[Moo] PLEASE IGNORE- I can't believe that Scotty is gone!

[Annie Hamel]

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From: Annie Hamel 
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:49 PM
To: 'moo at stierbach.org'; graye at yahoogroups.com
Subject: I can't believe that Scotty is gone!

 

James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the
original Star Trek TV series and movies who responded to the command
"Beam me up, Scotty," died Wednesday. He was 85. 

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28
years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve
Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease,
he said. 

Doohan had said farewell to public life in August 2004, a few months
after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. 

The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor
when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on
NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he
tried seven different accents. 

"The producers asked me which one I preferred," Doohan recalled 30 years
later. "I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told
them, 'If this character is going to be an engineer, you'd better make
him a Scotsman.'" 

The series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and
Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic
following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and
children, but not enough ratings power. NBC canceled it after three
seasons. 

When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as
Montgomery Scott, the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973,
he complained to his dentist, who advised him: "Jimmy, you're going to
be Scotty long after you're dead. If I were you, I'd go with the flow." 

"I took his advice," said Doohan, "and since then everything's been just
lovely." 

Annie

Je suis ce que je sais (I am what I know)

 

 

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