Good News/Bad News at the Winter Hollywood Show
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
The good news was that I had managed to time my cruise just right that I could head out to Los Angeles immediately after it ended and attend the winter Hollywood Show on Saturday, February 12, 2011. The bad news was that unlike most shows that I’ve attended over the last few years that had over 100 celebrities, this show had less than 70 scheduled. The good news is that even with only 70, there were roughly 30 celebs that I was interested in meeting and getting autographs from – including some real draws like Otis Day, Tracy Nelson, and Rich Little. Read the rest of this entry »
Had Lesley Ann Warren been given either of two major roles that she tried out for – as Liesl in The Sound of Music or as Lois Lane in the 1978 version of Superman – I would have been all over getting her autograph in the past. As it was, I had bypassed having Bob get any signatures from her when she appeared at the Hollywood Show in February 2010. But when she made an appearance at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey on Saturday, October 30, 2010, I did a little more research on her and found that she had been in something that interested me. 
I had no particular fondness for or attraction to David Hedison, who had starred in two James Bond films as Bond’s ally Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die and License to Kill. I was a bit more interested in the fact that he had portrayed the central protagonist in the 1958 horror film The Fly alongside Vincent Price – although I have never actually seen the film. My friend Bob had picked up a free signed photo of Hedison from that film and passed it onto me. 
Outside of her role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati, Loni Anderson didn’t do all that much that was noteworthy in the entertainment realm. She has parts in films like The Lonely Guy, A Night at the Roxbury, and the female lead in critical bomb Stroker Ace, alongside her future husband Burt Reynolds. But that role, along with a classic pin-up pose from the 1970’s, ensured that she would remain an icon for more than 30 years – and I was pretty excited to get the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, on Saturday, February 12, 2011. 