William Shatner hosts this television show, featuring dramatic reenactments of situations leading to emergency calls to 9-1-1. Speaking to the press shortly after his wife's death while visibly still in a state of shock, Shatner said that she had "meant everything" to him and described her as his "beautiful soulmate". Much like their characters on Star Trek, Shatner and Nimoy had a professional rivalry that developed into a close friendship. [151][152] In an appearance on The View on May 16, 2006, he said that the proceeds of the sale and an additional $20,000 raised from the cast and crew of Boston Legal had been donated to the housing charity Habitat for Humanity. [18] All four of Shatner's grandparents were Jewish immigrants: they came from settlements that are currently in Ukraine and Lithuania, but which were then under the rule of Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire. RT America ceased transmitting altogether on March 3.[93]. [141], Shatner revealed in 2020 that he suffers from swollen joints and various age-related "aches and pains". In September 2016, for example, the organizers of the Salt Lake Comic Con invited him to attend their event as their special guest. The actor wasn't content on simply enjoying the once-in-a-life time experience. At the time, Shatner insisted he had a prior engagement. Shatner was featured in two episodes of the NBC television series Thriller ("The Grim Reaper" and "The Hungry Glass") and the film The Explosive Generation (1961). Behind the scenes and before they went on stage, they hugged each other, apologized and expressed their love and admiration for each other. Instead of leading the event in the customary classic car, he presided over it from horseback. Later, after doing his research, Shatner found a connection between testosterone (he was regularly taking hormone supplements) and prostate cancer. with Children, Melrose Place, Friends and Saved by the Bell: The New Class. William Shatner, (born March 22, 1931, Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Canadian actor whose prolific output and self-deprecating sense of humour secured him a place in the North American pop culture pantheon. Now Shatner has released a new book that may reveal another reason why. Enterprise. 19511966: Early stage, film, and television work, Performances of songs on television and in films, "William Shatner blows $20K for a contestant". They worked together again in 2005, when she appeared in two episodes of Boston Legal as Kelly Nolan, a woman being tried for killing her much older, wealthy husband. [82] In the August of that year, Trekkies were treated to a sequel to The Captains which he produced, scripted and directed and in which he starred: William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge, a behind-the-scenes documentary film about Star Trek: The Next Generation. RT's editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, said that "Captain Kirk has come over to the good side." Getty Images Just like that unexpectedly productive afternoon in London, Shatner,. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. [64][65][66] (Co-written with David Fisher, later to collaborate with Shatner on a book about Leonard Nimoy and Shatner's relationship with him, Up Till Now had been published in 2008.) [95] A year later, the recording was reissued by another company, again as a double LP, now titled William Shatner Live: Captain of the Starship. Pat Boone CelebrityToupee Wearer. "[29] Shatner took the Crane role to Boston Legal and won a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 2005, and was Emmy nominated again in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. 1964 also saw Shatner cast in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. )[105][106][107][108] On June 28, 2002, Shatner appeared with Brian Evans at the San Carlos Institute Theatre in Key West, Florida and duetted with him in the songs "What Kind of Fool Am I" and "The Lady Is a Tramp": the concert was later released as the album Brian Evans Live with Special Guest: William Shatner. In 1967, he starred in the little known Spaghetti Western White Comanche, playing both a white-hat character and his black-hat evil twin: Johnny Moon, a virtuous half-Comanche gunslinger, and Notah, a bloodthirsty warlord. In the 1990s, Shatner made numerous attempts to reconcile with Doohan without success; Doohan was the only former Star Trek co-star who declined to be interviewed by Shatner for his first, 1993 memoir, Star Trek Memories. [100] Shatner's ninth album, The Blues, was released on October 2, 2020,[101] and reached the number one slot of the Billboard Blues Chart fifteen days later. [102] A tenth album, Bill, was announced by Shatner on August 26, 2021, and released on September 24.[103][104]. William Shatner (born 1931) is a Canadian actor who has had a career in film and television for seven decades. His brief appearance in the opening scene of a high profile production of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex by Tyrone Guthrie introduced him to television viewers across the whole of Canada. [118], Shatner has been married four times. On March 29, 2006, TV Land aired a Shatner-centred episode of their Living in TV Land series subtitled "William Shatner in Concert". "[42][43], After Star Trek was cancelled, it acquired a cult following among people watching syndicated reruns of the series, and Captain Kirk became a cultural icon. No. He expanded his work on YouTube in 2009, supplying the voice of Don Salmonella to the animated series The Gavones.[58]. