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ffie boy is the fathenctf the man uv Shatner Mingles With His Heroes WHEN WILLIAM Shatner was a boy he made believe he was Buck Rogers flying through space. Now that William Shatner is a man, he makes believe he is Capt. James T. Kirk, commander of the United Space Ship Enterprise on "Star Trek," over the NBC Television Network. "As boys, we played a lot on rooftops, especially in winter," said the Canadian-born actor.

"We dared each other to jump into space and land on a snow drift." Buck Rogers, Tom Mix and the Lone Ranger constituted the galaxy of Shatner's heroes. Today, he has no factual or fictional heroes. "AS WE GET OLDER we see that our idealistic heroes are human beings whose failings and sorrows are the same as ours," he said. "What I find admirable today is the person who sacrifices himself for an ideal. I admire those people most of all and I almost envy them like the kid who has the courage and the passion to gn to jail for a cause, the scientist in a garret, the artist who strugles without recognition." Like Capt.

Kirk, Shatner is vitally concerned with the universe. "I've been preoccupied of late with the meaning of life and our existence," he said. "I've been thinking about the destruction of religious ideals that gave our lives, larger meaning. Maybe the prcblem which faces many of us today is that we have no cause to live, or die, for." SHATNER sees the need for personal goals. "We all need some personal purpose, some goal, even if it's just learning to paint by numbers," he said.

"I've tried to find challenges in my own life. My work is a daily challenge. 1 challenge myself with new skills, like motorcycling or tennis. The big challenge is to become a success as an actor." Shatner, who is also a writer, finds the combination valuable. "I've learned a great deal about acting from writing," he said.

"An actor interprets a writer's work just as a musician interprets a composer's work. The criterion of a good actor is how well he interprets the work of the writer. Even the writer may not know exactly what he has written this is the nebulous area in which the actor works." SHATNER CONSIDERS himself an actor first and a writer second. "I am an actor first and foremost," he said. "I somet'mes think of myself as an acting machine I can learn lines without pain, I can gauge my performance, I can direct myself.

I feel at the height of my powers at this moment, like a- finely tuned racing machine. I've even given up smoking to keep myself in the best of shape." Shatner has achieved public and critical acclaim, as an actor. On Broadway he created the starring role of Robert William Shatner Star Trek Star Lomax in "The World of Suzie Wong" and co-starred with Julie Harris in "A Shot in the Dark." He made his mo'ion picture debut in "The Brothers Karamazov" and played the aide de camp to Tpencer Tracy in "Judgment at Nuremberg." He starred in "The Explosive Generation" a he Outrage." TV viewers have seen him in most of the top dramatic series. SPRINGTIME SALE DISCOUNT on Dra-Cool Operating Awnings RUSCO REPLACEMENT WINDOWS Patios- RUSCO Steel Siding Diamond'uid ALUMINUM AWNINGS Thursday March 23, 1967 4p.m. Griffin Show Flintstones (color) 4:10 p.m.

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