At the chaotic law firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt, there’s no such thing as temporary insanity – it’s more of a permanent condition! Amid torrid interoffice love affairs, and under the watchful eye of new senior partner Carl Sack, the firm’s brilliant but volatile attorneys take on such burning social issues as the death penalty, gays in the military, euthanasia, mortgage foreclosures, going green, racism, obesity and animal rights. So enjoy a stiff drink and light a cigar as the fourth season of the seriously addicting legal drama “Boston Legal” lands on DVD September 23rd from Fox Home Entertainment.

Headlining the stellar ensemble cast are James Spader** (Secretary, Sex Lies and Videotape) and William Shatner* (”Star Trek”), starring in their respective Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning roles as two unlikely kindred spirits among the brigade of high-priced litigators at Crane Poole & Schmidt; matching forces in her Emmy nominated role is Candice Bergen*** (”Murphy Brown”) playing the vigilant founding partner; and former TV lawyer John Larroquette**** (”Night Court”) joins the firm as the new senior lawyer from the New York office.

From prolific television producing and writing icon David E. Kelley (”Ally McBeal,” “The Practice”) “Boston Legal” tells the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant, but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Sometimes irreverent and funny, sometimes intense and moving, “Boston Legal” prides itself on being at the forefront of issue-oriented television, often addressing issues that are underreported by the media. Fast paced and darkly comedic, the series confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law. Nominated for an EmmyÒ Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2007, The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recently honored the show with their Television Academy Honors, recognizing television with a conscience and achievements in programming that present issues of concern to society in a compelling, emotional and insightful way. The five-disc “Boston Legal” Season Four DVD collection includes all 20 episodes from the fourth season along with “The New Kids on the Courtroom Floor” behind-the-scenes featurette and will be available for the suggested retail price of $59.98 U.S. / $89.98 Canada. But you can download it here for only $29 U.S., click here to download DVD.

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Originally aired April 3, 2007
Written by Phoef Sutton & David E. Kelley
Directed by Bill D’Elia



ABC Summary
A man with a decades-long grudge against Denny Crane and his late attorney father takes the firm hostage, forcing staff at Crane, Poole & Schmidt to “re-try” a murder case in which a young Denny ensured the defendant’s acquittal. Scenes from a 50-year-old television pilot, “The Defender” - featuring a young William Shatner - are incorporated into the episode to show what transpired during the original case that led to the modern day hostage taking. Meanwhile, Alan Shore’s attempt to defend an accused prostitute lands him in jail for contempt of court.

Cases

1. The Senator’s secret lover
   
2. Denny relives his first case
   
3. The feuding beauty queens
   

Guest Cast
Meredith Eaton-Gilden as Bethany Horowitz
Stephen Lee as Aaron Sears
Mike Hagerty as Wally Bird
Mark L. Taylor as Attorney Adam Jovanka
Lawrence Pressman as Judge Floyd Hurwitz
Jackie Debatin as Jenna Aesop
James Keane as Joe Gordon
Billy Mayo as Detective Sean Wilkins
Bonnie Bailey-Reed as Harriet Bird
Randy Thompson as Officer Carl Ralston
Patricia Mizen as Bobbie
Alexandra Burkhart as Debbie
Stacey Moseley as Karen Sears
Barry Sigismondi as Officer James
Karen Lew as Clerk
Kurt Scholler as Jail Bailiff #1
Marcus Folmar as Jail Bailiff #2
Ralph Bellamy as Denny’s Father

Biography

Candice Bergen was born on May 9, 1946 in Beverly Hills, California. This former model turned actress has already won an Emmy and is an Academy Award nominee. Her film credits include Sweet Home Alabama, View from the Top, The In-Laws, Miss Congeniality, Stick, Gandhi, Staring Over, Oliver’s Story, Bite the Bullet, and Rich and Famous. She also appeared in several TV shows like Will & Grace, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, and Sex and the City. She even had her own comedy series Murphy Brown. Presently, she is part of the TV show Boston legal as Shirley Schmidt.

Shirley Schmidt is one of the founders of Crane, Poole & Schmidt which is a Boston law firm. In the past, she had a romantic relationship with Denny Crane . Now, she oversees Denny ’s behavior. She was married to Ivan Tiggs but after four years, the marriage ended. Ivan married Missy but at some point, he wanted to get back to Shirley. Shirley finds out that Ivan is still together with his wife and breaks off their affair.

 

Emmy winner and popular talk show guest William Shatner will turn host when the interview series “Shatner’s Raw Nerve” premieres later this summer.

Bio Channel announced Wednesday (July 9) that “Shatner’s Raw Nerve” will premiere on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 10 p.m. ET.

