*sigh* :'-( James Doohan was one of the most, if not THE most, genuinely nice, friendly, welcoming people I've ever met. He will definitely be missed. *sigh* :-(
Very sad. He lived in my city. I met him years ago in, of all places, the elevator in The Space Needle in Seattle.
He belongs in the "Criminally Irresponsible" Thread in that case. Disgusting, that. I was going to stay out of this thread....but...now.... It's sad when anyone dies, sad for the family and friends, and no disrespect intended, but to have world-wide mourning for the passing of an ACTOR? sorry, I don't see it.
Criminally Irresponsible? The guy was 80, and I heard on the radio that his wife was in her 40's. I'm betting that this wasn't a planned event. Tragic that his daughter will not get to dance with her father at her wedding, but can you really call the guy "Criminally Irresponsible?"
Agree..I think the only time when a celebrity passed away where world-wide mourning was unavoidable and made sense was when John Lennon was assasinated...I remember even my teachers crying on that day.
Yep. Fatherless child from an 80 year old's ego building, I have zero respect for the guy, may he RIP.
But of course that child will be financially taken care of for the rest of her life by the millions of dollars that he probably left behind. And all with her mother's guidance. I can think of many kids who are far worse off. What's the problem?
Money does not substitute for a father. Female-male relationships are imprinted very early; not having a father, or strong male role model is likely to produce relationship dysfunction later in life, there are exceptions of course. Few would argue that a single parent home is equal to a 2 parent home.
Capt Kirk, "Scotty, I need warp drive right now dammit." Scotty, " I canna do it Captain" but he did it anyways Cheers to Scotty, the greatest Starship Engineer
I agree wholeheartedly. I don't know how long they were married, but a marriage with an age discrepancy such as this reeks of gold-digging. Call me cynical, but having a child (at both their ages) smacks of financial "insurance" for the wife. With a 40-ish mom and millions of bucks, I'm sure she'll have a new "daddy" before she starts kindergarten in the fall...
Mourning is generated by genuine affectonate feelings for the person who has passed away; "Scotty" was a beloved character in the original Star Trek TV series and movies and apparently a very decent person. So what's to be surprised about? Bad ***** happens; my father died suddenly and tragically when I was ten. He didn't leave my mom, brother, and me poor. We lived comfortably and there were adequate funds for a good start in college. I got a degree, my brother chose not to go. I'm grateful to my dad for his foresight and responsibility. I am married to a woman. Our twenty-sixth anniversary is coming up in September. Big deal if Scotty married late in life. His child was born in wedlock and will more than likely be well provided for. I can easily think of much worse. People get lonely and horny at all ages -- Doc, if anyone should know that, you should.
Docs just bitter. He had a great pic of some "Bodacious Ta Tas" for his avatar but realized that now he can't change it!
Definitely some age discrimination going on here but I guess it's okay against old people. But if I were to say that old joke about "why is it black athletes are always saying Hi Mom? Cause they don't know who their father is". That would surely piss people off. No one knows how long they have to live when they have kids, My father died in his forties when I was still a teen. Am pretty sure most older people have a well thought out plan financially and who will raise kid after death, A lot more than can be said for so many younger people having kids
A younger father dying unexpectedly is a lot different than an 80 year old feeding his ego by having a child guaranteed to be fatherless. Horny? Have sex, not kids.
Exactly!!!!! Come on guys!!! If people want to get on their soap boxes, open up another thread! RIP Scotty. ...and with that said....2000 posts!!!
Just curious. What do you feel is the cut -off point? What is the oldest a man can be before he should no longer have children? Serious question.
James Doohan to be sent to his final frontier Thursday, July 21, 2005; Posted: 7:05 a.m. EDT (11:05 GMT) LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- He made his name in Hollywood beaming his colleagues back to the safety of the Enterprise on "Star Trek." Now, actor James Doohan's family is hoping to beam him up to the "final frontier" that Doohan's character "Scotty" loved so dearly. The actor, who died Wednesday at age 85, had told relatives he wanted his ashes blasted into outer space, as was done for "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. "He'll be there with his buddy, which is wonderful," said Doohan's agent and longtime friend, Steve Stevens. Doohan died at his home in Redmond, Wash., with his wife of 31 years, Wende, at his side. He had retired from public events last year, not long after announcing he had Alzheimer's disease. Houston-based Space Services Inc., which specializes in space memorials, plans to send a few grams of Doohan's ashes aboard a rocket later this year. The remains, which will be sealed in an aluminum capsule, will eventually burn up when they re-enter Earth's atmosphere. It should be a fitting finale for an actor who, as the Starship Enterprise's frazzled chief engineer saved the Enterprise almost every week from blowing up, burning up or being overrun by renegade aliens when the warp drive, the phasers, the shields, the power cells or some other futuristic collection of doohickies failed. As the man who commanded the Enterprise's particle beam transporter, Doohan's character also inspired the phrase, "Beam me up, Scotty." Capt. Kirk and other members of the Enterprise crew never really issued the order quite that way, however, until the fourth "Star Trek" film when Kirk said, "Scotty, beam me up." A master of dialects from his early years in radio, the Canadian-born Doohan experimented with seven different accents for the hard-pressed engineer. "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."' Doohan was born March 3, 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the youngest of four children of William Doohan, a pharmacist, veterinarian and dentist, and his wife, Sarah. He wrote in his autobiography, "Beam Me Up, Scotty," that his father was a drunk who made life miserable for his wife and children. At 19, he escaped the turmoil at home by joining the Canadian army, where he became a lieutenant in the artillery and was among the Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. After the war, Doohan enrolled in a drama class in Toronto on a whim. He showed promise and won a two-year scholarship to New York's famed Neighborhood Playhouse, where fellow students included Leslie Nielsen, Tony Randall and Richard Boone. His commanding presence and booming voice brought him steady work as a character actor in films and television in Canada and the United States. Then came "Star Trek" and fans forever screaming "Beam me up, Scotty." "Good gracious, it's been said to me for just about 31 years," he said in an 1998 interview. "It's been said to me at 70 miles an hour across four lanes on the freeway. I hear it from just about everybody. It's been fun." Married three times, Doohan was the father of nine children. "A long and storied career is over," William Shatner, who played Kirk, said Wednesday. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/21/doohan.space.ap/index.html =============================== Thank you for the memories!
