thanks so much, sherri, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you too. we'll be on the nation's capital next week covering the super committee countdown. and on tuesday, cnn is hosting a tonight, the mysterious death of a hollywood legend. what really happened to natalie wood? who's to blame? i'll ask natalie's sister, lana wood, in her first tv interview since the case was sensationally reopened yesterday. >> i don't think she fell. i don't know if she was pushed. and beam me up, scotty. i've waited years to do that. >> you're off my list. i'm never going to come on this show again. because it irked me so -- for so long. >> the extraordinary william shatner. captain kirk himself opens up about "star trek" and why his co-stars hate him. >> what are you talking about? i thought i was loved.

>> how he'd like to be remembered. >> blazing in the sky with sky-writing, with fire, "shatner." >> and the greatest moment of his life. >> what has been the single greatest moment of your life? >> doing the piers morgan interview. >> well, obviously. >> this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. we start with breaking news, with shocking new developments in the case of natalie wood, the actress who once said her greatest fear was dark seawater, who drowned 30 years ago next week. her body was found bay mile from a yacht she'd been on with her husband, robert wagner, and fellow actor christopher walken. the los angeles county sheriff's office reopened the case yesterday in response to claims from several people who said they have "additional information" about natalie wood's death. joining me now is natalie's sister, lana wood, in her first television interview since the case was reopened. lana, very, very extraordinary development in this case. no other way to describe this.

that 30 years on it has been reopened. what was your reaction when you heard? >> i know that there had been petitions out, and i know that there were a great, great number of people that wanted the case looked into properly. and i have very mixed feelings about all of it at all times, actually. and it's just -- it's very, very difficult for me. it's -- this is a pain that i've lived with for the past 30 years. and now i'm going to have to look at it more closely again as it unfolds, as i will. you know, in caring. i think what's important to remember here is that this is about natalie and for natalie. it's not for anyone else. and i think that it's time that natalie's actual voice was heard. and that's what i'm hoping will come from the investigation.

>> i mean, the key development appears to center around dennis davern, who was the former captain of the yacht, "splendour." he broke his silence with a detailed account of what he claimed at the time had happened in "good-bye, natalie, good-bye splendour," which was published in 2009. but on nbc's "today" show this morning he said this. let's watch this. >> was he responsible for her death in some way? >> well, like i said, i think we all made mistakes that night. and -- >> mr. davern, that wasn't my question. was he responsible for her death? i'm not asking about your story. >> yes, i would say so, yes. >> how so? >> i really don't want to get involved in -- >> well, how can you come on national television, sir, and accuse him of something like that but not back it up? >> well, that's up to the investigators. >> so i mean pretty clear implication there from the captain of the yacht that he

believes robert wagner was more involved in natalie's death than we were led to believe. i have to stress that the los angeles county sheriff's department stressed today publicly that robert wagner is not a suspect. so there remains a very confusing picture. >> right. >> and of course the veracity of this captain's testimony must be called into question simply because he hasn't said this before and he's published books about this. >> he's been trying to say something for quite a number of years. he used to call me quite frequently about ten years after natalie passed. and tell me bits and pieces in a very agitated manner, very upset, crying. that there was more to it than he said. and how guilty he felt. and i always told him at the time go to the authorities,

then. and he was scared. and i don't know. i know that the sheriff's department, the homicide division, is taking this all very seriously. and i think what's important is not what i think happened or someone else thinks happened. i think what's important is to get to the bottom of what actually did happen. and i think that's what they should be allowed to do. i don't think anybody -- i don't know. you know, only r.j. and natalie know, and only one of them can speak. >> when was the last time you spoke to robert wagner? >> oh, my goodness. 14 years ago, when my mother passed away. >> what is your feeling towards him?

