“You can call me anything you want, just don’t call me late to dinner.” It’s an old joke that’s been around since the 1830s. It’s not a very funny joke, and no one truly knows the ...

Even when he’s not trying to be funny ... Or as he puts it in “You Can Call Me Bill,” “passion,” the thing he says motivates his life more than anything else. That kept him going ...

Yet a new documentary, “William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill,” tests one’s level of Shatner fandom, letting him indulge in a 90-some-odd-minute monologue about life, death and legacies.