Lived Long And Prospered
Leonard Nimoy died four years ago today. Doesn't seem like four years.
He had a long and varied career, but is known mostly for playing Mr. Spock in Star Trek. I think that's fitting. He took a supporting role--in a show that could easily have been forgotten--and created an indelible character. How many actors, in TV or elsewhere, have done that?
posted by LAGuy @ 9:00 AM
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And don't forget the awesome commercial that the two Spocks did for Audi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVoDnGVkWCA
The best part of the commercial is when Nimoy sings a bit of "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"!
(The worst part is that it's very unlikely that a chess game can go from white check to black checkmate in a single move; such a game can be artificially constructed but it would never happen in practice. And if it can happen in 3-D chess, then 3-D chess is lame.)
The amazing thing about Nimoy's career is how he was a working actor for 15 years before Star Trek but never had a job that lasted more than two weeks. Almost overnight he became famous, and for the part which he would play, on and off, for the rest of his life.
Certainly he couldn't have expected this. A guy like William Shatner was a handsome young man who was going places--on the star track, so to speak. But Nimoy was always on the edge of complete failure. (Which is perhaps why Shatner felt threatened when Nimoy became the breakout character.)
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