Celebrities Who Play Dungeons & Dragons

ENTERTAINMENT

Mike Meyers says he used to play D&D on Inside the Actor’s Studio.

Vin Diesel, a longtime D&D player, wrote an introduction to the book "Thirty Years of Adventure: Celebrating Dungeons and Dragons".

Judy Dench was introduced to the game by Vin Diesel and continues to play.

Matthew Lillard has played D&D for charity.

Basketball player Tim Duncan is a long-time D&D player.

Robin Williams has played D&D for charity, but also plays at home with friends.

Kevin Smith is a long time D&D player and Dungeon Master.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were introduced to the game by Kevin Smith.

Daryl Hannah

Jesse McCarthy

Lauren Graham

Actor/Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) credits D&D for much of his storytelling prowess.

Joss Whedon played D&D in college.

Stephen Colbert was a big D&D player as a kid and still plays now.

Ewan McGreggor plays D&D.

Will Wheaton played D&D when not on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The Sarah Silverman Show’s Brian Posehn has played weekly for years.

Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo sings about his “Dungeon Master’s Guide” in his 1994 song “In the Garage.”

Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance told Rolling Stone that he shopped for Dungeons & Dragons supplies rather than partying while on tour.

The lead singer of Marcy Playground, John Wozniak, has played D&D since he was a kid even though his parents forbid him.

Cyborg Super Hearing

TECHNOLOGY - Ever heard of cyborgian theory? Its basically the idea that humans are becoming more and more like cyborgs.

We use glasses, contacts, pagers, cellphones, instant messages and we feel... incomplete when we don't have access to our email, phone, etc. for long periods of time.

We get so used to checking our messages on our PDA or BlackBerry that when we CAN'T check it we get physically and emotionally upset about it.

But there are other devices out there that make us more and more like cyborgs... such as heart pacemakers and hearing aids. Which brings me to the Loud and Clear hearing aid... which they are marketing to regular people who have no hearing problems.

I admit the ad above is annoying, but the sheer idea that they're basically advertising cyborg-like super hearing, well, I can't think of anything more nerdish than that. I can't help but start thinking of Data from Star Trek: TNG, Seven-of-Nine from Star Trek: Voyager, or Superman with his super hearing... true, only Superman has super hearing, but there's no reason why the previous two couldn't have been equipped with superior hearing.

No word yet when they finally figure out how our sense of smell works and create Wolverine-like super smell.

So does this mean soldiers in the future will be equipped with super hearing and other devices to enhance their senses? Maybe so.

Star Trek's Nurse Chapel dies of leukemia

ENTERTAINMENT - Majel Barrett Roddenberry has been in more Star Trek episodes and Star Trek movies than any other Star Trek actor, for over four decades. She played the dark-haired Number One in the original Star Trek pilot but metamorphosed into the blond, miniskirted Nurse Christine Chapel in the original 1966-69 show.

She played the role of the ship's computer voice during all 5 sequel TV shows and many of the Star Trek movie incarnations, and Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi in 6 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and 3 episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Roddenberry died of leukemia Thursday morning (December 18th) at her home in Bel-Air. She was 76.

Just two weeks ago she completed the voice of the ship's computer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams movie "Star Trek", which focuses on Kirk and Spock's first adventures together.

As Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's widow she nurtured the legacy of the seminal science fiction TV series after his death. Roddenberry helped keep the franchise alive by inspiring fans and attended a major Star Trek convention each year. She was also the executive producer for two other Gene Roddenberry series, Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict.

She also appeared in a Babylon 5 episode "Point of No Return", as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, and parodied her voice work as a guest voice on Family Guy as the voice of Stewie Griffin's ship's computer in the episode "Emission Impossible".

Star Trek and its successors often focused on political and philosophical issues of the day. Roddenberry and her husband Gene, who died in 1991, believed in creating "thoughtful entertainment" and were proud of the show and the passionate devotion of its fans.

Born Majel Lee Hudec on February 23rd 1932, in Cleveland, she began taking acting classes as a child. She had some stage roles, then in the late 1950s and 1960s had bit parts in a few movies and small roles in TV series, including "Leave It to Beaver" and "Bonanza".

She met her husband in 1964 during a guest role for a Marine Corps drama he produced called "The Lieutenant". That same year, she was cast in the pilot for the Star Trek series as the no-nonsense second-in-command. The pilot did not appeal to NBC executives and a second pilot was made, although parts of the original later showed up in a two-part episode called "The Menagerie".

The couple married in Japan in 1969 after Star Trek (TOS) was cancelled.

Star Trek Rumour

Alrighty, time to make you cringe or cheer or go eh.
So the dude who plays Sylar on Heroes is playing Spock which lends itself to the on going theory that the next trek is a prequel, reimagining, thingymagig.

But Leonard Nimoy is also playing Spock in the film.

How can this be?

