Sulu in Krankorville
Live long and be fabulous doing it:
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra pops concert featuring Star Trek’s George Takei as narrator packed the house for a program that was — excuse the pun, but I can’t resist — out of this world.
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Takei, who played helmsman Mr. Sulu in Gene Roddenberry’s original TV series, beamed onstage before intermission. He described the Winspear as a “well-populated spaceship” and joked he thought he’d landed in another world when he got to Edmonton because of the cold temperatures and “white dust” everywhere.
“It’s a frigid planet,” Takei said. His part was small, but the 71-year-old actor was a winner with the audience, flawlessly narrating The Day the Earth Stood Still and hamming it up with Lieut. Plumley, who wore a chic red Star Trek minidress.
OMFG! Sulu was in my home town! Squeeee! And so forth.
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January 25th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
George: YOU WERE IN A SMALL ROLE IN A TV SHOW 40 YEARS AGO. LOSE THE SPACE SCHTICK.
January 26th, 2009 at 7:33 am
So which is more pathetic: the fact that he’s still milking his role on Wagon Train to the Stars after all these years, or the fact that organizations (like the ESO) see fit to pay him for brief cameos?
January 26th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Krankor is on the right track here: George Takei should milk his 15 minutes of fame for all it’s worth. Apparently it still pays.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
George Takei spoke at my college once. He is a genuinely nice, funny, and entertaining man, and had all kinds of good gossip to share…unfortunately that was a lot of alcohol ago, and I can’t remember much of it. But he was very gracious…stayed an hour longer than planned to answer questions and sign autographs.
He’s truly a classy guy.