As I entered the heavy metal era wholeheartedly in the late 1980’s, there was one movie that epitomized the metal-headedness of our generation of morons and that was Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. While Keanu Reeves, who portrayed Ted, went on to bigger and maybe-not-so-much-better things, his partner in headbanging time travel, Alex Winter, who was Bill, is now signing autographs at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on April 30, 2011.
Well that’s not exactly true. There was Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and there was Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventures (the animated series) and there’s the upcoming (possibly) Bill & Ted 3 some 24 years later. (OK, there was also The Lost Boys, which predated the first Bill & Ted.)
But apparently, money hasn’t been a problem for Alex Winter, because he declined my offer to sign an additional item for $10 after I made the first standard Bill & Ted purchase at the full price. (This was the CD cover for Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey that I had gotten signed by William Sadler at a previous Chiller Theatre show). I, in turn, declined to pay an additional $25 for it.
So we just struck a friendly pose and I was done with Bill. If only he had remembered his own Bill-ish advice: Be excellent to each other.
Celebrities of the 2011 Chiller Theatre Show will continue…
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