It was ironic that Catherine Mary Stewart was appearing at the Flashback Weekend Horror Convention in Chicago on Sunday, August 14, 2011. I hadn’t even known that I would be attending this show beforehand – when I chose to show Jamie the film Weekend at Bernie’s exactly one week earlier. Catherine Mary Stewart had portrayed Gwen, the summer intern that Richard (Jonathan Silverman) developed a debilitating crush on. In fact, the first time he approached her for a date, the only words that would come out of his mouth was the non-sequitur “my aunt is very sick.”
Catherine Mary Stewart hasn’t done a lot of other work that interested me (other than her appearances in Mischief and Nighthawks, neither of which I can honestly recall), but Weekend at Bernie’s was such a classic during my high school years, that I simply had to get a signed photo from her. She was very friendly and her price was right: $20 for the signed photo, which included a picture with her. We chatted a bit about how I had just watched Weekend at Bernie’s and the difficulty in obtaining a DVD copy of Mischief.
And naturally, I had her add a reference to that very odd line regarding my aunt. None of my aunts were actually sick, but unlike Richard, I actually have at least one.
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