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Post by Phantom Engineer on Feb 28, 2015 10:47:24 GMT -5
We've been watching TOS lately and it always strikes me that as Spock Nimoy was just too cool. As himself he came off as a real nice guy, but not necessarily cool. But as Spock, forget about it!
"Jim, I'm not going back."
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Post by Who Let Servo Drive on Mar 2, 2015 17:52:58 GMT -5
Another of the original Trek crew gone way too soon. Well, I don't know about way too soon -- the gentleman was 83 after all. And he smoked like a chimney for many years, which was not a very logical thing to do. All things considered I think we had the righteous dude a long time, and he had a good long run. Very sorry to see him go nonetheless. He was not just a good actor and a somewhat embarrassing singer, but also a talented director -- he directed Star Trek IV, my favorite of the movies with the original crew.
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Post by nondescript spice on Mar 9, 2015 15:48:20 GMT -5
found this on tumblr - thought it was nice. Simpsons Showrunner Al Jean Remembers Leonard Nimoy When we were producing the Simpsons monorail episode that Conan had written, we were hoping to get George Takei to come back to the show as the celebrity who attends the grand opening of the Springfield Monorail. George had been great in season two, and I would never dream someone as unapproachable (I thought) as Leonard Nimoy would do our show. To our surprise, George turned down the part; he was on the board of directors of a public monorail and didn’t want to appear in our episode implying they were less than the ideal form of travel. To our astonishment, Leonard said yes, and to our greater astonishment, when we asked him to do corny Spockish lines, like “The cosmic ballet goes on,” and to transport out of Springfield Star Trek–style, he thought it was funny and couldn’t have been nicer or given more hilarious readings. Later, we asked him to play himself in our X-Files parody, and when we asked him to sing “Good Morning Starshine,” he knew full well we were having a little fun with the solo album he released (and I loved), but again, he could not have been a better sport. He returned in Futurama, and is one of those rare people who seems to have touched with kindness everyone he met. A great actor and a great loss.
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