Posted on 10/22/2008 10:47:37 AM PDT by gridlock
Star Trek legend William Shatner has launched an astonishing attack on former co-star George Takei, calling him "sick" and "psychotic".
In an internet video clip the former Captain Kirk said nobody cared when Takei, who played Mr Sulu in the sci-fi series, finally came out as gay in 2005.
Shatner launched the attack after Takei announced that Shatner would not be invited to his gay wedding last month.
Takei has admitted harbouring ill-feelings towards his former co-star, who, he claims has a huge ego and hogged the limelight while on Star Trek.
Shatner says in the video: "The whole thing makes me feel badly, poor man. There is such a sickness there.
(snip)
But he has continued to speak badly about me for all these years. Obviously, hiding his homosexuality - talk about festering and not living the truth of your life and feeling badly about yourself - and being fearful somebody would find out about this terrible, terrible secret, so he thought.
"Finally at the age of, I think, 70, he decides to come out of the closet and say, "I'm gay".
"Like, who cares? Be gay. Don't be gay. That's up to you George."
(snip)
"I presume he can remember all these terrible thing I must have done when I said 'Hello' or something to him.
"You would think he had this epiphany and say - because he and I don't have many years left in this world - 'I wish him well. I'm so happy that I wish him well'.
"But instead what he does is he makes this big deal about not inviting me to his wedding.
(snip)
"It's sad. I feel nothing but pity for him."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
That was a stupid and thoughtless comment for me to make. Retracted.
LOL!!!
now now you don’t want to offend those who enjoy the sport of fencing....
Takei was pretending to be a certain kind of pirate.
(not the “pirates of the carriabean” family friendly ride kind of pirate either)
Where on earth did you find out about the contractual agreement? Whatever, I agree with you. That was a very smart move by them and/or their agents at that time. Probably paid off big time. Kelley seemed not to be bitter about his status after the series went off the air. He was more realistic about the actual chances of his career taking off. So many of these actors end up like the rest of us out here making a living and not being on T.V. making gazillions of $$ when we do it.
I'm not sure I could handle not being invited to anybody's gay "wedding"...
My understanding of this goes as follows:
“Oh, noes! There’s not enough room for both our egos here! Aaahh!”
Common People is a cover of a 1995 song by English alternative rock band Pulp. Shatner’s version is much better.
That's where I think actors fear of "role identification" is BS. He was a great villain as the representative of Psycorps in B-5. I never saw him as Chekov in at any time in B-5. It's all the actor and the role.
Of course I did like him on the show Viva Variety where they had him do a sketch called "Checkov Does Chekhov." He was dressed in old Russian period clothes and started doing "Uncle Vanya" when their character Johnny Blue Jeans ( Michael Ian Black ) came out wearing a really lame space costume. They gave their apologies and Koenig continued with the play. Then the play turned to what I think was one of the best lines ever on TV as the female host, Mrs. Laupin ( Kerri Kenney ) shouted "lookout Uncle Vanya, a Klingon!" So of course Uncle Vanya had to fight it.
Gotta be tough for Takei. I mean, as the only gay actor in all of Hollywood and all...
haha, see I told you my memory was kerplunk :) thanks for the reminder.
Mr. Sulu, plot a course for Uranus.
You’re killllllling meeee here...
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I wouldn't call The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral a "B" Western, what with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster and all.
Well, I’ve never met a fag I didn’t like!
That made my day......LOL!
I would have to say it means something to me that the only other cast member who is not anti-Shatner is Nimoy, and even he hasn’t exactly come to Bill’s defense.
As said more than once “I thought I was William Shatner’s biggest fan. Then I met William Shatner.”
I just checked, I thought ‘The Andersonville Trial’ came before Star Trek, but it was made in ‘70. Check that out. Shatner killed in that role. I’ve seen it once, but I’ve thought about it often. Back in the mid-80’s, I thought Ed Harris tookover as America’s greatest young intense actor. I don’t know, who fills that role today. Shatner did. Harris did. Doesn’t happen often. And Shatner’s developed into a hell of a funny man.
If you think the wedding is crappy, just wait for the honeymoon!
He just read too much early slash.
Depends on your definition of what a "B" movie is today. The movie of which you speak has an all star cast, to be sure. But when I see it on TNT as part of a "marathon," it takes on the vestiges of the genre. How does Gunfight at the OK Corral stack up against Open Range? In comparison to that (lots of contemporary star power there, too) the older movie looks like a cartoon in terms of even just the dialog.
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