Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
The theatre for me is much more satisfying as an actor because you are working in front of a living, breathing, throbbing, gasping, laughing and hopefully applauding audience. And the immediate connection you get with that audience is very satisfying.
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
For me, country music symbolized freedom and the joys of life... roaming the country, experiencing the joys as well as the heartbreaks. It was a transporting kind of song, and I'd just kind of sing along with them.
As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.
As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
I've run the marathon several times, so I definitely don't look like the Great Ancestor!
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
