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William Shatner To Host American "Iron Chef"?
imac.usr writes "OK, I was a little concerned when I submitted the story about the "Iron Chef" movie, but even I was unprepared for this one. This is either the best or worst idea I've heard this year; perhaps both? The main fan site also has the story. Allez Cuisine ahead full!" This has got to be kidding. If they can get Morimoto to be on it, I'll watch. Once anyway.
This has got to be kidding
Nice Grammar, Taco.
One thing I'm wondering is what are they going to do about the Iron Chefs themselves? Find new ones, bring over the old ones, or let Shatner bring his own?
Iron Chef Vulcan is Sabal.
Iron Chef Klingon is Ga'Rath.
Iron Chef Federation is Ken Kenichi.
and Mordal is Iron Chef Ferengi.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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You are so right.
:-(
I have basically given up on TV. I don't have cable and the television itself is some twenty-five years old and significantly smaller than my computer monitor. It's there so I can watch the occasional movie rental. Hell, I can't even go DVD, 'cause it'd be a crime to connect it to this P.O.S. "Electrohome" tv.
But over the past four months, I've actually *made the effort* to watch one particular show: North of 60.
It's set on an Indian reservation in the North-West Territories. It cuts no crap: there's a *lot* of humanity in it. It's written and played with honesty: life's a bitch when you're a status Indian ekeing it out in the North. In this show, children die, bodies are buried, cops collude with badguys, spouses cheat and lie -- it's gritty.
It is, in my opinion, one of the best pieces of television to ever air. It's like Hillstreet Blues or Degrassi Jr. High: shows where the characters are fully-developed and absolutely human, completely capable of being good and bad at the same time, and sometimes making disasterous life decisions with consequences that fuckin' hurt.
Is good television like that still being produced? What do we have for *great* human drama? I know ER was pretty damn great for a while -- has it devolved into the senseless comedy pap that St. Elsewhere suffered during its dying days?
Powerful hour-long human drama. An extinct species.
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Hmm... Or should that be "Ummm?"
:-)
Given America's love affair with the highway and the number of dents put into fenders every year, I wonder if they'll feature truly American recipes like "Sail Cat," "Armadillo pancake" and other ingredients from the flattened fauna that lies on the soft shoulder after meeting with the hard body panel...
They could host it "On the Road," and keep the production costs real low(-riser.)
Just thing that make you go "Mmm..."
(As long as they stick a sock in Shatner's mouth and threaten him with a phaser set on "calcinate" if he so much as hums.
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After living in Japan for the last year you can not believe the success of this show. Just walk down the street in Tokyo and you will see Iron Chef clothing and tidbits in every shop. Many products in the stores are endorsed by "the Iron Chefs" themselves. This show is nothing in America and with a host like Shatner you can be sure that it will be as successful as the Priceline.com ads. The beauty of the show is in the presentation and style that will not come across here in the states. The dubbing at least leves much of the original flavor. Mmmmm... Time to eat!
-eric
-eric
If you want to get a better feel for what the show is like in case you haven't seen it,
here is a link to the Iron Chef drinking game. (That's http://www.ironsteph.com/irongame.shtml for the paranoid...)
Or was that Mr. Chekov? I don't remember...
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Here's the tough part: who plays the other roles? Who are your celebreties? Here's my vote:
Keanu Reeves:Clinton:K.R.:Rachel:K.R.:Jack:K.R.:Alex Winter:K.R.:Alex:Nameless Food Expert on Panel:
Ah yes... I can see this working quite well...
Lets just pray that they don't get Shatner to sing the theme song. :P I've already been scarred for life by his singing. :D
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Who gets to play the Oto and Fukui-san parts tho?
props to all dead homiez
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the main reason for the show's popularity is its.... well, japanese-ness.
take that away, and you've got a lot of money wasted on a failed television project. not the first, not the last, but it realy seems like there are just so many better projects otu here to spend money on.
From an e-mail from my brother about this subject:
I just hope we'll have occasional episodes that have Star Trek cameos. Here's the ones I can't wait to see:
James Doohan comes on to prove that Scottish food isn't that bad when you're piss drunk.
George Takai shows just how to make the most Americanized Chinese food in the world.
Special guest Wil Wheaton gets used for the "long pig cookoff spectacular"
And finally, Iron Chef French vs. the replicator!!!
They'll have to chuck him on an exercise bike for the hour while the chefs do their things...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Unless the American show comes up with something really outrageous, it's going to be just Emeril kicked up a few more notches.
Bang!
Allez Cuisine!
