Gary’s Olde Towne Autograph
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
It’s always nice when so-called reunions of this film or that film bring obscure character actors to an autograph show, who most likely wouldn’t be there for the reason that I think they should be. It’s happened many times in the past. There was Jerry Houser who showed up for Summer of ’42 – but I knew him from The Brady Brides. There was Robert Davi who was there for his James Bond appearance, but I knew him from The Goonies. And of course there was Barry Bostwick who was present because he was in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when I knew and loved him for Murder by Natural Causes. Those are just a few of many examples. Whatever… it works out to my benefit 100% of the time. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes making it big in Professional Wrestling doesn’t have much at all to do with wrestling ability. Sometimes it’s about how well you can strut your stuff. Sometimes it’s about how badly you can piss people off. It’s about how much the crowd will buy into you whether you’re a hero or a heel. Jerry Lawler had been all of that and done all of that. From his early days and his feud with Jimmy Hart in the AWA to his feud with Bret Hart in the WWF, Lawler had always been outspoken enough that he was a natural to take over as commentator as an announcer of the WWF Superstars of Wrestling in 1992. 
OK, actually he was. At least he was supposed to be at the Chiller Theatre event in Parsippany, New Jersey on October 27, 2012. But he would stand by the fact that he wasn’t supposed to be at the Quick Stop in another city in New Jersey. If all of this lingo means nothing to you, then you’ve probably never seen the low budget 1994 black and white flick Clerks that put director Kevin James on the map and made Jay and Silent Bob household heroes. Actor Brian O’Halloran was supposed to be here at Chiller and I took advantage of it, having been disappointed to miss other autograph shows at which he appeared. 
In the Winter of 2011, I was able to meet 
Trust me, I have plenty of guilty pleasures in my life – but possibly the guilitiest of all is the fact that I love the movie Grease 2, the 1982 follow-up to the smash hit Grease. The fact that virtually none of main cast returned didn’t seem to bother the filmmakers, who did manage to scrape together a half-dozen of the original supporting cast, most notably Eve Arden, Sid Caesar, Eddie Deezen, and Didi Conn. The main cast were mostly newcomers, and remarkably, despite the universal panning the film got, many went on to bigger stardom in other works. One – Michelle Pfeiffer – achieved a pretty high level of superstardom even.