Among Shatner’s earliest guests will be none other than the actor’s “Star Trek” colleague Leonard Nimoy. Other promised early guests include John Voight, Jimmy Kimmel, Judge Judy, Jenna Jameson, Leonard Nimoy, Kelsey Grammer and Valerie Bertinelli.

The release for the show promises that Shatner will probe his guests’ most sensitive subjects, exposing that eponymous “Raw Nerve” and warns that “the show will be unpredictable, allowing Shatner to work his magic on each guest in his own unique way.”

“Shatner’s Raw Nerve” is produced by Scott Sternberg Productions.

William Shatner was born on March 22, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Joseph Shatner and Anna Garmaise.

Shatner grew up and went to school in Montreal and eventually moved on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Montreal’s McGill University in 1952. During the summer months, while in college, Shatner performed in the Royal Mount Theater Company. After graduation, he began work at the National Repertory Theater of Ottawa, and performed at the famed Shakespearean Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario.

Eventually moving to the United States to work, Shatner was cast as “Ranger Bill” on the popular Howdy Doody Show in 1954. He made his official movie debut in the 1958 film “The Brothers Karamazov” where he played Alexei Karamazov.

Shatner’s most famous and popular role was as Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the USS Enterprise on Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Star Trek’. The shows ratings, however, were never successful and was canceled after 3 seasons. (1966-69). Over the years however, reruns of the show has developed a loyal fan base and has made it a cult classic.

While on the show, Shatner made a groundbreaking step for television and engaged in the first televised interracial kiss with co-star Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), in the 1968 episode “Plato’s Stepchildren”. Despite this, Shatner was often accused of being difficult to work with, arrogant, line-stealing, and trying to keep his co-stars in the background.

1973 the Star Trek name tried to make a comeback with an animated series, where once again Shatner assumed the role as Captain Kirk for the voiceover. Shatner also stared in the 6 Star Trek movies which became big successes, and assumed the role of Kirk for the final time in 1994 for’Star Trek Generations’.

During the almost 10 year gap between the Star Trek series and its movies, Shatner found it difficult to find work due to being typecast as Captain Kirk. His wife left him in financial distress and forced him to live in a truck bed camper in the San Fernando Valley.

After the films, Shatner returned to TV as a police officer in the ‘T.J. Hooker’ series from 1982 to 1986.

Shatner has become an unwilling figurehead of science fiction fans and the Star-Trek cult like following “Trekkies”. Despite enjoying the role and his popularity, he argues that there’s only so much a man can take and often jokes about his geeky and annoying fans.

In the early 90’s Shatner wrote a series of science fiction novels called the Tek series. The books became very popular and inspired a Marvel comic series, television movies (Which Shatner himself acted in) and even a video game. He also authored several more science fiction books under the Star Trek name and even went on to do some of a biographical nature, such as “Star Trek Memories”.

Over the years Shatner has made many guest and special appearances and assume some small roles on TV and in film. This includes his appearence in several episodes of the television series ‘ 3rd Rock from the Sun’ as The Big Giant Head.

In 2004, Shatner got the role of attorney Denny Crane for the final season of the legal drama, ‘The Practice’ and earned an Emmy. He is currently still playing the role of Crane in the shows spin-off series “Boston legal”.

Recently, in 2006, Shatner sold his kidney stone for $75,000 to GoldenPalace.com to pay for the building of a house by Habitat for Humanity. He also aired on a show titled “How I, William Shatner, Changed the world” on the Discovery channel, which discussed how gadets and technology fictionalized on Star trek inspired real world technological developments today.

Currently, aside from acting, Shatner also plays on the World Poker Tour, for the Wells Fargo Hollywood Charity Horse Show, and still hits Trek conventions. Shatner has a 360-acre horse farm in Kentucky named Bellreve where he breeds American Saddlebreds and Quarter Horses. Shatner also is the CEO of the C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures company which provides special effects for movies. William Shatner has a star on Canada’s walk of fame, and shows no signs of slowing down in his career despite his age.

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. “

- Shatners voiceover at the begining of the original Star Trek intro.

“I’m not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don’t live on Starship NCC-170… , or own a phaser. I don’t know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. And no, I’ve never had green alien sex, but I’m sure it’d be quite an evening. I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt’s, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me ‘live long and prosper’, I seriously mean it when I say, ‘get a life’. My doctor’s name is not McCoy, it’s Ginsberg. And tribbles were puppets, not real animals. PUPPETS! And when I speak, I never, ever talk like Every. Word. Is. Its. Own. Sentence. I live in California, but I was raised in Montreal. And I believe in priceline.com, where you never have to pay full price for airline tickets, hotels, and car rentals! I’ve appeared onstage at Stratford, at Carnegie Hall, Albert Hall, and the Monkland Theatre in NDG. And, yes, I’ve gone where no man has gone before, but… I was in Mexico and her father gave me permission! My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!”

