I know and have known a few of the Star Trek cast, and every ‘inside’ story I’ve heard about him is a good story. Talented, multi-talented, and general nice person. He worked as an actor right down to his final years, and proved he could play all sorts of roles. A life and a career well done.
Very sorry to note the passing of Leonard Nimoy…
by CJ | Feb 27, 2015 | Journal | 7 comments
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Spock was a role model and a hero for me, growing up. Here was an alien who didn’t fit in with either side, yet he could overlook all that and still be cool, smart, and always curious, and he could accept all those differences as part of the picture.
I couldn’t be that unemotional, but I wanted to be that cool. I wanted to be a scientist, and study computers. — Instead, I was more into languages, writing, art, and fiction. — But Spock was always a hero.
That was the fictional character, of course. The real man, the actor, was different, but really something too.
I remember his as host of In Search Of, in the 70’s, a speculative science show.
He had a memorable performance as Golda Meir’s husband in a TV miniseries.
In any interview, he always came across as intelligent, thoughtful, caring, in this reserved, quiet, funny way, enjoying life. He always caem across as a class act, a real gentleman.
It is good to know that he was that person behind the scenes too. I’d thought so, from how he came across, but it’s good to know.
What a really great man. I’ll miss him.
We all will.
It’s sad. There was a special presence to his role on Star Trek for the nerdy kid growing up. And such a joy when they did the movies. That wonderful voice was always recognizable when he did the narration. He’ll be missed. Peace.
Spock was a marvelous character. And Leonard Nimoy was a remarkable, multi-talented person. The world is poorer without him.
Very sad news. Spock was always my favorite character. He had an interesting side career as a photographer. One of his books concerned “women of flesh” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979472725/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0979472725&linkCode=as2&tag=peta0c-20&linkId=GPOKIX2HFDKFYY4C
Nimoy was truly a man of many parts, in the Shakespearean sense.
Nimoy grew up in Boston’s West End, razed by urban renewal to the continuing dismay of him and all its residents. He did the voiceover introduction to the very nearby Boston Museum of Science’s Omni Theatre, just the other side of the Charles River from the West End and hearing him always makes people smile in happy recognition.
I’ve also seen his excellent photographs, both his Shakina series of lovely, weighty women and others, on display in Northhampton, Mass. Still up the last time I visited a few years ago.
A class act, Leonard Nimoy and much mourned.
Mr Spock would certainly have noticed the glaring error in the artist’s conception of a black hole & accretion disk accompanying articles of the discovery of a 12 billion Sols black hole so early in the formation of the Universe it challenges current cosmological theories. Whew! 😉
Anywhere near the event horizon, even outside, gravitation is so strong light waves are bent, distorting images. The disk would have appeared warped, even looping!