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by William Shatner


  I love a good mystery. I love wondering and speculating and guessing. I love looking at the stars and imagining what’s out there. I love closing my eyes and trying to visualize a day three thousand years ago. Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I’ve seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery.

  For example, do I wear a toupee?

  INDEX

  ABC television network, 9–10, 105, 179, 207, 212, 254

  Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 241

  ad-libbing, 331

  agents, 36

  Ahead with Horses (charitable organization), 174

  Airplane II:The Sequel (film), 241–42, 262

  Alaska, 57–60

  Albert, Eddie, 166

  Alcoa Theatre (TV show), 92

  Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 127

  alcoholism

  Kidd, Nerine (wife), 264–78

  Nimoy, Leonard, 125–27, 266–67

  Alexander the Great (film), 57, 100, 173

  Alexander the Great (TV show), 98–100, 113, 149

  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV show), 43, 92

  Alien Fire (TV movie), 240–41

  Allen, Marty, 205

  All Summer Long (TV show), 43

  The Amazing World of Kreskin (TV show), 160

  Amazon.com, 197

  American Sportsman (TV show), 57

  American Tinnitus Association, 229

  Ames, Allyson, 90

  The Andersonville Trial (play), 161

  The Andersonville Trial (TV show), 161–63

  An Evening at the Improv (TV show), 252–53

  animal psychics, 303–5

  animated film, 90–91, 170–71

  Annie Get Your Gun (play), 61

  anti-Semitism, 14

  archery, 57–60

  Aristotle, 98

  Arrest and Trial (TV show), 92

  Arsenic and Old Lace (play), 159–60

  Associated Press (AP), 295

  astronauts, 83

  Atari, 185

  athletics, 14

  Attack of the Crab Monsters (film), 68

  Auntie Mame (play), 36

  awards, 68, 74, 291–92, 323–24, 332

  awards shows, 188, 189–90, 196, 253

  Ayer, David, 255

  Bailey, F. Lee, 324

  Band, Charles, 238–39

  Barbary Coast (Cash & Cable) (TV show), 175–76, 178–79, 210

  Barnaby Jones (TV show), 160

  Barry, Gene, 162

  Barton Fink (film), 178

  Barty, Billy, 49

  Basehart, Richard, 162

  The Bastard (film), 174

  Beach Babes from Beyond (film), 238

  bear hunting, 57–60

  Beaumont, Charles, 68

  Behar, Joy, 317

  Bellamy, Ralph, 49

  Ben Casey (TV show), 92

  Bennett, Harve, 227

  Bergen, Candice, 326, 333, 334

  Berman, Pandro S., 51

  Berman, Rick, 286

  Bernstein, Leonard, 36

  Best Actor awards, 74

  The Best of Us Awards Show (TV show), 253

  Beverly Hills Cop (film), 222

  Big Bad Mama (film), 108–10, 111

  Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart, 340

  Billy Budd (Melville, TV play), 41–42

  Bimbo Movie Bash (film), 238

  Biography Channel, 51

  B.J. and the Bear (TV show), 249

  Blackboard Jungle (film), 51

  Blair, Linda, 168

  Blakeney, Percy, 43

  Blankety Blanks (TV show), 203

  Blood Sport (TV movie), 223

  Bloom, Claire, 51, 190

  blooper shows, 252–53

  The Bold Ones (TV show), 160

  Bolling, Tiffany, 107

  Bonanza (TV show), 34, 97

  Bonnie and Clyde (film), 108

  Borgnine, Ernest, 166, 167

