a gallery was putting together an exhibit all about william shatner.all this plastic shatner. >> a great deal of flexibility. >> operating like an independent artist, you never necessarily know who will come and ask you to do things. i've developed sort of static revenue streams for things such as my books so that i know i can structure the rest of my business around other things. >> looking back, he doesn't point to a single tipping point but rather a steady buildup, similar to the way one of his creations comes toth. >> a lot of businesses are about grow, grow, grow. is the last quarter better than the quarter before that? i'm really happy knowing that b successful, make enough money to raise a family and live in this expensive city i live in, i'll be really happy. >>> it's time now to answer some of your business questions. let's turn to our board of directors for their expertise. eric is the founder and ceo of retro fitness, also launched a second company called let's yo yogurt. greg alexander is the ceo of sales business index, helps executives un

shatner was on revolution, maybe he's a friend of cnbc. call in, shatner, if you're watching. we want to know if you're a billionaire. >> according to business insider in 2010, sold enough shares to make about $600 million. >> so william shatner is one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the history of the world. >> i don't know if he sold it all. >> that means he's worth -- william shatner is going to be -- turned out to be one of the greatest internet entrepreneurs in the world. >> potentially. i got read more about this. we'll tell you more about it after the break. >> is there anything he can't do? >> exactly. goe does very to give 10% to the agent? that's the question. >> dude, i don't know. i don't even have an agent. no one wants to hire me. >> you have a you have a nice deal with us. we're very happy to have you. >> i just show up, not jim cramer, cramer from "seinfeld." you're fired, i don't even work here. scott, thank you very much. when we come back, we will talk issues of management. the morning of a fight with investor bill ackman, why they are embracing loans, we w

." >>> from ted cruz to william shatner, here are today's top lines.ot going to get into the legal debate. >> hey there, we hope you're doing well. >> ted cruz of texas is dealing with questions about his birthplace. >> i guess not all birther controversies are created equal. >> his berth certificate which shows he was born in alberta, canada. >> is that a weed on there or what? >> ted cruz wants everybody to know. >> i was born in canada. >> he's not canadian. >> my mother is a uz citizen. so i'm a citizen by birth. >> the canadians. they walk among us. >> ted cruz. >> william shatner, michael j. fox. monty hall. >> is he willgible to be president of the united states? >> he was born in canada, perhaps not. >> ted cruz was asked about it. he produced his birth certificate. the president dragged his feet for years. >> i'm not sure where he was born. it's not. >> he was definitely born in canada. >> no doubt about it. >> all right. why doesn't president just produce his birth certificate. >> he spent a lot of the lot of his youth in indonesia. >> his ea

mine did a wonderful essay on the harry potter shows and -- and then we have john wayne and william shatner and minute not erick cartman bear a slight resemblance to him. it's not erick cartman for legal reasons. we thought that captured the spirit of the book. showing that american popular culture. and paul cantor is the author of this book "the invisibility demand popular culture ." thank you for joining us here. >> thank you for having me here. it's a great pleasure. >>> in and said that government redistribution policy will lead to economic stagnation or worse. booktv talked to mr. borders during freedom fee 2013 for about fifteen minutes. i want to introduce you to max borders. tell us about yourself before you get started. >> sure. i'm the editor of a magazine called the free month. it's one of the flagship publications for the foundation for economic education. which is the nation's oldest libertarian think tank. >> how did you get started with that? >> well, i've been doing it for about a year now. editing at the freemont, i got mixed up by basically writing about the idea in the mo

. >> what about shatner, is he an idol of yours?olid actor. >> do you have a crush on shatner? >> big crush. >> the only thing i can extrapolate is superman or moses, except captain kirk is real. >> people identify with star trek: how do you feel about that? >> i feel great. >> we both feel good about my career. >> if you don't want to do it, i understand. >> you said he was an a-hole. i don't know if that was the kindest thing to say. >> [ bleep ]. >> don't you think everybody is jumping the gun here? >> i'm 56 years old. i recognize patronizing when i encounter it. >>> the eye patch. what kind of powers does that give you? >> i'm honestly blind in that eye. >> okay. >> do you ever watch bill o'reilly on fox newschannel? >> he shoots it straight. >> bill anything you want to say? >> bill, live long and prosper. >>> i don't know what that means. i am sure it's nice. >> so le var burton, he played what in star trek? >> i can't pronounce the name. >>> star trek next generation. >> he was a humanoid. >> i'm not a big fan. >> we don't r

david: you forgot the most important thing, all of those william shatner ads. the power.e ipo frenzy. more than six or seven tomorrow on wall street. so far we have seen 117 hit the market with the average return of about 33% year today from its offer price. david: would names are ploys to to stand out the rest of the year? how can you get in on them before they join the market? keating capitol ceo. as to why this is happening now. so much of it has to do a volatility. when that is low in the market ipos are high. >> and volatility is low there are a lot of ipos stock markets are performing very well, and most importantly ipos themselves are performing spectacularly. those three ingredients are very potent combination. liz: the average ipo a jump 303%. so clearly this is an exciting time. less talk about the actual companies themselves. is there froth? em little bit of excited, but it makes it dangerous. >> the quality is high. the underwriters are doing a terrific job with the pricing discipline. we have had strong aftermarket performance which is a sign that things are

