Sad news for Trek fans & a brief anecdote
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amediaI was sorry to read today in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gblvr's journal that James Doohan has passed away.
I saw him once at a convention - I've only been to a few actor cons, but his was one of them. This was about twenty years ago, I guess, and he was delightful, very professional and very funny. Someone in the audience asked him how much Paramount was paying him to do the next Trek movie - this would have been #5 or #6, IIRC. There was a collective not-quite-gasp, because this was really a very personal question, but Jimmy Doohan simply smiled and said, "More money than you'll ever see in your lifetime." And we all cheered.
gblvr's journal that James Doohan has passed away.I saw him once at a convention - I've only been to a few actor cons, but his was one of them. This was about twenty years ago, I guess, and he was delightful, very professional and very funny. Someone in the audience asked him how much Paramount was paying him to do the next Trek movie - this would have been #5 or #6, IIRC. There was a collective not-quite-gasp, because this was really a very personal question, but Jimmy Doohan simply smiled and said, "More money than you'll ever see in your lifetime." And we all cheered.
