William Shatner

He still looks fantastic.

I think that both Shatner and Sulu will live to be over 100.

Heck, even Nichelle Nichols is still alive at 88, although not doing so great.

Careful, OP. Every time someone posts a comment like that, the celebrity dies two days later.

[Quote] Careful, OP. Every time someone posts a comment like that, the celebrity dies two days later.

Trump's going to live to be over 100 years old, isn't he?

I kind of love William Shatner. I don't know why.

Shatner is VERY spry for 90 years old, R2.

Barring some unforseen health condition, his type has longevity.

I'm watching the video at R5, and even his skin still looks good. Nowhere near what you would expect the skin of a 90 year old to look like.

And his clothes! He dresses well, too.

I'm starting to think that living long really is all about your state of mind.

Shatner looks young, because he THINKS young.

Apparently no one has told Shatner that celebrity impersonations are verbal caricatures. Exaggerations of specific things about the person being impersonated.

Agree, OP, he looks amazing for 90, and seems to have a lot of energy. In that video, if I didn't know who he was I would think he was about 65 years old.

I know he's supposedly a huge asshole but I, too, like him for some reason.

90 is the new 70.

He doth protests a bit too much and comes off looking thin-skinned and a tad resentful, like he's filing away every slight.

I don't think so, R11.

I think that he's genuinely baffled by how people portray him.

I believe that Shatner doesn't really see himself that way. He might very well be completely delusional about himself.

That said, I'm genuinely curious how he DOES see himself.

He has often commented on how people parody his mannerisms, but if he disagrees with how they portray him, then how does he really see himself? I'm guessing as some sort of "hero thespian" serious actor type.

He's playing along. Did you even watch the video? He's giving crap to the person filming it the whole time. He's having fun with it.

[quote]He might very well be completely delusional about himself.

Not really, because he gave the radio guy credit for nailing that his jerky speech patterns were due to struggling to remember his lines.

That was funny to watch and he really does look incredible for 90. Of course he was playing along, it’s very flattering to have umpteen famous actors/celebrities imitating your iconic role fifty years later. I thought Kevin Pollack was best.

He was quite muscular in Star Trek. I heard he and Lee Majors were both up for the Six Million Dollar Man TV show. It would have been interesting to see Shatner's take on it. He was quite bigger and stronger than Majors.

Bill had a very tasteful facelift about 20 years ago.

Stem cell treatment.

I thought he had had a liver transplant, but no, I think that was Larry Hagman.

Bill was really hot back in the day.

I remember an old interview with Howard Stern, back in the E! channel days. IIRC, Howard went in on Shatner, accusing him of wearing a wig, saying that he (Stern) wanted to do a "rug tug challenge" on Shatner's hair, etc. Not sure why Shatner just sat there and took the abuse.

[quote] Bill had a very tasteful facelift about 20 years ago.

Sure, Jan.

We've seen him age through the years, and he's all natural.

Just because YOU look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, doesn't mean that everyone else in the world has had some work done.

Some people prefer to age gracefully.

“I know he's supposedly a huge asshole”

Ream me up, Scotty.

He always specifies on his TW page that he's the father of three women, sometimes listing them by name, as if he's been fighting paternity lawsuits in real life, not just as the fictional Captain Kirk (e.g. Bastards of Kirk).

One of my brother's former high school classmates is a professional Shatner impersonator. He did get to meet Shatner, who was polite to him.

The guy has earned enough impersonating Shatner to have quit his corporate job in his 40s. He's been doing this for the past thirty years.

I remember when Shatner's wife was dead in their swimming pool. He was interviewed on the news, right after he found her dead. I found his demeanor and way of talking really odd. But he was never charged with foul play.

[quote] the father of three women

That seems odd. Most people would say "daughters" or "girls", no matter what the age.

Girls probably seems stupid since they are probably in their 60s.