- from Shatner’s Just for Laughs appearance; a parody of the popular Molson Canadian Commercial entitled “I Am Canadian”

Gabriel Byrne, Eddie Izzard and James Spader will be among the stars fighting for a Best Drama Actor honour at the Emmy Awards, while pregnant Minnie Driver and Sally Field are favourites for the Best Actress prize.

The quintet has been selected among the 20 semi-finalists on a shortlist.

Driver and Izzard are nominated for The Riches, while Byrne gets a nod for playing a psychiatrist in In Treatment. Boston Legal gave Spader the chance to fight for an Emmy.

Other actors on the top 10 list include Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy), Michael C. Hall (Dexter) and Hugh Laurie (House).

As well as Driver and Field, Patricia Arquette (Medium), Glenn Close (Damages), Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit) and Holly Hunter (Saving Grace) are among those under consideration.

 

An attractive, innocent-looking blond lead, often cast as a smarmy yuppie scum you love to hate, James Spader won the Best Actor Award at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival for his role as Graham, the sexually impotent outsider who disrupts the lives of a young Southern lawyer, his wife and her sister, in Steven Soderbergh’s “sex, lies and videotape.” Prior to that success, he had gained notice for two portrayals of reprehensible wealthy psychopaths: as the villainous best friend of Andrew McCarthy in “Pretty in Pink” (1986) and as the lowlife cocaine dealer who forces Robert Downey Jr. to prostitute himself for drugs in “Less Than Zero” (1987). Although he has gone to the well frequently to trot out his upwardly mobile young professional for public consumption (i.e., “Wall Street” 1987), Spader has also proven effective when playing against type in other outings.

The son of teachers, Spader dropped out of prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career in NYC. Following his film debut as Brooke Shields’ brother in “Endless Love” (1981), the actor worked in television for several years before abandoning the medium when his feature career took off. He inherited Kevin Bacon’s role for the 1983 unsold CBS pilot for “Diner,” then played Frank Converse’s slightly rebellious son in the short-lived “The Family Tree” (NBC, 1983), about a blended family. That same year, he also made his TV-movie debut as the son of Robert Mitchum who embarks on a murder spree in “A Killer in the Family” (ABC) and played Dennis Weaver’s son who recognizes his father’s drug dependency in “Cocaine: One Man’s Addiction” (NBC). By the mid-80s as his film career waxed, Spader had curtailed his small screen appearances, although he was heard as a guest caller on the second season premiere of the hit NBC sitcom “Frasier” in 1994.

Spader starred in the moderately successful “White Palace” (1990), portraying a yuppie widower who falls for older woman Susan Sarandon, and was a standout as a slimeball with his own particular ethics in “The Music of Chance” (1993). In “Storyville” (1992), as a New Orleans lawyer turned congressional candidate tempted by fleshly pleasures, and again, at the mercy of a destructive femme fatale in the erotic thriller “Dream Lover” (1994), his typically confounded pretty boy found himself on foundering crafts. He faired much better playing his trademark loathsome yuppie in support of Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer for “Wolf”, an imaginative urban take on the werewolf legend, and the surprising hit “Stargate” (both 1994) brought a welcome change of scene, casting him as a nerdy Egyptologist who becomes involved in a fantasy-cum-desert/sci-fi adventure with Kurt Russell. He was back to form as the scheming, amoral hit man characterized as ‘evil incarnate’ in John Herzfeld’s “2 Days in the Valley” (1996).

Spader stepped boldly into “Crash” (1996), David Cronenberg’s world of fetishism and erotic obsession, where crumpled metal, broken glass and gaping wounds titillate. He found perhaps his most thought-provoking role since his 1989 breakthrough and delivered an inspired portrayal of a kinky man whose involvement in a fatal accident revitalizes his sex life. Semi-detached from his equally adventurous wife (Deborah Kara Unger), Spader’s James Ballard succumbs to the powerful aphrodisiac of the crash to share compulsive distant sex in cars with Holly Hunter’s widow, Rosanna Arquette’s cripple whose biggest turn-on is the monstrous gash on the back of her thigh, and Elias Koteas’ leader of a band of accident enthusiasts who get their kicks recreating notorious crack-ups. Spader reunited with Unger and cut a terrific presence with his dyed-black Elvis-style hair-do in the murder mystery “Keys to Tulsa” before giving a more conventional performance as an unethical doctor in Sidney Lumet’s “Critical Care” (both 1997).

