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Post by Steve Marinucci on Feb 27, 2015 12:53:50 GMT -5
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Post by OldFred on Feb 27, 2015 18:34:24 GMT -5
Rest in Peace Mr. Nimoy.
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 27, 2015 18:48:48 GMT -5
I dislike Star Trek and that whole nerd culture surrounding it but Leonard Nimoy hit a homerun with his subsequent TV series, "In Search Of!"
That was great TV! R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy!
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Post by lowbasso on Feb 27, 2015 19:44:45 GMT -5
I dislike Star Trek and that whole nerd culture surrounding it but Leonard Nimoy hit a homerun with his subsequent TV series, "In Search Of!" That was great TV! R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy! Well, I have to say you are the only person I ever knew that hated Star Trek. In college my entire dorm scheduled their dinner hour so that we could all be in the TV room by the time Star Trek reruns were on. My roomate and I had a TV in our own room. 40 people crammed into our room to watch the show with us. Five nights a week. I met Leonard Nimoy on St. Barth's Island in the Carribbean, where he had a winter home. He loved opera and came to see us in La Boheme. He signed my opera score. Next to personally meeting and sitting briefly with Paul McCartney in Carnegie Hall during the dress rehearsal of Liverpool Oratorio, meeting Nimoy and having him sign my score was the most thrilling moment in my career. Star Trek fans are/were not just a bunch of nerds. Now, fans of David Cassidy, and that gold-digging bitch Heather Mills.... Speaking of nerds....
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Post by debjorgo on Feb 27, 2015 20:35:46 GMT -5
I dislike Star Trek and that whole nerd culture surrounding it but Leonard Nimoy hit a homerun with his subsequent TV series, "In Search Of!" That was great TV! R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy! Well, I have to say you are the only person I ever knew that hated Star Trek. In college my entire dorm scheduled their dinner hour so that we could all be in the TV room by the time Star Trek reruns were on. My roomate and I had a TV in our own room. 40 people crammed into our room to watch the show with us. Five nights a week. I met Leonard Nimoy on St. Barth's Island in the Carribbean, where he had a winter home. He loved opera and came to see us in La Boheme. He signed my opera score. Next to personally meeting and sitting briefly with Paul McCartney in Carnegie Hall during the dress rehearsal of Liverpool Oratorio, meeting Nimoy and having him sign my score was the most thrilling moment in my career. Star Trek fans are/were not just a bunch of nerds. Now, fans of David Cassidy, and that gold-digging bitch Heather Mills.... Speaking of nerds.... Well you had your nerds and you had your sissy boys, I guess. Star Trek used to air on Sunday mornings in Louisville in the '70s. The only thing on TV was news and church services. Most of the kids I know went with Star Trek. It had nothing to do with being science/science fiction enthusiasts. Spock's logic and controlled emotions went hand and hand with the Krishna/Eastern religion of George Harrison and the TV character Kung Fu that we were all being exposed to at the time.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Feb 27, 2015 21:59:59 GMT -5
R.I.P., Mr. Nimoy. A great talent.
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Post by mikev on Feb 27, 2015 22:52:53 GMT -5
In the 60s I was a Lost in Space fan and didn't really watch Star Trek. Watched it later enough to know the characters, watched a few of the movies and the recent remake. My favorite Nimoy role was him playing the elder Spock in the reboot- as a mentor of sorts to the new Spock-Skylar from Heros.
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Post by debjorgo on Feb 27, 2015 23:03:35 GMT -5
In the 60s I was a Lost in Space fan and didn't really watch Star Trek. Watched it later enough to know the characters, watched a few of the movies and the recent remake. My favorite Nimoy role was him playing the elder Spock in the reboot- as a mentor of sorts to the new Spock-Skylar from Heros. Lost in Space was great, especially the early shows. But it was Wednesday night. Star Trek was Thursday night and later Friday night. The big competition for both shows was Batman. It aired Wednesday and Thursday night. It took them both down. Batman was responsible for making both Lost in Space and Star Trek campier, trying to compete.
