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- From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
- Subject: Re: Star Trek Universe and Enterprise crew
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.170608.29615@u.washington.edu>
- Keywords: ethnic
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Dec21.165333.9701@ils.nwu.edu> <1992Dec22.155031.27207@utoday.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:06:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.155031.27207@utoday.com> billma@utoday.com (Bill Mallon) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.165333.9701@ils.nwu.edu>, dbora@ils.nwu.edu (Donald
- >Bora) writes:
- >>they do have minorities but the crew is predominantly white and the earth is
- >> not
- >> This is a serious inquiry not intended to star a flame war, we are merely
- >> curious. Is it perhaps restricted by the availability of non-white actors?
- >IMHO, *Yes*, the limited availability of non-white actors, writers, directors, et al.
- >(Although I'd think that they'd be more available NOW than they were in 1966!)
-
- They ARE.
-
- But most casting directors are white. And they don't seem to get it
- through their pointed little heads that you CAN use a non-white actor
- in a part that DOESN'T specifically say "black", "Asian", "Hispanic", etc.
-
-
- --
- Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
- Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW
- "The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
- with the cast of a musical revue."
-