Joanie Winston has died

[Alelou]

This is the woman I mentioned some months ago who just wouldn't stop talking about Frakes's butt. Now I wonder if it was early Alzheimers...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyreg ... nston.html

[Distracted]

Heck, I'd say that if she still cared about such things at 77 she was doing very well.

[Alelou]

I had no idea she was that old. But she would have been about 69 or 70 when I talked to her. I thought she sounded like a randy middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties! I should have realized if she was old enough to flirt shamelessly with Shatner on the TOS set she was no spring chicken.

[justTripn]

Thank you. I didn't know about Joanie Winston, I mean I hadn't heard about her life or contribution.

[Alelou]

See, really old Trekkies have usually read Star Trek Lives!, and if you've read that you will probably have a hard time forgetting the way she gushed over Shatner. She writes breathlessly about her visit to the set during the filming of what I think was the last episode. It was just so charmingly wacko.