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Behind The Mask

THERE CAN SURELY BE FEW contemporary lives better documented than William Shatner’s. The erstwhile Enterprise captain has conducted thousands of interviews, and penned a shelf-full of memoirs. However, a new film by Alexandre O Philippe (director of films like Memory: The Origins of Alien) goes where no documentarian has gone before, offering new angles on this 20th century icon.

Drawing on several days of interview sessions (interwoven with scores of vintage clips), may surprise those whose image of Shatner is fixed as James T Kirk. For one thing, it showcases

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