Fran's Con report can be found on my Series 5 News Page, however, she sent me her Con photos this week and the breakfast with the stars certainly sounded fun! I've inserted thumbnails of the photos in this extract from Fran's report. All the thumbnails are at the bottom of the page. All photos are 20kb or less.
We stood in line for entrance into the Ballroom
with anticipation. I wondered, how would they do this?? Well,
they let us in and we went to one of the tables that were all
round, and I immediately noticed that some in the corner front
had RESERVED on them, so we grabbed a table
close by. But I was soon to see that was unnecessary.
The first to arrive at the buffet table --
which was very well-appointed, from fruit to sausage to biscuits
-- was Robert Trebor. He was not staying for the con, but agreed
to have breakfast with fans for this charity event. Robert and
Bruce Campbell occasionally threw a zinger joke accross the room
at each other, but very good-natured, and you could tell they are
very good friends for real.
Our table lucked out when Bruce came in and
said loudly, "Now, where is there an empty seat?" Of
course, we all pointed and screamed, "Over here!" Bruce sat with
us as we ate breakfast, and we all chatted as if he knew us for
years. The Long Islanders at the table answered his questions
about "that Joey Buttafuoco thing." Then he asked us to
go around the table and tell him our name and what are jobs were.
At this point, applause hit the room as Jacqueline
Kim arrived. Bruce told us "a lot of actors are scared to
death" to do something such as this -- sit and chat with
fans at breakfast, but he personally loves it, because he is
isolated from fans and needs their feedback, and cons are one of
the only ways to get such direct feedback. When he finished
eating, he started table-hopping.
After he left, I went over to where JK was and
posed for a few pics. She admired my "The Debt" T-shirt,
saying, "Oh, you have one too." Then I thought my
camera wasn't working, and she said, "I think the eye is
better for memory than the camera anyway." She smiled at me
and I thanked her for her patience.
In a little while, Claire Stansfield stopped by to chat. She
feeds off the fans and is quite comfortable. We talked about her
asthma, her vacationing when she left in Cape Cod and the fact
she has a personal trainer she shares with a couple of friends
because of cost. She said she lost weight on a lo-/no-carb diet.
She was very accomodating for mucho pics. She is extremely tall
for this small reporter to stand next to. I already was becoming
a fan, but her friendliness and sense of humor cinched it!
That about did it for the breakfast -- all but
a quick pic with Robert Trebor before he packed it in. JK was not
long at the breakfast and didn't eat with us as the others did.But it was
definitely the BEST FUN FOR THE MONEY AND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND and
something as a fan, I will always to remember!
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