Posted on 11/12/2003 5:11:10 PM PST by mountaineer
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The autobiography of "Star Trek" actor George Takei will be among the books on display starting this month in a preview exhibit for the Bill Clinton Presidential Library.
"To the Stars," written by Takei in 1994, details the actor's life from his childhood days in Japanese-American internment camps in Arkansas and California during World War II to his rise to stardom portraying Hikaru Sulu in the original "Star Trek" TV series and in six "Star Trek" movies.
Takei, who spent a year at an internment camp in Rohwer, sent a copy of his book to Clinton with a special inscription taken from the "Star Trek" series.
He wrote: "Dear President Clinton, with whom I share an Arkansas boyhood. Live long and prosper."
The book exhibit will run from Nov. 23 through Jan. 3 in downtown Little Rock's Cox Building. Along with Takei's book, the exhibit will feature books Clinton used at Oxford and Yale Law School, the volumes on his recommended reading list, gifts he received as president from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and his collection of Elvis Presley memorabilia.
No comment....
Lysistrata, Fanny Hill, Tom Jones, Lolita, etc.
I think it was an Astroturf rug that he used to shag on.
When preserving the past for future generations, we must be painstaking in our documentation.
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Related story about Takei:
ROHWER, Arkansas (AP) -- A cypress root harvested from an Arkansas swamp 60 years ago is one of the few mementoes Star Trek actor George Takei has from his childhood at a World War II internment camp. The gnarled knee reminds him of a part of his past he had revisited only in his mind -- until this week.
As he traveled Sunday through this remote stretch of southeast Arkansas farmland, where he and more than 8,500 other Japanese-Americans lived during the war, Takei spoke of finding resilience in beauty. "What (the root) symbolizes for me is that my parents were able to survive by finding and creating things that were beautiful," said Takei, who keeps the memento on his desk in his Los Angeles home.
Takei, who portrayed Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek series and in six Star Trek movies, was four when he, his parents and two younger siblings were ordered from their Los Angeles home and taken by railroad under armed guard to Arkansas after Pearl Harbor. Six decades later, Takei drove alongside the same railroad tracks to visit the former Rohwer Relocation Center.
"My mother said the scariest part about that trip was the uncertainty," Takei said, glancing out of a car window at the abandoned rail tracks that once led to the camp. "I remember my father telling us we were going on a long vacation to a place called Arkansas."
The Takeis spent a year at the Arkansas camp. They were later sent to a higher security camp at Tule Lake, California.
Takei, 64, returned to Rohwer in part to bring awareness to an effort to preserve the history of the Arkansas camps by the Little Rock-based Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Japanese-American National Museum. Takei is chairman of the museum board. More than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent from the West Coast and Hawaii to 10 internment camps. Eight camps were in the West; two Arkansas sites were the only ones in the South.
After the September 11 attacks, the actor drew on his history and celebrity to fight discrimination against Arab-Americans by helping organize a candlelight vigil at the museum and a public radio forum. "There were chilling echoes of World War II," he said.
LOL! You mean the astro-truff from the back of his El Camino.
Back then we had enough balls to know how to deal with the followers of Hirohito. We aint got em' now with regard to Islam or Mecca would resemble Nagasaki circa 1945.
...not able to open because the pages are...ahem..."glued" shut.
No wonder the liebury looks like a trailer.
Also, while I'm on the subject of Italians, let's all please remember the brave Italians who died in Iraq today. Grazi, Paisans. Morte Alle Islam Italia Anela!
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