Posts Tagged ‘Nimoy’
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Leonard Nimoy will appear next month in Long Beach, where the topic of discussion will be Star Trek.
On October 23, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach, Nimoy will “share his portrayal of the rational and emotionally suppressed Vulcan as part of a remarkable and diverse career.”
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Tags: An Evening With Leonard Nimoy, Nimoy
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
After Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Harve Bennett was called in to see if he could make a better movie for less money. The result was the critically acclaimed Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan followed by three Star Trek movies after that.
Bennett was a successful television producer with shows like Mod Squad, The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman already under his belt. When asked if he could do a better Trek movie for less money by Gulf & Western boss Charles Bludhorn, he told them he could make four or five such movies. “Do it,” said Bludhorn.
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Tags: Bennett, Montalban, Nimoy, Shatner
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
William Shatner (Captain Kirk) asked Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) to guest star on his new sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, while Jeri Ryan reminisced about her time in the infamous Seven of Nine catsuit on Star Trek: Voyager on the third day of Creation Entertainment’s Las Vegas Star Trek convention.
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Tags: Frakes, Lien, Masterson, Nimoy, Phillips, Picardo, Pomers, Russ, Ryan, Shatner, Wang
Posted in Fandom, Star Trek: ENT, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: VOY, Star Trek: XI | Comments Off
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Classic Trek stars George Takei (Sulu) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) updated fans on their latest projects while Q actor John de Lancie bantered with attendees at the Las Vegas Hilton on the first day of the annual Las Vegas Star Trek Creation Entertainment convention.
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Tags: De Lancie, Koenig, Nichols, Nimoy, Takei
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
In addition to hosting over seventy Star Trek celebs at their annual Las Vegas Star Trek Convention, running this week from Thursday through Sunday at the Las Vegas Hilton, Creation Entertainment is gunning for the Guiness World Record for the “largest gathering of people dressed as Star Trek characters.”
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Tags: Auberjonois, Brooks, Darren, Dorn, Frakes, Keating, Koenig, Montgomery, Nimoy, Phillips, Picardo, Ryan, Shatner, Shimerman, Spiner, Stewart, Takei, Trinneer, Visitor, Wang
Posted in Fandom, News, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: ENT, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: VOY | Comments Off
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
In a radio interview talking about his latest photography project, Secret Selves, Leonard Nimoy confirms that he is definitely retired.
Even though there are occasional rumors that Nimoy will return as William Bell on Fringe, don’t count on it.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Secret Selves, an exhibition of twenty-six color photos taken by Leonard Nimoy, will open August 1 at the Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Although some of Nimoy’s photography can be seen in various museum collections, this is Nimoy’s first solo show at a major museum.
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Tags: Nimoy, photography, Secret Selves
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Monday, July 26th, 2010
Fringe Producer Jeff Pinkner told a Comic-Con audience that he would like to see Leonard Nimoy return as William Bell.
Nimoy’s character was killed off in the second season finale, but that would not be a problem as far as Pinkner is concerned. “Should we be able to convince him to come out of retirement again, we have another story in mind [for Bell].
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Tags: Fringe, Nimoy, Pinkner
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website, has relaunched today with a new look and new features.
A press release from CBS Consumer Products announced the redesigned website and features, such as news from other Star Trek websites including TrekToday.
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Tags: Nimoy, StarTrek.com
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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Last night was the 39th Annual Saturn Awards and while Avatar dominated, winning ten Saturn Awards, Star Trek didn’t leave totally empty-handed.
Star Trek XI was represented in the awards with a win in the Best Make-up collection, the award going to Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Jean Harlow for their work on the movie.
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Tags: Burman, Hall, Harlow, Kurtzman, Nimoy, Orci, Saldana, Saturn Awards
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Leonard Nimoy won’t be returning to Star Trek or other acting, but was merely borrowing a line from Arnold Schwarzenegger while promoting a new game.
Nimoy was at the Electronic Entertainment Expo promoting Yoostar 2, a “movie karaoke” game from Blitz Games.
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Tags: Nimoy, Yoostar 2
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
Leonard Nimoy was once worried about Zachary Quinto taking on the role of Spock. William Shatner‘s concerns from an earlier movie were about Nimoy himself.
Nothing was wrong with Quinto, according to Nimoy, but he had concerns when he heard that the actor had landed the role.
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Tags: Nimoy, Quinto, Shatner
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Leonard Nimoy‘s acting days may be at an end, but his voice will be heard in Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, due out this fall.
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep releases in the U.S. on September 7 and will bring to live unexplored worlds from everyone’s favorite Disney stories via the PSP.
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Tags: Nimoy, Realm of Kingdom Hearts
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Science fiction has come a long way in the fifty-odd years since Leonard Nimoy first acted in a sci-fi film.
In 1952, a twenty-one-year old Nimoy played his first sci-fi alien, a Martian zombie who along with two others of his kind, wanted to take over Earth, a typical theme in the early days of sci-fi movies.
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Tags: Fringe, Nimoy, Zombies of the Stratosphere
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The two-part season finale of Fringe airs on Fox beginning this Thursday, and in the finale, Leonard Nimoy will be seen again as the mysterious William Bell.
The Fringe finale will feature a confrontation between two characters, one of them William Bell, the other Dr. Walter Bishop.
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Tags: Bell, Fringe, Nimoy
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