Share your convention/celebrity experiences

Mrs_Angel_Eyes · November 29, 2009, 2:43pm

^very cool! Sounds like a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing though.

Reverend_Danite · November 29, 2009, 3:23pm

I live in hope that it wont be …

How could I forget this one - I know you’ll reckon I’ve made this up but I swear on the bible (bollocks! there you go) that it’s true…

My dog Sparky (RIP :'() has sniffed Toyah Wilcox’s leather clad arse!
It transpires that John Peel’s wife was born above our local pub (Fanny’s Ale House)… Sparky is (was) a highly trained and intelligent terrier who refuses to pass said alehouse without us popping in to check on the well-being of my flock. We duly enter one Saturday lunchtime, and there’s an interview going on twixt the now dear departed JP and a leather trousered gal with her back to me. As Sparky stuck his nose firmly into the leather, she turned and I saw it was the georgeous diminuative songstress Toyah. It wasn’t me I said!". She didn’t reply - but didn’t look too out of sorts by the experience. “Cut!” said some fellah - “We’d better shoot that again…” ;D

Bad_Lieutenant · November 29, 2009, 3:59pm

There’s this Dutch actor named Peter Lusse who was in a horrible sitcom. I think he was unemployed when my girlfriend spotted him in a store. She was like: “Hey, isn’t that…” So I said: "Yep"
he and his wife were in front of us on the escalator. Lusse overheard us and he had a surprised look on his face that someone recognized him. Pretending it wasn’t us, me and my girlfriend immediately were looking elsewhere. It was hilarious to see him in the corner of my eye searching for the person that still knew who he was. Fortunately he didn’t find out, otherwise he probably would have harassed me.

Mrs_Angel_Eyes · November 30, 2009, 11:19am

Rev… aye, I know dogs who love doing that, to the embarrassment of their owners

BL, you just couldn’t say some words of encouragement to someone down on his luck?

Bad_Lieutenant · November 30, 2009, 11:23am

I’m not too good at that. But I saw interview with him on tv a month ago and he has some success again, now in theatre. Good for him. And good for me that it’s theatre and not tv.

scherpschutter · November 30, 2009, 11:54am

Had to image google his name to know who Peter Lusse was

Yes, that sitcom was awfull

John_Welles · November 30, 2009, 1:09pm

You got a women to go out with you!?! ;D

Bad_Lieutenant · November 30, 2009, 3:18pm

Only when my monkey is unavailable

mrchallenge · December 8, 2009, 1:46am

My Bro’s a big fan!

Just talked to my dad and he told me about some of the other celeb’s he’s interviewed.

Brian Donlevy, Frankie Avalon, Cornel Wilde (Not so nice), George Raft (nice guy but my dad was convinced that the ganster’s he played was not an act, that in real life he had ties to the mafia!)

korano · December 8, 2009, 1:51am

Did he give you enough info on Cornel Wilde to tell you why he was not so nice. I have toy ask as he was in my favorite Noir as was Brian Donlevy.

Pacificador · December 8, 2009, 1:57am

Donlevy and Wilde are 2 of my favourite actors of that time…does your dad recall anything about the Donlevy interview?

Pacificador · December 8, 2009, 1:58am

Wow, korano and I had some kind of mind-meld thing going there…he posted while I was typing and it’s eerily similar.

ChrisCasey · December 8, 2009, 2:26am

As was Richard Conte and Lee Van Cleef?
You must be talking about the excellent film THE BIG COMBO!!
Truly a classic!

mrchallenge · December 8, 2009, 2:56am

My dad and I had a 30 second conversation about this LOL. I will get him to elaborate more on his experiences with the actors I mentioned.

He did maintain however that his fondest experience was with Christopher Lee.

korano · December 8, 2009, 3:32am

[quote=“Chris_Casey, post:73, topic:2065”]As was Richard Conte and Lee Van Cleef?
You must be talking about the excellent film THE BIG COMBO!!
Truly a classic![/quote]
Yep, Big Combo. My absolute favorite film noir.

John_Welles · December 8, 2009, 1:10pm

Even over The Third Man? You betrayed us!

korano · December 8, 2009, 10:05pm

But I’m not Rififii. It was his fav. Though I do like it.

Mrs_Angel_Eyes · December 9, 2009, 2:06pm

Lee was in some very good film noirs

mrchallenge · December 10, 2009, 5:41pm

[quote=“Col. Douglas Mortimer, post:69, topic:2065”]Just talked to my dad and he told me about some of the other celeb’s he’s interviewed.

Brian Donlevy, Frankie Avalon, Cornel Wilde (Not so nice), George Raft (nice guy but my dad was convinced that the ganster’s he played was not an act, that in real life he had ties to the mafia!)[/quote]

Just asked my dad to elaborate on these guys. He softened his stance on some and I must’ve heard wrong on others.

Brian Donlevy: Very nice
Frankie Avalon:Nice
Cornel Wilde: Nice, I must’ve heard wrong the first time, or maybe my dad got someone else mixed up.
George Raft: Nice, but may have been having personal problems. He asked my dad to take him around town and meet some girls!

And to expand on Elke Sommer, my dad said that she was a nice lady but a bit full of herself. She thought she was the shit!

FrankTalby · December 15, 2009, 1:54pm

I promised photos a while back and here they are finally… (Ignore the bad hair of mine thankfully I did not try and woo my wife with style like that).

Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser 2)