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Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015

27 Feb 15 - 01:45 PM (#3690249)
Subject: BS: Spock's really gone
From: CupOfTea

So sad to hear of Leonard Nimoy's death. I was such a staunch Trek fan as a kid that I refused to watch the show that replaced it for years, (missed some prime Laugh-In, but I held out) never got into going to the conventions, though

Had the chance to see him act live - as Sherlock Holmes (and amusingly, Alan Seus as Moriarty) at the Cleveland Playhouse. More fun was meeting him when he came to Cleveland to do his one man show Vincent, where he played Theo VanGogh. He lectured before the show at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where I was then a student. He used back projections of VanGogh's paintings in the show, and part of his lecture to art students was an unforgettable example of why we should always look at the ACTUAL piece of art when we could and not trust Art History class slides. He showed us the very same painting as shown in slides from 3 different sources - and they were like three different color ways of a print. Made me glad I was learning art history in a place with a world class museum. I have a cherished picture I took of him examining slides in the CIA library.

He was an interesting man, and I'm glad I met him.

Joanne in Cleveland

27 Feb 15 - 01:52 PM (#3690253)
Subject: RE: BS: Spock's really gone
From: GUEST

The big guy has finally beamed him up I guess.

27 Feb 15 - 02:07 PM (#3690260)
Subject: RE: BS: Spock's really gone
From: Ed T

Nice ears, good honest-humour, and an excellent mind meld-RIP.

27 Feb 15 - 02:38 PM (#3690270)
Subject: RE: BS: Spock's really gone
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Sad to hear. By coincidence, a Comicon-type event is happening this weekend in our city. I'm sure Mr. Nimoy's passing will alter both the tone and content of that event a bit. I can't imagine anyone more iconic to the sci-fi/fantasy crowd.

27 Feb 15 - 02:45 PM (#3690274)
Subject: RE: BS: Spock's really gone
From: GUEST,Blandiver (Astray)

Happy Trails, fellow traveller! He's been my intergalactic guiding light for as long as I can remember (although I think the cosmic trickster Jonathan Harris got in there first!). Been listening to some great things on YouTube, but this brought a tear to my eye...

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far, over land and sea

A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthfVsLajIQ&index=10&list=RDoWIJEUm_Jl0

27 Feb 15 - 03:07 PM (#3690282)
Subject: RE: BS: Spock's really gone
From: Ed T

""Without followers, evil cannot spread."" -

SPOCK, Star Trek: "And The Children Shall Lead"

27 Feb 15 - 03:28 PM (#3690287)
Subject: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Stilly River Sage

He was a singer. He had some albums out. I listened years ago and wasn't a fan, but he may have improved. Mostly, he was Mr. Spock for generations of television and movie viewers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/arts/television/for-leonard-nimoy-spocks-hold-made-reaching-escape-velocity-futile.html

For Leonard Nimoy, Spock's Hold Made Reaching Escape Velocity Futile

The title of Leonard Nimoy's autobiography was "I Am Not Spock," and that so offended some fans that he followed it with a second, "I Am Spock."

The actor who won a permanent place on the altar of pop culture for his portrayal of Mr. Spock on "Star Trek," was almost as famous for wanting to be remembered for other things.

And that is, of course, highly illogical.

It's hard to think of another star who was so closely and affectionately identified with a single role. Even George Reeves, the first television Superman, was also one of the Tarleton twins in "Gone With the Wind."

It's even harder to think of a television character that so fully embodied and defined a personality type. Just as Scrooge became synonymous with miser, and Peter Pan became a syndrome, Spock was dispassion personified.

Crime fiction and the movies offered Sherlock Holmes as the ultimate aloof, brainy hero. But until "Star Trek," television didn't really have anyone that distinctively — and irresistibly — coldblooded, cerebral and punctilious. (Mr. Peabody of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show came close, but he was a beagle and quite affectionate in his fusty way.) . . .


See the rest at the link.

27 Feb 15 - 03:40 PM (#3690289)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Stilly River Sage

I think in coming days and weeks you'll see a lot of scientists and philosophers waxing nostalgic on the Spock character in particular and Star Trek in general and they way they inspired science and ethics. Celebrities and Scientists. The Prime Directive (do not interfere) may have been one of the most influential philosophical ideas out of the program (attributable to Roddenberry, but enforced by Kirk, Spock, and the rest).

SRS

27 Feb 15 - 03:43 PM (#3690290)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome

He did live long and prosper.

RIP.

27 Feb 15 - 04:08 PM (#3690297)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: GUEST

Star Trek was an after tea essential in the fB household
RIP Mr. Nimoy

27 Feb 15 - 04:12 PM (#3690299)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: GUEST,Ed

Very sad indeed.

I worry for Sheldon...

27 Feb 15 - 05:18 PM (#3690312)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Mrrzy

He lived long, and he prospered. And he will be missed.

27 Feb 15 - 07:10 PM (#3690340)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: olddude

Sad

27 Feb 15 - 08:43 PM (#3690350)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Rapparee

Fr. Ted Hesburgh and Leonard Nimoy, together again. Not that they ever met in life (that I know of)....

27 Feb 15 - 09:32 PM (#3690356)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: gnu

RIP cool dude. Thanks for all you did.

28 Feb 15 - 05:17 AM (#3690413)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: GUEST,Phil

So he passed over, The Final Frontier, and all the tribbles sounded for him on the other side.

28 Feb 15 - 11:44 AM (#3690505)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Mrrzy

My very favorite Spock scene is him not being Herbert. Without automatic prejudice against hippies, you can totally reach.

01 Mar 15 - 07:58 AM (#3690701)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: GUEST,mavepink

A remarkable talent has boldly gone. May he rest in peace among the stars :(

01 Mar 15 - 09:03 AM (#3690710)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Vic Smith

Mr. Spock -Vulcan Folkie

01 Mar 15 - 11:12 AM (#3690730)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: Peter the Squeezer

It's death, Jim, but not as we know it.

01 Mar 15 - 06:29 PM (#3690797)
Subject: RE: Obit: Leonard Nimoy, actor, 1931-2015
From: ChanteyLass

Nice article in the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-leonard-nimoy-appreciation-20150228-column.html
I also liked this, but I wouldn't have understood it without the subtitles.http://www.openculture.com/2015/02/leonard-nimoy-speaks-yiddish.html