RIP: Mr. Spock

Spock and Leila taking a selfie

Known, in an alternative universe, as Leonard Nimoy: Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83

Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek,” died on Friday morning at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. He was 83.

His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy, confirmed his death, saying the cause was end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Mr. Nimoy announced that he had the disease last year, attributing it to years of smoking, a habit he had given up three decades earlier. He had been hospitalized earlier in the week.

I met him once, when he expressed an interest in buying the tropical fish store I worked at as a teenager. He was not wearing his "ears" at the time. He wisely decided to spend his Hollywood money elsewhere.

A great alien, a so so singer:



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