Julie Newmar and Harry Hamlin � Wizard World
Saturday Kevin and I went to the Convention Center in Anaheim for Wizard World Anaheim. Kevin had never been to Anaheim, and I hadn't been there in a few years, but I thought I would be able to navigate okay, which I could until just before we got to the convention center and ended up in Disneyland instead. It was very confusing because the streets were not well marked, and it was sort of like LAX where suddenly the three left lanes take you one place (Departing flights/Disneyland) and the three right lanes take you to another (Arriving flights/Anaheim Convention Center). We were in the left lanes and had to be escorted out of Disneyland, which an officer did very cheerfully. They had a stack of "Exit" tags ready for the windshields of people who are trying to get to the convention center.
Once we got to the ACC and entered WW, we found Julie Newmar sitting at a booth signing autographs, and so I gave her the inner sleeve of the DVD Li'l Abner with her picture on the back. She was not wearing glasses and swayed her head around trying to examine what I had given her and finally said, "What's this???" rather emphatically. I told her what it was and then she said, "Oh, this is the movie version." I asked her whether she was in the Broadway version because it appears that she remembered that much better. Anyway, I had to point to where I wanted her to sign the DVD cover, but she signed under her photo over some of the text instead, which was probably a better place than the one I pointed to. She didn't charge us for the autograph and someone behind us wanted to buy a photo, and so we moved on and walked past Della Reese to try to find Harry Hamlin.
As it turned out, Harry was giving a Q&A session upstairs with wife Lisa Rinna (whom I had never heard of), and so we went there for the last 10-15 minutes (which was enough), and I learned a lot about Lisa. After Q&A, Harry and Lisa went downstairs to sign autographs; Harry was selling copies of his autobiography and they were both selling photos to be autographed. We stood in line for that, and I bought a photo of Harry for $25 (the book was $40), which he autographed while talking with me, and I also gave him the DVD case of Class of the Titans, which he started to autograph as well, but his agent behind me told me I would have to pay $25. I said that I already gave Harry $25 in cash, and Harry continued with the autograph even though the agent wanted me to pay another $25! Julie Newmar's autograph was free, and when we met Ray Harryhausen, we got two autographs from him (on DVDs) for $20, but I guess the price has gone up. Anyway, Harry was very nice about it and said I didn't have to pay for the DVD autograph. He remarked that I had a very old DVD, and I told him that I had bought it as soon as it came out and that I had the VHS version before that.
On the way home we stopped at Bevmo. Kevin put photos of the event on Facebook, and maybe I can copy some of them.
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