On February 27, 2015, the world lost Leonard Simon Nimoy. Actor, photographer, poet, soldier, singer, role model, friend to hundreds of millions he never met — and millions as yet unborn. He was much more than Star Trek’s Spock, and Spock was named one of TV Guide’s 50 greatest characters. We say goodbye to one of our childhood heroes, and Owen describes his brush with greatness, on this Angry History Extra.
Robin Williams entered our consciousness about as alive as a person can be; reflecting his great energy onto us and back into him, it seemed. Which may be part of why his death pulls so roughly at so many of us. Angry History mourns his loss and celebrates his awesomeness. But mostly mourns. Goodbye, Robin Williams. We just expected to have you a while longer.
If you were time-traveling from the distant future back to the 1980s, and needed to book some cultural references to fit in, you couldn’t do better than watching the films of writer-director-producer Harold Ramis. Animal House, Stripes, Caddyshack, Meatballs, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day. We lost a legend this week, but his comedy lives on forever.
