Leonard Nimoy was a mench! Mench is a word which in Yiddish means “a particularly good person” with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague. I met Lenny, as I called him, when I arrived in Hollywood for the first time in the late 1950s with Paddy Chayefsky’s first Broadway play “Middle of the Night”. Lenny was from the Boston Area and I was from New York.