(Borrowed from the Jackson Heights library) At the premiere of the first Star Trek movie, William Shatner thought to himself, "Now I don't have to do anymore game shows." In his entertaining autobiography
Up Till Now he then launches into several pages describing his quiz show experiences, even hosting a short-lived one with complicated rules and dancing girls. That's the pattern of this unconventional memoir. The chronological narrative will get sidetracked on a tangent and we journey down a rabbit hole. The positive part is that Shatner has had so many interesting tangents in his life and career, it's always a fascinating ride. And it's not just Star Trek anecdotes (he wrote two separate books about his TV and movie voyages aboard the starship Enterprise). Shatner has starred in four different TV shows (after the book was written he continued with a fifth, short-lived sitcom), starred on Broadway with Julie Harris, made movies with Roger Corman, Yul Brynner (who kicked him in the pants for fun), Spencer Tracy and Judy Garland, recorded campy albums, wrote several sci-fi novels, narrated countless documentary features and TV shows, voiced animated characters, jumped out of airplanes, raised horses, and married four times.
He can come across as a pompous ass sometimes, but his career was relaunched when he started laughing at himself, as he does in this book.
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