  Boston Legal (TV show), 5–6, 9–11, 66, 207, 210, 241, 308, 324–36

  Botswana, 279–80, 281–83

  bow hunting, 57–60

  Brando, Marlon, 64

  Bridges, Lloyd, 119

  Broadway shows. See also Shatner, William, stage career season of 1956, 35–36

  A Shot in the Dark (play), 79–80, 84–86

  Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe), 35–36

  The World of Suzie Wong (play), 56, 60–65, 66–68

  Brodkin, Herb, 95, 96

  Brooks, Mel, 291

  Brooks, Richard, 51, 53

  The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky), 51–55, 56, 69

  brown bear hunting, 57–60

  Brynner, Yul, 51–52, 54

  Bullock, Sandra, 15, 292–93

  Burke’s Law (TV show), 92

  Burstyn, Ellen, 67

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (film), 89

  Caesar, Julius, 47

  Cagney, James, 79

  California, 33–34

  cameo appearances, 76–77

  camp counseling, 31, 186–87

  Camp Max Straus (summer camp), 111

  Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC),17, 37, 39

  Canadian National Repertory Theatre (Canadian Rep, Ottawa, Ontario), 20, 21, 22

  Candide (play), 36

  Cannes Film Festival, 83–84, 90–91

  canoe trip, St. Lawrence River to New

  York City, 31–33

  carbon monoxide poisoning, 257

  cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 257

  Carell, Steve, 171

  Carpenter, John, 151

  Carson, Johnny, 139

  Cassavetes, John, 98

  Cassidy, Jack, 162

  The Catered Affair (film), 51

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play), 36, 224, 262

  CBS television network, 49, 96–97, 223, 253–54, 257

  Celebrity Bowling (TV show), 203, 205

  Chamberlain, Richard, 95

  Chaney, Lon, Jr., 44–45

  Channing, Carol, 67

  Chapier, Henri, 91

  Chariots of the Gods (von Däniken), 185, 199

  charitable work, 2–3, 5, 110–11, 156, 229, 291, 308–9, 311–12

  Checkmate (TV show), 92

  Cherry, Don, 28

  Chicago, Illinois, 222–23

  Children Theater (Montreal), 15

  cigarette smoking, 265

  The Cincinnati Kid (film), 191

  Cinémathèque Française, 91

  Clark, Dick, 252–53

  Clarke, Arthur C., 189

  Clift, Montgomery, 76, 77, 78

  Clooney, George, 336

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 119, 200

  Clurman, Harold, 80

  CNN television network, 197

  Cobb, Lee J., 47, 49, 50, 51, 52

  cocaine, 266

  Cocker, Joe, 41

  Cole, Dennis, 178

  Columbus, Christopher, 122

  Combat! (TV show), 98, 147

  comedy, 21–22, 154–55, 191–92, 241–43

  Comedy Club (Los Angeles, California), 21

  comic book series, 248

  commercials, 49, 185, 190–91, 194–98

  commodities trading, 34–35

  Commodore Vic-20 (personal computer), 185, 249

  Common People (ballet and album), 86, 339

  Communism, 16–17, 32

  computers, 184–85, 195, 249

  concentration camps (German, World War II), 75–78

  Connery, Sean, 295

  Connors, Chuck, 168

  conventions (Star Trek), 139–45, 192–93, 242

  Coon, Gene, 129

  Corman, Gene, 68, 69–70

  Corman, Roger, 68, 69–70, 73, 74, 108, 109, 111, 239

  Corwin, Norman, 113–14

  Cosby, Bill, 195, 242

  The Cosby Show (TV show), 242
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  Cowher, Bill, 10

  CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), 257

  Cravat, Nick, 94

  Creature from the Haunted Sea (film), 68

  crime, 213–14, 216–17

  The Cross-Wits (TV show), 203

  Cruise, Tom, 207

  Culp, Robert, 205

  Curtin, Jane, 290

  Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 138

  Dallas (TV show), 213

  Dancing with the Stars (TV show), 168

  Dante Alighieri, 231

  Darren, James, 214, 216

  Da Silva, Howard, 95, 96, 190

  Davis, Dorothy, 13, 15

  Davis, Ossie, 49

  Daytona racer (car), 70–72

  Deal or No Deal (TV show), 207–8

  death, 57

  defying of, 156, 282–83

  laughter and, 154–55

  Death of a Salesman (play), 47

  Decca Records, 138

  de Cordova, Freddy, 139

  The Defenders (TV show), 92, 95, 96

  “The Defenders” (Studio One episode), 92, 95, 96

  D’Elia, Bill, 326, 327

  De Niro, Robert, 103

  Desilu Studios, 121

  The Devil’s Rain (film), 166–67

  Dewhurst, Colleen, 161

  Dickinson, Angie, 108–10, 111

  Dietrich, Marlene, 76

  Diller, Barry, 199

  director role, 223–24, 225

  Nimoy, Leonard, 225, 227–28

  Shatner, William, 223–24, 230–41, 247, 262

  Disaster on the Coastliner (TV movie), 105–7

  documentaries, 86, 185–88, 340

  Doohan, James, 121, 148, 149, 288

  Dorothy Davis School for Actors, 13

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 51–52

  Douglas, Kirk, 114

  Dr. Kildare (TV show), 92, 95

  Dreams (play), 39

  DreamWorks, 90

  Durschell, Rene, 255

  Dylan, Bob, 138, 336

  Dynasty (TV show), 215

  Earnhardt, Dale, Jr., 10

  East of Eden (film), 61

  Eastwood, Clint, 173, 221–22

  eBay, 308–9

  Ebsen, Buddy, 162, 168

  Ed Sullivan Show (TV show), 44

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 69

  Eisner, Michael, 199

  Ellison, Harlan, 199

  emergency rescue shows, 253–60

  Eminem, 336

  Emmy Awards, 68, 291–92, 323–24, 332

  The Encyclopedia Shatnerica (Schnakenberg), 280–81

  Endangered Species Campaign, 2

  Entertainment Tonight (TV show), 197

  enthusiasm, 168–69

  Esperanto, 66, 87, 88–91

  Evans, Maurice, 67

  An Evening at the Improv (TV show), 252–53

  Evigan, Greg, 249

  The Exorcist (film), 168

  Family Man (TV show), 190

  Fanny (play), 61

  Fantasy Island (TV show), 223

  Fast Cars and Superstars (TV show), 9–11

  The F.B.I. (TV show), 160

  Fear of Pop (album), 336

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 32, 230

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 193

  Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 198

  Femalien (film), 238

  Fight Club (film), 281

  film career. See Shatner, William, film career film industry, 46

  Firebird (Stravinsky), 189

  Flower Drum Song (play), 61

  Folds, Ben, 15, 336, 337–39

  Food Network, 206

  Foos brothers, 337

  For the People (TV show), 92, 95–97, 98, 113, 149–50 48

  HRS. (film), 222

  Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders (TV show), 252–53

  Free Enterprise (film), 83–84, 104

  The Fugitive (TV show), 92

  Futurama (TV show), 190, 336

  game shows, 202–9, 262

  Gardner, Ava, 171

  Garland, Judy, 77, 78

  genre films

  Band, Charles, 238

  Corman, Roger, 68

  Get a Life (Shatner), 144

  Giradi, Danny, 177

  Gold, Harry, 320

  Goldberg, Leonard, 212

  Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzies), 291

  Golden Throats:The Great Celebrity Sing Off (album), 337

  Goldfinger (film), 101

  Gonzo Ballet (documentary), 86, 340

  Good Morning America (TV show), 197

  Goodson, Mark, 202, 205

  Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV show), 43

  Gordon, Leo, 70

  Gore, Thomas, 43

  Gorilla Foundation, 2–3

  Goulart, Ron, 246

  Grant, Cary, 79

  Grant, Lee, 165

  Great Depression, 97, 164

  Greene, Lorne, 34–35, 97

  Griffin, Merv, 159

  Grimes, Tammy, 168

  Gritz, Bo, 220–22

  Groom Lake (film), 117–18, 237–41

  Group Theater, 80

  guest-star roles, 160

  Guevara, Che, 165

  Guiness, Alec, 22

  Gunsmoke (TV show), 100–101

  Guthrie, Tyrone, 22, 23–24, 26, 28, 34, 35

  Habitat for Humanity, 5, 308

  Hackman, Gene, 49

  Hall, Conrad, 89

  Hall, Monty, 207–8

  Hallmark Hall of Fame (TV show), 67

