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William Shatner, who once famously told Star Trek fans to "get a life" (and who will be roasted Sunday on Comedy Central) is now on a quest to find the world's biggest sci-fi fan, or at least the biggest sci-fi fan who's willing to subject him or herself to the potential indignity of being the spokesperson for Shatner's online DVD club. Entrants must submit audition videos online (at
http://shatner.blip.tv), and so far only about 30 are posted on the site, indicating that the willingness of geeks to humiliate themselves in the service of Captain Kirk is perhaps not as boundless as previously thought. Most are as embarrassing as you might imagine, and some appear to be random home videos or fan films that have nothing to do with sci-fi or William Shatner at all. Personally, my vote goes to the fake Shatner "celebrity" roast, featuring such notable guests as Bleemzor, the Harlem Globetrotters and Rip Taylor.

How well does the hardcore Twins Do Vegas use its local setting?

Ever since Debbie first did Dallas, porn stars have been traveling around this great nation of ours, seeking the sexual pleasures of all of our fine metropolises. In Vivid's Twins Do Vegas, alliteratively-monikered sisters Lacey and Lyndsey Love head to Sin City for the AVN Awards, and, surprisingly, get sidetracked by hardcore sexcapades. The Vegas angle consists mostly of home-video-quality footage of the dim sisters looking overwhelmed at the airport, the convention center and their unnamed hotel. They do stand at the Fremont Street Experience for some opening and closing footage, but otherwise the twins might as well just have stayed home and done the San Fernando Valley, where several of the sex scenes were clearly shot. Bonus: Check out the behind-the-scenes footage, which demonstrates just how difficult it is to get twin porn stars to repeat a single line of dialogue in unison.

Brick (4 stars)


$29.98

In 1976, Alan Parker's brash musical comedy Bugsy Malone turned the gangster genre on its ear by casting children in adult roles. It confounded audiences and made many in Hollywood doubt Parker's sanity. Newcomer Rian Johnson takes a similar tack in Brick, a vastly more interesting crime story, which requires its young cast to deliver the same hard-bitten dialogue once associated with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. As with most noir fare, the crime is less significant than the attitudes copped by the characters, the snappy repartee and the seductive cinematography. It's enough to know that a girl dies of unnatural causes, and her old boyfriend wants to know why. Along the way, the college-prepping PI (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) encounters thugs, crime lords, saps and molls. In a neat twist, the teenagers never fail to show up for class the next day ... unless, of course, they're dead. Brick works as both a thriller and a novelty.

What we didn't write about this week to make room for what we did:

1. Filmmaker Adam Muskiewicz' offer of $3 million for proof that Elvis lives.

2. The book Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley, by Jerry Schilling. 3. Sing Like the King, a training DVD for Elvis impersonators.