Stanley Adams is positively thin there. I wonder if he was ill. If it was long term, it would go a long way toward explaining why he took his own life.
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Just the sort of thing I like to enjoy while lounging around with a fez on my head and a mai tai in my hand.
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I just had a little surprise. For some reason, I thought Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd) had committed suicide. I looked it up, thinking you had gotten Adams confused with Carmel. But in fact, I had done so.
^I've long known it was Adams that committed suicide. First, Adams was invited to be the very first guest at the Denver Star Trek convention's inaugural weekend back in, I think, 1976(could be '77). He did not make it because two weeks before he was to appear he took his own life.
Second, and long after I knew that, I actually met Roger C. Carmel at the 1984 Denver Star Trek convention, passing him in the hall and saying "Hi". He was friendly, jovial, and humble, a very pleasant person to meet and visit with. He was also enormous, and I don't mean fat. While he was very heavy, which led to his untimely demise, he was very large-framed, and carried it well. No, he had great presence. Even when he was onstage, as I sat in the middle of the audience he seemed to speak directly to me, and everyone agreed he communicated with them similarly. But standing in the hall, it seemed as if only he and I were there, and I was this little satellite to his great body, basking in his warmth. I was very sad when he died.
Second, and long after I knew that, I actually met Roger C. Carmel at the 1984 Denver Star Trek convention, passing him in the hall and saying "Hi". He was friendly, jovial, and humble, a very pleasant person to meet and visit with. He was also enormous, and I don't mean fat. While he was very heavy, which led to his untimely demise, he was very large-framed, and carried it well. No, he had great presence. Even when he was onstage, as I sat in the middle of the audience he seemed to speak directly to me, and everyone agreed he communicated with them similarly. But standing in the hall, it seemed as if only he and I were there, and I was this little satellite to his great body, basking in his warmth. I was very sad when he died.
Mannix, Season 7, "The Gang's All Here."
Paul Carr shows up!
For a minute.
Was it in his contract that he HAD to die?
Sorry to go back a few pages, but someone has to say it...
For THAT shirt, of COURSE he had to die!!!
He was Cyclonus in the Transformers movie along with Leonard Nimoy being Galvatron.
Just watched a Batman rerun with Stanley Adams as "Captain Courageous" in both parts of Catwoman Goes to College / Batman Displays his Knowledge. He's a police captain on loan from the west coast, and arrests Batman for a crime committed by an impostor.
I always enjoy seeing him turn up. He even has a non-speaking part in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Too bad about his demise.
I always enjoy seeing him turn up. He even has a non-speaking part in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
Too bad about his demise.
*snip*
Sorry to go back a few pages, but someone has to say it...
For THAT shirt, of COURSE he had to die!!!
Hey, if everybody who dressed like that in the 70s had to die, everybody in the 70s would be dead.
*snip*
Sorry to go back a few pages, but someone has to say it...
For THAT shirt, of COURSE he had to die!!!
Hey, if everybody who dressed like that in the 70s had to die, everybody in the 70s would be dead.
Agree, maybe it's the shirt, tie, mustache combo that did it.
*snip*
Sorry to go back a few pages, but someone has to say it...
For THAT shirt, of COURSE he had to die!!!
Hey, if everybody who dressed like that in the 70s had to die, everybody in the 70s would be dead.
Yeah, but there's "Groovy, man" and then "WTF!!!"
Actually, in a VERY slight connection to the late Mr Carmel, perhaps you knowledgable people can help me.
In the mid 90's, there was a early JAG episode that featured a young man who bore a resemblance to Mr Carmel. I remember thinking at the time that he would have been a good choice to perhaps played a descendant of Mudd in DS9, as TNG had finished production in 1993, and JAG started airing in 1995.
I can't remember the episode or season, but I think it MIGHT have been onboard a submarine? I never really got into watching JAG beyond the first few episodes, so it might be Season 1? Odd, as I'm a big NCIS fan, a spin off from JAG!
Mark
In the mid 90's, there was a early JAG episode that featured a young man who bore a resemblance to Mr Carmel. I remember thinking at the time that he would have been a good choice to perhaps played a descendant of Mudd in DS9, as TNG had finished production in 1993, and JAG started airing in 1995.
I can't remember the episode or season, but I think it MIGHT have been onboard a submarine? I never really got into watching JAG beyond the first few episodes, so it might be Season 1? Odd, as I'm a big NCIS fan, a spin off from JAG!
Mark
Another Miko sighting!
It Takes a Thief, season 2, "A Case of Red Turnips".
She plays a Red Chinese spy who is n"undercover" as a bikini model dancing at a European film festival. Very discrete.
OOOPS!! Blew her cover!
Later, at the masked ball:
In this scene, Al Mundy says "Every time I kiss a Chinese girl, 15 minutes later I want to do it again."
It Takes a Thief, season 2, "A Case of Red Turnips".
She plays a Red Chinese spy who is n"undercover" as a bikini model dancing at a European film festival. Very discrete.
OOOPS!! Blew her cover!
Later, at the masked ball:
In this scene, Al Mundy says "Every time I kiss a Chinese girl, 15 minutes later I want to do it again."
Great, so not only do they cast a Japanese actress as a Chinese character, but they have the series lead make a racially based, objectifying joke about her character. Par for the course for the era, I'm afraid. The pictures are beautiful, but that "joke" is really ugly.
I saw Carmel at a DC Creation con in the Spring of '86, just months before his life ended. He signed my copy of MUDD'S ANGELS, which I still have.
In the context of the time in which the show was made, the joke was passable enough to get past the network censors. Similar jokes are made in Bond films, and people let those slide, on account of being from a different time.
^But that doesn't mean it wasn't racist. Just because people back then didn't know better, that doesn't mean people today aren't allowed to recognize and acknowledge the problems.
Simply based on the old saw that Chinese food leaves you hungry and wanting more 15 minutes later - which itself, being about food, has no racist component (at least I don't think one can be racist about food!). It probably seemed innocent enough at the time, when reapplied to a person. It comes out not-so-innocent in our enlightened times, though.
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