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1. William Shatner and the Art of Self-Reinvention

I was struck recently by a photo of William Shatner on the cover of USA Weekend magazine, which was enclosed in my local Sunday newspaper.  The caption beside Shatner’s photo read, “A panel of TV’s funniest stars, including William Shatner, reveals what will make you smile this season.”   William Shatner?  One of TV’s funniest stars?  When did that happen?

I first saw William Shatner in the 1958 film The Brothers Karamazov, which starred Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Richard Basehart, Albert Salmi, and Lee J. Cobb.  If you haven’t seen it, I would recommend it highly.  Shatner played Alexi, the youngest Karamazov brother, who is a monk.  Throughout this drama of love, betrayal, crime, punishment, recklessness, loyalty, intrigue, and redemption, Shatner plays his role with the brooding intensity that befits a classically trained actor, which he was.

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By Terry R. Bacon
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Thea Pilarczyk

This is really balanced and insightful, thank you! It's nice to hear an objective viewpoint on such a heated topic.

The fight for equality, whether for human rights or for the sharing of information, is certainly always a pendulum swing...the pendulum takes decades, sometimes longer, before it lays peacefully in the middle. I wonder if humanity, with all of our inherent biases despite our best efforts to shrug them off, will ever be able to report the news truly objectively?

March 18, 2011, 10:38 AM
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