This year seemed less crowded than years past, but I still feel like the change in venue made it a little less fin.
Things I learned....
1. Poor Larry Storch from F-Troop has no idea where he is or who he is. Someone just throws that hat on him and props him up in a chair. It was sad, but I'm glad he still has some sort of revenue stream.
2. Cheryl Ladd looks great. She's obviously had some work done, but it is good work. Natural looking. She seems like a nice person, too. It looked like she was spending a lot of time talking to people. I watched her with a disabled woman, and Cheryl told her she had beautiful hair and ran her fingers through it. The woman was obviously thrilled. Also smart: she was the only celebrity there who brought her own halo light so every picture of her would be well lit.
3. Joan Van Ark shared an area with her. She is even odder looking (surgery-wise) in person than in pictures.
4. According to scuttlebutt around the hotel, Jason Preistly was the nicest person there. He also had the longest line I saw.
5. Second longest line? Samantha Fox, of all people. Her line went the whole way to an outdoor patio. She would stand up from her table and walk down the line to apologize and shake hands. Very nice even though most of the older men in her line had topless pictures of her for her to sign. Has to be weird.
6. After Larry Storch, put your money on Edward Furlong on your Celebrity Death Pool. He was looking really rough and obviously out of it,
7. Billy Zane bumped into me hard and apologized. He was on his way to complain to one of the organizers about the room he and his sister were put in. It was pretty intense, and I stood there listening in to the whole thing.
8. Linda Blair is a tiny, tiny person. Also had a very long line. Donates a part of her proceeds to animal charities.
And finally, the only celebrity there I actually talked to was Pamela Sue Martin. She was in a room with Ralph Mouth, Potsie and Jenny Piccolo from Happy Days, some women from Dark Shadows and Parker Stevenson. It was packed, and I saw she was away from her desk. I turned to my friends and said I was sad because I was really into her when I was a kid. I didn't understand how she could be Nancy Drew AND be on the Poseidon. I didn't understand what being an actor meant, I guess. There's a tap on my shoulder, and there stands Pamela Sue Martin. She said, "Trust me, I was confused too." She was so nice, so I wound up buying a picture of her, which I have never done before.
She was very nice.
There were tons of Datalounge types there, so someone has to fess up on here and add your experiences.
