| "Up Till Now" is the riotous, self-deprecating story of William Shatner''s life, as told by the man himself. 16-page color photo insert.
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“It is now Bill Shatner’s universe---we just live in it.”---New York Daily News
After almost sixty years as an actor, William Shatner has become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. And it seems as if Shatner is everywhere. Winning an Emmy for his role on Boston Legal. Doing commercials for Priceline.com. In the movie theaters. Singing with Ben Folds. He’s sitting next to Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel, and he’s practically a regular on Howard Stern’s show. He was recently honored with election to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. He was a target on a Comedy Central’s Celebrity Roast entitled “The Shat Hits the Fan.” In Up Till Now, Shatner sits down with readers and offers the remarkable, full story of his life and explains how he got to be, well, everywhere.
It was the original Star Trek series, and later its films, that made Shatner instantly recognizable, called by name---or at least by Captain Kirk’s name---across the globe. But Shatner neither began nor has ended his career with that role. From the very start, he took his skills as an actor and put them to use wherever he could. He straddled the classic world of the theater and the new world of television, whether stepping in for Christopher Plummer in Shakespeare’s Henry V or staring at “something on the wing” in a classic episode of The Twilight Zone. And since then, he’s gone on to star in numerous successful shows, such as T.J. Hooker, Rescue 911, and most recently Boston Legal.
William Shatner has always been willing to take risks for his art. What other actor would star in history’s first---and probably only---all-Esperanto-language film? Who else would share the screen with thousands of tarantulas, release an album called Has Been, or film a racially incendiary film in the Deep South during the height of the civil rights era? And who else would willingly paramotor into a field of waiting fans armed with paintball guns, all waiting for a chance to stun Captain…er, Shatner?
In this touching and very funny autobiography, William Shatner reveals the man behind these unforgettable moments, and how he’s become the worldwide star and experienced actor he is today.
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Everyone knows William Shatner--as Captain James T. Kirk, or T.J. Hooker, or Denny Crane on BOSTON LEGAL--but there are few who truly know the full wacky and wonderful range of his life and career. In his light-hearted and self-deprecating autobiography, UP TILL NOW, Shatner takes his readers on a cavalcade of anecdotes and misadventures: starring in the world's only movie spoken entirely in Esperanto; becoming an unwilling paramour to Koko, the "talking" gorilla; singing some of the worst cover songs in history; and seeing aliens in the desert. The campy strangeness of Shatner's life is zany fun, but the book also looks seriously at the great tragedy of his life, the death of his alcoholic third wife by drowning.
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Author Bio| William Shatner | | Whatever one might think about William Shatner, the one thing that everyone will always remember about him is that he was James T. Kirk, captain of the "U.S.S. Enterprise" on the TV show STAR TREK. His performance as the skirt-chasing flyboy has led to countless homages and parodies. While he is primarily known as an actor, he has written several accounts of his life on the set of the long-syndicated show, some of the numerous STAR TREK spin-off novels, and his own original series, including the popular Tek books--which have been made into TV movies and on which he has occasionally appeared. He has also recorded an album of songs, which includes a well-known and truly nightmarish version of "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds," among other gems of ill-conceived vocalization. |
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