William Shatner Slams George Takei: "There Is A Psychosis There" (VIDEO)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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William Shatner Slams George Takei: "There Is A Psychosis There" (VIDEO)



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/william-shatner-slams-geo_n_136781.html

William Shatner has spoken out about George "Sulu" Takei's wedding snub and put a video on YouTube slamming his former "Star Trek" costar. On the video he refers to Takei's recent marriage to partner Brad Altman and the multitude of press stories Takei cooperated with talking about his decision not to invite Shatner to the wedding. Scroll down to watch the video or read what Shatner says:

'The whole thing makes me feel badly, poor man. There is such a sickness there. It's so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don't know what his original thing about me was. I have no idea.


'I didn't read his book that was printed many years ago, but apparently I didn't let somebody have a close-up. I literally don't know him.

'I didn't know him very well on the series. He would come in for a day or two, as evidenced by the part he played. Then on the movies, there occasionally. I didn't know the man.

'But he has continued to speak badly about me for all these years. Obviously, hiding his homosexuality - talk about festering and not living the truth of your life and feeling badly about yourself - and being fearful somebody would find out about this terrible, terrible secret, so he thought.

'Finally at the age of, I think, 70, he decides to come out of the closet and say, "I'm gay."

'Like, who cares? Be gay. Don't be gay. That's up to you George.'...

'You would think he had this epiphany and say - because he and I don't have many years left in this world - "I wish him well. I'm so happy that I wish him well."

'But instead what he does is he makes this big deal about not inviting me to his wedding.

'If I was such a terrible force in his life - even some 40-odd years later, because I've not seen him - that I effect his marriage where he has to isolate it, what kind of sickness is going on in the man?

Why would he go out of his way to denegrate me? It's sad that the man can't find enough peace in his life to either say "Be positive" and say "I forgive him, whatever those hurts were", or to shut up about it.

'It's sad. I feel nothing but pity for him.'

[Parche]

1. Sulu Was At The Shatner Roast

Which by the way was sooooooooooooooooooooo disgusting....i am all for good humour, but this was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy over the top

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Yeah, the Shatner roast boldly went where other roasts...well, you know.

I thought Lisa Lampenelli stole the show. She's best enjoyed in small doses. Pretty much every participant showed up with their own Takei jokes, which started to wear a little thin over the course of the show.

But part of the whole Shatner mystique is the "inner prick" thing. Takei participating in the roast was essentially what Shatner called for...

""Be positive" and say "I forgive him, whatever those hurts were", or to shut up about it."

...and it says a lot about Shatner that he wouldn't "get" that. When I watched the roast I felt that, in addition to his financial compensation, Takei participated so that he could let go of William Shatner. The same for Nichelle Nichols. She seemed to have mixed feelings about being there as well.

:toast:

[ACTION BASTARD]

14. Today s's roasts are waaaay different than those Dean Martin roasts

There is no limit...almost. As long as your funny you can get away with anything except making fun of someone's retarded kid.

Lisa Lampeneilli keeps getting invited to these roasts cause she can swing the bile just as good as the boys and sometimes she buries them under her sheer awesomeness.

Also, Shatner deserved every bit of that abuse.

[begin_within]

2. From what I've been reading today, everyone on the "Star Trek" set hated him.

They hated him because he came to believe it was HIS show. Allegedly he even counted words in the scripts to make sure he had more words than anyone else.

[Bake]

4. It was his show. And Nimoy's.

They were the two dominant characters. Can you imagine Star Trek without Kirk and Spock? Nope.

Bake

[begin_within]

7. Do you think people watch it to see him?

[Bake]

9. I don't think they watch it to see Sulu.

The other characters added a great deal of flavor, of course - Sulu, Checkov, SCOTTIE AND BONES, Uhura, et al. But the central characters were Kirk and Spock. Hell, Shatner's overacting was a hallmark of the show. And some people watch it just to see Kirk shamelessly chasing alien booty.

Bake

[JVS]

13. You're absolutely right. Star Trek without Kirk and Spock would be like Dukes of Hazzard with...

Vance and Coy

[JVS]

12. I thought he and Nimoy liked to get all tanked up together on the set

[MilesColtrane]

5. He doesn't just play a prick on television.

Takei's wedding is all about him?

What a planet sized ego.
How did he find a rug to fit on that Big Giant Head of his?

[terrya]

6. It wasn't like Takei didn't invite all of his former castmates.

Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig were there, I believe. I'm not sure if Leonard Nimoy was there.

I think that pretty much says something about Shatner. James Doohan had some nasty things to say about Shatner as well.

[philosophie_en_rose]

8. If Shatner didn't know Takei, why should he expect an invitation?

I can't imagine why Takei wouldn't want Shatner at his lovely wedding. Shatner is so gracious and humble.

/sarcasm

[jobycom]

10. He wasn't responding to the wedding, he was responding to Takei's comments

on why he didn't invite Shatner. Takei brought it up, Shatner was just responding.

Having said that, I don't know what Takei said, and don't really know enough about either of them to form an opinion. We hear comments from a few minutes of a lifetime, and we have really no idea what the other decades of their life are about. Usually we are just debating what their PR people wrote, not anything that has anything to do with their reality.

[jobycom]

11. On further review.

I just Googled, and Takei is now claiming that Shatner was invited, but only thought he wasn't because of something a third person said. So, no idea what it's about. I wonder if either of them know.

:shrug:

[baldguy]

15. The Shat is acting like Al Bundy

Who's hurt when he's not greeted like a king during his 50th high school reunion.

[pitohui]

16. oh jeebus is shatner developing dementia?

you know what is sad about this rant? according to takei, who should know, shatner WAS invited to the wedding, either he didn't notice it in his mail or he just forgot to rsvp

i hate what age does to the human mind and to our ability to make good judgments

shatner did not need to make this rant and he certainly doesn't make himself look good by making this rant

yo, kirk, stfu, kthx

[pokerfan]

17. and yet he wonders why he wasn't invited?

:shrug: