What was his mile PR? Seems like he would have been a sub-4:40 guy in high school.
What was his mile PR? Seems like he would have been a sub-4:40 guy in high school.
krispy kremlin wrote: Leonard was no liberal...Indeed he was. He grew up Jewish, in Boston for cryin' out loud.
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Flagpole wrote:The Spock character is for sure one of the great TV or movie characters of all time. I thought he was great as William Bell in "Fringe" also.
RIP Leonard Nimoy.
You liked him in the fringe because he was still Spock with a different name.
Nah...completely different. Smart yes, but other than that, completely different.
He was an excellent actor, and unlike other actors, he forever embraced his creation, Spock. Well, Leonard outlasted the careers of most actors. As an actor, he lived long, and prospered.
He could control his emotions; except for one every 7 years, when he would finally get laid.
He'd have fit right in here.
RIP LN and Spock.
so so sad, i cant believe he has gone.
im hearing his hippie songs in my head(which i loved), and they are lifting me out of the sadness, and making me smile.
RIP Leonard Nimoy.
the man was so cool
The NY Times obit mentions Nimoy's having "starred in Mission: Impossible". I thought they had confused him with Martin Landau, but it turns out that at the same time the original Star Trek was going off the air, Landau was walking away from Mission and Nimoy signed on to replace him.
I can't ever remember seeing Nimoy on Mission - did anyone on the board ever see one of those episodes?
[see
for an entertaining interview with Nimoy from 1969 that covers his thoughts on the demise of Star Trek and his thoughts on where his career might go next.]
I was never a fan of Mission Impossible but I did watch it a couple times after Nimoy came on. His character was called "Paris." I don't believe he had another name, just "Paris", shades of "Spock" who evidently did have a first name that humans could not pronounce and so was never revealed. I recall thinking that essentially Paris was Spock minus the pointed ears. Even so, it wasn't enough to get me to watch Mission Impossible regularly so I can't recall much more.
Can't help but remember a radio announcer (this was very much Back In The Day) pronouncing his name "Leroy Nimrod."
Anyway, he can't *help* but rest in peace. You know, being dead and all.
Just enter Leonard Nimoy Mission Impossible in YouTube. Plenty of footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cLM0ZE8VU&list=RDF9cLM0ZE8VU
aerahe wrote:
Just enter Leonard Nimoy Mission Impossible in YouTube. Plenty of footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cLM0ZE8VU&list=RDF9cLM0ZE8VU
Will do now that I'm at home. Just one of those things I can't believe I didn't know back in the day.
Back in the day, an 80's band called Information Society sampled Nimoy's "pure energy".
dkny64 wrote:
aerahe wrote:Just enter Leonard Nimoy Mission Impossible in YouTube. Plenty of footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cLM0ZE8VU&list=RDF9cLM0ZE8VUWill do now that I'm at home. Just one of those things I can't believe I didn't know back in the day.
Wow, amazing stuff. Leonard Nimoy does Johnny Cash I Walk the Line just kind of has to be heard to be believed.
Let's not forget his role in the transformers movie.
had he not chain smoked for 30 years, he would still be giving the bad guys the (two) finger(s).
He was good in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" with Donald Sutherland
I'll tell any of the kids I coach who might win tomorrow to be ready to post up with a victory salute LLAP tribute to Spock. Never have seen one before, actually.
Leonard Nimoy was such a prevalent part of my entire life that I feel qualified to say, "you are, and always have been, my friend."
Let us not forget 'In Search Of.' And to the poster who said he forever embraced his character Spock, I would probably say he came to embrace it. He did write a book called 'I am Spock,' but it was a follow up to an earlier book entitled 'I am not Spock.'