No! You're kidding! We wouldn't bend the rules for foreign royalty? In the United States of America?
Dear God, next you'll tell me that Prince Charles isn't going to be coming over to invoke prima nocta on my new wife.
EJO on Babylon 5
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No! You're kidding! We wouldn't bend the rules for foreign royalty? In the United States of America?
Dear God, next you'll tell me that Prince Charles isn't going to be coming over to invoke prima nocta on my new wife.
The way you phrase that sounds as if the Crown Prince wanted speaking lines and they said "Screw you, Prince! Now stand there and shut the hell up." I'm sure he was perfectly respectful of the SAG rules as a fan of the show/franchise and didn't want to step on anyone's toes when making his appearance. I doubt there was an issue at all.
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^ Indeed. Never mind the fact that the producers were also just following industry rules and regulations.
Yes... the credits clearly said "Special Appearance By Stephen Hawking".
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I have to wonder, did Stephen Hawking get away with speaking in his appearance on TNG because...well, he wasn't actually speaking - or was his computer a SAG member?
The difference being that Hawking actually had lines and was credited as a guest star accordingly.
The then-Prince of Jordan was only there for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo, and even then the only reason it happened was because he was purportedly such a big fan of Star Trek.
It's not at all as nefarious or evil-minded as Mr. Laser Beam's post seems to be being insinuating.
I have to wonder, did Stephen Hawking get away with speaking in his appearance on TNG because...well, he wasn't actually speaking - or was his computer a SAG member?
There's a loophole if you play yourself, intended for celebrity cameos and the like. So Stephen Hawking can play Stephen Hawking, and Scott Adams' cameo in Babylon 5 slid in thanks to his character being called "Mr. Adams." As far as the SAG rules are considered, Mr. Garibaldi's services were hired by a 300 year old newspaper cartoonist.
Apparently, "Ensign Crown-Prince Abdullah" wasn't quite inconspicuous enough to work out. Or Star Trek just prefers not to cheat the system like B5 did, since I don't think any of their celebrity cameos spoke (excepting people who were genuinely playing themselves, like Hawking).
This picture is driving me crazy! It both looks like EJO and doesn't look like him at the same time.I instantly had to break out the DVD.
I'm really curious to know if this is true.
I don't know whether it's really him or not, but from looking at his imdb profile I don't think it was that unusual for him to take small cameo roles, especially during that period in his career.
EJO in B5, yeah I missed that first time round...might be another excuse to do a B-5 marathon when I got some free time
Yo MrLight long time no see....hope that woman of yours didn't force you to get the snips
Yo MrLight long time no see....hope that woman of yours didn't force you to get the snips
Sorry to tell ya but it's "AluminIUM" here in Australia!
"A-Loo-min-um" always sounded like something that came from the moon(Luna), when I heard it on a Yank show.
But God, DO NOT get me started on fannies and rooting for your team! That will get you arrested here in Oz!!!
P.S. A "fanny" in Aus/NZ/UK is a female front bottom(Hence why I refer to your inappropriately named "fanny packs" as "vagina vestibules")and here anyway, "rooting" is having sex.
How did you manage to move "fanny" to the opposite side of the person?! Here, it's just a cute term for "butt."
A female friend of mine had language shock when she visited London sometime in the 70s. Her hotel asked if she wanted "to be knocked up in the morning." After yelling at them in shock, they explained it just means someone knocks on your door to wake you up. Their version of our "knocked up" (pregnant) is apparently "up the pole."
^Actually it's "up the spout."
There's a long history of Anglo-American miscommunication, mostly in the aid of cheating at scrabble.
There's a long history of Anglo-American miscommunication, mostly in the aid of cheating at scrabble.
That picture still, IMHO, doesn't look like EJO.
I mean, come on: the bartender guy is SMILING. That's not The Look.
I mean, come on: the bartender guy is SMILING. That's not The Look.
I'm staring to doubt it a little bit... but again, I think the only way we can put this to bed, is if someone asks EJO himself, or maybe asks JMS himself.
I searched for any pic of him that had a similar pose and a half-smile, even an older picture that didn't have as much roughness. These make me think it's possible. Nose is the same, forehead creases are the same, smile creases are the same, same earlobes, chin is the same and after lightening the original B5 photo, it seems like I'm seeing the same right eye slightly more squinty than the left. Not as much as the second picture, since he's older there. And the third picture is not Geraldo, no matter how much it looks like him.
Going by the B5 pic and your photo of EJO in the USAF jacket... it could be him.
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