It is odd to say "women" instead of "daughters." Ryan O'Neal, at Farrah's funeral, couldn't even recognize Tatum and tried to pick her up (as in go somewhere to drink and fuck).

The only one he praised was Bruce Campbell. I don't think he considers the others to be real actors.

You have to remember, he was exceptionally good looking as a young man. That helps.

I miss the others. i wish they were still alive. ☹️

Me too.

R24, the husband of one of my high school classmates is a Barry Manilow impersonator. You wouldn’t think there was much demand for that.

Did he really kill his first wife?

His very recent pic at FanExpo in Dallas

Quinto, at the same convention.

i recently posted a story about my partner and I attending his 60th birthday party as guests of his daughter, who was one of my partner's best friends. The party was at her house and there were around 40 guests. I can post it again.

I was wrong it was his daughter Leslie's birthday.... but it was long ago around 1991. The food was incredible. Although we had been warned not to talk to him unless he spoke to us, he went around behind the tables and introduced himself and grabbed our shoulders and massaged them. There were long tables against the wall and he had to squeeze himself behind them to greet everybody. We sat far away from us. We were sitting with a woman and a man guests who were characters at Disneyland. She played Snow White. We are told NOT to say anything about Star Trek or ask and questions about him in the series. When we had too much to drink Snow White and her boyfriend started joking around saying things like "Beam me up Scotty" so he could hear us. Snow White did it with her voice, which was extra funny. Shatner complained about us the next day for being rude and having ignored him all evening. I guess he hadn't heard it.

Wow, he looks fantastic at R35.

He looks very healthy.

[quote] He's going to live to be over 100 years old, isn't he?

Yes he is.

What good sense in picking a project can do for a career. Or luck.

William Shatner is the new Olivia DeHavilland.

Although Shatner has frequently been described as an asshole I've never disliked him. Maybe because he seems to accept that view of him: "Yeah, I'm an asshole, so what?" That seems to be his attitude.

R38 Wait, what? You weren't allowed to speak to Shitner unless he spoke to you first, but he never spoke to you so you were accused of being rude for ignoring him?

Next week Captain James T. Kirk will be going into the Final Frontier, for real!

At 90 he'll be the oldest person ever to travel to space.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- Captain Kirk is rocketing into space next week -- boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone.

Jeff Bezos' space travel company, Blue Origin, announced Monday that "Star Trek" actor William Shatner will blast off from West Texas on Oct. 12.

"Yes, it's true; I'm going to be a 'rocket man!"' the 90-year-old tweeted. He added: "It's never too late to experience new things."

Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is a huge fan of the sci-fi series and even had a cameo as a high-ranking alien in the 2016 film "Star Trek Beyond." His rocket company invited Shatner to fly as its guest.

Shatner will become the oldest person to go to space. He'll join three others -- two of them paying customers -- aboard a Blue Origin capsule. He would have been the first actor in space if Russia weren't launching an actress and a film director to the International Space Station on Tuesday for almost two weeks of moviemaking.

Shatner's flight, by comparison, will last just 10 minutes and reach no higher than about 66 miles (106 kilometres). The capsule will parachute back to the desert floor, not far from where it took off.

With flights short or long, space tourism is picking up steam fast.

Virgin Galactic carried founder Richard Branson to the edge of space with five others in July, followed nine days later by Bezos' space hop. Elon Musk's SpaceX, meanwhile, launched its first private crew last month -- a Pennsylvania entrepreneur who bought the three-day flight and took along two contest winners and a cancer survivor.

Virgin Galactic's ship launches from an airplane and requires two pilots. Blue Origin and SpaceX's capsules are fully automated, but the passengers must pass medical screenings and, among other things, be able to quickly climb several flights of steps at the launch tower to get to the capsule -- or out of it in an emergency.

This will be Blue Origin's second launch of a crew.

Bezos was on the debut flight on July 20. He took along his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk -- the youngest and oldest to fly in space. Shatner will break that upper threshold by eight years.

