Shatner

McGill alumnus to be honoured at convocation in June

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVX5cyMOGAk&feature=related

William Shatner has launched his own social networking site. Because Will Ferguson had nothing to do with it, it doesn’t suck.

This is simply the best idea I have heard in years: Shatner wants to be Prime Minister. 

I love William Shatner’s “musical” performances. I was happy to see him devote some pages in his autobiography to his famous “Rocket Man” rendition. He’s very coy about whether or not he seriously thought this was a good performance, but he accurately sums up the audience’s reaction: they were stunned, wondering if he’d lost his mind. Shatner is a complete ham, and the good side of being a ham is that he gives his all, no matter what he’s doing. That’s why his insane talk-singing is so mesmerizing: like the audience for “Rocket Man,” we’re constantly wondering if he’s serious, if he will at any point betray any knowledge that this is ridiculous. He never does. Not for a second.

I won’t be able to post much today, so here as filler is the greatest TV performance of all time, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year: William Shatner singing “Rocket Man” at the 1978 Science Fiction awards.