Captain Kirk and his Jupiter 8, 1965

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Why do I feel like I REALLY missed out on living in a WONDERFUL decade of the 1960's?

I would LOVE to ask William Shatner the story about this photograph and what the hell a Jupiter 8 is....

although it looks cool.

[TrueTomHarley]

I used to think that William Shatner was the biggest jerk & I still haven’t absolved him completely. But I am fast getting there.

What has turned me is noting how he delights in self-parody. He knows that he is a wooden actor. He knows that he has, for whatever reason, gone far beyond his talent. He accepts it all as a happy “one of those things” and joins his critics in ridiculing himself.

My wife and I saw him in a Colombo rerun, playing a media star villain. It was impossible for someone to deliberately ham it so poorly, he was doing it on purpose, making fun of himself. The kicker was a scene when his character passes by the most prominently displayed oversized painting in his mansion—a portrait of himself!