Jason Is Everywhere Part IV: The Final Chapter
Monday, November 10th, 2014
As faithful readers know, over the last couple of years I’ve been working my way through collecting autographs and photo ops with the actors/stuntmen who portrayed mass murderer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th franchise. I had been nearing completion when I struck paydirt in the Fall of 2013 when I (nearly) completed my collection of Jason at two different events one week apart. Of course as an devotee of the series knows, The Final Chapter doesn’t always mean the FINAL chapter. But for right now, one might say I’m pretty darn complete. Read the rest of this entry »
After a long day at Disneyland, it’s always nice to have a rather leisurely morning the day after, and that’s exactly what we did on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. There’s never any shortage of laughs when I’m at David’s house, what with quoting someone or something, or watching skewed Brady Bunch clips on YouTube, trying to get ready between the fits of cracking up. Eventually we composed ourselves and headed out to Los Angeles to meet Jimmy at his office. We milled about there briefly and then hit the road for the trek to Malibu Creek State Park, arriving a little bit after 11:00am. 
He was such an unassuming little old gentleman, just shy of 90 years of age in fact, that it was hard to believe that this was Ron Moody, who had played the villianous Fagin in the 1968 Oscar winning Best Picture Oliver! His former co-stars Mark Lester and Shani Wallis were sitting nearby, but I had already 
When someone keeps showing up at collectors shows over and over again, sometimes I look for an excuse to get an autograph/photo op so that I can be done with it. Tony Todd is one such example. I had seen him on several occasions at shows, and at one point I found out that he had a relatively small part in an episode of Smallville. The only problem was that he didn’t have any photos from that show for sale. Clearly he is most famous for his horror connection as the namesake of the film Candyman, as well as starring in two different remakes of Night of the Living Dead, and for his recurring role in the Final Destination films.