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go to New York,

see a Broadway show and come

back home with ''Cabaret,''

an album from ''Cabaret,''

or ''How to Succeed in Business

Without Really...''

You know, or any

of those kind of shows,

and so I was getting this kind

of distant love affair,

and then you'd

put the album on

and you'd be listening to ''Mame''

or Angela Lansbury

or somebody,

and you'd be all... that's...

You know, so I grew up

having it around me,

Did they

encourage you to sing?

They did, yeah,

I started singing from

- a very, very young age,

- How young?

Well, I was singing... I had

a band in the fourth grade,

- I sang with the symphony...

- fourth grade, you did...

- Ten, 1 1 years old?

- Nine, ten, 1 1 , yeah,

And you sang with the symphony?

I sang in a children's choir

in the fifth grade,

- Oh, in a choir,

- And then I sang...

the big thing that started me

was, there's an operetta called

''Amahl and the Night Visitors,''

Yeah,

It's Menotti, and I played

Amahl when I was 1 3,

And I started...

and I... then the acting,

the musical theater kinda came

out of that,

All day long

I'd biddy, biddy bum

Biddy, biddy, biddy

biddy bum

- Yeah, you got it,

- ? ?

Wouldn't

have to work hard

Ya, da, da, da, da, da, da

da, da, da...

I love it!

My parents

were making a living,

Nobody suffered but nobody

had any excess,

I played in

little kids plays,

in parks, and then I got onto

Canadian Broadcasting

Corporation, CBC Radio,

for radio drama,

fairy tales,

and I played Prince Charming,

''Princess,

are you all right?''

- The hushed voice,

- Yes,

''I'm here,''

And then I went on for radio,

more mature radio,

and college plays

and stuff like that,

and so it just evolved

to the chagrin...

Worse than that,

the astonishment of my father,

who really didn't

want me to do this,

He called it hanging...

''Hangers-on,''

You're gonna

become a hanger-on,

You understand that, Bill?

You can't make

a living,

Well, my dad was no psychic,

I started out in Canadian radio

in my late teens,

and before you know it,

I appeared in my first feature,

''Butler's Night Off,''

The '50s became a time of

great opportunity for me

as I did a variety of radio,

theater and live television

productions on the CBC,

Those early days of

live TV have proven valuable,

setting the stage for what

would prove to be

the beginnings

of my life's journey,

William Shatner,

as I live and breathe,

How are you?

I'm very well,

how are you?

Okay, sit down,

Just another day,

sitting on the sidewalk,

- At the office,

- Yeah, sure,

Look at you,

You're me 50 years ago,

You don't

Iook too bad,

Well...

I'm 50 years older,

I wonder

how much I've lost,

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