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RIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0)
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You're vulcan kidding! ?
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He's dead, Jim!
Gone is the most beloved figure in all of science fiction. He set the tone and standard for all alien races. Rest in peace Mr. Nimoy; was just watching a episode of TOS last night. Doom is sad today. :'(
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4dAoT2L4x-Y/Tf1kCQCK8YI/AAAAAAAAACg/VrNlhy1b_qU/s1600/Nimoy-Buick-Blue.jpg).
Not a Trek fan, but loved him in Ancient Mysteries, Kid Monk Baroni, and guest spots like Columbo, etc....
RIP.
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He did a Fantastic Job in the new Star Trek movies playing his older self
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He deaded?
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16 min ago - Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning ... (New York Times)
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R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy.
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RIP Spock
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Paul walker
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With the iconic character, Mr. Spock has become, Leonard Nimoy's passing will be mourned by all Trekkers.
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We are assembled here today to pay final respects to our honored dead. And yet it should be noted that in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes place in the shadow of new life...
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Dang. PIP.
He did died.
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Well, that sucks. I had a feeling this was coming. My first sci-fi hero.
A sad day for Trek fans.
RIP Leonard.
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Damn RIP :'(
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Anyone remember him on "in search of......"?
Great voice
PIP Hebrew
Ask not for whom the bell tolls....... :'(
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Anyone remember him on "in search of......"?
Great voice
PIP Hebrew
Ask not for whom the bell tolls....... :'(
Yes watched it all the time?
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RIP. A great man.
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i hope he was saved
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the nerds are coming out of the woodwork
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the nerds are coming out of the woodwork
So we are. Nimoy was a good dude. RIP. Peace and long life, Spock, son of Sarek.
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I was a star trek fan. Watched most of the original episodes. Didn't ever watch any of the subsequent trek series.... I loved In Search Of.....Great show from my youth. RIP Leonard.
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Solid citizen. Played a mean guitar type thing. PIP
Shatner had a better V-taper.
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That is not logical. :(
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I'm not really a Star Trek fan but I was a fan of Nimoy. I've seen the old ST movies though and Spock was clearly the best character.
He gave a pretty epic performance as the voice of Galvatron in the 1986 Transformer animated movie.
PIP dude.
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Leonard Nimoy, Spock from Star Trek, has sadly passed away at the age of 83.
For those that were fans of the show, we appreciate his contributions to the arts. My personal favorite quote from Spock was:
"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0)
Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.
His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mr. Nimoy announced last year that he had the disease, attributing it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.
His artistic pursuits — poetry, photography and music in addition to acting — ranged far beyond the United Federation of Planets, but it was as Mr. Spock that Mr. Nimoy became a folk hero, bringing to life one of the most indelible characters of the last half century: a cerebral, unflappable, pointy-eared Vulcan with a signature salute and blessing: “Live long and prosper” (from the Vulcan “Dif-tor heh smusma”).
As part of the Yiddish Book Center Wexler Oral History Project, Leonard Nimoy explains the origin of the Vulcan hand signal used by Spock, his character in the “Star Trek” series. Video by Yiddish Book Center on Publish Date February 27, 2015. Photo by Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.
Mr. Nimoy, who was teaching Method acting at his own studio when he was cast in the original “Star Trek” television series in the mid-1960s, relished playing outsiders, and he developed what he later admitted was a mystical identification with Spock, the lone alien on the starship’s bridge.
Yet he also acknowledged ambivalence about being tethered to the character, expressing it most plainly in the titles of two autobiographies: “I Am Not Spock,” published in 1977, and “I Am Spock,” published in 1995.
In the first, he wrote, “In Spock, I finally found the best of both worlds: to be widely accepted in public approval and yet be able to continue to play the insulated alien through the Vulcan character.”
“Star Trek,” which had its premiere on NBC on Sept. 8, 1966, made Mr. Nimoy a star. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the franchise, called him “the conscience of ‘Star Trek’ ” — an often earnest, sometimes campy show that employed the distant future (as well as some special effects that appear primitive by today’s standards) to take on social issues of the 1960s.
His stardom would endure. Though the series was canceled after three seasons because of low ratings, a cultlike following — the conference-holding, costume-wearing Trekkies, or Trekkers (the designation Mr. Nimoy preferred) — coalesced soon after “Star Trek” went into syndication.
The fans’ devotion only deepened when “Star Trek” was spun off into an animated show, various new series and an uneven parade of movies starring much of the original television cast, including — besides Mr. Nimoy — William Shatner (as Captain Kirk), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), George Takei (the helmsman, Sulu), James Doohan (the chief engineer, Scott), Nichelle Nichols (the chief communications officer, Uhura) and Walter Koenig (the navigator, Chekov).
When the director J. J. Abrams revived the “Star Trek” film franchise in 2009, with an all-new cast including Zachary Quinto as Spock, he included a cameo part for Mr. Nimoy, as an older version of the same character. Mr. Nimoy also appeared in the 2013 follow-up, “Star Trek Into Darkness.”
His zeal to entertain and enlighten reached beyond “Star Trek” and crossed genres. He had a starring role in the dramatic television series “Mission: Impossible” and frequently performed onstage, notably as Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” His poetry was voluminous, and he published books of his photography.
He also directed movies, including two from the “Star Trek” franchise, and television shows. And he made records, singing pop songs as well as original songs about “Star Trek,” and gave spoken-word performances — to the delight of his fans and the bewilderment of critics.
But all that was subsidiary to Mr. Spock, the most complex member of the Enterprise crew, who was both one of the gang and a creature apart, engaged at times in a lonely struggle with his warring racial halves.
In one of his most memorable “Star Trek” performances, Mr. Nimoy tried to follow in the tradition of two actors he admired, Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who each played a monstrous character — Quasimodo and the Frankenstein monster — who is transformed by love.
In Episode 24, which was first shown on March 2, 1967, Mr. Spock is indeed transformed. Under the influence of aphrodisiacal spores he discovers on the planet Omicron Ceti III, he lets free his human side and announces his love for Leila Kalomi (Jill Ireland), a woman he had once known on Earth. In this episode, Mr. Nimoy brought to Spock’s metamorphosis not only warmth, compassion and playfulness, but also a rarefied concept of alienation.
“I am what I am, Leila,” Mr. Spock declares after the spores’ effect has worn off and his emotions are again in check. “And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else’s.”
Born in Boston on March 26, 1931, Leonard Simon Nimoy was the second son of Max and Dora Nimoy, Ukrainian immigrants and Orthodox Jews. His father worked as a barber.
From the age of 8, Leonard acted in local productions, winning parts at a community college, where he performed through his high school years. In 1949, after taking a summer course at Boston College, he traveled to Hollywood, though it wasn’t until 1951 that he landed small parts in two movies, “Queen for a Day” and “Rhubarb.”
He continued to be cast in little-known movies, although he did presciently play an alien invader in a cult serial called “Zombies of the Stratosphere,” and in 1961 he had a minor role on an episode of “The Twilight Zone.” His first starring movie role came in 1952 with “Kid Monk Baroni,” in which he played a disfigured Italian street-gang leader who becomes a boxer.
Mr. Nimoy served in the Army for two years, rising to sergeant and spending 18 months at Fort McPherson in Georgia, where he presided over shows for the Army’s Special Services branch. He also directed and starred as Stanley in the Atlanta Theater Guild’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire” before receiving his final discharge in November 1955.
He then returned to California, where he worked as a soda jerk, movie usher and cabdriver while studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. He achieved wide visibility in the late 1950s and early 1960s on television shows like “Wagon Train,” “Rawhide” and “Perry Mason.” Then came “Star Trek.”
Mr. Nimoy returned to college in his 40s and earned a master’s degree in Spanish from Antioch University Austin, an affiliate of Antioch College in Ohio, in 1978. Antioch University later awarded Mr. Nimoy an honorary doctorate.
Mr. Nimoy directed the movies “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” (1984) and “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (1986), which he helped write. In 1991, the same year that he resurrected Mr. Spock on two episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Mr. Nimoy was also the executive producer and a writer of the movie “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.”
He then directed the hugely successful comedy “Three Men and a Baby” (1987), a far cry from his science-fiction work, and appeared in made-for-television movies. He received an Emmy nomination for the 1982 movie “A Woman Called Golda,” in which he portrayed the husband of Golda Meir, the prime minister of Israel, who was played by Ingrid Bergman. It was the fourth Emmy nomination of his career — the other three were for his “Star Trek” work — although he never won.
Mr. Nimoy’s marriage to the actress Sandi Zober ended in divorce. Besides his wife, he is survived by his children, Adam and Julie Nimoy; a stepson, Aaron Bay Schuck; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and an older brother, Melvin.
Though his speaking voice was among his chief assets as an actor, the critical consensus was that his music was mortifying. Mr. Nimoy, however, was undaunted, and his fans seemed to enjoy the camp of his covers of songs like “If I Had a Hammer.” (His first album was called “Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock’s Music From Outer Space.”)
From 1977 to 1982, Mr. Nimoy hosted the syndicated series “In Search Of ...,” which explored mysteries like the Loch Ness monster and U.F.O.s. He also narrated “Ancient Mysteries” on the History Channel and appeared in commercials, including two with Mr. Shatner for Priceline.com. He provided the voice for animated characters in “Transformers: The Movie,” in 1986, and “The Pagemaster,” in 1994.
In 2001 he voiced the king of Atlantis in the Disney animated movie “Atlantis: The Lost Empire,” and in 2005 he furnished voice-overs for the computer game Civilization IV. More recently, he had a recurring role on the science-fiction series “Fringe” and was heard, as the voice of Spock, in an episode of the hit sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
Mr. Nimoy was an active supporter of the arts as well. The Thalia, a venerable movie theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, now a multi-use hall that is part of Symphony Space, was renamed the Leonard Nimoy Thalia in 2002.
He also found his voice as a writer. Besides his autobiographies, he published “A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life” in 2002. Typical of Mr. Nimoy’s simple free verse are these lines: “In my heart/Is the seed of the tree/Which will be me.”