so we have a famous, iconic image from 1776, and then we have john wayne and william shatner and then someone who is not eric coughlin. bears a slight resemblance, but is not eric coughlin for legal reasons. but we thought that captured the spirit of the book, showing that american popular culture has its roots in 1776. >> host: and paul cantor is the author of this book, "the invisible hand in popular culture: liberty versus authority in american film and tv." thank you for joining us. >>ing -- >> guest: well, thank you for having me here. it was a great pleasure. >> this was a town with slavery throughout the colonial period and up until emancipation. but i didn't want realize how bad the jim crow movement had been after the war in the early 1900s. and that i found a real shock. annapolis was one of the two cases decided by the supreme court of the united states in 1915 for the grandfather clause. if you, if you've googled grandfather clause, you get grimm v. oklahoma. and be this is an oklahoma case that deals with some restrictions on voting. in that case as well was a case involv

to become the s&p 500's first ever $1,000 stock and much of the success is attributed to william shatner. shares are up more than 7.0% since the company brought its star back to life after briefly killing him off. >>> when we come back, he may be 50 years old, but he's still air jordan. we'll have that and all your sports headlines. don't go anywhere. cory booker >>> on your mark, get set, mow! check this out. in england, lawn mowers are apparently more than just a cool to cut grass. the makeshift motor sport is a 12-hour endurance race that lasts until dawn. the winner completed 406 laps of the almost one mile circuit. now for the reflect oeft our sports headlines, i'm joined by richard lui. >> i don't know about that. the lawn morers i used growing up never went that fast. evidently they have some pretty good gasoline they're using there. >>> espn noun says texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel got paid $7,500 to sign items. that followed last week's report that the heisman trophy winner had four signing sessions. the ncaa is investigating if johnny football violated rules. >>> hugh dar

much of that success is attributed to that guy, william shatner, who stars in priceline commercials like this one. shares are up more than 70% since the company brought its star back to life after briefly killing him off. >>> when we come back, he may be 50 years old, but he is still air jordan. that and more next in sports. >>> on your mark, get set, mow! check this out. england, the lawn mowers are apparently more than just a tool to cut grass. the makeshift motor sport is a 12-hour endurance race that lasts until dawn. they are modified to go as fast as 50 miles per hour. the winner completed 406 laps of the almost one mile circuit. the name of the team, kicked grass. that's what they said. >>> now espn saying texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel got paid $7,500 to sign 1500 items. the ncaa is investigating if johnny football violated rules. >>> yu darvish dominates in texas, a no-hitter through seven innings. but then houston's carlos corporan gets a home run. for the second time since april, houston spoiling a darvish perfect game. he still gets the win with 15 strikeouts. texas, 2-

no actor, like william shatner, is speaking in a monotone.dea is to breathe life and experience into the line. that is where the art of it is. >> i think so. i teach a lot of workshops, master classes. one thing i am always encouraging students, guitar players to do is to keep the music movement, so that it does not become static. if you have a note you are sustaining for a long time, you want to have something happening. likewise, when you have notes in juxtaposition to one another, there is a dynamic interplay in between the notes, just as there are between musicians. as a solo player, it is important to accent certain notes and contrast the dynamics with others. it is like the concept of quinellas and in painting, a little dots, big shots. >> you can play a note by picking it, but there are a lot of ways by playing a note, and there are a lot of different ways that you can hold it. i wonder if you could demonstrate ways of starting and holding a new. >> i guess the term is articulation. guitar, for example, i will just take a couple notes.

william shatner. he tweeted this out today. congratulations to priceline on their stock price. wish i hadn't sold my stock all those years ago. joining us now is ron josey from jmp securities and you raised your price target by 200 bucks today. seems like everybody is jumping on the upgrade bandwagon. is it the right decision? >> we hope it is, you know. we did raise our price target. not as if we raised it on very aggressive multiples in our opinion. our 1,110 price target is based on 21 times next year earnings and with the growth at the company and the stabilizing trends in macro and also improving margins we think 21 times is absolutely reasonable. >> why is it then, and just taking a look and maybe we can bring up a cool chart on this. expedia, for example, is down quite a lot this year while priceline has been going to strength to strength to strength. why do you think that is? >> sure. it's really a tale of two cities right now. expedia have a very good year last year based on the new platform, but, unfortunately, 2q had a little bit of stumbles going out of the gate and

