Spock is Dead!

[Gurn Blanston]

Late news, Leonard Nimoy died today. No obit yet, some good ones will come along, I know.

Live long and prosper, Spock.

[bhodges]

It's sad. But he also had a very full, rich life. Already I'm seeing this around the Internet, which makes me smile:

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I also like thinking about him in other roles, such as one of my faves, Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).

--Bruce

[Sean]

What a great guy, and an inspiring personality; I have this on my shelf, one of the most evocative of mystery series, from the 70s...

[North Star]

I also like thinking about him in other roles

--Bruce

He did the role of a photographer really well.
http://www.rmichelson.com/Artist_Pages/Nimoy/pages/Leonard-Nimoy-Gallery.html

[Jaakko Keskinen]

'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.'

[drogulus]

     Off of Cambridge Street downtown is the Charles River Plaza Shopping Center, a small complex in a compact area where medical workers from Mass General and residents of Beacon Hill can park their cars and buy groceries at Whole Foods. What they might not know, however, is that the land they are walking on was once a bustling residential neighborhood, razed in the name of urban renewal, which displaced families and residents, including actor Leonard Nimoy, known most famously as the half-Vulcan, half-Human Mr. Spock, second-in-command of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

     "I was born in the West End area that is now highrise Charles River Park," Nimoy told Globe TV Critic Percy Shain in 1963. "Chambers Street, where I lived, is flattened now and about the only thing left of my neighborhood is St. Joseph's Church, which was 75 yards from my home."

[kishnevi]

     Off of Cambridge Street downtown is the Charles River Plaza Shopping Center, a small complex in a compact area where medical workers from Mass General and residents of Beacon Hill can park their cars and buy groceries at Whole Foods. What they might not know, however, is that the land they are walking on was once a bustling residential neighborhood, razed in the name of urban renewal, which displaced families and residents, including actor Leonard Nimoy, known most famously as the half-Vulcan, half-Human Mr. Spock, second-in-command of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

     "I was born in the West End area that is now highrise Charles River Park," Nimoy told Globe TV Critic Percy Shain in 1963. "Chambers Street, where I lived, is flattened now and about the only thing left of my neighborhood is St. Joseph's Church, which was 75 yards from my home."

Among the people forced to move in that spasm of urban renewal was my father's family.  My father was in fact a high school classmate of Nimoy, though he does not remember ever interacting with Nimoy in any way greater than one anonymous teenager crossing the path of another anonymous teenager. But that does render everyone on GMG as three degrees of Kevin Baconhood to Nimoy.

[Mookalafalas]

I was a huge Trek fan as an adolescent.  Nimoy really had something, and I find I am always happy to see his face or hear his voice on TV, even in a brief cameo or whatever.  He really radiated "goodguyness".  The world is diminished by his passing.

[Hollywood]

Sad news indeed!    Spock was such an interesting character and Nimoy portrayed him perfectly. He will be missed. Live long and prosper.