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James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive

Posted by chrisd on from the slightly-sketchy-sources dept.

ThreeHamsWillKillHim writes "Apparently, it's rumored that actor James Doohan, from Star Trek fame, is in a coma." The article notes that he's not likely to come out of it. James Doohan is 82 and is known best for his role as Engineer Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek. CD: Update, he's home undergoing rehab for his bout of pneunomia.

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  1. James Doohan AKA Scotty by Joe+Jordan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is some biographical info on the beloved "Scotty" of Star Trek.

  2. What? by Kwikymart · · Score: 2, Informative

    The link on the page that this story is on states that (in an update) he is just recovering from pneumonia. Here, look for yourself.

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  3. He's not dead. by Cryptosporidium · · Score: 4, Informative
    In fact, SyFy Portal has corrected their previous article with this new update:
    UPDATE (05-06-2002, 4:05 p.m. ET): Zap2it has talked with Steve Stephens, James Doohan's agent, and said that the actor is not comatose, and actually is home undergoing extensive rehabilitation after being confined to bed for 13 weeks for pneumonia.

    The Zap2it report comes following a source report that the 82-year-old was in worse shape than previously reported. SyFy Portal, which is a news and rumors site, had been working on confirming the report which stated that doctors did not anticipate a recovery. The We did note in our initial report that details were still in the rumor stage.

  4. He's not in a coma, he's at home by AragornSonOfArathorn · · Score: 3, Informative

    See the update here: http://www.syfyportal.com/article/?id=703

    He has been released and is recovering at home; he's not comatose

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  5. This "Rumor" is completely FALSE by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just got off the phone with Someone Who Knows(tm).

    He phoned Jimmy's wife, and asked her how he was, and she laughed out loud. He was in the hospital because of pneumonia, but he is home now.

    She put Jimmy on the phone (he told my friend to say hi to me =]) and he said that he's glad to be home from the hospital because he missed his daughter and "the food is much better."

    Please let everyone know that rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated.

  6. Re:uh, they did cover it by John+Harrison · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe you mean that other site, K5. I have looked for it on /. and I can't find it either. Search shows nothing recent. This is strange since he could put up a column on how he was going to make his own ultra-wide band who knows what with his very own supercomputer and it would show up here as news. I never did mind, since I would rather discuss what he says than Katz, but you would think of anything that he ever wrote, this is the most worthy of a /.ing.

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  7. The Truth by airship · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope. Ewhac (Hi, Leo!) is a well-known Amiga pioneer, and he knows what he's talking about. I'm the former editor of .info magazine, which covered the Amiga, and we reported this story at the time. It was, unfortunately, representative of Commodore's "Let's Shoot Ourselves in the Foot Again" marketing philosophy of the time.

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  8. Re:But Cringely isn't real? I don't get it. by amacbride · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is actually a real person behind the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely -- he left InfoWorld around 1993, and after a bunch of lawsuits, won the right to continue writing using the name. Oddly enough, InfoWorld, also won the right to keep using it -- their Cringely column is a staff-written collaboration.

    My thoughts go out to the "real" Bob Cringely on the death of his son.