I have to cosign all of this, if on a slightly different timeline. While there are other Trek actors I think of as fondly, I have a hard time thinking I'll be as sad as I am now when they pass (or when they passed, as it happens).
For better or worse, if I hadn't persuaded my Dad to drive me 100+ miles each way to see Leonard Nimoy at a college appearance, my life would have unfolded differently. Differently enough that I'm not sure I'd be here, as Trek, through Nimoy, engaged my television obsession (among other things). Vulture has a nice collection of non-Trek video of some of Nimoy's non-Trek work. http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/20-cool-things-nimoy-did-other-than-star-trek.html I would assume that his two Simpsons appearances will show up on FXX soon, if they weren't already in the schedule. Conan might have something to say Monday night, as he wrote "Marge vs. the Monorail" Who has broadcast rights to "In Search Of..."? David From: PGage <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: More sad news...RIP Leonard Nimoy This one hits me hard and close to home. I was a bit too young to really watch Star Trek in its initial run (I have vague memories of it playing in the background of my grandparents home). But I was right in the demo for watching it in when it stripped in after-school syndication, and I just inhaled it - over and over again. In more ways that I could possibly articulate Commander Spock was a guide though my own middle childhood and early adolescent struggles and alienations, and as I grew I integrated many of his core values as my own. Nimoy's contribution to the character went well beyond what most actors bring to a television role, and it has been a real joy to have had him living so long and prospering so well among us all these many years. Still, it feels odd to contemplate living in a universe without Nimoy/Spock in it, and I do find myself searching for some pod crashing into a fertile, just born planet to give me hope of a re-birth... On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: All that ran through my mind when I heard the cause was a segment from the American Masters Johnny Carson episode where someone (I can't remember who) said that near the end, Johnny was muttering about "those damn cigarettes." And that just rings again with this (on top of all the other stuff about Mr Nimoy). As John Scalzi said on Twitter: "If you're having trouble understanding the grief over @TheRealNimoy's passing, here it is: Every geek just lost their favorite grandparent." On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:03 PM Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: COPD (we found a piece from People (link) a year ago) caught up with him. B - -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
