Jennifer M. Kroot’s To Be Takei is an affectionate portrait of the hardest-working member of the original cast of Star Trek, George Takei. That’s pronounced tuh-KAY, not tuh-KAI, as so many have ...
If you want to make a documentary about George Takei, Star Trek’s Lieutenant Sulu, LGBT activist and meme-maker, it helps to be a Star Trek fan. When he was first approached by “To Be Takei” filmmaker ...
In composing my rave review for To Be Takei, director Jennifer M. Kroot's nuanced portrait of a brave new LGBT icon, the openly gay Japanese American TV/screen actor George Takei, I found myself ...
"Star Trek" icon George Takei's new graphic memoir, "It Rhymes With Takei," is about the actor's experiences growing up gay at a time when it was much less safe to be out. (Guerin Blask / For The ...
In a powerful new talk in Tokyo, Star Trek legend George Takei revisits his childhood behind barbed wire in U.S. World War II ...
George Takei was 5 years old when armed U.S. soldiers came to his house and escorted him and his family to an internment camp for Japanese Americans in the swamps of Arkansas, he told Jon Stewart on ...
"I am not a matron! If Walter [Koenig] can be best man, why can't I be best lady?" Takei recalled Nichols saying in a lengthy Facebook tribute to his late Star Trek costar Shafiq Najib is a former ...
After decades of throwing jabs at each other, original "Star Trek" stars George Takei and William Shatner's feud seems to be raging on. Takei, who as recently as November swore off speaking of his ...
Before George Takei broke out with his role on “Star Trek” and became a cultural icon, his last name was often mispronounced. Instead of “tuh-kay,” some people would say “tuck-eye.” “I told them ...
“It Rhymes With Takei” is about the actor’s experiences growing up gay at a time when it was much less safe — and thus less common — to be out. LOS ANGELES — Before George Takei broke out with his ...