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has been around a long time. He's in his 70s. Maybe his 90s.

As Fifi rightly observes on the "next week" thread: "What's he got to do with news....?"

And the answer is of course, nothing at all. But it's summer. And I happened to read his autobiography on holiday and it made me laugh out loud. Not always for the right reasons. I should stress, at the start of this William Shatner week here on the Blog that I bought my own copy. I am not in league with the publishers or anything like that. Though come to think of it, maybe I should get onto that.

But by his own account it's been a varied life. And he has learned to laugh at himself. The passages on his speaking style ("Shatnerian") and the killer end line to the book had me laughing our loud. And his willingness to interrupt the narrative with a plug for his websites (where you can buy films he admits were crap, as well as Star Trek action figures) were a delight.

I just want to share with you, every day, a little quote from the book. Here is today's:

"There I was, caught in the eternal triangle, with a gorilla holding on to my rapidly shrinking scrotum. Eventually, she got bored."

Welcome to Shatner week. All this week. Only on the PM Blog.

(oh and Marcus, also from the Next week thread - he deals with the Twilight Zone episodes in the book...)

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