Famous People I've Met

I hope that they at least get you a refund if they can't come through with the photo. I've heard that people in your circumstance have had problems getting them to pony up the money when they didn't produce the photo!

I wonder how many of those emails they're swamped with are complaints?

P.S. VERY jealous you met Victor Borge. How did that happen? I remember him from when I was very young. He has made punctuation fun for years!

Combs doing Poe! Man I am so jealous! I prsume you've seen the version of THE BLACK CAT he made with Stuart Gordon where he plays Poe in the process of writing that story? That may be where the idea for the show came from. I hope they record it. Punctuation has always been one of my favorite Borge routines too. I was sitting there in anticipation of my daughter hearing it for the first time too. There's nothing like hearing it for the first time! I was just happy that I got to se him in concert, let alone get and autograph and have the chance to speak to him for a few moments.

He was in Orlando for a Xena convention. It wasn't easy getting anywhere near him, believe me. There may have been a lot of lesbians there but as one said, he made them all consider heterosexuality. As for the Tannies, they were performing in a very small venue outdoors, which I think is probably the best place to listen to the highland war pipes. In between they'd sit around and drink with everybody and complain about the size and voraciousness of the mosquitoes.

Ah, I got you.

No kidding. What I'd love to know is how she got to meet all these people!

There's no real story. I just go to a lot of conventions and most of the time it's just autograph lines or grabbing them in the hall after panel discussions etc. Steve James I met because he somehow found out about the martial arts fanzine I was publishing and he made no attempt to cover up the fact that he really wanted to be in it even though we only covered Asian films and stars. =) With Bobby Morse we went backstage after a couple of different performances over the years. and just talked. He's a friendly guy. Victor Borge was very old when I finally took my daughter to see him in concert so he wasn't going to be signing any autographs. That meant he'd be going out the back door of Ruth Eckerd Hall. So we just slipped around back and waited outside. Since it was just the two of us he didn't mind signing and talking for a few moments. I'd always wanted to see him in concert.

Hey, it's not like I really KNOW these people--with the exception of poor Steve James that is.

Oh, );-p right back at ya.

I don't care for Barker's books but boy is he a great speaker. Fascinating. And Campbell is always fun although I suspect that he's really more than a little scared of some of his fans. My friend LaVena Kay amd I had to rescue him from this one nut job who just wouldn't go away. We literally had to push him out of the way.