Argh! My heart is broken!
I grew up
watching Leonard Nimoy. To this day I
still DVR Trek to watch with the
girls (we just viewed “Arena” two days ago) and youtube
the In Search Of clips when I can’t
sleep (as detailed in yesterday’s post).
I always identified more with Spock than Kirk, and Leonard’s voice
mesmerized me as I explored Sasquatch, the Shroud of Turin, the Oak Island
Mystery, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, and a whole host of other
paranormal and history’s-mysteries In
Search Of stuff. I recall watching
the first Star Trek movie in an
un-air conditioned house one sweltering July and being absolutely,
one-hundred-percent fascinated with it.
Saw most of the other Trek movies
– featuring the original cast – in the movie theaters as a teen and young
adult.
Just a few weeks
ago I watched an online interview where Leonard discussed his COPD and his
smoking habit which led to it. Though I
don’t know when it was filmed my gut tells me it was fairly recent. Hopefully his warnings will be heeded.
The girls and I
also watched Them! – the classic
1954 precursor of the big-bug wave of sci-fi flicks – just a few weeks
back. If you don’t blink you can
actually get a quick glimpse of a young Leonard Nimoy as an army sergeant
handing a sheet of paper to a secretary at the military base headquarters. What disguises him is that he’s smiling. How odd that is. Makes me recall as a youngster watching the
masterful, frightful remake of The
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and being so off-put by seeing Nimoy’s
pearly whites that it quite literally freaked me out.
Anyway – Live
Long and Prosper, Mr. Spock!
“I am, and always
will be, your friend” …
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