Shatner short is viral on NFB

Internet . . . the final frontier . . . to boldly go viral where many actors have gone before. This is the voyage of Halifax producer Paul MacNeill, to seek out William Shatner and produce a five-minute National Film Board short on the occasion of the Montreal-born TV and film icon’s 2011 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award.
The resulting film, William Shatner Sings O Canada, is an online hit for the NFB, racking up over 50,000 views since its debut earlier this month
The man known as space jockey Capt. Kirk, police officer T.J. Hooker and lawyer Denny Crane gets to play himself in the film, reciting the words to our national anthem, while verbally sparring with an offscreen director — Halifax-raised Jacob Medjuck — over lyrics Shatner feels are downbeat and outdated.
" ‘O Canada’ just sounds so sad. . . . Can we make it, ‘Yeah, Canada!’ Wait, I’ve got a better idea, ‘Hey, C-Rock,’ " the actor growls seductively. "That’s more upbeat."