A new William Shatner documentary is more meet-and-greet than film
‘You Can Call Me Bill’ is an intimate, and often boring, discussion with a pop culture icon
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Just in time for Yom Kippur, ‘Boldly Go’ offers the 'Star Trek' actor's lessons on personal growth and the world around us
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Culture William Shatner may be going to space (please alert space)
Rocket Man indeed. William Shatner, abusive Twitter gadfly and erstwhile Starfleet captain will go to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin per a TMZ report. If true, Shatner, 90, some few decades older than the cast of “Space Cowboys,” would be the oldest man ever to go to space. (Unless we count the ancient David…
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Culture On William Shatner’s 90th birthday, a reminder of when he could laugh at himself
William Shatner AKA Captain Kirk Turns 90
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Film & TV Spock’s Jewish-Vulcan gesture is the way we should greet each other today
No handshakes. No Italian abbracci (hugs) and certainly no French bises (kisses on the cheek). Be sure to keep your distance from others. As the novel coronavirus continues ravaging the planet, actor George Takei, who rose to fame playing Sulu on “Star Trek,” has an idea for an acceptable greeting that won’t spread the deadly…
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Culture Michael Chabon Named Showrunner For Patrick Stewart-Led ‘Star Trek: Picard’
Lifelong Trekkie and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has taken the captain’s chair on an upcoming “Star Trek” series for CBS All Access. Deadline reports that Chabon has been named the showrunner of “Star Trek: Picard,” which will follow the new journeys of the Shakespeare-quoting Starship Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard. Patrick Stewart, who rose to…
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Film & TV Yes, Sci-Fi Has An Anti-Semitism Problem — But Not The One You Think
Science fiction universes ought to aspire to “Star Trek’s” charge to “explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” So why do so many works of sci-fi seem content to timidly remain with the same ugly stereotypes we have here on earth?…
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The Schmooze ‘Star Trek’ Actor’s Family Reaches Settlement With Fiat Chrysler After 2016 Killing
The parents of treasured Jewish actor Anton Yelchin, who died in a horrific accident in 2016, have reached a settlement with the company that produced the car that killed him. Yelchin, who was best known for his leading role in the new “Star Trek” movies, was killed in 2016 when his 2015 Grand Cherokee Jeep…
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