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. On television, he made a critically praised appearance as a prosecutor in a 1971 PBS adaptation of Saul Levitt's play The Andersonville Trial, and was also seen in major parts in the movies The People (1972) and The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973). Science fiction icon William Shatner has been a darling of American pop culture almost since the day he stepped foot on the Enterprise. My Dad Says, his character, Ed Goodson, delivered a Shatner-style Karaoke treatment of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy". as the basis for a dance project, Common People, created for the Milwaukee Ballet. [157] Shatner was dismayed that the cruise offered its customers an opportunity to swim with dolphins, and petitioned the CEO of the Norwegian Cruise Line through PETA not to include dolphins in the programme of their 2018 cruise: "The exploitation of any species for profit and entertainment would have violated the Prime Directive. Of course, it's also noteworthy that there's been a feud between William Shatner and George Takei for years now. HD LiamGavin 892017Fantas. 1964 saw him too as the titular Alexander in the pilot for a proposed series called Alexander the Great alongside Adam West as Cleander. William Shatner's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in 1986 illustrated this scene. Lippe, Jordi. [144] He has a 360-acre (150ha) farm near Versailles, Kentucky, named Belle Reve Farm (from the French beau rve, "Beautiful Dream" Belle Reve was the name of Blanche Dubois' and her sister Stella's family home in A Streetcar Named Desire), where he raises American Saddlebreds. At age 90, William Shatner broke a record by becoming the oldest man to travel to space. [129] Shatner's 2004 album Has Been included a spoken word piece, "What Have You Done", that describes his anguish upon discovering Nerine's body. A large portion of the revenue of the project went to charity. [50], In the late 1990s, Shatner became closely accociated with the travel website priceline.com, appearing in many television commercials for the company as a pompous caricature of himself. [13] His parents were Ann (ne Garmaise) and Joseph Shatner, a clothing manufacturer. It's the future, man". [145] In 2019, he won a world championship with his Standardbred road horse Track Star while showing at the Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show in Louisville. Initially announced by Shatner under that title on February 4, it was later promoted by him as Searching for Major Tom before reverting to the name that he had given it originally. Twice she almost drank herself to death. [70], In April 2010, Shatner began hosting the Discovery Channel show Weird or What, which aired until August 2012. Lasting from 1973 to 1996, their marriage was Shatner's longest, but did not produce any children. [7], In 2021, Shatner flew into space aboard a Blue Origin sub-orbital capsule. 3. [27] After graduating, he worked as an assistant manager and actor at both the Mountain Playhouse in Montreal and the Canadian National Repertory Theatre in Ottawa before joining the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. [29] His curriculum vitae in this genre included several visits to The $10,000 Pyramid and its more generous sequels, shows in which contestants attempted to guess a word or phrase with the help of hints from a famous partner. Star Trek. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences before, during and after his time in a Starfleet uniform. "[112], Shatner took part in Blue Origin's second sub-orbital human spaceflight, Blue Origin NS-18, on October 13, 2021. According to Pat Jordan, Shatner's Emmy Award-winning role, the eccentric but highly capable attorney Denny Crane, was essentially "William Shatner the man playing William Shatner the character playing the character Denny Crane, who was playing the character William Shatner. [128] He later told Larry King in an interview that "my wife, whom I loved dearly, and who loved me, was suffering with a disease that we don't like to talk about: alcoholism. 13:15 The UnXplained With William Shatner. He contributed the voice of Buzz Lightyear to the Star Command anthem "To Infinity And Beyond" in the 2000 film Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins. He is best known for playing Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, a role for which he received an Emmy Award.Schiff made his directorial debut with The West Wing, directing an episode titled "Talking Points".He is on the National Advisory Board of the Council for a Livable World. [143] He rode one of his own mares, Great Belles of Fire, in Star Trek Generations. William Shatner has worn a hair piece for years. [92] Four days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Shatner issued a statement via Twitter expressing unqualified support for the Ukrainians in the resistance that they were mounting against their assailants. Running for five seasons and ninety-one episodes until 1986, the series partnered Shatner with Heather Locklear and James Darren, later to be a recurring cast member of the third live-action Star Trek show, Deep Space Nine. [9], Shatner dislikes watching himself perform. Also that year, he appeared in an episode of the CBS drama The Reporter, "He Stuck in His Thumb", and played a supporting role in the Western feature film The Outrage, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and Edward G. Robinson. Total Drama. He appeared as James Kirk in all the episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, 21 of the 22 episodes of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and the first seven Star Trek movies. His US television profile was heightened further when he had a leading role in an episode in the third (195758) season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "The Glass Eye". Shatner starred in the 