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Is it just us, or has 2015 gone by really quickly? Either way, the year is coming to a close and it's been pretty eventful to say the least. Here's a break down on just a few of the things that have happened this year in the world of film, music and entertainment.

Eddie Redmayne wins big with 'The Theory Of Everything'

January: The biggest event of the beginning of the year was, of course, the Golden Globes; an event that this year saw success for 'Boyhood' and Eddie Redmayne following his part in 'The Theory Of Everything'. Julianne Moore won Best Actress for 'Still Alice'. The rest of the month was a bit of a low; record producer Suge Knight was arrested following a hit and run incident (and later jailed), Nick Cannon filed for divorce from Mariah Carey, and Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in her bathtub.

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He may have become best known as 'Star Trek's' Spock, but Leonard Nimoy, who has revealed he is suffering from chronic lung disease has had a long and varied career. From directing to writing and some even stranger things inbetween, there's a lot more to know about Leonard Nimoy than simply his 'Star Trek' alter-ego.

Leonard Nimoy is suffering from lung disease.

1. He’s an accomplished photographer
Nimoy first became interested in photography in his youth, and then went on to study it at UCLA, after his initial run as Spock. Nimoy’s work has been widely exhibited all over the world and in 2007 he released the book ‘The Full Body Project’, a collection of photographs of naked plus size women.

2. After 'Star Trek' he opened a pet store
After 'Star Trek' and 'Mission Impossible', Nimoy fulfilled a life long dream of opening a pet store. 'Leonard Nimoy’s Pet Pad' in the San Fernando Valley, focused mainly on exotic animals and stocked chipmunks, monkey, crocodiles and  boa constrictors, to name a few. When asked why he opened a pet shop Nimoy said in a 1969 article "Well, l've aIways had a thing for animals and I once worked in one to support myself between roles. And I like the kind of people that shop in pet stores.”

3. He also has a pilot’s license.
Yes the real life Spock has a licence to fly private planes and once owned his own plane that he used for ‘short trips’.

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Leonard Nimoy, who gained worldwide fame as 'Spock' in the original 'Star Trek' television series is not well.

The 82 year-old actor is suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (lungs), a result of a lifetime of smoking.

Nimoy took to twitter to announce the news and also urged fans to stop the addictive habit before it is too late.

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What’s that? A giant global corporation has ignored the creative integrity of the people it profits from in order to maximize gross income, potentially alienating future authors and jeopardizing their commerce? That’s right, Amazon is all-aboard the fan fiction train, next stop: avoiding tax on the profit it makes from it!

This means a fan of a book, like Twilight for instance, could write a story with Bella, Edward and Jacob, and sell it back to readers via the Kindle store. That is, if Stephenie Meyer signs up to it, which, considering the size of the brand, she probably won’t. It also means the latent homoerotic relationship between Star Trek’s Kirk and Spock, exhibited so often by completely normal fan fiction writers, can now be a nice little earner for them. Nice that.

It’s surprising just how many authors are signing up to let their work be taken by a fan and moulded into something else. Amazon reckon the "Kindle Worlds" project is a good thing for writers, as it is "an entirely new way to monetise their valuable franchises [and] it allows them to extend their worlds with new stories and characters and more deeply engage with existing fans".

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Audi’s newest ad pits Spock against Spock as Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto face off in a race to the golf club. Ok, so that sounds considerably less epic than it could have been with two Spocks in the picture, but the ad isn’t half bad. It opens with Quinto and Nimoy playing online chess. When Quinto loses, he challenges his predecessor to a race - a race to the golf club, of course, in typical rich guy fashion. Naturally, while the young’un cruises along in his shiny new Audi, the original Spock struggles to ever get his old beater started. Engine troubles, exhaust troubles, even his stereo cuts out at one point – Nimoy barely makes it to the swanky golf club in one piece and when he does, Quinto is already there waiting for him, all smug and confident.

The veteran has the last laugh though, as in a nod to the beloved series, he neutralizes Quinto right at the finish line, using the infamous Vulcan nerve punch. The whole thing is full of Star Trek-related quips and there’s even a nod to The Hobbit in there – it’s basically a nerd’s dream ad. It’s quite funny too. If you don’t mind your entertainment trying to pitch you some products that is.

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