- Joined
- Jun 25, 2019
Mid 1990s', Dallas, SciFi\Fantasy convention...So do we have anyone else with an interesting con story that they'd like to share? Doesn't have to be the Pulitzer prize winning material @EriMin is giving us, heck you don't even have to had worked at the con an attendee story is just as good. I've already shared a few if mine throughout the thread, and so far this has been a riot.
Working guest relations.
"To Wong Fu, thanks for everything..." had just come out, and there was a sudden spike in interest from fans for Julie Newmar... with the tie in because of Batman, some exceptional person decided Julie needed to be at a scifi con.
She didn't "get" con culture, didn't like scifi, and truely just didn't fit.
Very quickly after picking her up and getting her onsite, it was realized she needed, not so much a handler, as much as an alcoholic's seeing eye dog.
Imagine, if you can, statuesque Julie Newmar, in her 60s' being politely steered around corners, down stairs, through hallways, by a frightened volunteer, vapor clouds of ethanol trailing her...
The saddest part, was when a staffer that had copied the prop picture of her from the movie, got her to autograph it, but she was too drunk to remember the quote from the movie.
"Who the hell is Wong Fu, and why would I be thanking him?"