  Halloween (film), 151

  Halsman, Philippe, 62

  Hamilton, Margaret, 159

  handicapped children, 110–11

  Hard Rock Café (Cannes, France), 83–84

  Harrelson, Woody, 291

  Harris, Julie, 79, 80, 84

  Hart, Bret “Hit Man,” 251

  Harvey, Laurence, 190

  Has Been (album), 86, 194, 278, 338–40

  Hawaii Five-O (TV show), 119, 160

  hearing, tinnitus, 228–29

  Heimlich maneuver, 257

  Henry V (Shakespeare), 24–27, 44

  Herald-Tribune (newspaper), 74

  Heroes and Sidekicks (TV show), 252

  Hill, Arthur, 160

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 49

  hitchhiking, 33–34

  Hoffman, Dustin, 49

  Holden, William, 65

  Hollywood Charity Horse Show, 110–11, 291

  The Hollywood Squares (TV show), 160, 203, 205

  home computers, 184–85, 195, 249

  Home Shopping Network, 292

  homosexuality, 164, 325–26

  Hooker. See T. J. Hooker (TV show) Hoover, J. Edgar, 32

  Hornsby, Nick, 338

  The Horror at 37,000 Feet (TV movie), 165, 167–68

  The Horror Film Awards (TV show), 253

  horror film genre, 165, 166–68

  Horrorvision (film), 238

  horses, 110–11, 156, 172–77, 259, 263, 285, 301–3

  Horseshow.org, 111

  host role, 252–53

  Houdini, Harry, 252

  The Howard Stern Show (radio show), 193–94

  Howdy Doody Show (TV show), 41

  Hughes, Howard, 52

  Human Genome Project, 310

  humor, 21–22, 154–55, 191–92, 241–43

  Hunter, Jeffrey, 119

  hunting, 57–60

  Husky, Rick, 212, 213, 215

  The Hyphen (play), 113–14

  Iacocca, Lee, 195

  I Hate Your Guts (The Intruder) (film), 74

  immigration, 117–18, 240

  Impulse (Want a Ride, Little Girl?) (film), 101–2, 166, 167

  Incubus (film), 66, 88–91, 191

  Industrial Light and Magic, 235

  Inferno (Dante), 231

  Inherit the Wind (play), 36

  Inner Space (TV documentary series), 185

  Internet, 196

  interracial kiss, 128, 291
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  The Intruder (film), 68–74

  Invasion, Iowa (TV show), 144, 294–301

  Iran, 116–17

  Iron Chef USA (TV show), 206–7

  Ironside (TV show), 160

  Isamov, Isaac, 184

  I Spy (TV show), 175

  “It Was a Very Good Year” (song), 40–41

  Jackson, Joe, 338, 339

  Jakes, John, 174

  Jarrett, Jeff “Double J,” 251

  Jason, Hilliard, 14

  Jeopardy (TV show), 197, 292

  Jerry Maguire (film), 207

  The Joe Schmo Show (TV show), 294

  John, Elton, 40–41, 188

  Johnston, Kristen, 290

  Jolie, Angelina, 232–33

  Jones, James Earl, 49

  Jory, Victor, 165

  Judd, Naomi, 290

  Judgment at Nuremberg (film), 75–78, 192

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 28

  Julius Caesar (TV play), 44

  Junior Justice Correction Program, 174

  Kafka, Franz, 14

  Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV show), 43

  Kaplan, Rupert, 12

  Karloff, Boris, 43

  Katzenberg, Jeffrey, 90, 199

  Kelley, David E., 5–6, 320–21, 325, 327, 329, 335

  Kelley, DeForest, 121, 142, 148, 149, 201

  Kellogg’s cereal company, 195

  Kelly, Sean, 203–4

  Kenley, John, 159–60

  Kern, Jerome, 203

  Kerr, Walter, 46

  Key Largo (film), 191

  kick in the pants, 54

  Kidd, Nerine (wife), 3–4, 154–55, 263–78, 279, 281–83, 289, 301, 309, 313, 331

  The Kidnapping of the President (film), 171

  kidney stone, 5, 308–9

  The King and I (film), 54

  The King and I (play), 54

  Kingdom of the Spiders (film), 107–8, 262

  King of Kings (film), 119

  Klugman, Jack, 49

  Koch, Ken, 215

  Koenig, Walter, 121, 148, 288

  Koko the gorilla, 2–3

  Kraft Television Theatre (TV show), 43

  Kramer, Stanley, 75, 76

  Kronenberger, Louis, 36

  Ku Klux Klan, 68, 74, 176, 178

  Kung Fu (TV show), 160, 263

  Lafferty, Marcy (wife), 146–47, 163–64, 200, 224, 260–63

  Lahr, Bert, 46

  Lamp Unto My Feet (TV show), 43, 97

  Lancaster, Burt, 76, 77, 78

  Langham, Michael, 26

  laryngitis, 73

  Las Vegas Hilton (Las Vegas, Nevada), 149, 151

  Laugh-In (TV show), 132

  laughter, death and, 154–55. See also comedy LaVey, Anton, 166

  La Via, Carmen, 311–12

  Lavigne, Avril, 171

  law enforcement, 211–25

  Lawler, Jerry “The King,” 251, 252

  LeMasters, Kim, 253–54

  Lemon Jelly (band), 338

  Leno, Jay, 197

 

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