If any one Star Trek actor embodied Genes optimism, it was Kelley. He refused to define human beings by outward labels. While Gene had done time patrolling bad streets in his police days, De had experienced the poverty and desperation of the Depression in the Deep South. Cash had not been plentiful in his childhood home, and De spoke of how they had trapped small animals to eat, saying only that a ministers life was not lucrative. When he did get money as an established actor, he shared it, even though he called himself stingy. And while he practiced moderation, candy was another matter. His addiction to chocolate bars was well known on the set, to where Jimmy Doohan once sent him a crate of Hershey bars to fatten him up.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:18:52 +0000
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