He’s captained the USS Enterprise. He broke ground on the Xavier School for the Gifted. And now — he’s a member of the Queen’s elite, receiving his very own knighthood.
CNN reports that Patrick Stewart, best known for portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X, will now be referred to as “Sir Patrick,” which will presumably give him the extra boost to finally take out Magneto — or Sir Ian McKellan — once and for all.
I think that this news is awesome, as it reveals that between Stewart, McKellan, and Saruman alter ego Sir Christopher Lee, the Queen is secretly a comics and sci-fi/fantasy fangirl. Could a Sir Robert Pattinson be far behind? How about a Sir Nathan Fillion? Okay, perhaps a stretch, but it’d be awesome if it were true. Either which way, the official ceremony will take place tomorrow.
December 31st, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Long overdue and well deserved. Sir Patrick Stewart could read the yellow pages and make it compelling
January 1st, 2010 at 9:54 am
Robert Pattinson isn’t fit to shine Sir Patrick Stewart’s shoes.
It’s only a shame we haven’t seen more of him in recent years. TNG was a great show for the most part, but aside from First Contact the TNG movies were abysmal (I mean, Shatner’s performance was easily the best part of the otherwise dreary “Generations”). The first two X-Men were good flicks (esp. X2), but they killed Xavier off for no good reason in X3 and pretty much destroyed that whole franchise. Xavier never even got to do much, except be victimized, in each of those movies.
What’s Sir Patrick done since then? Perhaps more stage work? Or maybe he’s just chosen to slow down? He’ll be (gasp) 70 later this year.
January 1st, 2010 at 12:57 pm
[What’s Sir Patrick done since then? Perhaps more stage work? Or maybe he’s just chosen to slow down? He’ll be (gasp) 70 later this year.]
Well, he IS the voice of the CIA director on American Dad. And he and the rest of the ST:TNG crew did their own voices for an appearance on Family Guy. Best line: Michael Dorn complains about Patrick upstaging everyone while they were doing TNG, and Stewart replies: “Oh, f**k you, Michael!”
January 1st, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Didn’t know that… I like Family Guy OK, but I don’t see it often. American Dad’s probably good satire, but I’ve never really watched it.
I’ve seen Stewart in a number of good films: Conspiracy Theory, LA Story, and (most hilariously) Jeffrey… Best line in that last one: “Do I like a gay superhero?” The TV movie of A Christmas Carol was pretty good, but not as fun as hearing his one-man show/reading of the same (My family and I listen to our CD of it every year at the holidays).
I’ve also had the pleasure of seeing him on stage twice. First, in the early 90′s in a great play called Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (with a bunch of other TNG actors)in Chicago, then in Shakespeare’s The Tempest on B’way back in ’95. Great stuff.
January 1st, 2010 at 10:18 pm
He just played Claudius against David “The Doctor” Tennant’s Hamlet, both on stage and in a BBC TV movie that will hit PBS sometime this year.
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:18 am
Thanks, Bill! I will watch for that…
Oh, and a correction to my previous post. The line from the movie Jeffrey is “Do I look like a gay superhero?” You have to see the movie to understand the context, but needless to say it was hilarious.
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Anyone can become a Sir, Lord, Lady, Baron etc. etc. in the UK as that’s how corrupt we have become.
All you have to do is pay a big enough back hander to the government parties and they nominate you and then choose you for the award that the Queen just grants it because she has no power and has to sit back and do everything parliament says, I believe ”SIR” Patrick’s price was 100k.
Anyway the moral of this story is, got enough cash, and you too can be a knight of the realm regardless of nationality or ideology.
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I know that sounded caustic but really i actually like the guy. Just had to point out the truth of the inner workings.
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Yeah, but Patrick Stewart and Paul McCartney (for just two examples) are so awesome that I don’t mind or care.
December 4th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
nice movie. Nice “switch”….