>> i've known r.j. since i was 9 years old. i've always loved him dearly. i can't imagine that he purposefully would have done anything to hurt natalie. however, i know things happen when there's too much drinking and fighting. and there again, this is so difficult for me. you have no idea how painful this is. i just think -- i just think it's time for the family to hear the truth. that's all. >> robert wagner has made a statement through his publicist today. and it says that "although no one in the wagner family has heard from the l.a. county sheriff's department about this matter, they fully support the efforts of the l.a. county sheriff's department and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of natalie wood wagner is

valid, and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death." fairly pointed, i would say, that statement. a clear suggestion that the motivation of this captain of the yacht may well be driven by the 30th anniversary, the chance to make money, as he has done in the past. are you -- you've spoken to him, as you said, many times. you know this guy better than most people. do you think that what he says should be taken seriously, or could he have other motivations? >> i think that -- first of all, i think that that's sort of a slap in the face to the homicide department because they wouldn't simply reopen a case based upon what one person is saying. i don't think that's quite fair to them. secondly, dennis has always told me the truth. he has withheld a great deal,

but he's always told me the truth. and in speaking with him, i have no reason not to believe him. he's never lied to me before. i don't know -- i don't think he has anything to gain. i think it's a matter of trying to get -- to purge himself. i don't know what his -- i don't really think it's about money, though. i really don't. >> he clearly, this captain, believes it wasn't just an accident. in the conversations you've had with him, i mean, the general agreed areas of what may have gone on that night are that alcohol was involved, there was fighting of some description between natalie and robert. when you've spoken to this guy, has he said to you that he believes robert was personally involved in her falling from the boat? >> yes. he has told me that.

>> and this is presumably what he's now told the police? >> presumably. i don't think they're just taking his word for it, though. they have been in touch with me for quite some time. and they have information from a lot of other people, a lot of other sources. i would prefer, as i'm sure a great many people would, to not have all this brought up in this fashion. i would prefer to always believe that r.j. would never do anything to hurt natalie and that he loved her dearly, which he did. and i don't believe that whatever went on was deliberate. i've always cared about him. i always will care about him. and i would never to continue

living the prior explanations. but i don't think that's going to happen. and it's -- as i've said, very painful. very, very painful. it's going to be painful for everyone, i'm sure. >> and finally, lana, what are your thoughts about natalie as we speak today? it's 30 years since she died. you lost a beloved sister. she was a wonderful actress. she was an incredibly well-loved person. >> yes. yes. it's -- she -- there are so many parts of natalie that are still with all of us. it's the movies. it's the smile. it's the laughter. it's the bits of herself that she gave to every role that she did. and i don't mean that to sound, you know, soppy at all. i miss her enormously. and all of our lives changed drastically at her passing. but i also know that there were

some unkind things being said about natalie that were not true. and i think it's time for those things to be put to rest as well. and let's just let everybody do their job. and the innocent have nothing to fear. so you know, it should go smoothly, hopefully. >> what are the misconceptions about natalie that upset you the most? >> oh, various things that were said in a couple of books, i believe, gavin lambert's book and another one. i tried not to look at them, but people keep bringing them to my attention, saying look at this, look at this. whereas i would rather not. those things stay with you. they sort of eat at you. that she was flirtatious and that she would have left the boat undressed to go to a party. it's the most ludicrous thing i've ever heard. she wouldn't leave the house unless she was fully made up and fully dressed. she wouldn't go in the back yard. it's just -- it's ridiculous. it made her seem like -- i don't

know, like someone frivolous. and she was not frivolous. she really was not. she needed to be more frivolous, but she wasn't. not in the least. various things like that. >> from your conversations with captain davern, are you in any doubt now that natalie didn't fall into the sea, that she was pushed? >> i don't think she fell. i don't know if she was pushed. i don't know whether there was, you though, an altercation and it happened accidentally. but i don't -- she shouldn't have died. she shouldn't have died. and that does stay with me. and hurt. >> lana wood, i really appreciate you coming on today. thank you very much.

