Kevin's Watch

NY Times article

They're probably bemoaning Ricardo Montalban's passage in the Star Trek forum already, but Khan's portrayer in the ST episode Botany Bay and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn has left us. He was 88 and is also known for TV's Fantasy Island and Chrysler Corboba ads, "rich Corinthian leat-her"...He also starred in one of the longest running shows on Broadway, The Fantastics, which, incidentally first debuted at Popejoy Hall at the University of New Mexico, with Montalban directed by my late former playwriting professor Robert Hartung.

We are indeed...MatrixMan's famed thread, "In Praise of Montalban's Khan" has become a memorial one now.

--A

Well, Cail, I posted this here as well as not everyone goes to the SW/ST forum.

SW/ST is like the illegitimate bastard forum of the Watch.

But yes, Montalban should be remembered for more than just Khan. He also left an indelible mark in my mind as Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island. (Really, I knew him as Mr. Roarke before I saw him as Khan.) And he showed he could roll with the deadpan humour in The Naked Gun.

I just always thought of Montalban as a very classy and elegant man. (Of course, that was the Hollywood image he projected, and he was able to maintain it very well.)

Oh, and danlo, that's a neat connection via your playwright prof.

danlo wrote:Well, Cail, I posted this here as well as not everyone goes to the SW/ST forum.

Huh? That was Av that mentioned that, not me.

See, when it's me, it says "Cail" on the left hand side of the screen, not "Avatar".....

"Smiles, everyone, smiles!"

Absolutely loved him in The Naked Gun. Montalban was a serious actor who didn't take himself too seriously.

No I was talking to you as mod, didn't pay that much attn. to whatever this Av person was saying, perhaps <I should have used an "aside" like this>