From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans or media vs written
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:44:05 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Green" <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:08 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans or media vs written

[...]
>
> Also, as for media fans merely wanting to meet the
> actors - what's wrong with wanting to meet the actors
> who bring to life the characters I enjoy watching on a
> regular basis?  A lot of the actors are pretty
> interesting in their own right, are willing to talk
> about acting technique, are up on the technical
> aspects of tv and movie production and are fun to get
> drunk with.  It's been a while since I went to a Trek
> convention, but I can recall having an interesting
> conversation with Gates McFadden about the
> choreography work she did on movies such as Dreamchild
> and what it was like to work with Jim Henson on
> Muppets Take Manhattan.  And it's been my experience
> of Who conventions that folks were just as interested
> in meeting the writers and people on the techincal
> side as they were in meeting the actors.

Nothing wrong with meeting and talking with actors (although some of them
aren't very interesting in their own rights); what's objected to is
star-worship, the elevation of actors to some sort of deities.   It has to
do with how you view yourself, and whether you denigrate yourself while
elevating actors (or writers) to a Higher Status ("I'm so unworthy"), or
whether you deal with them as one human being to another.

--Ted White