George Takei to talk Saturday, kicking off new L.A. museum exhibition on his life
George Takei has a lot to say these days.
The actor and activist’s Twitter account, where he has 2.23 million followers, is flooded with comments about President Trump, healthcare reform, jobs, LGBT rights and other issues of the day.
On Saturday, Takei will do more talking – this time in person, at a news conference at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. The event will kick off the museum’s exhibition “New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei,” which The Times previewed in November and which opens to the public Sunday.
The exhibition features Takei’s collection of personal ephemera that he donated to the museum. It includes family photographs and artworks, old TV scripts, Takei’s Mr. Sulu costume from “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” – not to mention a letter from director Francis Ford Coppola who, Takei says, owes him $500 from when they were students at UCLA. The exhibition is the first in a series that the museum plans to present dealing with stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans in the media.
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