Spock just died. I would say living 83 years would be considered living long and I’m sure Leonard Nimoy made a lot of money playing Spock, so he did live long and he did prosper, both as an actor and a director. He directed two Star Trek movies. RIP Leonard. Say hello to Bones and Scottie.
… and Majel and Gene.
And numerous Klingons, too.
Before watch the “original” and only decent version of S.T., I always thought “Klingons” were just a drier version of “Dingleberrys”.
OK, Toejam, how are the starship Enterprise and a roll of toilet paper alike?
They both circle Uranus in search of Klingons.
Rimshot, I know.
cheers chuck
I did not Uhura had passed away.
Not Uhura … Nurse Chapel. She was Gene Roddenberry’s wife, btw.
I’m sorry. You are correct. My bad. I know someone who is related to Rodenberry and he told me that Rodenberry nailed Nichele Nichols. Also, in the original pilot, starring Jeffrey Hunter, Majel, as a brunette, played the executive officer.
Shatner also is 83, and if he doesn’t quit stuffing his face he’ll be joining the rest of the major cast before long. Nichols, the woman with whom Shatner shared the first inter-racial on-TV-screen kiss, is up there, too . . . somewhere in her 80s.
Loved the movies — never got into any of the spinoffs from the TV series. Original series worked because it was a cowboys ‘n’ Indians adventure plot in a futuristic setting with a critical parent, a mature adult, a fixit/gadget guy, a half-way alien, girls in short skirts, and a swashbuckler with a supporting cast of international and interracial characters. True groundbreaker.
Improbable stories and some cheesy spec-effects that came along at exactly the right time with exactly the right ensemble cast and writers.
Loved the girls in short skirts. Shatner was not the first choice to play the Captain. The first choice was Jeffrey Hunter but he and his wife didn’t think the series would be a success and was a bad career move. They took the original pilot and made it into a two part episode where he played Christopher Pike.
First Generation all the way! One of the few Hollywood loonie lefties I could stomach, though I have to say his poetry was pretty bad.
L.L.A.P.
And don’t forget his picture book of obese naked ladies. (Perhaps he was just trying to one-up Shatner, who had a ludicrous obsession with whales.)
“Heap Big Woman, you made a bad boy outta me!”
A class act who will be long remembered, & sorely missed.
I didn’t think Toejam would have liked to watch Star Trek. The aureoles on the Enterprise nacelles were just too big.
As Sandy G wrote, “A class act who will be long remembered and sorely missed.”
At 85, I’m losing all my friends. The best of the best. A great generation…Soon, it will be my turn. I doubt you’ll ever see the same again.
You are correct Claudia. The Greatest Generation survived the Depression and won WWII (altho’ Nimoy was born in the Depression and was just a little too young for WWII) and the self absorbed Baby Boomers, of which I am one, started the destruction of this once great country. Actually, it started its downhill slide under JFK (a mediocre president but canonized by the LSM) and LBJ (who gave us the Great Fucking Society and Viet Nam) The only good thing Kennedy did was the mission to the moon, but we stopped that and decided to spend money to subsidize black poverty. Then, Nixon gave us the EPA. The Greatest Generation wanted to give their children what they had missed and spoiled us rotten. Not all of us (I grew up poor and was not spoiled), but enough to start our downhill slide. I’m talking about BJ and Thunder Rodent Thighs (the leading edge) and Obungler (the trailing edge). Bush 43, altho’ a good man, gave us “compassionate conservatism” another name for socialist light. Also the DHS. We already had a department of homeland security. It’s called the US military. I apologize for my fellow boomers. The Greatest Generation gave us the most prosperous and powerful country in the history of man and we destroyed it.
Sorry, I see it differently. The so-called “Greatest Generation” — in the name of “modernity” and “progressivism” — rewarded itself handsomely during the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s and ’60s with entitlements such as Social Security, the GI Bill, pensions, welfare, etc., which amounted to a monstrous Ponzi scheme that is (to use modern parlance) “unsustainable.” And their doting behavior toward their children (the “Boomers”) during the postwar period of relative security and material prosperity should actually be better described as criminal negligence — they were lousy parents. They never passed the torch; they kept it for themselves.
Kids these days have a legitimate gripe, and I feel sorry for them. Our institutions are in shambles, and the rot had already set in way before the higher-profile hippies even showed up. The beatnik rebels and their ilk were the symptom, not the cause.
As I sit here renting out a room in house occupied by much younger people than me. I am going to be 53 this March 8 and the other boarders are in their early twenties, I am struck by how well they know how badly their situation is and bad off the country is. One of them told me a while back that the economy was not going to improve in his lifetime. He is 24. They know, Denny how far the things have rotted out and its not going to get any better. For the record, none of them voted for President Obama. None of them believe in him at all.
Hey Def, I’ll be 54 in March. They call you and me “Baby Boomers” but the truth of it is we’re not going to make the cut, and I already hear the doors slammin’ shut in our faces as the WWII and Boomer Generations take it all with them and leave a swath of social and economic destruction in their wake and leave us to pay the tab. We and succeeding generations will be working till we drop dead and it still won’t be good enough.
Their is no decent leadership in this country, and both parties are screwing us. I should change my name to Formerlibcon.
But we have the first black president. Doesn’t that count for sumpin’? Just remember that it’s the traitorous Dimocrats, which the millenials. Gen X, and Gen Y overwhelmingly support and the Gentry GOP that has gotten us into this mess and since the socialist indoctrination centers AKA gummint schools have been brainwashing the children since the 70’s (Exhibit A Robin Palm) into supporting the Dimocrat Party, we’re doomed. The few Republicans who want to stop this mess, like Ted Cruz, are called “extremists” by the LSM AKA the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party. The Stupid Party insists on running losers like McRINO and Mittens and castigates the Tea Party as, in McRINO’s words “wacko birds”.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/77445/leonard-nimoy-mocked-judaism-using-nude-women-on-star-trek/
fuck ‘im.
There was a fireball in the sky here on friday ….Maybe it was “Spock being beamed up” I always thought Leonard Nimoy wa a great actor & I really enjoyed his narrations of Scientific programming.
Rodenberry got his ashes hauled up into space, with no more space shuttle how we gonna make that happen for poor Lenord?
Russian rockets. You know, how our CURRENT astronauts get up there.
Roddenberry wrote a number of shows for “Have Gun Will Travel” and all had a moral to them just like Star Trek. I have seen Nimoy play a bad guy more than once on that show, including a number of other westerns.
Obviously that’ where they met.
On the Encore western channel.
Always loved Have Gun Will Travel. Richard Boone was an incredible actor. He was really good playing bad guys like he did in Hombre.
Richard Boone: my hero! Anyone remembers, after he became financially independent playing Paladin, how he tried to bring serious dramas to TV, with the Richard Boone Show? If Clifford Odets (his creative partner) had not died suddenly before the series debuted, he would have made it. And TV might not be the vacuum it became.
I thought he did have a show like that after Have Gun Will Travel.