1966 gothic horror film Incubus (Esperanto: Inkubo,) the second feature-length movie ever made with all dialogue spoken in Esperanto. Guthrie too rated the young Shatner very highly, later recalling him as the most promising actor that his Festival employed, and for a time, he was seen as a potential peer of Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Pat Boone had one of his most embarrassing moments here with the cameras rolling. He announced his participation in the series in a Twitter post quoting one of its catchphrases, and disclosed that he was himself a so-called brony, one of the show's devotees. [1] [2] Shatner's breakthrough role was his portrayal of James T. Kirk in Star Trek . He was best known for playing Capt. There is this fiction that Bill and Leonard [Nimoy] were good friends, but we know betterLeonard privately expressed his irritation with Bill. 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In the mid-1970s, noting the growing appetite for Star Trek, Paramount began pre-producing a sequel show, Star Trek: Phase II, in which they planned to present new, younger actors alongside the stars of the original series. William Shatner Celebrity Hair Piece. Instead, the voyage left him filled with grief, an "overwhelming sadness" and a . He narrated a television miniseries shot in New Zealand A Twist in the Tale (1998). He also took part in the coin toss before the subsequent 80th Rose Bowl college football game. He was a good sport about it though. In the early 1970s, in the immediate aftermath of the cancellation of Star Trek in 1969, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding employment, having become somewhat typecast as James Tiberius Kirk. Each episode of the series supplied lovers of arcana with several segments exploring news reports relating to left-field topics such as UFOs and cryptozoology. In 2005, he was heard in the track "'64 - Go" on the Lemon Jelly album '64 - '95. With William Shatner, Patricia Breslin, Guy Wilkerson, Stafford Repp. [16][17] His patrilineal family name was Schattnerit was his grandfather, Wolf Schattner, who anglicized it. In January 2007, he began posting daily autobiographical vlogs on the LiveVideo platform in a project that he named ShatnerVision; rebranded as The Shatner Project, his vlogging migrated to YouTube the following year. Ben Folds's 1998 album Fear of Pop: Volume 1 features Shatner on two tracks, "In Love" and "Still in Love". Since then he has appeared in episodes of JAG, Silk Stalkings, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, and NCIS. However, astounded by the enormous success that George Lucas's film Star Wars achieved in 1977, the studio decided that Star Trek would earn them more money if the next adventure of the Enterprise took place not on television but in theatres. 05:00 Undercover Boss US. [74] In May, he was the guest presenter on the British satirical television quiz show Have I Got News for You, earning a footnote in the history of neologisms by melding "pioneer" and "pensioner" into the portmanteau coinage "pensioneer". (Jamie Halliday, the founder of Audio Antihero, named the former as his "favourite song of all time". [87] The book won the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Outstanding Books of the Year Independent Voice Award. At age 90, he became the oldest person to fly in space and one of the first 600 to do so. In his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner disclosed how Leonard Nimoy, himself no stranger to alcoholism, had done his best to try to avert the tragedy that Kidd's affliction threatened: Leonard Nimoy's personal experience of alcoholism now came to play a central role in my life and it helped us bond together in a way I never could have imagined in the early days of Star Trek. ', August 18, 2015, Today. William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Film [ edit] Television [ edit] Video games [ edit] Commercials [ edit] See also [ edit] William Shatner's musical career The role earned Shatner an Emmy Award nomination. Two high-profile animated pictures released in 2006 featured Shatner in their cast. After the show's cancellation in 1969, they reunited in Star Trek: The Animated Series, and they also worked together on both The $20,000 Pyramid and T. J. Hooker. Birth Name: William Alan Shatner Birth Place: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Profession Actor, director, producer, writer Guest 30 Credits Banfield 2021 The Talk 2019 Home & Family 2018 Tavis Smiley. In the March of that year, while still performing in that production, he also played detective Archie Goodwin in what would have been television's first Nero Wolfe series, had it not been aborted by CBS after shooting a pilot and a few episodes.[33]. [86] Another new enterprise that he launched that year was Shatner Singularity, a publisher of comic-books, which has a list including the graphic novel Stan Lee's 'God Woke' by Lee and Mariano and Fabian Nicieza. But Doohan did contribute to Shatner's sequel, and an Associated Press article published at the time of Doohan's final convention appearance in August 2004, when he was already suffering from severe health problems, reported that he had forgiven Shatner and that the two actors had achieved the friendship as seniors that had eluded them in their youth. [citation needed]. In 1965, Shatner guest-starred in 12 O'Clock High as Major Curt Brown in the episode "I Am the Enemy". 15:05 The Curse of Oak Island. [36][37][38] In 1973, Shatner returned to the role of Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series, which ran for two seasons and twenty-two episodes. In 1964, Shatner guest-starred in the second episode of the second season of the ABC science fiction anthology series The Outer Limits, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart". Shatner left Rand while acting in Star Trek: The Original Series, after which he divorced her in March 1969. 