On Ricardo Montalbán

[kjpepper]

I am amused by the number of KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! posts on my flist in the last 12 hours, and saddened by the reason.

I actually never saw Wrath of Khan (had a severe allergy to Star Trek growing up; have since accepted TNG as pretty good and DS9 as amusingly diverting) but considering the crowd with whom I hung out for most of my sentient life, I got the reference when it came up. What I didn't connect until yesterday was that Ricardo Montalbán (btw, take a look at some of the pictures from his early career, the man was hot) was also Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island... which was pretty big in my house. I can just kinda see him and Hervé Villechaize having a joyride in a 1975 Cordoba and being all "yeah, that 'ze plane ze plane' shit was asstarded..."

Fare thee well, man. I hope wherever your journey has taken you, you're looking back and enjoying the cries of a legion of anguished fans. Goodness knows it's amusing me.

...damn, I need a general death icon.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kyri/]

I'm not a Trekkie at all, but I am still very :( by this. Mainly because we play a game at faire called "Duck, Duck, Khan", just like "Duck, Duck, Goose" except the obvious substitution of "Goose" with "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!". ;)

[mythmaster.livejournal.com]

Don't forget my man Patrick (I am not a number, I am a free man)McGoohan"s death...picked up on him with "Secret Agent Man" and liked him in most all of his other works as well.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

I thought about mentioning him, as I knew about his death, but I didn't really watch the prisoner or really know anything he'd been in other than that. So... *shrug*

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Great story about Ricardo: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_01_14.html#016521

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

that is awesome.