And the Oscar goes to…
March 8th, 2010Star Trek! The 2009 film has won an Academy Award for Best Make-Up. Watch Ben still presenting the award in full Avatar regalia. (He confesses that wearing either of his two pairs of Nimoy-signed Spock ears would have been “too geeky.”) Congratulations to Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow – we love Nero’s tats, Gaila’s skin, and Kirk’s puffy hands.
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Slash article.
March 1st, 2010An article on Slash has been added to the Fandom section, objectively (but wittily) covering a particular fan fiction phenomenon.
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Update on updates.
February 17th, 2010Spock Lives is switching from Blogger FTP to WordPress in order to provide updates for the homepage. We’re currently loading the old entries and adding new functions. The end result will be a more versatile and robust system; the transition will be complete in the next 24 hours. Thanks.
Posted in Housekeeping by Karen | Link
Episode Guide pictures, music, and icons.
January 29th, 2010Small images (just like those included in the Spock and World section articles) have been added to all the Episode Guide pages. They make the text blocks more colourful, one hopes.
There’s a new album to download in Music. This page no longer contains just a smattering of random tracks – it now operates like a “album of the month” club. Most often, soundtracks will feature. (Though I’m sure Nimoy’s fabulous vocal performances will be along too.)
And lastly, there are eight new LJ Icons to check out, including a couple from the Animated Series and a couple zany Kirk ones. Fun!
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Quinto takes a break; Nimoy returns to Fringe.
January 29th, 2010Zachary Quinto has announced that he is taking a break from Star Trek for “at least two years”, according to Wired. I understand that he wants to pursue other goals before saddling up to play Spock again for Star Trek 2 (which, despite not even having been written yet, already has a release date of June 29, 2012), but I can’t help but be saddened that this means no convention appearances, since he really hasn’t done that many. I wish him luck in his non-Trek and non-Heroes endeavors and look forward to seeing him do other things.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Spock spectrum, Leonard Nimoy is set to reprise his role as Dr. William Bell in Fringe’s two-part season two finale. Entertainment Weekly reports that there will be a confrontation between Bell and former science partner, Dr. Walter Bishop (played by John Noble).
Posted in Actors by Amie | Link