More sad news...RIP Leonard Nimoy

[Karla S. Robinson, Ph.D.]

Can’t believe he’s gone, what a gentle, good soul:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

 

 

[Bob Jersey]

COPD (we found a piece from People (link) a year ago) caught up with him.

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[Joe Hass]

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 <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:

COPD (we found a piece from People (link) a year ago) caught up with him.

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[Kevin M.]

I met Leonard Nimoy at a Star Trek convention while in college. I was producing (luckily for us all, not conducting) an interview with him and I didn't want it to be the same series of boring questions the poor guy undoubtedly got asked every interview. While wandering the convention floor, I happened upon a vendor selling mugs in the shape of the various Trek cast members. I talked him into giving me a Spock mug. During the interview, we presented Nimoy with the mug and asked him what beverage we should drink out of his head (hey, it was a question I gauranteed he'd never been asked before). Without hesitation, he replied, "eggnog."

Zach Quinto is doing a good job in the new Star Trek movie, but Leonard Nimoy is my Spock. He also made impossible missions possible, and he made a terrific bad guy for Columbo to catch. I'd like to believe James Doohan and Deforest Kelley were waiting at the gates of heaven with smiles and exotic blue alcohol banned in this region of space. 

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[PGage]

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 <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

[David Bruggeman]

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

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[Jon Delfin]

They overlooked his appearance on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in an episode where the main guest star was some Canadian actor. ("The Strigas Affair," and heaven help me, I actually remember the plot of that episode.)

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[Brad Beam]

If the show's Wikipedia article is accurate, Universal Studios licensed the video rights for release in 2012.

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[Kevin M.]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Jon Delfin <jond...@gmail.com> wrote:

They overlooked his appearance on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in an episode where the main guest star was some Canadian actor. ("The Strigas Affair," and heaven help me, I actually remember the plot of that episode.)

I've seen that episode. Good stuff.  

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[Bob Jersey]

Brad Beam, in part:

Who has broadcast rights to "In Search Of..."?

FremantleMedia, Wiki said.

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[Bob Jersey]

AccuWeather, seen as part of TV news in cities everywhere, paid tribute.

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[stannc]

Me-TV swapped out its "Star Trek" episode originally scheduled for Saturday night for "Amok Time", the episode that established a number of elements of Vulcan mythology.

-Stan

[stannc]

Replying to my own post, Me-TV aired and will air Leonard Nimoy episodes of their programming all weekend:

http://metvnetwork.com/leonard-nimoy


All times Eastern / Pacific

Friday, February 27

11:30pm

Perry Mason
The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe
Mason digs into a dead man's past in search of evidence to clear an accused murderer.
Saturday, February 28

2:00pm

Bonanza
The Ape
Hoss decides to help Arnie, a man who has never learned to control his great strength.


3:00pm

Rawhide
Incident Before Black Pass
Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other Indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.


9:00pm

Star Trek
Amok Time
Spock must go to Vulcan in order to perform the Vulcan mating ritual.



Sunday, March 1

8:00pm

Columbo
A Stitch In Crime
A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.


9:30pm

The Twilight Zone
A Quality Of Mercy
A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.


10:00pm

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Project Strigas Affair
Napoleon Solo must find a way to bring down a diplomat who is trying to spark US/USSR tensions.


11:00pm

Mission: Impossible
The Hostage
After completing a mission, Paris is undercover as an American businessman and still in disguise when he is kidnapped by Latin American revolutionaries led by terrorist Robert Siomney.
12:00am

Get Smart
The Dead Spy Scrawls
CONTROL tries to find the location of a KAOS communications center, which turns out to be in a pool hall.

[Bob Jersey]

His funeral is today in CA, apparently too soon for Shatner to get there from a charity-event appearance in Florida.  TheWrap (link)

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[Adam Bowie]

Just when I think Britain has done of the worst tabloid journalists, I see this (via Shatner's Twitter feed):

http://t.co/ijdwAwDw14

Adam

On 1 Mar 2015 16:12, "Bob Jersey" <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:

His funeral is today in CA, apparently too soon for Shatner to get there from a charity-event appearance in Florida.  TheWrap (link)

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[Steve Timko]

Shatner is 83. I think we need to cut him some slack on last-minute cross country trips.

