Apparently the Biography Channel is having another free weekend or something because I normally don't have it on my satellite TV menu.
Anyway, William Shatner, in addition to Raw Nerve, has another interview show called "Aftermath," in which he goes one on one with individuals who were once in the public eye for one controversy or another. The one I happened to catch today had the one time Captain Kirk talking details with a one Bernard Goetz. That was pretty wild because you want to take Shatner as a joke but... Bernard Goetz.
The show doubled as a documentary with reenactments and narrated footage so it was not totally awkward. I honestly didn't know much about Goetz beyond word of mouth and I have to say that I'm still not sure what's going on. I'll have to read a book about it one day.
I don't think I'd ever call him a "hero" (I grew up reading Spider-Man, who routinely beat the shit out of the Punisher) but on the other hand I can't say that 3 of the 4 guys who shot didn't get deserve it (all three, btw, later got themselves arrested for robbery, rape, assault, etc. The rape guy just got out of prison last year, convicted in '86 I think). I just wish it was a guy who wasn't so racist and kooky, you know? That's what twists me up about it. Also, the cheers and flag waving by crowds of white people celebrating outside of the courtroom. Yikes.
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