David and MoPo-
I thought I was too tired to answer any of these posts tonight, but your last line triggered a recent memory. My husband, Steven, and I went to a restored movie palace a few weeks ago to see Forbidden Planet and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. All well and good, but the friends we were meeting assured us that they would cobble together some kind of Halloween costumes, too. So, we show up in our genuine tupas (actually used in Defending Your Life) and the only other costumes in the whole place were on the screen. Weren't we charming? Then, the first person I see when we walk in is someone I know from being one the board of education in his town (I am on the board in my town - same county as the person I saw) and his wife. Nice intro, right?
Maybe you could have fun like that, too, David.
Nathalie
David Kusumoto wrote:
Loved your post; no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't shake the image others have always had about paper and book collecting as being high on the "geek factor" thermometer. I may not have looked like a geek, but the tag stuck. Pimply faced, too cerebral, editor of school paper, no girlfriend; a social loser, in otherwords. Flash forward many decades later; things turned out OK, considering no one believed I'd ever make it as a broadcast journalist. I do draw the line, however. I won't dress up like a "in character" at those Trek-fests or comic-conventions.
-d.
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From: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Greg Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "Real" Movie Poster Collectors Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:12:12 -0800
Look...it's very simple....a movie poster collector is someone who amasses original cinema advertising material on an ongoing basis. "Real movie poster collector" is a ridiculously subjective term. I have been a poster collector since 1963; that's 41 years of buying and selling vintage material, almost all of it pre 1970. I spend several thousand dollars a year on movie material. That makes me no more of a "real" collector than Amanda, whose tastes run to modern movies and modern stars. Remember...when I started collecting, "modern" films were AIP's THE RAVEN, KING KONG VS GODZILLA, and PIT & THE PENDULUM, and the "uppity-ups" back in the Sixties thought getting those titles was kind of silly. Even the 50's AIP posters...junk like ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN.... were frowned upon as valueless crap by the "real" collectors I dealt with as a kid. Screw 'em then, and screw 'em now. Collectors should collect what makes them resonate emotionally; heck, I'll bet anything that whoever won the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN lobby card loved the movie as a kid. (For forty big ones, I would hope so....). Phillip, relax and enjoy the diversity that is MOPO. Granted, you and I have similar tastes, we both spend too goddamned much money on paper every year, and we're pretty snobby in my own way about what I put into our mutual little Stashes of Trash every year. But remember...in the eyes of the rest of the world, we are ALL Poster Geeks. There are well-to-do Poster Geeks, like Claude, there is Bruce Hershenson, (the Bill Gates of Poster Geeks), there's Amanda, the Gen X-Alternative Poster Geekette...we're all Geeks on this bus. That's what makes MOPO, and Style B, so doggoned interesting. Let us wave our geek flags high and save the pissing contests for things other than our shared obsession. Greg Douglass
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