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Post by kc on Feb 28, 2015 0:17:48 GMT -5
In the 60s I was a Lost in Space fan and didn't really watch Star Trek. Watched it later enough to know the characters, watched a few of the movies and the recent remake. My favorite Nimoy role was him playing the elder Spock in the reboot- as a mentor of sorts to the new Spock-Skylar from Heros. As a child I was a big Lost In Space fan too. I also remember watching and enjoying the initial run of Star Trek, when few of my circle of friends did. I was thrilled later in the 1970s when it came back to television more popular than first time around. The strange thing is that I do not consider myself a Trekie. I have had only minor interest in most of the various incantations that followed, except perhaps for the original cast movies. It is sad about Leonard Nimoy though. I always liked him.
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 28, 2015 11:30:45 GMT -5
In the 60s I was a Lost in Space fan and didn't really watch Star Trek. Watched it later enough to know the characters, watched a few of the movies and the recent remake. My favorite Nimoy role was him playing the elder Spock in the reboot- as a mentor of sorts to the new Spock-Skylar from Heros. I too loved Lost In Space and as debjorgo noted, the early ones were action packed and as science fiction as Ster Trek. That is a great point that Batman made both shows campier, Lost In Space featuring more of Will and the friendlier Robot and Star Trek on Kirk trying to break Wilt Chamberlain's record for having sex! Sorry lowbasso, I guess I am still smarting from getting ganged-up on by Star Trek fans in the 1960's who would beat me up at the school bus stop because I liked Lost In Space. Four or five of them would get me down and one poke me with the sharp point on his compass, enough just to hurt but not draw blood. One wiseguy Trekkie smacked me once with his huge Texas Instrument Calculator and that hurt all because I said he was in love with "Bones" McCoy! If I had said Spock I would have been okay! And David Cassidy is a man's man heartthrob teenage idol I'll have you know! Now this, on the other hand: www.trekkiedating.com/
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Post by winstonoboogie on Feb 28, 2015 20:51:55 GMT -5
Sorry you got picked on, John. I liked both shows, FWIW.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Feb 28, 2015 21:43:17 GMT -5
I dislike Star Trek and that whole nerd culture surrounding it but Leonard Nimoy hit a homerun with his subsequent TV series, "In Search Of!" That was great TV! R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy! I loved "In Search Of" also. Season 1 is on YouTube, John. I found one episode that has a sort-of Beatles connection about Stonehenge (the cover of Paul's "Standing Stone")
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Post by John S. Damm on Feb 28, 2015 22:51:55 GMT -5
Oh wow, thanks Steve! I have a lot of catching up to do watching those!
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Post by John S. Damm on Mar 1, 2015 13:22:27 GMT -5
Speaking of Trekkies, there is trouble in Trek-land as some writers are mad that William Shatner did not go to Nimoy's funeral in L.A. Shatner was comitted to a Red Cross Ball fundraiser. www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/entertainment/feat-william-shatner-nimoy-funeral/index.htmlThat attack on Shatner seems bogus to me. Kind of like those who cursed Dylan for being unable to make it to The Concert For George. Dylan issued a beautiful tribute to George and we have all heard his moving cover of "Something" and his rare pre-song dialog explaining that he could not make it to the tribute concert but gave it a positive shout-out there.
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Post by debjorgo on Mar 1, 2015 19:16:40 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Mar 1, 2015 22:14:40 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Mar 2, 2015 7:23:12 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Mar 2, 2015 12:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by lowbasso on Mar 2, 2015 14:31:35 GMT -5
Last nite on MeTV in the USA, they ran an episode of Man From U.N.C.L.E from 1964, two years before Star Trek began, with William Shatner playing a member of the U.N.C.L.E. spy team and Leonard Nimoy playing an enemy spy from some third world country. The two had some great scenes together. All night MeTV played old tv series episodes from the 60's and 70's that had Leonard Nimoy in them as a tribute.
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Post by lowbasso on Mar 2, 2015 14:35:00 GMT -5
Still sad that neither Ringo nor Paul went to Neil Aspinall's funeral....
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Post by debjorgo on Mar 27, 2015 22:28:35 GMT -5
Spock as a young Vulcan boy. I just stumbled on this. Adam Nimoy as a child.
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