In later years, he rediscovered his Jewish heritage, and in 1991 he produced and starred in “Never Forget,” a television movie based on the story of a Holocaust survivor who sued a neo-Nazi organization of Holocaust deniers.
In 2002, having illustrated his books of poetry with his photographs, Mr. Nimoy published “Shekhina,” a book devoted to photography with a Jewish theme, that of the feminine aspect of God. His black-and-white photographs of nude and seminude women struck some Orthodox Jewish leaders as heretical, but Mr. Nimoy asserted that his work was consistent with the teachings of the kabbalah.
His religious upbringing also influenced the characterization of Spock. The character’s split-fingered salute, he often explained, had been his idea: He based it on the kohanic blessing, a manual approximation of the Hebrew letter shin, which is the first letter in Shaddai, one of the Hebrew names for God.
“To this day, I sense Vulcan speech patterns, Vulcan social attitudes and even Vulcan patterns of logic and emotional suppression in my behavior,” Mr. Nimoy wrote years after the original series ended.
But that wasn’t such a bad thing, he discovered. “Given the choice,” he wrote, “if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock.”
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Not only does Onemorerep post about posting, he makes duplicate threads too. :-\
How the mighty have fallen.
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Not only does Onemorerep post about posting, he makes duplicate threads too. :-\
How the mighty have fallen.
I just realized "Nails" has posted about this. Thank you and I will merge them appropriately.
Regarding my posting about posting, it's my job to point out shit threads. That way, before I purge the forum of shit material, people realize my reasoning.
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I just realized "Nails" has posted about this. Thank you and I will merge them appropriately.
Regarding my posting about posting, it's my job to point out shit threads. That way, before I purge the forum of shit material, people realize my reasoning.
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I'm just messing with you :D
Its what I do.
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I'm just messing with you :D
Its what I do.
Oh I know... :D
It's what everyone does on the forum. You should see the type of messages I get these days.
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Perhaps my favorite Spock line is at 1:50. "Please, Mr. Scott restrain your leaps of illogic..." :D
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Mr Nimoy was a very intelligent man and a great actor.
He will be missed.
RIP.
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He lived pretty long and prospered..... RIP.
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Anyone remember him on "in search of......"?
Great voice
PIP Hebrew
Ask not for whom the bell tolls....... :'(
I used to watch that show all of the time! This sucks. :(
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Eighty-three's a good, long life. RIP. I've seen 0 episodes of Star Trek, btw, but I hear it has fans.
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http://io9.com/canadas-spocking-fives-phenomenon-surges-in-tribute-t-1688641807?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Doodle-driven Canadians have been cleverly defacing their five dollar bills for years, turning the portrait of former Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier into the pop-culture figures he eerily resembles: Spock (seen here) and Harry Potter's Severus Snape.
Though the bills that so wonderfully lend themselves to this practice are on their way out of circulation as Canada introduces new plastic currency (and a new Laurier portrait), the practice of "Spocking Fives" has gained special poignancy in the wake of Leonard Nimoy's passing. So if you can get your hands on an old-school five-dollar bill, Canadians, it'll be your chance to craft your own tribute to Vulcan's most beloved export.
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xCzjhabC--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/pki7dtinklup8rgnqfet.jpg)
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http://io9.com/canadas-spocking-fives-phenomenon-surges-in-tribute-t-1688641807?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Doodle-driven Canadians have been cleverly defacing their five dollar bills for years, turning the portrait of former Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier into the pop-culture figures he eerily resembles: Spock (seen here) and Harry Potter's Severus Snape.
Though the bills that so wonderfully lend themselves to this practice are on their way out of circulation as Canada introduces new plastic currency (and a new Laurier portrait), the practice of "Spocking Fives" has gained special poignancy in the wake of Leonard Nimoy's passing. So if you can get your hands on an old-school five-dollar bill, Canadians, it'll be your chance to craft your own tribute to Vulcan's most beloved export.
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xCzjhabC--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/pki7dtinklup8rgnqfet.jpg)
LMFAO
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the salute with the fingers is actually a jewish religious sign, it is used by people who prey with a veil above their head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_salute
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Is there really anyone out there who does not know who Spoke was? He's a Halloween costume, is intergalactically known...
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:'( :'(
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Is there really anyone out there who does not know who Spoke was? He's a Halloween costume, is intergalactically known...
Not familiar with Spoke, I'm ashamed to admit.
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/navyphotos.togetherweserved.com/2136349.jpg).
I wonder if this guy was ever annoyed that Mr. Spock was better known than him.
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The most recent Star Trek movie was actually pretty good....with Nimoy in it. Good thing they had him reprise the role. Shatner probably pissed over that.
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VERY RARE PHOTO... Spock and his Buick, back lot of Desilu Studios!
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Fascinating...
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Even more...
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Lunch Break!!!
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The production crew had Adam Nimoy get made up as a "vulcan" and walk onto a take.
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It won't be the same without him.
Star Trek Beyond Official Trailer #1