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-: I'm Susan Bay Nimoy.
Maybe you might be interested in how the ears were built.
In 1962 or 3,
when Leonard was called in to be fitted
by his first set of ears, they were absolutely huge.
And he felt he looked like a bunny rabbit,
but no one would listen to him.
And he could just imagine the jokes
about the guy with the bunny ears from Vulcan.
So when the pilot wasn't picked up
and Kirk was now going to be played by William Shatner,
Leonard was the only actor I believe from the first pilot.
Leonard came and said,
"Can we talk about building the ears in a different way?"
Through these many years,
the ears have been transformed to really be something
that one could imagine could be on a half-Vulcan, half-man.
So Leonard was very instrumental in helping to sculpt
what these ears would look like.
Leonard had to show up in makeup and hair
at 5:00 AM, sometimes at 4:30,
if they were building out
'cause they all played so many characters.
To sit in that makeup chair,
he learned how to fall asleep actually,
while they were putting on the ears
and the eyebrows, and everything.
It was, it was for him, both a drag
and also a way into Spock.
He would leave the house, drive the 20 minutes to Paramount,
sit in that chair, review in his head,
what the day's work was going to look like.
And so it was such an integral part of the experience
of playing Spock for Leonard.
But most of the other actors showed up at seven.
Leonard was there, you know,
(snoring)
while they put the ears on.
The Spock ears were very much a part of Spock.
A part of Leonard.
And Leonard was very involved
in the creation of those ears over time.
And they are a memento in the same way as "live long
and prosper" is, or a lot of the memorabilia.
But there are not many of them around.
And so the set I've given in Leonard's honor
to raise money for COPD, they're very precious.
So if you love Spock, if you loved Spock, Leonard, go big.
You can go to propstar.com and see
the items I've offered for this auction
and bid,
bid high,
bid with a full heart.
Thank you.