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you shouldn't be 80. >> i don't feel 80 and i don't know how to deal with that. i don't know how to deal with being 80. >> this great book, "shatner rules," quite miserably. you don't want to be 80 and facing death, do you? >> no. as you've already read in the book, i described getting my 80th birthday, getting up and not wanting to get up and realizing that i had to get up because it could all end right now. >> do you fear death? >> i'm in torment. i'm in terror. i'm terrified. i envy the people that say, well, got my name in the golden book and i'm going to be entered into the pearly gates. >> what do you hope happens? >> that this continues. can't i go on? make a record here and there, write a book now and then, say hello to my wife in the morning? it would be great. >> are you ever happy? you've worked unbelievably hard your entire life. you don't need the money. you don't need the success. you've had every success imaginable.

what drives you? why do you still put yourself through this? >> piers, if you were given the opportunity to have a great interview, a great interview, but you're sick and you're tired and you're in your -- wouldn't you get up out of bed -- >> yeah. >> -- and make it to the -- and they'll say, well, piers, we'll have anderson do it. and you'd say no. >> dear god. >> dear god. >> even if i was dead, i'd get out of the coffin if i heard those words. >> that's right. there would be a rap on the thing, you'd slowly emerge and come out. i'm going to do thant view. >> is that how you feel? >> yes. i've got to do this record. i've got to do that part. i've got to write this book. i've got to say this thing. i've got to ride those horses. got to. >> you've been acting for six? seven decades? you've been singing for all of that time as well. you've been making hilarious commercials. you've done all sorts of stuff. what is the one thing, if you're completely honest, that you enjoy above everything else that you've ever done?

>> i like making people laugh. making people laugh is a joyful occupation. first of all, the invention of the joke itself. it's a crafting art. a good joke about -- and it has to have commentary as well, whether it's on the human condition or the political condition. whatever it is. a joke makes you laugh at the thing that's scathing, usually. >> but your comedy now, a lot of it, comes from television, where people are laughing a long time after you tape this stuff. do you not fancy if comedy's the thing that really gets you going, do you not fancy taking the ultimate risk and going on a stand-up tour? >> well, i am, basically. in the one-man show called "how time flies." i mean, the opening joke is have your cake and my mother's whole thing is that -- >> no, i love this story. this is from your book. i actually tore it out i loved it so much. so your mother, god bless her, had this wonderful thing where

she would go to any restaurant, often with the entire family, and say it's her birthday and then you would all get massive amounts of cake. >> well, no, one piece. >> but it was never her birthday. >> no. it was her birthday once that year. then she would go to a restaurant with all of us -- there were a lot of us. and say it's my birthday. so the waiters would come out and sing "happy birthday to you." my mother would say thank you very much. and in the beginning we sang happy birthday to my mother, and then after a while we wouldn't sing happy birthday. and the waiters got really annoyed and upset. and the maitre d' i heard him say once, shatner hates his mother. >> what did she teach you about life? >> my mother was an exuberant, silly lady. and that silliness, which on her part was a little overboard for the silliness -- you need to be silly to be funny.

but you can't be too silly. on the other hand, depending on what kind of comedy it is -- i mean, slapstick is silly. but slapstick is like the slipping -- the pretentious man slipping on the banana peel. it's funny and it's cruel and it's observant. but that's slapstick. it's outrageous. when you throttle all that back, you've got drawing room comedy. and somebody drops a cup of tea. i mean, it's all related. >> so you've always i think brilliantly been able to laugh at yourself without ever crossing that line where it becomes a bit ridiculous. you've managed to straddle that divide -- >> and that's the key. and you're working without a net and without an audience if -- but laughing at yourself, the whole irony of life. i mean, the fact that we're here talking about me in the midst of all this chaos. and a bit of a joke. so it should take its rightful place in the importance --

>> what's the best william shatner joke you've ever heard? >> the best william shatner joke? >> yeah. >> i'm terrible with jokes. i can't remember them. >> what was the one from your roast you that found most offensive and yet funny? >> oh, the roast was -- oh. well, this actor george takei. i was given the line that was the line. i rode in on a horse on my roast. and the obvious line is screw you. f. you and the horse you rowed in on. right? someone got the line. george got the line. but he disliked me so much that when he said it he meant it. it wasn't funny at all. holy cats, george. take it easy. >> we're going to come back and talk about your relationship with your "star trek" colleagues. because that again is very amusing in this book. i also particularly liked, and we'll come back to this, your list of questions you've had to answer at "star trek"

