We appreciate teevee’s “Mr. Spock,” the 79-year-old photographer Leonard Nimoy, for being a mensch who paid a lot of money to have Griffith Park Observatory rebuilt, and for sneaking in some Kohanic rabbi voodoo into the Star Trek show, and for being an ageless entertainer long after most people are in the rest home. But [...]
You may have read on the Internet that this week’s big movie release is the “new” original Star Trek movie, and it is going to make millions of dollars. It is the latest manifestation of Hollywood studios’ race to abandon all creativity: after a popular movie series like Batman or Superman has run its course, [...]