'We all know what legendary banner Shatner is carrying with him. Yet what easily could have been his final frontier, as it turns out, was just the start of a journey that has taken him ... in directions that skeptics couldn't have foreseen.' | Analysis
William Shatner chided me when I interviewed him in 1987. The actor wanted to keep the focus on his move into directing, politely objecting when I asked about his relationship with the"Star Trek" faithful after a "Saturday Night Live" skit the year before in which he famously told cast members playing trivia-obsessed fans to"get a life."
Although it was early in my journalistic career, I can recall coming away with two thoughts: Shatner was kidding himself if he thought he could ever step out from under the yoke of"Star Trek," and the odds were he was unlikely to be associated with another hit of that magnitude.As it turned out, I was right and wrong.
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