Next i went to see Kristy Swanson. Lord is she beautiful. If you wanted a proper picture of her you had to buy a phoro op pass - which i did (pictures to be taken professionally in a seperate room 6:00pm that night) but we could get pics of her signing stuff. (she signed my laserdisc of Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
I took pics for the guy ahead of me and he took some for me - and when she saw my cam she asked to see it - then took a terrible picture of me that i'll only keep because she took it :) lovely girl and very fun:)
I popped by the horrorfest booth and checked out the 8 Films to Die For box sets (1st 2 years) we cant get them up here unfortunately. Got my picture taken with the gal in the booth (she has a small part in Butterfly Effect 3)
She was a lot of fun, but as i noticed through the next 2 days she seemed to be losing her entheusiasm rapidly ... (maybe had to deal with too many jerks and weirdos)
I only found out later that this was the girl that Lilmissscareall was competing with !
nice enough, attractive girl ... but in all honesty - lilmissscareall is way hotter.
I popped by another booth run by a local Canadian horror filmmaker ... bought 3 of his films and got a pic of a really pretty, bubbly girl in one of the films.
Really nice folks ... and honestly friendly.
I also met Edward James Olmos that night (no photos please) and got American Me signed ...he was nice to chat with ... probably glad to have a break from Battlestar Gallactica fans (although he said he's directed some of those episodes too)
I think the last guy I met was Henry Winkler who signed my Lords of Flatbush.
He was selling childrens books he wrote so I said when my son comes the next day, we'd come by and check those out.
(this happened Sunday)
I stopped by Suspect Video and picked up the Saw Trilogy for a young lady i know and got it signed by Shawnee Smith. I'm sad to say that she's the one person at the con that looked like she didnt want to be there. she rarely smiled - and when she did - her eyes werent smiling and her mouth was a tight line. made me uncomfortable to speak to her. she was overcharging for her autograph as well ...and i noticed that for the entire weekend she barely had anyone in her line. Maybe she was having a bad weekend - i dunno.
Kind of felt bad for her because it would be a fucking horrible place to be if you didnt want to be there.
found out Linea Quigley wasnt able to make the con due to sickness - that was a bummer. Also Gaslight Studios - the FX house that did Diary of the Dead, etc. Supposedly they had to get a project completed .... i was disappointed because i had brought them a DVD of the pics i took of them when Chris interviewed them last year.
All I can remember after that was getting my photo op done with Kristy Swanson (who was very sweet there too) and then driving home to unload my loot, send photos of Tobe to Chris - and then crashing hard with an aching knee and feet.
Saturday up next ....