Some solutions for over-coming Leonard Nimoy's ear pain.

Well the ear story is a story that's been told and told and told. But it's true, it did happen. It did happen. It's a painful process. Not putting the ears on, not gluing them on, but getting them unglued is very painful and Leonard's ears hurt him all the time. And it also meant that he had to come in an hour before Bill for his make up, an hour and a half before Bill and when the workers finished at the end of the day, he had to stay behind for another half an hour while the glued pieces of ear were separated from his ever suffering skin.

He wanted his rest and he wanted less pain and so he came to me and said Bob, can we do something about those ears? I thought for a bit and I said I know how. I know what we can do. I've got a surgeon friend who can operate and make your ears pointy and you'll have that for the length of a series, and at the end of that season, we can go to the surgeon again, he can take your ears and put them back the way they were originally. And Leonard wanted this to happen so badly that he believed me, for a few seconds.