kinda like your second smiley pic, lol!
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That'll play well in commercials, actually. "Say, what's this... it isn't my PADD! But... whoa, look at all it can do! I could never get Harry Potter on that old PADD!"
And you STILL CAN'T!

Unfortunate choice of title there. But for the gag to work, you do need a book that everybody has heard of, and I can't see Star Trek characters reading The Da Vinci Code. Maybe The Golden Compass? Or The Kite Runner?
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I'd go with the Da Vinci Code, I think ... I'm not sure I know the other two (though I've resisted reading even DVC).
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And you STILL CAN'T!
Boy, tough crowd. I was just figuring that, by the 24th century, maybe...

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Unfortunate choice of title there. But for the gag to work, you do need a book that everybody has heard of, and I can't see Star Trek characters reading The Da Vinci Code. Maybe The Golden Compass? Or The Kite Runner?
Always go with the classics...
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It might be out of copyright by then.
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I'd go with the Da Vinci Code, I think ... I'm not sure I know the other two (though I've resisted reading even DVC).
The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pulman, is in the same approximate marketing category as the Harry Potter books, and the first book has been made into a film to be released later this year.

The Kite Runner is a contemporary bestseller fictionalizing an account of life in Afghanistan.
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Maybe a Stephen King book would be best. Even people who don't read Stephen King usually know who he is, and a lot of his work is available in ebook form.

Either that, or Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time -- Hawking has appeared on Star Trek NG, after all!
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Either that, or Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time -- Hawking has appeared on Star Trek NG, after all!
Now that is a most excellent notion.
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I can totally see the Gyllenhaals selling ebooks, especially after Maggie was in Stranger than Fiction. Oh, and from that film, of course Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, too.

And really, they should do an ad campaign with Star Trek characters. Maybe in Star Trek XI they can use Sony Readers instead of PADDS.
What about Hilary Swank? I could see her walking around with an ebook reader!
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Old 08-26-2007, 01:04 PM   #26
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Maybe Richard Dean (MacGuyver) Anderson. How about Christopher Lloyd... he's one of the most famous Crazy Scientist characters around, thanks to Back To The Future!

Or any of the other actors who have played Star Trek Captains... Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Patrick Steward.
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Yes! I'm a huge Voyager fan so I'd vote for Cpt Janeway Not sure about Richard Dean though...doesn't everybody make fun of McGyver these days?
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Old 08-27-2007, 11:02 AM   #28
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Hey, he's a late-20th century TV icon. Of course people make fun of him!

On the other hand, in an airport, where one ticket holder is being told he's got too much weight for carry-ons because of his many books, MacGuyver will be the one cruising through security with his Sony Reader, and reading contentedly on the plane while Mr. Bookworm seethes over leaving his books behind. (How's that for a commercial image?)
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If I well understand, the sales of ebook are good but not that of readers?


(And, there are already figures on the sales of readers in the world? (PRS-500, iLiad, Stareread) )
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What's actually for sale there, in terms of reading devices, I mean? (I'm genuinely asking, not being a smart ... aleck, I don't have any idea what's available there )
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