mha%memory.UUCP@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Mark H. Anbinder) (04/05/91)
I didn't know about this in advance, or I would have warned everybody. :-) Leonard Nimoy was just on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson this evening (3 April). The talk didn't focus on Star Trek, by any stretch of the imagination, but there were a couple of tidbits. Carson commented in his opening monologue that Nimoy hadn't been on the show in a while, but it wasn't until Nimoy came out and they started talking that he realized it had been TWENTY-THREE YEARS. Nimoy was last on Carson in 1968, to promote his record album! It was around the time Trek was ending, and Nimoy was trying to separate himself from Spock. Nimoy brought a pair of Spock ears in a plastic bag to give Carson. They talked briefly about how a crowd at a Denver convention greeted him wearing Vulcan ears a few days ago. Carson showed his general ignorance of Trek by referring to Nimoy's character as Dr. Spock. Oh well. :-) Only in passing did they mention Star Trek VI, which Nimoy said they "are about to start filming." He did mention Trek IV, saying that he and his wife had gone to Moscow a few years ago for a viewing of the film, when the Soviets placed a new ban on commercial whaling. They also visited the village in the Ukraine his family came from. They also babbled a little about the directing work he's done, though Trek III and Trek IV were not mentioned. Other than this Trek-related stuff, they talked about Nimoy's new television movie, a true story about a Holocaust survivor who battled in the courts against a group of revisionists who claimed the Holocaust had never occurred, and about Nimoy's parents not teaching him or his brother how to speak Russian when they were growing up, so they could use it as a secret language the kids couldn't understand. Nothing very exciting, but some nice bits of nostalgia. -- Mark H. Anbinder mha@memory.uucp 1063 Warren Road #6 607-257-3480 Ithaca, NY 14850 Memory Alpha BBS * 607-257-5822 My statements do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my computer. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com