Raiders of the Lost Animal House
May 21st, 2013
I won’t say that Karen Allen has been a lot of my favorite films, but the ones she’s been in have been doozies. I mean really… how much bigger can you get than Raiders of the Lost Ark when it comes to beloved classic films? She of course played the female lead Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford. She’d make a return to that role more than 25 years later when she starred in Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. That one was no classic, but who’s complaining? Naturally when Karen Allen showed up at the Chiller Theatre Show on April 27, 2013, I was tempted to go with the Indy connection and get a photo with that, which is what my friend Peter encouraged me to do. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll admit that at times some of my celebrity encounters are a little obscure. That is most certainly true in this example, but in this case the operative word is not obscure, but little. Like to the tune of two feet, nine inches tall little. At the Hollywood Show in Los Angeles on April 20, 2013, I met a Hungarian man named Michu (real name: Mihaly Meszaros) who has been billed throughout the years as the ‘shortest man in the world.’ That’s not quite true, but damn, this guy was short! So exactly who is he, you ask? Well, he only seems to tout two things about himself: that he was often the guy who was inside the costume of ALF – the alien life form on the series of the same name – and the fact that he was friends with Michael Jackson. 
It took me a while before I was ready to start collecting the so-called “Bond Girls” – and by Bond girls, I am referring to those actresses who in some way served as a love interest to the fictional character James Bond in the films of 007. The reason it took so long before I’d entertain buying autographs of them is that I hadn’t really seen any James Bond movies. But over the past couple of years, I’ve at least begun to scratch the surface, and have enjoyed them enough to collect them and plan to watch them all in the future. Naturally, there have already been passed-up encounters that I’ve grown to regret – but no sense dwelling on that. Since reconsidering my position, I’ve already amassed more than a dozen encounters and will present them in groups; this is the first of these postings.