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My Weekly Spock 4/8/13 -Flower Power!

Posted on April 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

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My Weekly Spock 4/1/13 — On Set Silliness

Posted on April 1, 2013 | 1 comment

While documenting pictures of Bill and Leonard last week, I came across this great shot from their episode of T.J. Hooker, and it reminded me of other funny shots taken on the Star Trek set and such.  I  love this picture, you can practically hear them laughing!  Enjoy!  And if you want to see more backstage Trek eye candy, better pull up a chair and a latte for this great photostream by birdofthegalaxy on flickr — Warning: Addictive!  May pull you away from real life for a few hours! (no foolin’!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdofthegalaxy/with/7434179156/#photo_7434179156

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My Weekly Spock 3/25/13 -Birthdays Salute-Leonard & Bill, Good Friends

Posted on March 25, 2013 | 3 comments

Since Last Friday was William Shatner’s Birthday, and tomorrow is Leonard Nimoy’s Birthday, it’s a good time to reflect on the nearly 50-year old friendship between these two actors.  Hard to believe they weren’t always this chummy, but nice to know that the real life counterparts of Kirk and Spock are just as close as their fictional characters.  When a dying Spock said to Kirk in ST:II “I have been and always will be your friend” it was from the heart. Their off screen friendship made their on-screen chemistry all the more believable; a joy we’ve had for nearly a 1/2 century.   Happy Birthday, Guys!

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Iconic

Reading Mad Magazine

Reading Mad Magazine Trek Satire

1978

Trek Press Conference 1978

T.J. Hooker

T.J. Hooker

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In Star Trek II

Spock's Death -Wah!

Spock Dying – -Wa-a-ah!

Beautiful Life Magazine Portrait with De Kelley

Beautiful Life Magazine Portrait with De Kelley

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Trek III

Trek IV

Trek IV

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Oscars 1987

1990s

1990’s Con Appearance

Horsing around

Horsing around

'Mind Meld' 2002

‘Mind Meld’

Old Pals

Old Pals

2002

2002

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Awww!

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My Weekly Spock 3/18/13 Telephone Time.

Posted on March 18, 2013 | 3 comments

Remember  Telephones? Real Telephones? I’m not talking about those mini TV’s that everyone carries around in their back pockets that can be easily butt-dialed.   I mean an old-fashioned land line, with a receiver attached to a cradle with a coil! As analog technology becomes more and more obsolete I sometimes find myself nostalgic for big ol’ clunky land lines. And rotary dials.  Another think I liked about old phones was that there was sufficient room between the ear and mouth piece, the hand set fit comfortably in ones hand, and the audio was pretty darn good!  (And for all of you wondering where the ‘pillow talk’ picture came from, I have no idea!)

Well, Hello!

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My Weekly Spock 3/11/13 Nimoy in ‘Baffled!’ The Series that wasn’t

Posted on March 11, 2013 | 6 comments

Hard to believe, but it was 4o years ago that a fun and creepy mystery movie  called Baffled!  was shown on TV (by NBC) as a ‘movie of the week’.   Nimoy played the main character, Tom Kovack, a race car driver haunted by strange and scary visions which turn out to be psychic.  The  beautiful Susan Hampshire played Michele Brent, the book historian fascinated with ESP who is convinced that Kovack has a gift that might save the life of a woman in danger.   I remember watching it when it came out, and envying the young girl in the film (who played a girl my age), and was so disappointed when it wasn’t made into a weekly series!  In fact, Baffled was made as a pilot for NBC (although it was shown in some countries as a feature film, hence the movie style poster).  It was smart, funny, and suspenseful, but we can only imagine the future adventures (and romance) that would ensue for these two characters. The only thing I found a little unbelievable was that Tom was a midwesterner -seemed more New England to me.   Alas, the network didn’t know what gold it had,  and although ESP was becoming a hot topic in the early 70’s, NBC settled on the much less entertaining comedy The Girl With Something Extra, (with Sally Field) which only lasted one season.  I would have happily taken a season of Baffled over that.   Another great opportunity lost.  😦   So in recognition of 40 years of what could have been, here’s some stills from Baffled, you can pay 4.99 and have it streamed on Amazon.

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My Weekly Spock 3/4/13 That Eyebrow!

Posted on March 4, 2013 | 1 comment

As a kid I used to marvel at how Mr. Spock could raise just one eyebrow- and I practiced until I could (sort of ) raise my right one –mostly by pushing my left one down.   But Nimoy does this with ease, and incorporated it into a surprise reaction from not only Spock, but several other characters as well, making it one of his trademarks.  It’s a wonder that right eyebrow didn’t climb straight off his forehead!