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beam me aboard. >> energize. >> energize. >> gentlemen, i suggest you beam me aboard. >> 10. 9. 8. >> mr. scott. 6. >> fire now. >> okay. i need to just admit something. >> i don't know what that was all about. a lot of hullabaloo. >> i have to admit something. i loved "star trek." i was a trekkie. i mean, literally bordering on going to a convention. never actually did. >> why didn't you go to a convention? >> no, i didn't. i nearly did. >> why didn't you? >> i should have done. >> why didn't you? >> i would have done. >> why didn't you? >> i just don't think they ever had one in my neck of the woods, a little sleepy village in the south of england. but i loved "star trek." and i loved to just crave "star trek." >> you know why? >> captain kirk was like my idol. why? >> it's part of the myth. >> what is the myth? >> joseph campbell. everybody needs a myth.

every culture needs a myth. the myth is this promised land of "star trek." the heroes are the captains who played the starship. the ritual is going to a convention. our taking the autograph and buying the -- >> are you absolutely sick of it? >> no, i'm not sick of it. >> really? >> really. to me it's like a cape that -- following me. how'd the king get to be current -- or was it the queen that was wearing the long -- i mean, someone's got to be lifting it. it's there. it's behind me. it's part of what -- it's why i'm here essentially. maybe. and -- >> do you worry that when you finally leave us the headline will be captain kirk dies, age 176? whatever they can preserve you to. >> no. no. i don't care. you know, i say to other actors,

kelly, gene kelly was a great dancer, and they say who? fred astaire. what? nothing is -- it's so ephemeral. it's so airy. >> is it, do you think? >> it disappears. >> do you not worry about your legacy? >> no. my legacy is my wife and my children and my grandchildren. >> you had an extraordinary groundbreaking moment when i interviewed michelle nichols when she came on the show. you had the first interracial kiss shown on u.s. television. did you realize at that moment how significant that was going to be? >> not really. although we'd heard rumors that the southern stations -- some southern stations might cut it out. the context of that kiss is i'm being forced to do it by the alien. so it wasn't like i was falling in love and ravishing this beautiful woman whose skin was darker than mine. it was i'm being forced as the -- as her boss to kiss her. subsequently, people talk about

it and i think, well, i guess it was important. but no, no. all those things -- anything you think is important now, we just brushed off back then because in the hurly-burly of making the series -- >> your co-stars from "star trek," with the exception of leonard nimoy, spock, who i know you remain good friends with, the rest of you -- well, not you, actually. they all seem to have a massive problem with you. >> because they're trying to sell a book -- >> is that all it's about? >> as far as i'm concerned. >> when in doubt, whack captain kirk? >> yeah. why not? everybody else does. >> were you surprised they all started piling in, he stole all my great scenes, he nicked my best lines? >> they didn't have great scenes. they didn't have good lines. there was nothing to nick. but i was shocked. i was interviewing. and i said, well, thank you. great interview. good night. they said, well, wait a minute, don't you want to know how much we despise you? what are you talking about? i thought i was loved.

>> do you care? >> i care that somebody in this world dislikes me. and i care that the enmity has carried over to the point of where we're talking about it. it's absolute nonsense. i mean, we're going to die. go out the way you came in, with a little innocence. you know? it's ridiculous. >> how has leonard managed to avoid despising you? >> he doesn't know me very well. >> and presumably because he also got a lot of good lines. >> he might secretly. >> are you good friends with him? >> absolutely. i think he's an admirable man and a great human being. >> when you walk into a trekkie convention, i mean, this must be like -- this is like the president -- >> 15,000 people. >> going crazy. >> going crazy. and, piers, you don't know -- you're in front of them and you don't know what you're going to say next. how about that for balancing --

15,000 people and you're in the actor's nightmare. >> do you have an opening line? >> my mother ate cake. no. what would you like to know? or i might say -- >> do you say something like captain kirk? do you give the -- >> no. >> -- disciples what they want? >> no. well, i don't know what they want. and eventually -- >> well, if i was at one i'd want you to come out, do that -- >> okay. piers. you're at the convention. you're there. hello, and good evening, and piers, i see you sitting in the audience. what would you like to know? >> beam me up, scotty. >> i hate you. you're off my list. i'm never going to come on this show again. because it irked me so -- for so long, beam me up, scotty. >> why? >> i had built up -- i thought it was derision. i thought it was derisive after a while. after 30 years. and then getting into the 40th year, i thought, what the heck? why are they saying that? it must be their derision. it must be they're laughing at me.