Well according to rumour (which I've heard from two different websites, a television show and a source of my own) the plot of the new JJ Abrams lead star trek film involves everyone's favorite continuity strangler,

TIME TRAVEL

The supposed plot is that a group of Romulans figure out how to travel through time (apparently the missed The Voyage home, once again proving how Kirk can kick an aliens ass in anything). The Romulans figure that if they go back in time, get rid of Kirk, the Romulan empire will be awesome and the galaxy will be liberated from Federation crapacity.
Now after those main points there's a lot of conjecture. Some theories point to this being a splitting in the time line so Abrams can do new and different things with same ideas without effecting continuity (hopefully Abrams will remake Star Trek 5 and have it not be a turd of a movie). Others say that this will be a time travel movie where Spock saves the universe and everything stays exactly the same.

Someone has also mentioned that Russel Crow might be the head Romulan, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Now before you say Time travel sucks (and if we were talking the X-Men I would whole heartedly agree with you), just remember the third and forth best films out of the series (being 4 and First Contact respectively) involve heavy doses of time travel....that sounds worse then I meant it.

The odd trailer you saw in front of Transformers

Alrighty, everyone know J.J. Abrams?...well not personally but his work? Alias guru, leader of Lost, guy who pulled a good Mission Impossible 3 out of Tom Cruise, bringing us a Star trek revival that both makes geeks scared and horny all at the same time.

That guy?

He has a movie coming out that's doing a pretty cool marketing campaign.

And what's that movie called?

Hell if I know.

Hell if anyone knows. It

The code name for the project is "Cloverfield".

Is that the title of the project?

See previous answer. But it could be. There's a date attached to the trailer 1-18-08...which has also been rumored to be the title. But that is not definite either.

What is the movie about?

See previous answers. What it appears to be about is a large creature of some nature destroys New York as people film it with camcorders.

But it isn't quite that simple. I've heard rumors of it being a cthulu movie (more on that in a sec), a monster movies mixed with the Blair Witch Project. A spin off of Abram's show Lost has also been suggested. I've even heard Godzilla or a sequel to the American Godzilla.

From what I've read, Godzilla has ben discounted quickly...or at least the American one. So yes, there is a God and he still ocasionally does good.

And then we get more in depth.

First off we have this site

The pictures move, why I don't know. I assume there might be a trick hidden in it.

Then we have http://ethanhaaswasright.com/

It's a puzzle site made as part of the viral marketing campaign. If you want instructions, click on the star to the top left of the screen. You'll get an email address. Email it and you'll be auto sent instructions. The first puzzle is quick and easy and reveals a video that make the movie even more mysterious. I won't spoil the fun just yet other then I think you only have till August 1st to get the puzzles done. These puzzles are written in a different alphabet leading some to the cthulu connection.

And for those of you who haven't seen Transformers you can see it

HERE

Batman vs the Joker vs The Alien vs The Predator....wah?

Howdy. A conversation with a friend and a recent trip to a comic convention brought back memories or fan film and pilot episode bootlegging. The first convention I went to there was a guy with a stack of video tapes of things I never knew existed to be seen. Sure I had heard about footage from Jedi that wasn't in the film and a Justice League of America pilot that was shot but never went anywhere but I had never seen them before. In some cases (Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie I'm looking at you) it was time you will never get back and images that were burned into your eyes.

Then every once and a while a gem appeared.

I was with my buddy Dave at a convention when I saw this little thing.



Is the premise nuts? Yup but not to far off from comics hat have been published. But up until Batman Begins it captured Batman in his best form. Both in costume and attitude. Notice that he didn't kill the Predator? Batman summed up powerfully.

Sandy Collora created the short fan film for career purposes to show he could direct. His website can be found here.

And the Joker? He was played by Andrew Koenig, son of Walter (Chekov from Star Trek) but more importantly he was Boner in Growing Pains.

Random Nerdish Findings

What's better than Star Trek and Gilbert and Sullivan? A combination of the two!

I present to you, the HMS Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation

And who better to have done it than the North Toronto Players! It actually uses a combination of material from HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury. Here are some pics.

And of course, who can think of Gilbert & Sullivan and Star Trek without thinking of this:

Star Trek XI: the Ultimate Bring-Down

I recently discovered, that in what can only be called an act of pure mental instability, JJ Abrams, the Director of Lost and Alias, has decided to try and tackle the next Star Trek film. Premise? This one's going to be a prequel about the crew from TOS. Ya, that's right, and you wanna know what the going rumour is on who they want as Captain Kirk? Matt Damon. You heard me. Matt Damon. On the other hand, other news articles have pointed out that he's heard nothing of it. My thoughts: please God, PLEASE let this project die in the early stages!!!

Star Trek XII:

"Sir, Klingon's off the starboard bow"

"Again with the Klingons?! Mr Scott give me full power"

"'Tis no good cap'n I canna reach the controls!"