Posted on 01/29/2024 3:28:56 PM PST by lowbridge
At one point after Star Trek was cancelled, Shatner lived in a camper shell attached to the bed of his Ford pickup.
That’s stupid and cruel for you to imply he had anything to do with the death of his wife.
And what a jackass he must be. An actor who played a super famous space role. He gets to the edge of space and overcome with emotion he wants the earth protected a little.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself to look for ways to go after a decent man.
As for his wife. He and all around him knew she was an alcoholic and he tried several times to help her out of it.’
“Shatner’s third wife was Nerine Kidd, whom he married in 1997. Returning home at around 10 p.m. on August 9, 1999, he found her lying lifeless at the bottom of their backyard swimming pool. She was forty years old. Once an autopsy had revealed that her blood contained both alcohol and diazepam, the coroner decided that the cause of her death was accidental drowning and the Los Angeles Police Department, agreeing that there was no evidence of foul play, closed its file on the case. Speaking to the press shortly after his wife’s death while visibly still in a state of shock, Shatner said that she had “meant everything” to him and described her as his “beautiful soulmate”.[130] He urged the public to support Friendly House, a non-profit organization that helps women to rebuild their lives after trying to free themselves from alcoholism or other forms of drug addiction.[131] He later told Larry King in an interview that “my wife, whom I loved dearly, and who loved me, was suffering with a disease that we don’t like to talk about: alcoholism. And she met a tragic ending because of it”.[130]
In his 2008 book Up Till Now: The Autobiography, Shatner disclosed how Leonard Nimoy, himself no stranger to alcoholism, had done his best to try to avert the tragedy that Kidd’s affliction threatened:
Leonard Nimoy’s personal experience of alcoholism now came to play a central role in my life and it helped us bond together in a way I never could have imagined in the early days of Star Trek. After Nerine and I had been to dinner with Leonard and Susan Nimoy one evening, Leonard called and said: “Bill, you know she’s an alcoholic?” I said I did. I married Nerine in 1997, against the advice of many and my own good sense. But I thought she would give up alcohol for me. We had a celebration in Pasadena, and Leonard was my best man. I woke up about eight o’clock the next morning and Nerine was drunk. She was in rehab for 30 days three different times. Twice she almost drank herself to death. Leonard (sober many years) took Nerine to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but she did not want to quit.”
I just came here for pictures of hot alien chicks.
Yet that line is problematic and speciesist. It renders aliens "invisible," because aliens had already gone to those places, yet that line implies that aliens don't count.
> Aren’t guns great?—Denny Crane <
Here he is having a “discussion” with a sleazeball client.
Classic Denny Crane.
https://youtu.be/936GhoWLcl4?si=zS54aJaYBcJkeDK9
Or is "man" a homophone or a polysemy in this context?
So, I suppose to Hollywood the word "citizen" has become offensive as well.. :(
I had a brief chat with her after a DragonCon panel as everyone was leaving.
Struck as nothing but classy and very personable.
She was impressed that we remembered “Captain Zoom”.
I've read about how he treats other people. He traumatized Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) so badly, that the guy has a video on youtube talking/whining about his horrible experience with William Shatner.
Shatner is the sort of Alpha male who has little tolerance for lesser people around him.
I have to applaud him though, he's 90 something and still lively!
Thank goodness...thought they were gonna ban “He’s dead, Jim”.
Star Trek TNG did away with Man in its first episode. Picard’s intro say “ no one has gone before”. Which was kind of stupid because it would mean Enterprise went places no Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or Borg ever went. But wokeism existed three decades ago.
One of the few people who could star in three different series and make it work.
The other one that comes to mind is Lee Majors, but I think Shatner has him beat.
I read a tabloid story a couple of decades ago, saying that Shatner was "sex-crazed" and would hit on every woman on a set.
I always understood ‘man’ in the Trek opening and in the Neil Armstrong speech....and pretty much everywhere to mean all human beings....including women....when that’s the context it is used in Any sane rational person would agree with me.
With all that said, sometimes the word man simply means man and the word woman simply means woman.
Using gendered words does not diminish anyone or anything. It’s simply stating a fact. Do we have stop using the words dog and cat and instead go to the word ‘pet’ when describing our animals....so as not to offend....and create an artificial hierarchy?
This is absolute insanity. I can’t believe the idiocy we are dealing with nowadays.
Don’t let anyone control your language because then they control you.
Star Trek TNG did away with Man in its first episode. Picard’s intro say “ no one has gone before”. Which was kind of stupid because it would mean Enterprise went places no Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, or Borg ever went. But wokeism existed three decades ago.
(He traumatized Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton))
Lol
Anything would traumatize Wheaton. I think he was born that way. He’s so sissified.
To go boldly just doesn’t sound as good.
(1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is;
(2) those who do not know, but care very much;
(3) those who know and condemn;
(4) those who know and approve; and
(5) those who know and distinguish.
Those who neither know nor care are the vast majority and are a happy folk, to be envied by most of the minority classes. - H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage (1926)
Nah, let's get all the way back to Adam and Steve.
“Maybe they should issue an arrest warrant for Shatner himself. After all, the guy is, at the least, a gun nut”
And I believe Jewish...double no no.
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