then i go see patrick stewart, and he's this great shakespearean actor and he's dealing with captain picard like it's shakespeare. and i'm thinking, my god, i used to do that. why aren't i doing that? i've been doing this terrible thing. i shouldn't get irked at beam me up scotty. i should say i would if i could. >> yes. embrace it. >> embrace it. >> let's take another break. when we come back, i want to talk to you about the ethos of the book "shatner's rules" and the number one rule of shatner life is to always say yes. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios.

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back with william shatner. you're a tweeter, aren't you, william? >> i am. i don't physically tweet. i have people who tweet. but i give them the impetus. i tell them -- >> what do you make of the social networking phenomena? >> well, it's extraordinary. it's -- it's a new facet to our civilization, if you will. i did -- mr. halperin wrote about his father, tweeted about his father, ultimately became a comedy, a half hour comedy that

i was performing in. it's instant communication. and we use it to tell the people who are interested what it is i'm doing, what it is i'm thinking, feeling, and how they may share in it. >> we talked earlier about mythology and the importance of it actually in people's lives. is one of the down sides of twitter, facebook, and so on that famous people just give way too much of themselves, that they kind of kill the magic? >> yes. there's no magic anymore. that's true. >> does that sadden you? >> from a theatrical point of view it does because what was done with smoke and mirrors and pulleys and wires, now the camera's focused on the wire. here's how we're pulling him out, and here's the cgi. and you're seeing the bare bones. when i was doing this half hour sitcom and the lines wouldn't work and the jokes might not work and we were given new jokes and there's 400 people watching

the actor get the joke, and it was like a nightmare to me the actor, who was used to covering over any mistake so the audience wouldn't know that something else was happening. here they were in on the mistakes. and i had to embrace them and the mistake and say all right, everybody, you're in on this mistake and you have to tell us whether this line works or not. only by your reaction do we know. so it's a whole other area. yes, the smoke and mirrors is gone. and that's a shame. >> one of the great ethoses of this book really is you should always say yes. tell me why you think that's important in life. >> well, you've got to condition the word "always." i don't say always say yes. i mean, you've got to -- >> pretty much. >> some discrimination. not pretty much. yes. you have to -- the ethos is say yes. but, i mean, use your sense. the idea behind saying yes is

it's easier to say no, especially as you get older. it's easier to say no, i will not entertain that idea. no, i will not take a fresh look at something. no, i will not meet that new person. it's easier to stay at home. it's easier to insulate. it's more difficult and more dangerous to say yes to opportunity. but saying yes to opportunity is saying yes to life. >> what has been the single greatest moment of your life? the moment if i said right, i can replicate that moment for you right now. what would you choose? >> doing a piers morgan interview. >> well, obviously. >> can you replicate that? >> well, of course. we can repeat it. let me make it the second greatest. >> well, that's an impossible question. i mean, i'd go through my marriage to elizabeth. i'd go through the birth of my children and my grandchildren. i'd go through the absolute ecstatic joy i feel at moments

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because you're canadian in an american election. but if you could, how are you seeing it all unraveling now? >> well, it's totally -- it's fraught with terrible decisions. we're spending more money than we've got. we've got to cut back. where do you cut back? there are people who are out of work and they're suffering and kids are going hungry. you can't have that. you've got to spend the money. it's a terrible, terrible dilemma -- >> are you a fan of barack obama? >> i think he's wonderful. i don't know. you keep hearing this criticism of him standing on the -- sitting on the fence. but maybe that's the way to go because people are tearing at the fence in such passion. >> the tea party, what do you think of them? >> well, they're extreme. i mean, you can't have -- you just can't cut back -- >> but are they extreme or, as they would argue, do they represent vast swaths of america? >> well, they are extremely -- they're -- >> but can you be extreme --

