Happy and Healthy New Year PARTY R O AVAILAB OM LE up to 90 people beyond Adam’s adolescence. He was at UC Berkeley in the late 1970s, on his own path to getting a law degree, when Leonard made a stop at Wheeler Hall on a college speaking tour. “I waited for him to finish,” Adam recalls with a painful clarity. “I thought we were going to go to dinner together. He came up the aisle, signed some auto- graphs and came up to me and said, ‘I have to catch a plane. I got another commitment I got to make tomorrow in Los Angeles, and I’m leaving.’” “I was devastated,” Adam says. “‘What am I, borscht?’ It wasn’t until later in his life that it was less about Leonard and his career and more about ‘what’s going on with my kids and my grandchildren.’” Adam and Leonard were estranged for a stretch, exacerbated by the actor’s drinking and his son’s drug use. When asked if it was difficult to forgive his father, he doesn’t hesitate. “No, because I’m in 12-step, and that’s a huge part of what 12-step’s all about.” Resentments and setbacks play only a passing role in For the Love of Spock, which is an unabashed tribute to Leonard’s contributions as an actor and a man to a character who was and is widely embraced for embodying intel- ligence, science, fairness and integrity. (And for being different, of course, and living on the margins of mainstream society.) The film omits Leonard’s record as a major benefactor of Jewish causes: the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, a childhood center at Temple Israel of Hollywood and the career counseling center at Beit T’Shuvah, a Jewish recov- ery house. It also leaves out the degree to which Leonard passed down his pride and love of being Jewish. “I would say that I am more religious than my father was,” Adam says. “I like to study Torah, I like to go to services on a regular basis on Friday night. 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