William Shatner - Musical tangents

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor, writer and musical performer who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written three books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of the Star Trek franchise. He has since worked as a writer, producer, director, musician, bestselling author, an ...

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Main article: William Shatner's musical career William Shatner has had a much-parodied musical career, starting with the 1968 album The Transformed Man. His second studio album, Has Been, was released in 2004. Ben Folds acted as producer. Collaborating artists included Aimee Mann, Henry Rollins, Brad Paisley and Joe Jackson. Has Been features the single "Common People", a cover version of the song by Pulp. ...

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William Shatner was first cast as Captain James Tiberius Kirk for the second pilot of Star Trek, entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before". He subsequently was contracted to play Captain Kirk for the Star Trek series and held the role from 1966 to 1969. In 1973, Shatner returned to the role of Captain Kirk, albeit only in voice, in the animated Star Trek series. He was slated to reprise the role of Kirk for Star Trek: Phase II, a follow-up series chronicling the second five-year mission of the Enterprise, but Star Trek: Phase II was cancelled in pre-product ...

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Shatner had a long dry spell in the decade between the original Star Trek series and the first Trek film, which he believes was due to his being typecast as Captain Kirk, making it difficult to find other work. Moreover, his wife Gloria Rand left him and the Canadian actor, unfamiliar with California divorce laws, was all but wiped out financially. With very little money and acting prospects now, he lived in a truck bed camper in the San Fernando Valley until acting bit-parts turned into higher paying roles. Shatner refers to t ...

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William Shatner - Fiction. Tek series See TekWar Star Trek series, all with Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens Star Trek: The Ashes of Eden, 1995, ISBN 0671520350 Star Trek: The Return, 1996, ISBN 0671526103 Star Trek: Avenger, 1997, ISBN 0671551329 Star Trek: Spectre, 1998, ISBN 0671008781 Star Trek: Dark Victory, 1999, ISBN 067100882X Star Trek: Preserver, 2000, IS ...

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"I'm not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-170... (some audience members say "1"), or own a phaser. I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock (picture of Dr. Benjamin Spock is shown on screen behind him). And no, I've never had green alien sex, but I'm sure it'd be quite an evening. (Pomp and Circumstance begins playing.) I speak English and French, not Klingon! I drink Labatt's, not Romulan ale! And when someone says to me 'live long and prosper', I seriously mean it when I say, 'get a life'. ...

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William Shatner has been married four times: To Gloria Rand in 1956; they divorced in 1969. To Marcy Lafferty in 1973; they divorced in 1994. To Nerine Kidd on November 15, 1997; died August 9, 1999; accidentally drowned in the couple's pool. To Elizabeth Martin on February 13, 2001. Shatner has three daughters, Leslie, Lisabeth and Melanie, and a son, Daniel. Melanie is the proprietor of Dari, an upscale women's c ...

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