Saturday, February 28, 2015

Leonard Nimoy: Farewell to a great Vulcan – DiePresse.com

No, Leonard Nimoy, who was born in 1931 in Boston, the son of Jewish-Orthodox Ukrainians had not pointed ears still slanted eyebrows, his blood was not green, and He also knew feelings. However, for generations, he was Mr. Spock, who was born in 2232 in Shi’Kahr on the planet Vulcan as a child of a human mother and a father volcanic. He was for 47 years, and he was so convincing that he, with a bit of resignation on his first autobiography, “I Am Not Spock” (1977) was followed by a second volume, “I Am Spock” (1995).

With most economical facial expressions, as a kind of alien Buster Keaton, Nimoy was the science officer on the Starship Enterprise, the strictly rational Second beside the emotion certain Captain Kirk, played by William Shatner, Nimoy made even more next American / Spock. Of course not only shines in “Star Trek V” when he sits with the other old Enterprise boys around the campfire and singing through that Spock can be sentimental very well, but he has just under control, analyzed the text of “Row , Row, Row Your Boat “and says that if others tremble and fear only:” Fascinating “Or, when he was suddenly confronted with earthly illogic:”.. I begin to understand “

 

If he was not Spock, Nimoy played other roles, such as the secret agent series “Mission: Impossible” the metamorphosis Paris, he directed in Star Trek episodes (z. B. “The Search for Spock “) and other films, and he sang on several albums, mostly American standards like” If I Had A Hammer “.
2014 Nimoy was known that he was suffering from chronic lung disease COPD, on Twitter, he wrote:” I I stopped smoking 30 years ago. Not soon enough. “Well, he died at the age of 83 years on it. His last tweet: “Life is like a garden. Perfect moments are possible, but they can not be kept except in memory “(APA / tk)

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