Dean Stockwell! Awesome, Channing!
Take care,
Michael
channinglylethomson wrote:
> 2/4/2005
>
> Hey MOPOers --
>
> I had an eventful trip to LA. I went to the Collectors Show in Burbank
> and saw several celebrities. I was able to get some autographs I'd
> been looking for. First off, I finally have Connie Stevens' autograph
> on my one-sheet for PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND. I'd already had it signed by
> Troy Donahue before his death so this was a wonderful treat. I had
> Russ Tamblyn sign my half-sheet for WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS
> GRIMM (w/great artwork by Reynold Brown, if I'm not mistaken).
> Finally, Tab Hunter signed my one-sheet for LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE. He
> was particularly nice and very real -- I volunteered to watch his table
> while he went to the john.
>
> My friends and I went over to West Hollywood that afternoon to attend
> the memorial service for Shelly Winters at her favorite coffee shop,
> THE SILVER SPOON. This is a real greasy spoon from the 1960s/70s right
> on Santa Monica Blvd. No celebrities there, with the exception of
> media maven Mr. Blackwell of "worst dressed" list fame. I enjoyed the
> small shrine they set up for Shelley next to the buffet -- it had a
> glossy black-and-white photo of her plus a plate with her favorite meal
> of, I kid you not, ham and eggs. That night, we retired to the bar at
> the Burbank Airport Hilton and watched a rather debonair Dean Stockwell
> play pool with a bimbo as a rather boozy Michael Madsen watched.
>
> The next morning we spent a little more time at the show. It was fun
> to put some faces with some names -- most exciting, of course was Mr.
> Freeman Fisher, having a table at the show for the first time. I would
> have enjoyed talking with him a bit more but he was always swamped with
> the better customers!
>
> The rest of the trip was perhaps the best part -- sitting in the hot
> tub and by the pool in a very nice 80 degrees Palm Springs. The only
> sad part about that experience was that when I went with my friend to
> see a movie at the local art house one night, we were automatically
> given senior tickets @ $6. each. Pretty cheap but I don't look that
> old -- however everyone's a senior in Palm Springs! The movie, by the
> way, was a German film about a kid in a Nazi Military School around
> 1942. The German name of the film is NAPOLA. The US title was BEFORE
> THE FALL. Very strong, powerful moviemaking.
>
> Channing Thomson in San Francisco
>
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