Inconsequential Brushes With Fame

[el_victorino]

In 1997, I stood behind Glenn Frey in line for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. He wore a Lexus jacket and had a pretty blonde wife or girlfriend and a kid with him.

[el_victorino]

In 1980 Reba McEntire was the Grand Mistress of a parade in town. I stepped out into the street to take a picture of her for my sister, and she told me be careful or I would break the camera.

[el_victorino]

Terry Zwigoff, writer of Ghost World and director of Crumb, emailed me once looking for the cover image of a particular pulp detective magazine from the forties. I didn't have it.

[el_victorino]

I tried to buy a piece of art from J.O. Barr, creator of The Crow. He wouldn't sell it to me. I thought "Man, this dude seems like he's on heroin." Then another artist said "Jim, you seem hungover, man." He answered "No, man, you don't get hangovers on heroin."

[el_victorino]

In 1976, Burt Ward came to town to do a promotional appearance for a car lot. He spoke to my school at an assembly. Even then I knew the Batman series sucked.

[el_victorino]

Long before he did Spawn, Todd McFarlane signed a baseball for me and gave me his phone number, with the idea that he would come to town and appear at a comic show. Then he got famous and changed his number.

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I like this thread, I hope to hear some more, but I'm guessing meeting musicians back stage at places doesn't qualify for the inconsequential part, right?

[Rockula]

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Depends on what you did to get backstage.

Personally, I've only got a few to add. I use to email back and forth with Dean Cameron (Men at Work, Ski School, Summer School and of course Rockula). I'd emailed him about movie question he replied and then several months later I got an email asking how I'd been. He remembered me because of the Rockula stuff. We started talking back and forth about once a week. Mostly we talked about religion and life stuff. Outside of the first email we rarely talked about movies. Cool guy.

[Rockula]

Met Cynda Williams once. Her and her husband Roderick Plummer spoke to our Acting class. He was kind of a dick and constantly on the phone during the class, but she was pretty cool. In all honesty, i had no idea who she was at the time.

[SexyLion]

I used to represent Taylor Dayne. She was really nice. She was trying to sell her url and we put it up for sale on e-bay and not one person bid on it. She was hard up for cash. I wonder if I still have her e-mail somewhere (it was an aol address to, how sad)