An subtle brow rise from The Twilight Zone

An subtle brow rise from The Twilight Zone

An early brow rise from The City on the Edge of Forever

An early brow rise from The City on the Edge of Forever

Extra high Spock brow Part I from The Squire of Gothos

Extra high Spock brow Part I from The Squire of Gothos

Extra high Spock brow Part II

Extra high Spock brow Part II

Paris pulls a Spock eyebrow on Mission Impossible

Paris pulls a Spock eyebrow behind shades on Mission Impossible

Still can't hide it behind shades from Night Gallery (She'll be company for you)

Still can’t hide it behind shades from Night Gallery (She’ll be company for you)

1980's print ad w/ Dr. Julius Strangepork

1980’s print ad w/ Dr. Julius Strangepork

Publicity Still (1990s)

Publicity Still (1990s)

From the Bruno Mars 'Lazy' video

From the Bruno Mars ‘Lazy’ video

From a recent commercial

From a recent commercial

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My Weekly Spock: 2/25/13 That Seventies Spock…

Posted on February 25, 2013 | 5 comments

Here’s some 1970’s Nimoy, in an era of some of the ugliest fashion ever (oh wait, it got worse in the 1980’s!) Nimoy mostly pulled it off!

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I recall receiving this very postcard from the LNAF in 1974. Oh dear, that awful white stitching, the big button Henley insert, the huge collar! The seventies are in full swing!

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As Paris, in a signature neckerchief (not ascot) that would become a Nimoy favorite on screen and off throughout the 70’s.

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Nice and Nautical – the neckline reflects his perfect square jaw, and the ever growing sideburns wipe out the pointy Star Trek ones for good (at least until he had to shave them again in ’78)
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As Tom Kovak in ‘Baffled’- with BIG collar — collars got bigger and bigger through the 70’s until they almost engulfed the suits they were under! No matter, he’s adorable here.

With Nichelle and George at a 1974 Convention. The ascot king strikes again -- this time in a fashion forward (for the time) incredible denim patchwork suit! I remember he wore this on his Mike Douglas show appearance, sorry I don't have full length shot of it! Love Nichelle's sweater here too.

With Nichelle and George at a 1974 Convention. The Neckerchief King strikes again — this time in a fashion forward (for the time) incredible denim patchwork suit! I remember he wore this on his Mike Douglas show appearance, sorry I don’t have full length shot of it! Love Nichelle’s sweater here too.

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My Weekly Spock 2/18/12 The Primitive Sex Appeal of DR. Spock–Corrected!

Posted on February 18, 2013 | 1 comment

As I was going through my Nimoy files of stuff I’ve found on the internet,  I came across this unlikely contender– an old page from a movie magazine, no doubt from the 1960’s, that tries to reason out “The Primitive Sex Appeal of Dr. Spock.”   Well, obviously there are several things horribly WRONG with this article… $(KGrHqNHJCME63(5DhVhBOze)iS7F!~~60_57

First, the photo is backward and the insignia is colored in wrong!

Second, as was typical when Trek first came out, and even after it skyrocketed in syndication… IT’S MISTER SPOCK YOU DOLTS!!!!  No one cares about the primitive sex appeal of  Dr Benjamin Spock ! (Although to their credit, his title is correct in the body of the article).

Third — I found a colorized version of this same article which heinously gave Spock a yellow shirt, the insignia with orange accents!   The hot pink backdrop is colorful, and actually works nicely with the yellow shirt, if a bit Easter egg-y, so I changed that too! (with my apologies tumblr_m9u8aqZ7rA1rt0bqio1_500to the original colorist)

So I had to do the right thing, and dug out my Adobe Photoshop to  re-color this portrait to its correct and deserved tints, flip it,  and fix that age-old typo that non-Trekkie’s were wont to make (I also had to re-write the original body of the article) So here you go:psy sex app spock FINAL

Unfortunately, the last thing wrong with this article is … I can’t find the rest of the article online!   I really would like to know what Dr. Carol Hofburnham of Mulborn University  said about Spock’s primitive sex appeal. but until I can find it, we’ll just have to speculate! Happy Belated Valentine’s Day, kids!

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My Weekly Spock: 2/4/13 Nimoy gets Bilbo’ed

Posted on February 4, 2013 | 3 comments

Here’s your Nimoy fix for the week.  I’d say this was the nadir of his career, but that honor goes to the Saturday Morning Commercial he did for NBC in 1978 ‘C’mon Saturday!’   But I gotta give the man credit. It takes guts to do this!   I confess, to this day, I have only seen snippets if this video, usually referenced on comedy shows.   But for me it’s just too embarrassing to watch, although I think I could handle these stills.  In 1967, Nimoy lip-synched his song of  The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins on the short lived 60’s  variety show “Malibu U”.  Surprisingly, Nimoy did several Variety shows during his career, this one being the most notorious!  However, the big button that asks “What’s a Leonard Nimoy?” is funny, and I bet the then mid-30 something Nimoy got a kick out of all these 60’s go-go girls dancing around him!  (Although that big hobbit foot is creeeeeepy!  Yet, somehow this is easier to listen to than any Shatner soliloquy!

I wonder if Nimoy’s seen all LOTR Trilogy and the recent Hobbit?

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Are you ready to cringe?   I’m not, but here’s your chance:

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My Weekly Spock 1/28/13 Vogue Spock!

Posted on January 28, 2013 | 1 comment

I came across these fun pictures of Nimoy as Spock during the filming of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.   All I can think of is, Spock got a modeling job for Vogue Magazine!  Looks like he’s about to do a rap in the second one.  LUV him! Love these!

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