Side note - I know a lot of people don't like William Shatner, but I think he's a hoot:
http://twitchy.com/2014/07/21/stephen-amell-starts-groovy-sci-fi-snark-session-with-shatner-pics/
Side note to side note (i.e., tangent). I've been following Twitchy a lot lately. I don't do Twitter, but of course Twitchy is all Twitter. I have the hardest time following anything done in Twitter. Conversations all seem to go in a dozen directions at once, and what looks to me to be non-sequiturs randomly pop up and completely confuse me. I would say that it's an old guy thing, but Shatner seems to get it, and he's way old.
In 1970 I was living in Westport Connecticut, where there was a summer theater, the "Westport Summer Playhouse," IIRC, (which is questionable). During summer month on Wednesday afternoon you could attend a play. That's right, live actors. A great many famous actors were seen there at times.
This was shortly after
STAR TREK was canceled. William Shatner appeared there in a play titled
"The Tender Trap" which was a romantic sitcom about a man who accidently becomes romantically involved with two women.
Yes, I was there, in the audience.
After the play Shatner, all too aware of his
Trek produced fame, was kind enough to come out on stage and do a Q & A.
One amusing situation happened when a young girl (a little younger than I) asked him how old he was. After a moment of silence, in which the girl probably figured out she'd asked a not-so-appropriate question, she piped up,
"it's not really me who wants to know, it's my mother."Shatner chuckled and promptly responded,
"let's just say I'm young enough for you and old enough for your mother."The audience got a nice laugh out of that, but it did show he's quick witted and has a good nature.
Oh yes, and I did get in a couple good questions about how things got done on the
STAR TREK set.
