Note: Only words in quotation marks are quotes. June Wilkinson of Batman, Linda Harrison of Planet of the Apes and Anne Lockhart of Battlestar Galactica addressed the issue of the changing roles of women in films. The actors made opening statements to the effect that women now have much more influence in the film and TV business than they had… Read more →
A meander through the Walk of Fame and the Exhibitor’s area in the Apparel Mart was like being in a somewhat surreal bazaar. I started at the Walk of Fame, where Apollo Smile had a HUGE line of (mostly male) fans waiting to meet her. Richard Hatch and Jack Stauffer of Battlestar Galactica, who have been friends for 30 years,… Read more →
Mira Furlan had just left her home in Yugoslavia and moved to the United States when she filmed the pilot episode of Babylon 5. Shortly after that episode was aired, she attended her first Con in New York. Having been a successful actress in her homeland, she was unsure how the American fans would react to her. Mira was in… Read more →
Thursday night the Opening Day attendees of Dragon*Con 1999 were greeted by the convention’s first presentation of professional wrestling. Several hundred attendees were entertained by the flying bodies, fists, and feet, of the Alabama Championship Wrestling alliance. Fred Olen Ray, writer, producer, and director, brought this exhibition of men in tights, and women in thongs. The crowd saw Bambi successfully… Read more →
A panel of born storytellers is the best place to rest your exotically-shoed feet for an hour, especially if the storytellers are shooting the breeze about a topic so weighty as the X-Files. This was my experience at the X-Files track’s panel on Myths and Legends Thursday, featuring panelists Brian Froud, Ian McDowell, Graham Watkins, and Joanna Sherman. Well, sort… Read more →
Can you criticize a large corporation on a personal website? Lawyer and Electronic Frontiers Forum (EFF) panelist J. Scott McClain thinks so, and spearheaded the EFF track Thursday afternoon with the current “sexy” web topic entitled “Freedom of Speech on the Internet”. What would no doubt prove to be Dragon*Con’s highest concentration of computer programmers and enthusiasts (outside of the… Read more →
Throughout her presentation, Mira Furlan was friendly, open, and engaging. She spoke eloquently about leaving her home in the former Yugoslavia and moving to the United States seven years ago, when she did the Babylon 5 pilot. She had lost her audience, her country, and her language. When she began going to cons, one of the fans said to her,… Read more →
Flying from Boston to Atlanta can be a pretty boring experience, unless your seatmate is Cloei. Fuscia-haired (this week,) pert and practical, Cloei is a Web Cam girl. She has web cams in her home. People on the web can watch her and her activities 24/7. She began her appearances as an adult site, but felt that the programming was… Read more →
