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Star Wars IV: A new hope - Binary Sunset (Force Theme)

Leonard Nimoy - Zachary Quinto Lectures 2011 10 13

what Old Married Spirk really is

Spock and Jim growing old together. Spock getting more lines in his face, Jim getting a tummy. graying hair, walking more slowly, taking more time to have sex, Spock getting cold more easily, Jim forgetting where he set his house keys. numerous kisses with familiar lips, celebrating anniversaries quietly, hands aging, muscles fading, planting gardens and stargazing together, attending the funerals of enemies and friends, becoming distant to the action of the world, spooning in bed for hours, new and different forms of sadness, new and different forms of happiness, same smiles, same hearts, same minds. 

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Motorcycle scene- The Great Escape, 1963, Steve McQueen

GERRY VISCO: So, Eddie, you’re going to so many locations on your world tour.

EDDIE IZZARD: It’s about 32 cities in America, but I’m planning on going to all 50 states. This is the 24th country on the world tour. 

VISCO: You like to do things in big way.

IZZARD: Well, yes. If you’re trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America. 

VISCO: Did you do the whole Berlin show in German?

IZZARD: Yes. Alles auf Deutsch. That’s what I was just learning. 

VISCO: Is it true you’re dyslexic?

IZZARD: Yes.

VISCO: You seem like such a linguist.

IZZARD: Linguistics has nothing to do with reading.

[….]

IZZARD: My heels were high, but how high do they have to be? I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don’t call it drag; I don’t even call it cross-dressing. It’s just wearing a dress.

VISCO: Do you call it transvestitism? 

IZZARD: No, I just call it wearing makeup. No woman would say of another woman, “Oh, she’s wearing pants, what’s up with that?” Drag for me is costume, and what I’m trying to do is, sometimes I’ll go around and wear makeup in the streets, turn up to the gig, take the makeup off, do the show, and then put the makeup back on. It’s the inverse of drag. It’s not about artifice. It’s about me just expressing myself. So when I’m campaigning in London for politics, I campaign with makeup on and the nails. It’s just what I have on, like any woman.

[….]

IZZARD: I have a lot of boy stuff going on in me, and then I have the girly thing, so I’m trying to express that in the most honest way I can. 

VISCO: Do you consider it a fetish, something sexual?

IZZARD: No, it’s a genetic gift that people have been given. Everyone gets cards at the beginning of life. I don’t believe in a god, so we just seem to get given these cards, and then some people will hide from them in the LGBT area. I am transgender, I decided to be honest and tell everyone about it, and that’s it.

VISCO: Did you get any feedback about it from the LGBT scene? 

IZZARD: People I encounter have been very positive. You’re being yourself, standing your ground.

VISCO: Do you go to gay bars?

IZZARD: No, I just go to bars. I don’t seek out anything. I will just go places. I think when LGBT gets really boring then we’ve made it, because it shouldn’t be, “You’re gay? Oh my god! You’re transgender? Oh my god!” It should just be, “You’re LGBT? Fine. Are you any good at what you do—accounting, photography, playing the banjo? How are you at that?” Our sexuality should be a thing that’s there, but not the front signpost.

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Nadia Murad, featured in Alexandria Bombach’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award winning documentary On Her Shoulders, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week alongside Dr. Denis Mukwege, “for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.” 

Documented in On Her Shoulders, 23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to find the most influential platforms in the world and speak out on behalf of the embattled Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants. Having narrowly escaped with her own life, Nadia must now relentlessly recount on radio shows, at rallies, and even on the floor of the United Nation’s general assembly her ordeal as a Yazidi sex slave and witness to her family’s brutal killings. Though excruciating, she forces herself to revisit these realities again and again. For without her testimony, the genocide happening right in front of the world’s eyes might go completely unnoticed.

On Her Shoulders is screening in select cities nationwide, find a theater near you.

Film Still courtesy of On Her Shoulders