Leonard Nimoy RIP

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

ah fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xop1hZR0cBk

my favorite of the OST cast, always more curious and less of an asshole than Shatner, and with a better overall post-show track record. RIP I hope they shoot his ashes into space

:(

Oh wow.

RIP. Created one of the truly unique and archetypal modern mythic characters. The end of Wrath of Khan is all-time.

very sad, I know he wasn't young, but it still is a shocking loss. RIP

Notably missing from the obit, my first exposure to Nimoy was his narration for In Search of... (1977 to 1982). I should put on one of the playlists
(1, 2, 3)
and let his sonorous voice waft me to sleep, as it did so many times in childhood.

;_;

I already loved Star Trek when they broadcast In Search of... here in the UK but yeah i loved that too, was thinking about it only a couple of days ago

He was an entertainer with a talent for projecting bemusement. One suspects the bemusement was equally present in his real life, too. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

Just saw this Outer Limits recently, with him as a reporter covering a murder trial for the world's first self-aware robot. Great pre-Trek stuff.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/155117

In Search Of... was a huge deal when I was a little kid. I remember running out of the room when it got too scary.

It's the "I, Robot" episode if you don't want to do Hulu.

the original space jew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqFgQepSFEM

LLAP, spaceman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6lTSPXDOAI

A much fixated-upon character in my peer group from the 4th thru 9th grades. Saw him at a couple ST conventions circa 1975-76. Solid performance in Kaufman's '78 Body Snatchers. RIP.

May the force be with you.

fp

Along with Body Snatchers, one of the better non-Spock roles I saw him in was an ABC TV movie in which he played Holocaust survivor Mel Mermelstein, who successfully sued the Holocaust-denying IHR and got on the record judicial notice that the gassing of Jews at Auschwitz was common factual knowledge.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Full-Body-Project-Photographs/dp/0979472725

RIP

I liked this b-movie he starred in as a race car driver / mystery detective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8By-fCGpiFM

an ABC TV movie in which he played Holocaust survivor Mel Mermelstein

I remember this as being good as well

spent so much time as a lil' kid lookin in a mirror and trying to raise just one eyebrow, did get the live long and prosper hand gesture down but the eyebrow never happened

the voice of Galvatron in the Transformers movie.

perfectly cast as the New Age guru in Body Snatchers.

yea, he's great in body snatchers. fantastic sideburns too.

otoh a horrible director

NOT THE DAY FOR IT

he did a solid job of it with the two star trek features he helmed, one of which (voyage home) is kind of absurd but also wonderful

never seen any other films of his though

Three Men and a Baby was good!

I feel that the Spock-McCoy shadefests can now resume in Federation Valhalla.

Apparently my PhD-bearing sibling is in tears over this. (One of Spock's pubescent idolators in the '70s.)

eh Baby Boom was OK.

RIP
He was good in Mission Impossible as well. As a kid already familiar with Star Trek, it was weird seeing him play a character who wasn't Spock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWIJEUm_Jl0

I have this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w5qrplhgL.jpg

eh Baby Boom was OK.

Not really, and he didn't do it, Ensign.

Is Warmed by Love his cookbook?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S7F1l9GCIUc/Tyvs9xWLbcI/AAAAAAAAEsk/BR2gHyYIF1E/s1600/5719.jpg

the D Keaton film he directed was The Good Mother, never saw it.

I remeber him reading from I Am Not Spock at a convention.

xp

No, Wormed by Love is his collection of home remedies.

Zachary Quinto: “My heart is broken. I love you profoundly, my dear friend, and I will miss you everyday. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

that's the one! And it sucked. xpost

NANOO NANOO BRAVE SOLDIER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c-6jYq_a-4

That Columbo EP is all-time, played great cat and mouse.

:-(

RIP Paris the Great

http://40.media.tumblr.com/ec0557752c24ee987604016360074919/tumblr_mtuaswHM3c1r19b3po1_500.jpg

And, of course..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNSuPYo8_Q

was just going to post that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7OJeyhq2Q

xpost

I Appreciated his bbw photography.

Love that vid

Love that vid

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in the silhouette part at the end you realize just how short susanna hoffs is.

Lol @ "Spock-McCoy shadefests"

"In Search Of..." reigns eternal. Just the way he spoke about - I dunno - the Yeti or vampires or Ancient Astronauts made you believe these "phrnomena" were real. Unless, of course, they ARE.

"Phenomena". Damned phone.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltuDoITOJjE

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iek02NtfH_4

Co-sign slothroprhymes on Nimoy's ST directorial efforts; I'm hardly a Trek authority, but those are both decent films. And ridiculous or not (ok, it probably is) my bf (a big Trek fan) cannot ever watch IV without tearing up at the scene where Bones cures the old lady's kidney failure.

Unless my bf wants to watch some Trek tonight, I'm thinking a "Marge vs. the Monorail"/"A Stitch in Crime" double bill.

RIP

Sotosyn you haven't watched a single ep of the original ST series have you? That's the guy's legacy so stfu.