Sent from Type

[PGage]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:43 PM, stannc <sta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Replying to my own post, Me-TV aired and will air Leonard Nimoy episodes of their programming all weekend:

http://metvnetwork.com/leonard-nimoy

(SNIPS BELOW)

 

All times Eastern / Pacific

Sunday, March 1

8:00pm

Columbo
A Stitch In Crime
A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.

11:00pm

Mission: Impossible
The Hostage
After completing a mission, Paris is undercover as an American businessman and still in disguise when he is kidnapped by Latin American revolutionaries led by terrorist Robert Siomney.

In my immediate grief I did forget to note that Nimoy was a surviving Columbo murderer - one of my favorites. There were 47 murders on the "original" Columbo (NBC, counting the pilots). Nimoy was the 31st of these to die, leaving 16, listed below (this is all based on Wikipedia and IMDB information, I could probably use some "Dead/Not Dead" confirmations on some of these, especially Michael McGuire).

1. Lee Grant
   
2. Susan Clark
   
3. Honor Blackman (part of a murdering duo)
   
4. Martin Landau
   
5. Vera Miles
   
6. Michael McGuire (part of a duo)
   
7. Robert Conrad
   
8. Dick Van Dyck
   
9. Robert Vaugh
   
10. George Hamilton
    
11. Hector Elizondo
    
12. William Shatner
    
13. Joyce Van Patten
    
14. Theodore Bikel
    
15. Trish Van Devere
    
16. Clive Selsby Revill 
    

I recall a lot of bashing of Nimoy on Mission: Impossible, perhaps in part because Nimoy himself was said to be unhappy with his roles there. But I always liked Paris on M:I. I have the original series on DVD - I may try to find some time over the next month to watch the Paris episodes.

[David Bruggeman]

Wiki suggests that all 16 Columbo murderer portrayers are still with us.

As for Mission: Impossible, my recollection of I Am Not Spock is that Nimoy asked out of his contract.  Clearly something didn't sit right with him, but I don't recall anything more specific.

YMMV, but I am most looking forward to the Get Smart episode at midnight (eastern?).

David

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In my immediate grief I did forget to note that Nimoy was a surviving Columbo murderer - one of my favorites. There were 47 murders on the "original" Columbo (NBC, counting the pilots). Nimoy was the 31st of these to die, leaving 16, listed below (this is all based on Wikipedia and IMDB information, I could probably use some "Dead/Not Dead" confirmations on some of these, especially Michael McGuire).

1. Lee Grant
   
2. Susan Clark
   
3. Honor Blackman (part of a murdering duo)
   
4. Martin Landau
   
5. Vera Miles
   
6. Michael McGuire (part of a duo)
   
7. Robert Conrad
   
8. Dick Van Dyck
   
9. Robert Vaugh
   
10. George Hamilton
    
11. Hector Elizondo
    
12. William Shatner
    
13. Joyce Van Patten
    
14. Theodore Bikel
    
15. Trish Van Devere
    
16. Clive Selsby Revill 
    

I recall a lot of bashing of Nimoy on Mission: Impossible, perhaps in part because Nimoy himself was said to be unhappy with his roles there. But I always liked Paris on M:I. I have the original series on DVD - I may try to find some time over the next month to watch the Paris episodes.

[Bob Jersey]

Steve Timko, to Adam Bowie and moi:

Shatner is 83. I think we need to cut him some slack on last-minute cross country trips.

He came back to Cali, possibly in time for the service, and TMZ was there... TheWrap (link)

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[Bob Jersey]

The doofs from Westboro Baptist were dismayed that no location was publicized for Nimoy's services... TheWrap (link)

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[Brad Beam]

To disclose the location for their benefit would be illogical.

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On Mar 4, 2015, at 10:08, Bob Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> wrote:

The doofs from Westboro Baptist were dismayed that no location was publicized for Nimoy's services... TheWrap (link)

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