"I've heard about space for a long time now. I'm taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle," Shatner said in a statement.

Shatner played the role of the USS Starship Enterprise's commander for three seasons, from 1966 to 1969. He also portrayed Captain Kirk in seven movies, directing one of them. He's currently the host and executive producer of a History Channel show, "The UnXplained."

Also flying with Shatner: a former NASA engineer who founded a nanosatellite company and the co-founder of a software company specializing in clinical research. The two took part in the auction for a seat on the first flight. That seat cost $28 million; Blue Origin isn't divulging any other ticket prices.

A fourth seat on the flight is going to Blue Origin's vice president of mission and flight operations.

Last week, more than 20 current and former Blue Origin employees accused the Kent, Washington-based company of having a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols. Blue Origin said it doesn't tolerate harassment or discrimination and stood by its safety record.

Bezos' company is also challenging a NASA contract award to SpaceX for providing a lunar lander that will return astronauts to the moon in a few years. Blue Origin was unsuccessful in its bid for the job.

Nimoy was hawter.

This is the space travel equivalent of stunt casting.

It must be his fat keeping him youthful. Incredible.

Good for him.

He was quite hot when young. And in his book, he described being hit on by gay guys (and some partaking) when he was a young actor in NYC

Nimoy starred in and helped fund a movie of a Jean Genet play when young with hot gay action. More gay than Shatner.

Wow, that's very cool at R44!!

[quote] He was quite hot when young. And in his book, he described being hit on by gay guys (and some partaking) when he was a young actor in NYC

What do you mean "some partaking?"

Do you mean that he went bi with other men, a few times?

Also, is there a link to this information? I'd love to read it.

He deserves to live to one hundred, as much as he deserved any kind of career beyond "Star Trek".

So, he probably will.

He's trying to be a good sport about it but you just know he's seething inside.

Bump.

See, this and the Queen Mother are why I don't quit drinking.

I liked Shatner a lot and when I was still a writer I published an article about him, that happened to get mentioned in an interview he did that was published two weeks later. I emailed the interviewer and said thanks, and learned that Shatner was an absolute asshole, behaving in a way to his then-wife that sounded like the kind of abusive nature some people with dementia can get. I guess it wasn't dementia because it was a long time ago and he's still going.

Then he hired a guy who had been a Z-grade movie producer I vaguely knew, only because he'd been a real piece of shit to me on Twitter when trying to get me to review some shitty movie called Panman. It's rumored that producer is the guy behind his Twitter account, and Shatner used to say that someone else handled his social media, which I know for at least a while was his wife. Nowadays he says it's all him, but I'm not sure it's not the asshole producer, especially the slightly scammy crypto tweets.

Back when I was still into reality shows I watched one of his, absolutely do not remember the name of it, which lasted just a few episodes. I remember he'd gone into his daughter's hospital room with a camera and filmed even after she told him he wasn't allowed to, then spoke to the camera about it instead of showing the footage, basically saying she was being irritating.

He did the same thing with filming Nimoy without permission, which is why Nimoy cut him off.

Shatner's an egotistical nut. He always was.

R55 Indeed. The asshole producer who runs Shitner's Twitter...

He had the most incredible career turnaround in showbiz history. I remember seeing him on cheesy game shows in the early 70s:

"After the cancellation of Star Trek in early 1969, Shatner experienced difficulty in finding work in the early 1970s, having become somewhat typecast from his role as Kirk. With very little money and few acting prospects, Shatner lost his home and lived in a truck-bed camper in the San Fernando Valley until small roles turned into higher-paying jobs. Shatner refers to this part of his life as "that period", a humbling time during which he would take any odd job, including small party appearances, to support his family."

My baby sister went to his daughters 10th birthday party in Cheviot Hills. He showed the movie Captain January . Sis said her mother was young, gorgeous and cried a lot . First marriage . RIP