4. His condition has been ameliorated by habituation therapy that involved his wearing an earpiece delivering low-level white noise which "helped his brain put the tinnitus in the background". 12:10 TV4Vdret. [147] But most of his philanthropic work is associated with his love of horses. Shatner's television career after his last appearance as Captain Kirk has embraced comedy, drama and reality shows. [132], Shatner first appeared on screen with Leonard Nimoy in 1964 when both actors guest-starred in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "The Project Strigas Affair". [24] In 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. [88], Shatner's most notable television work in 2017 was in the second season of Better Late Than Never: a preview episode of December 11, 2017, was followed by an official season premiere on the New Year's Day of 2018. [31] (Plummer later appeared as a Klingon adversary of Captain Kirk's in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.) Shatner became the oldest person to travel into . In 1954, Shatner decided to leave Stratford and move to New York City in the hope of building a career on the Broadway stage. After T.J. Hooker ended, Shatner helped her to get other roles, and after Nerine Shatner's death in 1999, she was solicitous in comforting him in his bereavement. Born on March 22, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Shatner started his . The 91-year-old Canadian has been an icon since he played Captain Kirk. He had a recurring role on the HBO series Ballers. [49] In 1994, Shatner revisited Columbo to play the murderer-of-the-week in the episode Butterfly in shades of grey. Shatner made his debut on the shelves of record shops in 1968, with the release of an album titled The Transformed Man. The success of T. J. Hooker led to Shatner's hosting the popular dramatic re-enactment series Rescue 911 from 1989 to 1996. [6] His most successful album was his third, Seeking Major Tom (2011), which includes covers of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly", David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". On May 19, 1983, the iconic status of Captain Kirk was acknowledged with a ceremony celebrating Shatner's being awarded the 1,762nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Shatner hosted and executive produced The UnXplained on History from 2019 to 2022. The movie was released in March 2021 on the same week Shatner turned 90. He's an actor. With his 2005 Emmy accolade, he became one of the few actors (along with co-star James Spader as Alan Shore) to win an Emmy Award while playing the same character in two different shows. He was soon offered the chance to make his first appearance on American television: in a children's program called The Howdy Doody Show, he created the role of Ranger Bob, co-starring with a cast of puppets and Clarabell the Clown, whose dialogue with Shatner consisted entirely of honks on a bicycle horn. Peter Bradshaw. But of course, he's not an astronaut. The first fruit of their collaboration, TekWar, was published in 1989, and launched a sequence of books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Well, that can be a problem for a leading man who's hired as the star of the show. On June 9, 2005, he contributed his version of "My Way" to the presentation of George Lucas's AFI Life Achievement Award, backed by a chorus line of dancers in Imperial Stormtrooper costumes who ended Shatner's segment by picking him up and carrying him offstage. Among the musicians who contributed to it were Mick Jones, Simon House, Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Steve Howe's Yes colleague Rick Wakeman, Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Edgar Winter, Nik Turner, Vince Gill, Edgar Froese, Robby Krieger, Dav Koz, George Duke and Zoot Horn Rollo. His final appearances as James Tiberius were in the movie sequences of the video game Starfleet Academy (1997), in a 2006 DirecTV advertisement that used footage from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and at the 2013 Academy Awards, in which he reprised the role for a comedic interlude with the show's host, Seth MacFarlane. [156] In 2017, he acted as the honorary captain of a ship hosting "Star Trek: The Cruise", the first Star Trek cruise that CBS Productions licensed, an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of Star Trek's original pilot episode. Although the resurrection of Star Trek from oblivion only came about because of the enthusiasm of Trekkies, Shatner's attitude towards them is not uncritical. Although Shatner was unable to take part in Nimoy's funeral due to other commitments, his daughters attended in his place, and he celebrated his friend's life in an online memorial. In 2022, Shatner competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Knight" (depicted as a knight riding a golden goose). Working on T. J. Hooker inspired Shatner with the idea of developing a television show in which he would play a character that would be a hybrid of Hooker and Kirka hard-boiled former police officer working as a private investigator in a dystopian future. [citation needed], To supplement his income from acting, Shatner performed as a celebrity guest in a multitude of television game shows, among them Beat the Clock, Celebrity Bowling, The Hollywood Squares, Match Game, Tattletales and Mike Stokey's Stump the Stars. William Shatner made his official acting debut in 1951. It's my favorite show, and I sorta kind of said, 'Shouldn't I be William Shatner's illegitimate daughter, or his love interest?'". In Wil Wheaton's new book, he writes about being a teen actor on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and nervous to meet "Star Trek" legend William Shatner who turned out to be a real . [71] Captain Kirk famously told the fans to "get a life." Those fans, portrayed by actors Dana Carvey . Shatner acknowledged the resentment that Koenig and Doohan felt towards him in Star Trek Movie Memories, and Takei wrote about his issues with Shatner in his 2004 memoir, To the Stars. 