John?
he just. doesn’t think. he talks. that way.
Shatner has gotten about 50 years of Fame Millage from that one role on Star Trek, but it turned out to be a very influential show. Nobody could have predicted it at the time. I’m generally not a Sci-Fi fan, so I never made time to watch it. Of course I’d heard about it.
Shatner is probably the youngest 90-year-old in the world. He even has a new series.
Well, he sorta does but since it’s a lampoon his mannerisms are greatly exaggerated.
It's all about the genes folks. George Burns smoked cigars like a chimney and lived to be 100, while 1970s runner Jimmy Fixx literally had a heart attack and died while running in his 40s.
Chris Pine portrayed Captain Kirk as a whiney impulsive adolescent who couldn’t keep his pants on, couldn’t control his own subordinates, with a ‘just do it don’t think about it’ strategy in most things. Not the Kirk I remember from the original series.
He will always be the real captain of the Enterprise for me.
Trust me on this, it’s a must-see Trek parody w Carol Burnett..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-tAyQAS6JY
Abduction From the Seraglio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAs9RHHi89U
Shatner also played Kirk in this SNL classic:
Star Trek V: The Restaurant Enterprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPgavT5am4
Sorry about this to all the Shatner fanboys but I always felt he killed his wife, but there was not enough evidence to PROVE it...
I remember seeing a Shatner interview years ago where he explained that when his recitation became choppy, he was trying to remember the lines.
Did not Shatner have a supporting role in the 1956 film ‘ The Brothers Karamazov?