Titanic Mommy
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Frances Fisher is quite a versatile actress who seamlessly makes the transition back and forth between comedy and drama. She also holds the distinction of starring in supporting roles of two Oscar winning Best Pictures. In Titanic, she portrayed Ruth DeWitt Bukater, the cold-as-steel mother of Kate Winslet’s character Rose. Five years earlier, she had played Strawberry Alice in the Clint Eastwood western Unforgiven. Both performances were impeccable. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing the theme of Halloween (for Halloween), I present to you two of the actors who portrayed the killer Michael Myers in the film franchise. Both of these encounters took place at the Flashback Weekend show in Chicago on Sunday, August 12, 2012. For portraying the same character on film, these guys are about as different as you can get in real life. The first one (above left) is Dick Warlock, who had acted as the mad killer in Halloween II in 1981. 
Since I’ve been attending more and more celebrity shows that might be better classified as “Horror Conventions,” my appreciation and fondness of the genre has grown to the point that I’ve become more tuned in to picking up signed photos and engaging in celebrity encounters with actors and actresses from some of the more notable franchises. Whereas I had skipped plenty of these opportunities in the past, this year I’ve made them part of my want-lists going in. For example, I had passed up both Danielle Harris and Scout Taylor-Compton at shows in the past, but when I attended the Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Convention on Sunday, August 12, 2012, this time they made the cut. No pun intended. 
Obviously, I was dragging a bit on the morning of Sunday, September 30, 2012. After the Volksfest in Stuttgart and a few liters of beer the night before, not to mention the six hour time difference, it was amazing that I was even functioning at all. But I was. In fact, I actually had very little issue getting myself ready and getting downstairs at the Hotel Traube for our first European hotel breakfast of the trip. By most standards, it would have been outstanding, but up against some of the other ones I’d had before (and would have during the week), it was just fair. It had the meats and cheeses that most of the others did, but for being a morning-after beer meal, it just wasn’t as satisfying as it could have been. I sorely missed the bagels and lox that were enjoyed so frequently in Amsterdam.