![]() To confess, during the session I was fighting temptation to add to the pile-on, but it seemed to me that he wanted to talk about photography or anything else. ![]() Spock, which he politely and warmly answered, before he made a graceful exit. ![]() He barely touched his salad before he was completely bombarded with questions about Star Trek and Mr. There was one empty seat, and Nimoy walked over, asked if the chair was taken and sat down. There was a lunch and as the tables quickly filled a colleague and I picked one that had a few seats left. It was for a photography product launch, although memory of what escapes me. I caught myself thinking: Spock smoked? Why would an ascetic, someone as fastidious about his health and logical about evidence-based science, ever take up smoking? And that mental jump from the actor to the character was what made Leonard Nimoy’s professional life a burden and a blessing-a hazard for many actors who play an iconic character.Ībout 20 years ago I was working at a photography magazine and attended an event in the Hayden Planetarium where Nimoy was a spokesman. ![]() It was even more sorrowful to find that years of smoking had caught up with him. I was saddened to hear Leonard Nimoy died. ![]()
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