18:00 . An emotional William Shatner says "I hope I can maintain what I feel now. In 2016, Shatner revealed that despite their long and affectionate relationship, he and Nimoy had not spoken to each other in the five years before his death the year before. After traveling together for a while, the demon turns against Wendy and she kills him. In 2003, Shatner appeared in Brad Paisley's Celebrity and Online music videos along with Little Jimmy Dickens, Jason Alexander and Trista Rehn. He also starred in an episode of Gunsmoke in 1966 as the character Fred Bateman. [32] It was four years before he won his first role in a major Hollywood movie, appearing in the MGM film The Brothers Karamazov as Alexei, the youngest of the brothers, in a cast that included Yul Brynner. William Shatner Interview 'Take it easy, nothing matters in the end': William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy Hadley Freeman His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star. As well as recording his own series of discs, Shatner has taken part in other artists' releases too. 04:00 Vanderpump Rules. [127] He urged the public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women to rebuild their lives after trying to free themselves from alcoholism or other forms of drug addiction. He was aloft for only 10 . or "When did you get your lobotomy?". [130] Shatner filed for divorce from Elizabeth in 2019. In the closing scene of Free Enterprise, he recited an oration of Mark Antony's from Julius Caesar over a rap delivered by The Rated R, a duet listed in the movie's credits as "No Tears for Caesar". The series was not picked up, and the pilot remained unaired until 1968, when it was repackaged as a TV movie to capitalize on the fame that West and Shatner had won in the interim. On the eve of his momentous casting as James Kirk, he was in Jordan's opinion seen merely as an actor who "showed up on time, knew his lines, worked cheap and always answered his phone".[29]. His cover versions of songs are dramatic recitations of their lyrics rather than musical performances: the most notable are his versions of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", and Elton John's "Rocket Man". [136][137], Interviewed in London in 2023, Takei made it clear that the passage of time had done nothing to assuage his hostility towards his former colleague: "Shatner is a cantankerous old fossil. [72] 2011 also saw him guest-starring in one episode of the USA Network's Psych, "In for a Penny", playing the estranged father of Junior Detective Juliet O'Hara (Maggie Lawson) (a role that he reprised in the show's 2012 season). His appearances as a guest star in two episodes of the television detective series Columbo, almost two decades apart, were among his many such contributions to television shows from the 1970s to the 2010s. In 2016, Shatner could relate to the anecdote even more as he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Enterprise. On the anniversary of Nimoy's death, Shatner released Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man. And she met a tragic ending because of it."[127]. Shatner began his screen acting career in Canadian films and television productions before moving into guest-starring roles in various US television shows. His first wife was a Canadian actress,[119] Gloria Rand (ne Rabinowitz),[120] whom he married on August 12, 1956. [14][15] He is the middle child of three siblings: he has an older sister, Joy Rutenberg (1928) and a younger sister, Farla Cohen (1940). But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. At the time of Nimoy's death in 2015, he reportedly hadn't spoken to his Star Trek co-star for nearly five years, thanks to Shatner pulling a shady move with his 2011 documentary The Captains . Since 1990, he has been one of the most important supporters of the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, which raises money for organizations serving children,[148][149] and his horse farm works with the Central Kentucky Riding for Hope "Horses for Heroes" program.[150]. William Shatner expected he would achieve the "ultimate catharsis" after his historic flight into space. The record's credits attributed all its music to Sherwood and all its song texts to Shatner. He has claimed that the only Star Trek movie that he has screened is the one that he directed and so necessarily viewed when it was being edited, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,[116] although in his 1993 book Star Trek Memories, he recalls how disappointed he felt when he attended the premiere of the first Star Trek movie, Robert Wise's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Everything in this film, in fact, is beside the point, save for the fact that it stars the genetic miracle of the modern . Returning home at around 10 p.m. on August 9, 1999, he found her lying lifeless at the bottom of their backyard swimming pool. William Shatner has revealed the secret to how he manages to look so youthful at 90, maintaining that he's never had any work done. In 2018, Shatner was awarded the National Reining Horse Association Lifetime Achievement Award in the National Reining Horse Association Hall of Fame. 4. 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