By George, it’s Collectormania 12!
Yup, it’s Collectormania time again. This morning, I made the trip to Milton Keynes’ trendily named thecentre:mk - lower-case, of course - in the hope that I’d beat the weekend rush (the ‘mania’ of the event’s title).
And, hey, what d’ya know? Everything seemed to be proceeding at a leisurely pace. All the guests had open queues - there were no virtual tickets - so I met everyone I wanted to within 45 minutes of arriving, securing four signed and dedicated 8x10s and some snaps for the ‘family’ album.
He responded with an understanding “I know”, intoned like ‘there, there’. If the younger me - the teenager who rented Day Of The Dead and had his mind blown at the sight of Joe Pilato being ripped clean in half by a pack of hungry zombies - could see the pic above, his eyes would probably pop out of his head, without a Tom Savini gore effect in sight.
She opted to derobe for my pic, taking off her jacket to reveal a rather racy red top. She laughed as I told her I’d follow suit and ditched my jacket too. Adrienne’s defining role, for me, is radio DJ Stevie Wayne in The Fog (oh, that voice!), a movie which also featured…
And finally, here’s Jewel Staite, who plays Kaylee in Firefly and Serenity. I find it hard to write Jewel’s name without preceding it with the adjective ‘lovely’. Friendly of greeting and never knowingly outsmiled, she’s the very definition of the word ‘photogenic’. That troll-like figure standing next to her is, frankly, spoiling the landscape.