Alien Encounter
Friday, May 2nd, 2014
I attended a Horrorhound convention in September of 2012 and was able to meet a pretty hefty portion of the cast of the horror classic Aliens. I thought that for the most part I was done with meeting people from this film. There was really no realistic hope of meeting the film’s star Sigourney Weaver, although I did hear that she made at least one convention appearance…and was charging something incredible like $500 for an photo op. But when I found out that she was appearing in one of the Broadway shows that my friend Bob and I may or may not have been seeing in New York, I took a chance and brought along my Aliens photo that I had already had signed by Carrie Henn, who had played Newt. Read the rest of this entry »
I was quite excited about the chance to meet Kristine Sutherland, who played the role of Joyce Summers – aka Buffy’s mom – in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She starred in 58 episodes of the series through the first five seasons (until her character is killed off), and then returning in the last two seasons in guest roles involving manifestations and flashbacks. The episode The Body, in which Joyce dies in a purely natural way, was one of the most powerful of the series.
Most people know David Hyde Pierce for precisely one thing: his role as Frasier Crane’s younger brother, the fastidious and snobby Niles Crane on the hit TV sitcom Frasier. I’m sure that very few would guess that he made his screen debut in the film The Terminator or remember him from The Fisher King, Nixon, or Sleepless in Seattle. But how could you? Not after he played such a memorable and iconic roll for which he won four Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. 
The autographs from the Friday the 13th series continue with another unique character in the series canon: Rob Dier, who actually set out in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter to avenge his sister Sandra Dier, who was killed off in the second film. This was rather unique to have not only an avenging relative, but also someone who makes it right up to the very end along with the ‘final girl’ – in this case Trish (played by 
I love the films of the Coen Brothers, so even a lesser entry to their canon like Intolerable Cruelty brings me a great amount of pleasure. It was because of this that I was pretty excited to meet Irwin Keyes when he appeared at the HorrorHound Weekend on Friday, March 22, 2013. He played the ice cold hit man Wheezy Joe, whose addiction to his inhaler proved to be his downfall. I didn’t need to look much further than that credit to know that I wanted to meet him. But it turns out that he’s done quite a bit more that interested in me.