Page one of the NYT or not? One last chance for the Liberal '60s to defeat the New Golden Age of TV.

his debut!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8bJj5Dh0mg

He directed "Body Wars," the 1989 ride at Epcot, starring Tim Matheson and Elizabeth Shue

I don't watch Trek films for their direction. Bit of a weird discussion.

he did a couple film bits before KMB

http://thestalkingmoon.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/5/4/11544757/6022945_orig.png

and he's in this film of Genet's The Balcony (Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Ruby Dee):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAGmNz9_Ir0

you would have thought after the baby movie did so well he would have had more chances to make bigger hollywood movies. but he only made some forgettable duds after that.

I might be the only 53-year-old in North America who's never seen a single Star Trek episode, old or new or otherwise. But as others have mentioned, he was very good in the '78 Body Snatchers--loopy for the first half of the film, then progressively more sinister.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh7zOeOS_U

that movie is a masterpiece. you should have seen and heard my laserdisc copy of that film. unreal.

you should totally watch star trek. the old one. it's fun and weird!

cuddyer gives tribute via the mets' twitter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-4I80aUUAAOU42.jpg

Sotosyn you haven't watched a single ep of the original ST series have you?

!! is this true

His William Bell in Fringe was ace, fuiud. He brings back many happy memories of watching ST on a b/w valve television set that had four buttons even though we only had 3 channels. RIP Leonard:(

Lol @ "Spock-McCoy shadefests"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrVqmYzGTuM

Never knew this, but what a great story about the ST animated series:

Initially, Filmation was only going to use the voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Majel Barrett. Doohan and Barrett would also perform the voices of Sulu and Uhura. Leonard Nimoy refused to sign up to lend his voice to the series unless Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were added to the cast — claiming that Sulu and Uhura were of importance as they were proof of the ethnic diversity of the 23rd century and should not be recast. Nimoy also took this stand as a matter of principle, as he knew of the financial troubles many of his Star Trek co-stars were facing after cancellation of the series.[3]

Don't know where Morbs got that idea.

just a guess. what did you feel about it, then?

link collection:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-leonard-nimoy-1931-2015

Like Spock, I don't feel -- I think.

;)

He did feel, you see. "I am in control of my emotions."

I've seen four or five episodes and was taken to every movie through the fifth.

ST VI -- the last real movie -- you might enjoy for its perestroika narrative. "Please Captain; not in front of the Klingons."

His William Bell in Fringe was ace, fuiud.

I agree, part of me always wished he did more appearances on it.

xp star trek VI is way underrated, prob #3 in the hierarchy of the first six after khan and voyage home - was actually the first one i saw as a kid

he was always a little frightening to me when he wasn't spock. he was definitely a good bad guy in non-spock mode.

Might've been even better than Perkins in Psycho...(?)

As I implied upthread, I used to enjoy his appearances on Mission Impossible.

he might've been more alien playing non-Spock roles

star trek VI is way underrated, prob #3 in the hierarchy of the first six after khan and voyage home

I'd put it ahead of IV actually

Yeah, VI was the first Trek of any kind I saw. I'm still fond of it. I was going to conventions pretty soon after that.

Nimoy's mind-meld with Cattrall is rather intense.

yeah, IV was more a one-off enviro-aggro semicomedy to lift the grimness of III.

(nerve pinch on the kid with the big mohawk and boombox, never forget)

Judith Anderson in III is intense, period.

Nimoy did a hell of a lot better with his role in ST:TMP that anyone could have reasonably expected, given the turgidity of the script.

problem was that it was a picture with no motion.

they really shouldn't have let Roddenberry direct it

uh that was Robert Wise

the story of that movie's production is much better than the film

ah whoops been awhile since I read that story - Roddenberry got what, a writing credit?

ah producer

man the wiki entry for that is nuts. I mean waht:

Kaufman reconceived the story with Spock as the captain of his own ship and featuring Toshiro Mifune as Spock's Klingon nemesis,

I like ST: TMP. It looks great, the story isn't much but there's a kind of artful-ness to that film that is missing from every other one. It seriously looks like a big impressive movie. Compare it to Generations or any TNG film which looks exactly like the TV show at a different aspect ratio.

Well, that's because it had by far the biggest budget (adjusted for inflation). Paramount was salivating after Star Wars-level grosses.

Still the movie wound up being rushed through post for its promised Christmas opening; it was essentially unfinished.

I saw it on opening night in Times Square, and the audience applauded the entrance of each of the characters.

it does seem like it could have been edited down to something better. the pacing of it is just bizarrely clunky.

No time for a proper edit... they added and cut footage for the last video release in 2001; net 4 minutes longer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/alternateversions

It's an imperfect film that I love precisely because of its tonal differences from all that followed.

somnum pacifice acutis quae numquam arata est pater

Matt Z Seitz:

The show's affinity for Shakespearean flourishes is well-documented, but in in a sense, Spock himself might be the most Bard-like character of them all: He's a green-blooded Othello who has to be twice as good as the full-blooded human officers to earn their respect, and who must tamp down his natural passions despite constant racist needling and doubts about his loyalty. Part of this stemmed from his uncomfortably "devilish" appearance, which flirted with anti-Semitic stereotypes as well as intimations of some dark-skinned Other. The character was originally slathered in red makeup, which read as dark grey when the show was viewed on black-and-white sets. The book Star Trek FAQ says the makeup was discarded because Spock "came out looking like an African-American satyr."

