Goodbyes…
James Doohan played Star Trek’s James Montgomery Scott
This man will be missed.
From Fox News:
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.”‘
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.”
Madonna and Brittney - August 2003
This woman will not be missed
In a interview with the magazine, the singer said she sees England - and not the US - as “home”. The 46-year-old also said she is very different from her overtly sexual image of the 1990s.
She told the magazine: “The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pub going nature lover.
“And the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn’t take no for an answer.
“But now I love England and want to be here and not in America. I see England as my home.”
Madonna added that she and Ritchie fell in love with their 1,000-acre estate, Ashcombe, on the Wiltshire/Dorset border.
She said she wears sensible shoes around the estate, goes hunting and fishing, rides horses and looks after her flock of chickens.
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