There are a plethora of great crummy films of the 1980’s that I spent my teenage years gawking over. Coming in near the top of the list was the teenage fantasy sci-fi film Weird Science. With my good friend Eric Hubble, perhaps no other film from this genre was more quotable. So I was understandably more than stoked to get the chance to meet the film’s star Kelly LeBrock, who played the painfully sexy Lisa, the creation of two geeky underdog teen-aged boys (like us), when she was slated to appear at the April 24, 2010, Hollywood Show in Burbank. She was perhaps even the highlight of the show for me. So you can just imagine my disappointment to learn that the thickness around that once-sexy waist had also apparently extended to the inside of her head.
Kelly LeBrock was in exactly three films of any note: Weird Science, The Woman in Red, and Hard to Kill. And it was undoubtedly her then-husband Steven Seagal who got her the role in the latter film. So the fact that I was willing to shell out $25 for her signed picture and an additional $40 for a photo-op with her should tell you how much I wanted to get a picture with this 80’s pop icon.
But she and her handler weren’t having any of it. They had contracted with a photographer to do the nice professional photos that were becoming prevalent at these shows. I, however, was going to be headed to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre for the screening of North By Northwest before the scheduled time of her photo shoot, so I even went so far as to offer $40 to just get a simple digital image of me and her with my own camera – and was refused. Now mind you there was not one single other celebrity in the building – even the ones who were participating in the $40 professional photos – who were flat out refusing to do photos.
So I ask you…would there be any circumstances that you would refuse $40 to sit still and be in a photo with one fan? Unless of course you were the dumbest person on earth? Perhaps older brother Chet finally got revenge on the robot woman who turned him into a talking blob of goop – and gave her a labotomy. Perhaps he gave me one too for even making the offer.
And if you still need further proof of Miss LeBrock’s lack of brain power, just check out the photo she signed for me. I asked her to write out one of her quotes from the film – “IT’S PURELY SEXUAL” – and then sign her name and the film title. Out of these seven words, she managed to misspell two of them – one of them being a key word in the title of the film that made her marginally famous.
Kelly LeBrock, how about a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?
Celebrity encounters from the Spring Hollywood Show will continue…
yeah, but it’s “i” before “e”, right??? ugh. damn shame. From the sound of it, she’s enjoyed more than a few of those famous pork sandwhiches.
You think she really could’ve kicked Al’s ass?
Eric Hubble
November 3rd, 2010
Too bad you didn’t get a picture of “Fatty” sitting there looking like a dimwit.
Denise
November 3rd, 2010
Geez, you might be able to understand the attitude if she was the hottest item around today, but now that Kelly’s star has pretty much faded from the Galaxy?? She must be losing it big time – and I don’t mean the weight. I wonder if her marriage to Steven Segal pushed her over the edge…
Brian Fisher
November 4th, 2010
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful…” – Kelly LeBrock
Dave Chasteen
November 5th, 2010
Wow I hope your future wife looks that good after three kids when she too is 50. Age eats all of us and did you ever consider that she may have felt bad about her weight and that is why she did not want to take pictures? She is smokin hot for her age now…would make a perfect cougar.
Brianna
June 28th, 2011
No, I did not consider that. Simply because she WAS posing for pictures with a paid photographer (for $40), which I could not attend due a scheduling conflict. The ‘dumbness’ reared its ugly head when I offered her $40 to get a picture with her at the table, which was refused. As for the ‘fatness’ – I just calls ’em as I sees ’em.
Brad
June 28th, 2011