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Stern's new gay sidekick
Advocate, The, Feb 14, 2006
After former Star Trek actor George Takei recorded his autobiography in his own deep, mellifluous voice, the Howard Stern show edited together bits and pieces and "had me saying the most preposterous things," Takei recalled.
Now Stern and Takei, 68, who came out as gay last fall, have joined forces for the shock jock's new Sirius satellite radio show: Takei spent a week in Stem's slick new studio in New York in January as an on-air personality. Stern soon had him arguing same-sex marriage with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Well, an Arnold impersonator, it turned out, but Takei rolled with the gags. "Naive, innocent me, I was bamboozled again," he said.
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Nevertheless, he hopes to return to the show at some point, perhaps as a recurring personality. "It's a little bit of educating," he said. "I had a motive [in coming out], which was to get Middle America to see that our relationships are nothing out of the ordinary. This gives me that opportunity."
At the same time, he added, "it's madness."
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