william shatner said congratulationses if you need an outfit, let me know.ere is plent yes to see this weekend. first up is the home invasion horror, "you're next". >> people goring in there going it's like "the purge" or "conjuring" or trying to compare to it something. in my mind this is not a compareable movie. >> if horror isn't your thing, "the grand master". >> this movie about power struggle. it's about who will be the master in marshal arts and also about for bidden love. >> and go to otrc.com any time. >> still head two major rulings coming down in trials against u.s. soldier autosdtq fatal beating of an 88-year-old world war ii veteran. >> breaking news in san diego. the mayor just agreed to resign amid a sexual harassment scanned yam. you'll hear from him, next. >> there has been a lot of hand wrimpking over the opening of the new bay bridge, another project is on schedule and budget. >>> breaking news this afternoon. we first told you san diego's mayor agreed to step down from office over a sexual harassment scandal. >> the city council voted tod

like he was shatner, and i said elton and bernie were backstage and i was there and i might have had. and i said, can i ask a question? i said i may never see you guys together again and i asked some obscure question about the captain fantastic album and they staid, i don't know, i haven't the faintest idea. >> what was the question? >> in the original lyric notes that came with the actual vinyl album, there are lyrics to a song called "dogs in the kitchen" and i said did it ever get recorded, why is it there? they stared at me like they had no memory or they didn't know. >> that's the best life experience when you don't remember. it means you remember enough that you forget something as awesome as that. you were telling the joke that you didn't know what sex was at that age, but culture is so different now. your son is still in that sweet age, and as they get older, how are you managing that part of it? those conversations that you have to have? >> every parent has the conversation these days about the internet. everything we went through, any innocence is obliterated by a touch of

you remember priceline, the name your own price featuring william shatner.ir stocks should quadruple this week? >> close to $1,000 a share. this is a total roller coaster ride for those who are investors. the dot com boom and bust. this week $969 a share. at its worse, $6. it was higher, $974 back in 1999. most companies don't want their stock priced at $100 because it makes it harder for investors to buy. so they'll split the stock. lately we've seen a lot at high prices without the split. the average share price on the s&p 500 is $70. anna freed at all things digital reports that apple will announce something, presumably a new phone on september 10th. if past patterns are any indication, it will be a slightly better and faster iphone 5. where apple has been winning in the race against samsung isn't in innovation, but in the courts in the patent office. over the weekend the international trade commission, part of the american government despite the name, ordered the ban on the sale of some samsung products. you recall the itc ordered a ban on some apple pro

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. >> george takei became a star alongside william shatner in his role as mr.eries. and all these years later a star's trek goes on right here on planet earth. michelle miller brings us up to date. >> audiences have gotten used to george takei taking them to surprising places... >> something there on the screen. >> reporter: ... mr. sulu the senior helmsman aboard the u.s.s. starship enter prize. >> warp factor three mr. sulu reporter: with its unforgettable five-year mission. >> to boldly go where no man has gone before. >> it's been amazing. in three more years, star trek is going to be celebrating its golden anniversary. >> reporter: the ongoing popularity of that original tv series and subsequent feature films have made george takei a worldwide star. >> i may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality, but i have trekked all over this planet: australia, asia, latin america, europe >> reporter: but of all the exotic places he's been, whether on this planet or beyond, george takei is ever mindful of this place. a 500-acre plot of land in southeast arkan

william shatner on the cover. the same guy, he is not afraid.went down, so we have to buy this thing on weakness. stuart: i don't do how much stock he has got if any. charles: he is still in the commercials though. this is all about international. the profits, this is nuts. the company $1.38 billion but the prophet $1.2 billion came from international. this is almost strictly international story. stuart: one more question about travel's bid what about the rival, orbitz. charles: i featured it twice. if anybody bought it from this show april, they would be up 100%. yesterday we talked about groupon, tesla. i gave it out at $6. listen, yesterday the number one stock in the entire market. it was better than tesla, groupon. your viewers are up 100% at this very moment. stuart: correction, they are our viewers. you are in this with me. charles: they are doing pretty well. stuart: nicole, want you to update us on the stock. is it noodles you want to update us on? the ceo said in july over june they saw slowing in the restaurant issue. they had a new f

dennis: and william shatner making even more money as stock goes up big.own for us ahead. ♪ says [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? with the bounce dryer bar, my clothes will be fresh out of the drawer for weeks. and it's great when things last a long time. well...most things. [ male announcer ] how do you get your bounce? [ woman ] can't regret fresh. tracy: you know, it's time to make some money. shares of priceline stock -- soaring after posting strong second quarter. >> so much fun. i know you guys, on the high wire. priceline might be ready to fall. the timing could not have been more wrong. these guys are absolutely store -- soaring. everything you could look at. all the businesses went up coming even domestic business. ironically enough international. dennis: did you just a gross margins were 82%? >> 82% to. >> that is extraordinary. less than 5%. >> 82%. 8 billion in gross profits. over one came from outside america. tracy: this is a global player. it would have thought. >> an amazing global play. overseas. international business. where

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