Comments on: Star Trek’s James Doohan has Alzheimer’s

By: shank

shank — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The guy's eighty-friggin-four and he's got a four year old daughter? All hail VIAGRA!!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The math on that one had me scratching the old noggin as well.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

He was in Canadian forces involved in D-Day apparently and thanked Spielberg for not toning down the violence during the landing scenes in Saving Private Ryan.

By: Will Collier

Will Collier — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Very sad to hear about this. I met the guy when I was a teenager (mid 80's), when he and a couple of the other "secondary" Star Trek actors did a signing at a Dothan, Alabama video store (must have been lean times).

Doohan was as nice a person as you could ever want to meet (they all were, for that matter), despite being in a stifling-hot, tiny video rental joint in the middle of nowhere. Spent lots of time talking to anyone and everyone who dropped in.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

While I guess it's Doohan's "right to choose" to have a child at 80, I really feel sad for the child. She will grow up without really knowing her father. And that sucks. What was he thinking? Even if he'd lived, he'd be 98 at her high school graduation!

By: Director Mitch

Director Mitch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

First, I like the actor and my guess is that he is a guy you would like to sit down and have a drink with (probably scotch) at the nearest pub.

But on hhaving a kid at 80, I'm with Bryan - on both him and Tony Randall. I have a kid an love her dearly, but I wouldn't have wanted to bring her into this world knowing that I wouldn't be around for her much longer than a decade or so (and it turned out to be much shorter than 10 years for both of them)

By: Attila Girl

Attila Girl — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Lost of children grow up in single-parent households. It isn't the end of the world. I suspect that their wives had opinions on the matter, too. I can't imagine having a husband who is older than I by more than 9.5 years (my personal "maximum"--and I'll let you guess why), but I don't know whether society should be telling women they have to choose between marrying older men they find interesting and having kids. Just a thought.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Lost of children grow up in single-parent households. It isn't the end of the world. I suspect that their wives had opinions on the matter, too. Sorry, Attila girl, but I'm not talking about it from the mother's perspective, but from the child's perspective. The mother bears just as much shame as Doohan for this. While it's not "the end of the world," it's a pretty sorry trick to play on your child. ---

By: » Gone Hollywood

» Gone Hollywood — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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