I guess I started collecting because it was what I knew...I knew movies.
I grew up in the movies and I'm listed in many credits following
them...my first gig was just out of school and I worked with some guy we
all called Stevie on the set. I was responsible for making the right
fin of a shark that was aptly named Bruce, though I don't think it was
in honor of our esteemed dealer friend on MoPo. My name actually never
made it into the credits of this summer block buster since my mechanic
fin was the one that malfunctioned causing all sorts of delays in
production. You live you learn.
My next line of work was a few years later where I was responsible for
painting the death star, you know..."that's no moon". My first crack at
it was just a painted basketball on a wire hanger; the wire hanger
caused a dimple in the side of the ball which got Old Georgie Poo to
thinking...he later took the dimple idea and made it into the laser
array that destroys Alderaan. I think you can still see one of my
tennis shoes in the background of the big space battle, though only on
the original and not those glorified director cuts where Hans doesn't
shoot first.
After that, work was sort of hard to come by but my next big train came
rolling in right at the beginning of the eighties where I was given the
responsibility to wax all the automobiles on the lot of the 1980 hit
movie Used Cars. Wherever you see a mirror shine that's me. I was so
good that for the next two years I waxed and polished Mr. Zemeckis's
1979 Volare and I had to be real careful with the vinyl top.
Now after years of stalking and threatening phone calls, Stevie gave me
another shot at the big screen. He loved my voice from all the calls,
so he gave me the voiceover part for the clown in Poltergeist and at the
same time he also used me as E.T. brother, the one who pilots the
mothership. Well Stevie felt bad for me so he ended up giving me this
what I thought was an advertisement for Huffy. I didn't think much of
it since I knew this reeses pieces eating, red finger rubber alien was
going to be a flop. I crumbled it up and swiftly tossed into the can.
Thank God I never emptied my trash much b/c a few years later I learned
that this Drew Barrymore girl was hot and signing autographs at some
motel. Well back to the can I went, I tried to wipe off the mustard and
Twinky cream as best I could and iron out most of the wrinkles but let
this be a warning to you, never use the linen setting, way to hot for
paper. Well long story short, Drew never showed but I fell in love with
the motel, Ates or something, where I rented a room and used some duct
tape on my Bike poster to cover up the hole in the wall. Gradually other
holes starting appearing here and there so my poster collecting sort of
grew out of necessity.
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