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July 31, 2011, 12:18pm
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LeVar Burton Stars in New DoD Training Video
Production Urges Corrosion Prevention, With Lessons in Corrosion Science
You know him as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the eloquent Martin Luther King, Jr. in the film Ali, and the iconic Kunta Kinte in Roots, the groundbreaking TV mini-series of the late seventies. More recently, film and TV actor LeVar Burton has starred as Detective Mike Timbrook in Taken in Broad Daylight, a Lifetime Movie Network premier about a kidnapped teen who survives a harrowing six-day captivity after negotiating her own safe release.
Using his signature on-screen intensity for a didactic purpose, Burton narrates Corrosion Comprehension: Combating the Pervasive Menace, an ambitious new video aimed at educating military personnel and the public about the threat and the science of corrosion. The Defense Department’s Corrosion Policy and Oversight Office retained Bruno White Entertainment, a rich-media production company, to create the video.
“So when your M16 becomes corroded, simply reverse the polarity of the intake manifold and flood it with tetrion particles, thus reversing the progress of the corrosion.”
“But you don’t have to take MY word for it…”
Damn. You beat me to the punch!
LeVar also had his hand at science fiction writing. The usual dystopia stuff, with white people kidnapping black people for skin grafts to protect against UV radiation.
Horrible, horrible writing and a weakass plot. However, not the very worse book that I’ve ever picked out the thrift store bin. I imagine it sold more than it should have based only on his name.
BigT
August 2, 2011, 4:15am
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monstro:
Damn. You beat me to the punch!
LeVar also had his hand at science fiction writing. The usual dystopia stuff, with white people kidnapping black people for skin grafts to protect against UV radiation.
Horrible, horrible writing and a weakass plot. However, not the very worse book that I’ve ever picked out the thrift store bin. I imagine it sold more than it should have based only on his name.
I don’t know. I picked up Nimoy’s second autobiography for $0.99. Publicity from Star Trek only gets you so far.
The Reading Rainbow theme song is running through my head.