It is claimed that Landau was Roddenberry's first pick for Spock! ----- Forwarded message from Beth W <[email protected]> -----
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:12:51 -0500 From: Beth W To: Skeptic <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [skeptic] Gone with the Moon On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, James H.G. Redekop wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Dave Palmer wrote: >> http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/16/martin-landau-dead/ >> >>> Legendary actor Martin Landau has died ... TMZ has learned. >>> >>> We're told Martin died at 1:30 PM PT Saturday at UCLA Medical Center after >>> a short hospitalization where he suffered unexpected complications. >> >> Landau was half of one of the oddest Hollywood coincidences I've ever known. >> He and Mark Lenard were nearly twins, spoke in nearly the same voice, and >> both had the initials ML. Yet, AFAIK, they were completely unrelated. Twins >> separated at birth? > > I mentioned at a gathering last night that Martin Landau had died, and > the first response was, "Didn't he play Spock's dad?" According to his professional bio, reprinted in a couple of articles reporting his death, the role of Spock was initially offered to Landau, but he turned it down. Here's a photo of him at age seventeen, working as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News. He looked uncannily like a youthful Spock. http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3331389.1500258049!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/martin17n-1-web.jpg _______________________________________________ skeptic mailing list [email protected] http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
