Click at own risk. This is William Shatner, circa 1972 on the Dinah Shore show demonstrating his command of early spoken word poetry. It is rather disturbing to realize that, while he has not gotten any better in the thirty some odd years since then, he hasn’t actually gotten any worse, either. And yet the man became a star; there is much to be said for the star-making value of perfect hair and tight velour.
[...] pity da man who don’t know William Shatner! The patriot, the thinker, the lover, the balladeer, the slasher, the rapper, the cunning linguist, the [...]