Adios to Ricardo Montalbán, who died last week (Jan. 14). Left, in his native Mexico, in a 1945 role as a matador.
The Spanish word matador comes from matar, to kill.
Montalban's most splendid role as a killer was, of course, Khan in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed" and the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."--Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway's nonfiction book on bullfighting
