![]() I tucked it in my back pocket, and nobody knew. I knew I had to do something to stand out… I knew I had to do something to distinguish myself. Thing is, I was up against this one guy who’s already been a leading man in the movie, he was looking at a TV series and I was just 18. “See when I was auditioning for this, there were four callbacks, and Pat Boone would be there for the fourth one. “I just look at all these pictures and I remember the scenes it all just takes me back.“ He tapped on the knife photo. He moved his hand over to the left of the poster which shows a painting of him as gang leader Nicky Cruz holding a knife to Pat Boone’s David Wilkerson. I sent him a letter, he signed it through the mail for me.“ “You got Pat!” He breathed in appreciation. He pointed to the various images on the collage and noticed the scrawl on the right He picked it up, shook his head as if he wasn’t sure it was real. I laid it on his table and his eyes just widened. Pat Boone had signed this for me over a decade ago, and it’s been waiting for a strata all this time. It’s an old movie from 1970 about a minister who goes into the inner city to try and preach the gospel to the gangs. I came over and pulled out an 8 x 10 poster from the Cross and the Switchblade. In any event, I was coming to see Estrada for a different reason. Cartoons, Battlestar Galactica, Friday the 13th, Chips, just a weird mishmash of things – more like what I’d expect to find at a strictly autograph show like Chiller. ![]() Then again, the whole guest list here seems strange and haphazard. Actually kind of a weird show to be doing a reunion for. She did grab Cricket Leigh, who just squealed include over her costume and the bison she was riding, and while we waited, we made our way over to Erik Estrada.įanboy expo was doing a whole Chips reunion… Not my thing. We got in, only to discover that most of Maddie’s targets were out to lunch. It was her intention to finally bring out her flying bison and ride it through a big convention. Maddie had been looking forward to fanboy expo for a while, because of several actresses from Avatar the last Airbender attending. Sometimes that’s also the sign that there’s something really good in the store. Like I said, it feels like everything was working against us. Over the course of the show Maddie managed to break both feet in her Appa costume, and I managed to lose a boot jet. We got to the show, and immediately one of the pouches popped off my Star Lord belt. That’s generally fine, I tend to look at photo ops and really a lot of that kind of stuff as just straight up price gouging, and the gouging is certainly still on at most conventions with celebrities. There was no way I was getting my photo op… I’d have to just hope for table selfies. Paint was still drying on the new boot jets and gun as we pulled out of the driveway a full 40 minutes late. Ever have one of those shows where everything seems to be going wrong? We ended up having to adjust Maddie‘s costume for Fanboy Expo in the morning we were trying to leave, and quite frankly, I was still in last-minute con crunch as well trying to do upgrades for an idealized Star Lord.
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