Throughout the run of the original series, you can see Nimoy, Roddenberry, and the writing staff integrating more and more culturally specific touches; the apotheosis might be Spock's resuscitation at the end of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which takes place amid slender, jagged What's Opera, Doc? mountain spires but features Dame Judith Anderson delivering fiery rabbinical incantations; the cognitive dissonance here is spectacular and delightful, as if Wagner had momentarily been claimed for the chosen people.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/remembering-leonard-nimoys-mr-spock.html

that's a nice appreciation. do you think seitz had that (partly) in the can, or can he write that well on a moment's notice?

Pretty impressive if that is the case.

RIP. Time to cue up that one Momus song azbout him.

ANDREW W.K. ‏@AndrewWK 8h8 hours ago
Leonard Nimoy was a party master of illogical proportions.

at least we still have martin landau

the first film isn't "great" exactly but i have fond memories of watching it over and over on TNT as a kid, it always seemed to be on at thanksgiving. it's so grandiose and strange that it's hard for me not to feel some affection for it; it's hard to imagine anything like that getting made today. i actually like all of the first six movies at least a little bit. even the fifth one has the part where kirk gets to scream "what does GOD need with a STARSHIP?" the ending of the sixth one is probably the first movie that ever made me cry.

used to be kind of embarrassed by my star trek obsessive phase (ages 11-14, approx.) but whenever i've revisited the old series it feels genuinely delightful, colorful and weird and silly in the best possible way, and helped immeasurably by the genuine warmth and unforced banter between the three main characters. but spock is definitely the highlight of the show; it's hard to imagine that star trek would've had remotely the same kind of impact without him.

anyway rip mr. nimoy, you were the fuckin' greatest.

do you think seitz had that (partly) in the can

Seitz wrote the TV beat for the Newark Star-Ledger 25 years or so ago, so he's been writing about Star Trek at least that long; also, Nimoy announced he had COPD quite awhile ago, he was 83, and his tweet of finality came what, on Monday? Do the calculations, Science Officer.

...well otoh he just posted on fb that he wrote 5000 words today.

If you didn't watch at the end of the column:

http://blip.tv/the-l-magazine/vulcan-the-soul-of-spock-2088135

Thanks. Had missed. Very well done.

My wife, like nimoy, is a Bostonian and this is one of her favorite memories. Needless to say YouTube cannot replicate the ping ponging surround sound effect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHK2-BVfUzs

NY Times page one!

William Shatner
I am currently in FL as I agreed to appear at the Red Cross Ball tonight. Leonard's funeral is tomorrow. I can't make it back in time.
5:05 PM - 28 Feb 2015

William Shatner
I feel really awful. Here I am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried.
5:07 PM - 28 Feb 2015

Send Mirror Kirk. Oh wait.

Meant to post that on this thread

.forever of edge the on thread The

oops

Vic, do you know what you just did?

the needs of the Red Cross outweigh the needs of the few

He knows, doctor, he knows

http://www.startrek.com/article/walter-koenig-pays-tribute-to-leonard-nimoy

the first film isn't "great" exactly but i have fond memories of watching it over and over on TNT as a kid, it always seemed to be on at thanksgiving. it's so grandiose and strange that it's hard for me not to feel some affection for it; it's hard to imagine anything like that getting made today.

same here. felt like it held up pretty well. then had to watch Wrath of Khan after. couldn't not.

yeah think we'll re-watch TMP tomorrow night

"Amok Time" might be the next thing i watch

never a bad idea. gerald fried at his brilliant best on the soundtrack!

i mean, the movies aren't pure Star Trek

Has anyone posted this?

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/08/25/91290697.html?pageNumber=NaN&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_c

i mean, the movies aren't pure Star Trek
True. TMP is kind of like 2001 a decade later, as seen by the crew of the Enterprise.

I wrote about his music career (five albums!)

Bizarre story up here:

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5357/67/16x9/960.jpg

http://www.avclub.com/article/bank-canada-says-its-legal-not-appreciated-spock-y-216004?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ShareTools&utm_campaign=default

(Actual bill.)

http://www.allnationsstampandcoin.com/images/news/lasting5front.jpg

That Times profile of the testy actor is quite a document. also, the Radio page, and the photo of pre-Partridge Shirley Jones preparing to tread the Broadway boards with juvenile Irene Cara.

And don't forget "The Big 10"

Or "A Festival of Latin Music"

His son's trying to fund a documentary

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamnimoy/for-the-love-of-spock-a-documentary-film

would kickstart someone putting a decent copy of Bilbo Baggins on youtube.

last couple of freak zones have played something with him reading that story from the martian chronicles about the house that continues functioning despite all the people being dead.

oh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzhlU8rXgHc

Docu has three days left, still need almost 80 large