I told him not to eat all that Welsh Rabbit. Now look at him!
Did you even read the thread? His service is mentioned often and with plenty of respect.
Yes, i did read the thread in the CS forum, the posters were/are very respectful, i expect nothing less from my experience reading the SDMB. However, the OP did not specifically mention any one thread on any one forum though so i assumed he was speaking generally.
Feh…I had dinner with him.
Really.
Would this make a difference in your perspective?
From the Yahoo! news service:
Full article here.
So even he knew that he’d be memorialized as “Scotty”, and not as “James Doohan”.
How much indignation do you have, then, for the fact that his own authorized autobiography is titled “Beam Me Up, Scotty”?
If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.
It’s those unauthorized autobiographies that you have to worry about.
i didn’t read this thread, so if someone already said this, my apologies.
get over yourself.
We all realize who died. And it doesn’t hurt to mention “Scotty.” That’s what he was best known and best loved for. I don’t see that any aspect of his death has been trivialized.
Well, I understand there are a lot of actors who are bothered by the fact that people only know them for one role, believing it somehow trivializes them as a human being. It’s not merely the OP who believes/has expressed this point.
I understand it, not exactly sure where I fall on the scale. I think a lot of us do not think about it because we will never be famous enough to be known for one thing only. I could see it being a bit irritating if, at the age of 50, I thought I had produced some really good work, or had produced a life’s worth of good work, only to have everyone focus on, “Hey, that was a really awesome jhow you worked at the checkout counter at Starbucks for those 2 1/2 years back in 1987! Gimme a Frapucinno!”
Feh. I jizzed in his ear.
I knew when I wrote it, I’d touch some nerves and offend some people. But still I stand by what I said; there’s a difference between saying James Doohan played Scotty and saying James Doohan was Scotty.
[nitpick]Your OP complained not using the actor’s name trivialized his death, with the implication those who say “Scotty’s dead” are doing a disservice.[/nitpick]
While agreeing with you that Scotty was played by the actor James Doohan (a point you also concede everyone knows), the reaction to your post was not over which name should be used, but to the implied disrespect.
ok…good one…
But really, it was my one “brush with greatness,” and since none of you ungrateful bastards has the decency to ask me to tell you all about it…I will.
A friend of a friend worked for Paramount (the exact date escapes me, but it had to have been in the late eighties), which had just released a collection of “Star Trek” episodes on the latest technology, the VCR. For you young 'uns, this was a platic box the size of a small-city phone book which could be played on your TV.
Anyway, the studio embarked on a marketing blitz, part of which required a promotional tour by Mr. Doohan to Boston. Said friend of a friend, who worked in Paramount’s marketing department, was seconded to accompany Mr. Doohan to his appointed rounds and keep him company. Evidently, Scotty…, er… Mr. Doohan had a bit of a repuation of being somewhat lecherous, so “Suzy” (not her real name) asked my friend if he would pose as her ‘fiance’ when they came to town. My buddy couldn’t so it, so he nominated me, knowing what a lifeless trekkie dork I am.
I mean, was. Was.
Bottom line, after their promotional affair, we all met up for dinner in the North End. Mr. Doohan was a very nice man, a yeoman actor without any pretensions of who he was or what he was doing. He was a long-time Angelino who spoke with nary a burr or a brogue. We were joined by a pair of local sycophants who kept up a non-stop blur of star-trek-related comments, observations and bad jokes. I kept my mouth shut and drank wine and ate …I forget, exactly, but it was Italian, and it was delicious.
Thanks for asking.
Scotty dead? I’m almost as bummed as when Kermit died of pneumonia. At least we still have Spock.
Seriously (well as serious as I can manage with my eyes rolled all the way back in their sockets :rolleyes: ) - the OP’s ridiculous. If it weren’t for “Scotty” few people would know or care that James Doohan, age 85, died somewhere in CA the other day.
It’s like saying when an ex-President dies, we’re not supposed to focus on his presidency, we’re supposed to think about what a great Dad he was. It’s silliness.
And by the way I think (unlike Spock) Scotty actually *liked * being seen as Scotty. He wouldn’t mind.
Hey, we are all ‘former’ Star Trek Geeks. That is the reason we care about his passing.
First he was living in Washington state - not a big deal, just a minor nit pick.
Second, I think that at this point everybody associated with ST:TOS has made their peace with its legacy and its effect on them as actors.
Peace, maybe. But I bet Spock still doesn’t like it.
“Scotty didn’t die; James Doohan did.” You know, I like this. You’re right- Scotty will live with us forever.
Thanks!
Its a tribute Nemo , but not as you know it.
I seem to be the only one who’s noticed that James Doohan died on the 36th anniversary of the first landing on the moon.
Maybe he did beam up, after all.