A devoted family man, Spader has said, “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.” After showcasing his flair for physical comedy as a bumbling publisher in “Curtain Call” (originally intended for theatrical release but sold to the cable channel Starz! and aired in 1998), a fairly clichéd romantic comedy which gave Michael Caine and Maggie Smith the best parts as the ghosts haunting Spader’s brownstone, he returned to features in “Supernova” (2000). With his connection to the “Alien” franchise, director Walter Hill seemed an ideal choice to helm this entry to the sci-fi genre, but the unremarkable script simply combined elements from past pictures without adding anything new to excite audiences. Spader was looking buff as Nick Vanzant, co-pilot of a battered 22nd Century salvage ship, but the troubled project, from which Hill removed his name (to be credited as Thomas Lee), arrived in theaters with a whimper. Desperately in need of a hit, Spader next starred in the promising “The Watcher” as a detective playing a mind game with serial killer Keanu Reeves. The movie, however, turned out to be another dud.

Spader finally found the role to revive his quickly diminishing image with 2002’s “Secretary.” The indie film featured Spader as a man who embarks on an S&M relationship with his young female secretary, played by Maggie Gyllenhaal. He finally scored a hit with this offbeat and sexy film and it signaled the start of a new era in Spader’s seasoned career. In 2003 the actor was quickly snapped up by television producer David E. Kelley to anchor the long-standing legal drama “The Practice” after budget cuts forced Kelley to axe many of the show’s cast members to keep it on the air. Spader’s charismatic and morally slippery character Alan Shore breathed new life into the aging series’ final season – including earning the actor the Emmy as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – and was carried over to star opposite William Shatner in the spin-off series “Boston Legal TV Show” on ABC (2004 - ). Spader’s always unpredictable performance garnered an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in the show’s debut season, a feat that was followed by another Emmy win in 2007 – his third ever in the Outstanding Lead Actor category.

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Boston Legal TV Show is a spin-off of the popular series The Practice and focuses on civil law. It centers on ethically challenged attorney Alan Shore (James Spader) who, with the help of his friend and mentor Denny Crane (William Shatner), quickly begins winning cases no one will take. His rival and colleague Brad Chase (Mark Valley) is assigned to the office to keep an eye on the possibly senile Crane while Shore refuses to let honesty or integrity get in his way while winning a case.

The personal and professional lives of Boston’s most experienced litigators form the foundation of this prime-time comedy drama that has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards since its 2004 premiere. When Washington, D.C., attorney Brad Chase (Mark Valley) was relocated to Boston to keep an eye on senior Crane, Poole & Schmidt partner Denny Crane (William Shatner), he had no idea what he was getting into. Meanwhile, as Chase does his best to keep an eye on Crane, Alan Shore (James Spader) uses ethically questionable methods to win the cases that no one else will touch. A spin-off of the Emmy Award-winning legal drama The Practice, Boston Legal has also featured such respected actors as Candice Bergen, René Auberjonois, and John Larroquette.

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Brad Chase: I outrank you.
Alan Shore: And I’m such a slut for authority.

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Alan Shore: Hate to extort and run.

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Denny Crane: [repeated throughout series] Denny Crane…

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Gracie Jane: Gracie Jane.
Denny Crane: Denny Crane.
Gracie Jane: Gracie Jane.
Denny Crane: Are you making fun of me?

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Denny Crane: I have an erection. That’s a good sign. I’m ready to go to trial. Lock and load.

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Denny Crane: Because we’re friends, I’m gonna tell you something nobody else knows. I’m homophobic.
Alan Shore: [deadpan] I’m stunned.

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Denny Crane: [Denny is guarding Alan from his night terrors so he is sleeping in the bed with him]
[in his sleep]
Denny Crane: Denny Crane. Denny Crane. Denny Crane.
Alan Shore: [Alan gets out of bed and stumbles. He has a rope tied around his leg; the other end is tied to Denny. Alan tries to get up and stumbles again. He tugs on the rope] Hey! Hey!
Denny Crane: What the hell do you…
Alan Shore: Get up, Denny. We’re going to the bathroom.
Denny Crane: Untie the knot.
[turns over]
Alan Shore: It takes too long. Let’s just… get up!
Denny Crane: I’m not getting up!
Alan Shore: It’ll take two seconds.
[he tugs the rope]
Denny Crane: It’s the middle of the night!
Alan Shore: Just get up!
Denny Crane: I’m not gonna get up.
Alan Shore: Dammit! Get up!
[he tugs violently at the rope. Denny is pulled from the bed to the floor]
Alan Shore: Happy?
[stands up]
Denny Crane: [Denny pulls the rope and Alan falls on top of him. They lie there, face to face] This isn’t working for me.