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The Autobiography
Thomas Dunne Books
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
368 pages ISBN: 0312372655 EAN: 9780312372651 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
William
Shatner gets the joke about William Shatner. In fact, most
of the time
he's the one telling it. His self-effacing attitude, so
perfectly
parodied in the bombastic character he now plays on Boston
Legal, Denny
Crane, is one of the reasons for his huge popularity. While
best known
for his creation of Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the
starship
Enterprise on "Star Trek", William Shatner has been a
working actor for
more than half a century. He has experienced all the ups -
the awards
and acclaim - and the downs - having to live for a time in
the truck
bed of his camper when he couldn't get work - that are a
part of the
actor's world.Now in "Up Till Now", he tells us about his
remarkable
life, from training as a Shakespearan actor under Sir Tyrone
Guthrie to
his time on Broadway, his movie career and, of course, his
successful
tv series. He has worked with an extraordinary range of
actors, among
them Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Judy
Garland,
Walter Matthau, Sandra Bullock, Ben Stiller and Robert
DeNiro. He also
writes, with glee, about some of his less successful ventures,
including Incubus , the only feature ever made entirely in
Esperanto. As funny, charming and self-deprecating as the
man himself, this book will delight his many fans of all ages.
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