Two sides of a coin

[dieastra]

When I saw this picture of William Shatner on a recent convention in Las Vegas, I suddenly had a déjà vu. The credit for the left picture by Ferry Teunisse is on the pic, the right picture of Richard Dean Anderson was taken by my friend Paya at Gatecon 2008. Posted with her permission.
What do you think? Two sides of a coin?

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[dieastra.livejournal.com]

I do remember that a few years ago he had a nasty problem with his foot and was in severe pain.. not so sure was something that was 'fixed'

The foot, and there was also a heart condition he told us about at Gatecon in 2008. How he felt funny in the chest after playing in the pool with Wylie, and when he went to the Doctor he asked him what would have happened if he went to a planned dive trip without seeing him first. "If diving more than 10 foot you would be dead now" he replied.

You really think that still bothers him? There was a time when he actually started to look better again.

Granted, I haven't watched many Shatner interviews, nor do I plan to, I can't possibly catch up with 40 years of them. But in his book he expressed puzzlement about how suddenly the people viewed him differently after he played a few roles in thee Nineties where he poked fun at himself, and all of a sudden was considered to be cool and have a sense of humor - when he says he's been like that all the time. The humor may be awkward or not, I also often make a joke nobody gets, but apparently it has always been there and is part of the personality. Not something put on.

I also admit that I don't really "get" his humor and don't understand most of his tweets, but I put that down to not being a native speaker and many things lost between the lines. I really don't plan to become a full fledged fangirl, I already have gone boldly enough where I never wanted to go before LOL

Shea is definitely an odd duck.
..hell. so'm *I*! lol

Me too ;) And proud of it. As long as you accept yourself, everything is fine.

I have no right to knowledge of their actual personalities.

I don't think a "Dallas, I look forward to the convention at the weekend" or afterwards "You were a great crowd, Dallas, thank you" would be too personal? Why not tweet some impressions from when he went to Australia, how he liked country and people? I am not asking for super secret personal things! Like, when all of a sudden there was this tweet coming from South Africa and everyone was wondering, why is he there and what is he doing?

What is a poor fan supposed to talk about all the time? No wonder the RDA forum has tumbleweeds rolling through.