extreme always implies that you're a sort of minority. they would say, hey, there are lots of parts of america you'll meet millions of people saying exactly what we're saying. >> well, if they're saying we can't spend anymore, we've got to cut back, that's a non-argument. of course we have to. but where are you going to cut back? are you going to cut back on education? the space program is gone. the space program. waved a flag. we are american. there is a mystery out there that has occupied mankind forever. we've got to go and take a look. if we take a look, it means jobs, it means expertise, it means fallout industries. no space program. okay. let's take care of the poor. no, you can't take care of the poor. and unemployment. because we don't -- i mean, it's such a dilemma. >> we'll take another break and come back and talk to you about music. your new album. there it is. fantastic cover.

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♪ heavy boats of lead fills his victims full of dread ♪ ♪ running as fast as they can ♪ iron man lives again >> intriguing musical style you have, mr. shatner. >> that's heavy metal, man. and when i finished that, i went -- and then i went to zack wild's studio, a guitarist for ozzy osbourne, and he laid down his track, and i thought, what i've done is terrible. that, what you just saw, is awful. so i had to go back in there and match his energy -- >> do you think you're a good singer or you're an entertainer? >> oh, no, no, no, no. i'm not a singer. >> more like a wordsmith.

>> these words are phenomenal. >> does it ever strain to singing, do you think? >> no. >> is it an early form of rap? >> yes. well, rap is words and the rhythm of the words and the meaning of the words. >> and you've got some amazing names in here. >> well, they have the musicality. >> featuring richey blackmoore, lyle lovett. >> brad paisley. >> sheryl crow. an amazing collection of people. >> there's 20 of the greatest musician lives today on this album. it's a monumental album. it's about major tom and what happens to major tom after he exits the cap sole in the david bowie song. >> it's fantastic. and there you are, heading off. >> heading off into space. >> torpedoing it into space. space basically is what it's all about for you, isn't it? finding new frontiers? boldly going where no man has gone before. >> well, that's not space. that is the inner space.

>> well, outer space -- >> well, no, that is outer space, but i'm talking about boldly going, all office, in our inner space, where no -- where you haven't -- >> where would you boldly go to next? >> i'm going to go next door, anderson is going to talk -- >> all right. because of this ir irreverence, i'm now going to ask you -- these priceline commercials, i didn't know a lot about being british, but i caught up and got the history. that decision you took, when you said, i'm going to ask them for stock. that decision, was that the greatest decision you've ever taken? >> it could have been. well, what happened was, i got stock. i got stock in a dot-com company. you know, mr. shatner, you're locked in for a year and a half. okay, i've got stock. and the thing started going up. and i'm doing these commercials

for a year and five months. >> but when you watched the stock going up, what were you thinking? >> i thought, i'm rich, i'm beyond -- beyond any concept of being rich. the owner of priceline, the guy who thought of it, was a billionaire. he had more money coming to him as a result of the stock than general motors. he was not going to endow a university, he was going to build a university. so the stock went up. but we're all tied down, locked in. and then the dot-com bubble burst. and we all still couldn't get rid of our stock. and we went, boom! it was worth pennies. everybody sold their stock. but what we didn't know was how great the company is, because from those ashes has arisen priceline.com, which is one of the greatest -- >> and did you keep -- >> no! got rid of that terrible stuff! >> so all this stuff about

making $600 million -- >> i would have, could've. >> but that's a bit different making it. >> no! >> did you make any money -- >> no, buy the record, for god's sake, help me. >> $600, i think is what my stock was. and half of that in -- >> let me ask something. was your decision to sell your stock when it bottomed out the worst decision of your life? >> it was the only intelligent decision to make. >> was it the worst decision? >> can you think of another dot-com company that exists? >> a few. >> name me one. you see, you have to think about it. >> i agree. >> okay. so priceline.com comes to mind, because it had something to offer other than the air in dot-com. >> so all this sort of impression that you're this billionaire, actually, you need to sell a few records, right? >> you've got to buy my record, and a few books, and the dvd. >> anything else? >> and come in canada when i do the one-man show. >> we've got to bail you out. >> i know. my k