No North American actor could pull of the part of the "Chairman". The overdramatization, the weird facial expressions, the zeal with which he bites that damn pepper... Who else but Shatner could fill those shoes? Who did you want to host it? Alex Trebec? (sp?) Dick Clark?
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It's about the Iron chefs that compete against each other in this sort of intense, very theatrical, over the top, gladiator-like style," he said.
The American version will be filmed later this summer at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and will include a new panel of Iron Chefs, Valentine said.
(1) Since when do the Iron Chefs go head-to-head against each other?!
(2) No Morimoto. Perhaps as a guest Iron Chef, or a challenger, but according to the article, we'll see all-new chefs. Shame, really...
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For the record, "split infinitives" are not actually a grammatical error. It's a style point that gets played up by misinformed pedants repeating a bit of Latin grammar that was inappropriately mapped on to English a couple of centuries ago by someone who didn't really know what he was talking about.
Diagram that!
/Brian
(ps William Shatner, food... uh... Well, I was in a bar last night that was invaded by three costumed folks passing out stickers promoting the Iron Chef special and they hadn't heard the William Shatner thing. I will say this, though -- if you need overdramatic (which I get the sense Iron Chef is; AT&T won't get off their butts and give us TV Food Network already) he's your man.)
(pps This message is boobytrapped. The pedants I mentioned above will know why but won't realize it.)
You didn't read the last line of my post, nyah nyah...
/Brian
It never fails. If you attempt to correct grammar on slashdot, you will make some yourself. Your misuse of singular vs. plural in that sentence is a classic example.
Let's be really pedantic and break down the whole damned thing, shall we?
This is actually a fragment, not a sentence.
Nothing seems wrong at first, except that in the context of their "5 year mission", and the fact that the only destination defined here is "space" they are actually on one voyage.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
And another example in my reply to your reply:
"Is there seach limited to..." That's a wrong use of "there". It should have been written "is their search limited to..."
Also, it would not kill me to close an html tag once in a while. :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
The Chairman, the program's host who oversees the competition and is famous for dramatically biting into a hot-pepper at the beginning of the show.
That is a sweet yellow pepper. It's not hot at all. Damn tasty though.
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American Cuisine???
Competition over a Macdonalds menu? or the best Pizza and Beer combo?
the mind boggles.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
Imagine Vulcan color commentary.
This could be bad, or really good camp.
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Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
But here in this worldwide forum I'm discovering a multivarious universe of pluralistic view I never see on TV.
... which if you think about it isn't much more productive than watching an episode of South Park anyway.
My TV-weakened brain is having trouble parsing that sentence, but if you never see a multivarious universe of pluralistic view on TV, doesn't that mean that you always see something else - and thus that you are constantly watching TV. As this negates your previous assertion, I can only assume that you peak through your neighbors' windows and watch their TV, as yours, as stated, has been tossed out.
Personally, I find the most interesting thing about TV is trying to detect the corporate agenda while watching. This, I think, was why Survivor was popular. You can truly judge someone's intelligence by seeing how they watch Survivor (though by merely watching it one starts with a minor intelligence handicap). Roughly 3/4 of people will get fooled by the editors and claim to know what's coming only to have it, quite suprisingly, turn around in the last 2 minutes. Trying to see beyond what TV editors want you to see is the only valuable thing on TV for me (well, that and the Daily Show).
I realize that many waste away their lives in front of the TV, but I just don't get people who claim to be somehow superior because they avoid it at all cost. That's tantamount to one of Gutenberg's contemporaries clinging to his local bard and claiming that print is a detriment. Obviously, TV is under corporate control, but it is still of cultural value. Like it or not, it's the medium that defines the last two generations. Music probably defined the two before that, but TV still had a huge role. Really, is something like Saturday Night Live any more mindless than Chaucer?
Instead of engaging in the "art of conversation" and railing on the mindless masses from your perch of artistic piety, you should try and start a competing medium yourself. Or, since the public seems rathered entrenched in the TV culture, try to create some sort of intellectually stimulating TV program. Criticizing TV watching isn't going to eliminate it because the people on TV won't broadcast your criticism. You have to show them another mode of media through the existing form. I imagine word of mouth spread news of the printing press, that handbills advertised the sales of radios at Sears, and that there were radio ads for TVs. Going back to word of mouth isn't going to eliminate television slaves - you need a better solution. Or you can just sit on your ass and complain about it
The Iron Chef is really an adictive show. If this works out it'll be great but It'd be better with Morimoto. Perhaps they can bring in all the hosts of all the other TV Imports, to be judges.
I bet Anne Robinson can really pack it away.
and Regis seems to be quite the food coneseur
Jeff Probst seems like he could really benefit from eating something other that all that Vegimite he's been living on...
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