atropos@mac.com wrote:
> "Your Name" <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

>> George Takei Calls William Shatner a 'Cantankerous Old Man,'
>> Says 'None' of the 'Star Trek' Cast Got Along With Him
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>> George Takei had nothing nice to say about former "Star Trek"
>> co-star William Shatner in a new interview with The Guardian.
>> Takei, who starred as Sulu opposite Shatner's Captain Kirk
>> during their "Star Trek" tenure, said there was a healthy
>> camaraderie on set among his cast members "except for one,
>> who was a prima donna." The actor appeared to be alluding to
>> Shatner, who he later addressed more directly when he was
>> asked if any of the cast got along with Shatner. Takei
>> responded, "No, none of us."
>>
>> Shatner made headlines earlier this month due to an
>> interview with The Times UK in which he spoke out against
>> his "Star Trek" co-stars publicly slamming him. "I began to
>> understand that they were doing it for publicity," Shatner
>> said. "Sixty years after some incident they are still on
>> that track. Don't you think that's a little weird? It's like
>> a sickness. George has never stopped blackening my name.
>> These people are bitter and embittered. I have run out of
>> patience with them. Why give credence to people consumed by
>> envy and hate?"
>>
>> "I know he came to London to promote his book and talked
>> about me wanting publicity by using his name. So I decided
>> I don't need his name to get publicity," Takei responded in
>> his new Guardian interview. "I have much more substantial
>> subject matter that I want to get publicity for, so I'm not
>> going to refer to [Shatner] in this interview at all.
>> Although I just did. He's just a cantankerous old man and
>> I'm going to leave him to his devices. I'm not going to
>> play his game."
>>
>> Back in 2021, Takei publicly mocked Shatner's space flight
>> on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. "He's boldly going where other
>> people have gone before," Takei told Page Six. "He's a
>> guinea pig... he's not the fittest specimen of 90 years old,
>> so he'll be a specimen that's unfit!"
>>
>> Takei is currently making the press rounds in the United
>> Kingdom ahead of his musical, "Allegiance," launching its
>> British production.
>>
>>
>>
>> https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/george-takei-slams-william-shatner-cantankerous-old-man-1235443212/
>
> Of the two of them, Takei definitely comes across as the asshole here.

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