stars that send free autographs.if you mail them.

[imaniac]

admin said:

imaniac said:

I guess that smile on your face was due to a lack of emotion. LOL LOL LOL


Well to me sigs at premieres DO have emotional value. Sure, in some cases you can't even talk to the actors. But when you buy sigs or write them you don't even SEE them. And mostly I have gotten the chance to talk. I even talked to Orlando Bloom on the Pirates premiere. Tom has evidence, he tapes it

My smile: that sig is currently for sale....yes sir-ee bob: a genuine Keira Knightley is up for grabs....just mail me a bid. For € 40 it can be yours!

About not seeing an actor: I have on my PC dozens of emails from Star Wars actors I have contact with:
Mike Quinn (who is currently making a muppet doll for me...heck: he is even using some ideas I gave him!), Toby Philpott, Eric Walker (I cooperate with him as I am promoting his project in the Netherlands), Kiran Shah (some pix I made are on his website)...and the list goes on.
Have I ever seen them? Most of them never (of the 4 above just Shah & Walker).
Still, the fact that they email me, send me great stuff (even X-mas wishes!), and most importantly know my name makes it more special than a quick scribble of someone that doesn't even look at you.

Take Carrie Fisher: yes: I have seen her, yes: we shared some words.....in some way I can say I talked with her....but in my book that handful of lines doesn't really classify as 'talking'....

Buying autographs: my Lucas, Spielberg, Ford etc etc also haven't got any emotional value.
I like them 'coz of my fandom and the fact that they are rare....but they don't have the emotional value that my Anthony Daniels' sigs have.

I guess it's a matter of taste and opinion. I have corresponded with some stars through e-mail - and even received X-mas cards - and yes, I admit that felt really great. But that's not talking autograoh collecting.

For me an autographs is not a piece of paper with scribble on it, for me a sig is a memory of a meeting I had with someone I admired.

Now I can see that you regard personal contact higher than bought sigs etc. I totally agree. But that doesn't mean that sigs at premieres don'thave emotional value. To me, and to many others, they do.

[Caroline]

admin said:

bill said:

A sig that you score at a premiere also is free, and the cool thing about them is: They're real!

But it doesn't have any emotional value.

Waiting all day, meeting people, having fun, tension.... And then.. the first car! The actors IRL, are they going to sign? Can I get all autographs I want? Would Orlando sign my LotR box? HE DOES!!! YEAHHH!! High five, for Orlando, high five for Keira, high five for Johnny! No, not any emotional value?!

For me it doesn't count if I talked to the actors or not (well I rubbed Johnny's arm, thats better then talking ;D) but the whole day was great. And the sigs are a memory of that day.

[kitfisto]

ok.ok.i understand.i also love the emotions that you feel when you meet the actors in real life.

[beejay]

I agree, everybody has its favourites and I think you cannot compare meeting stars at cons are the same than meeting (much bigger stars like for example Johnny Depp) at a premiere. Of course you can have a better chat with them at a con than that quick smile or 'hi, how are you'. The adrenaline of trying to get the sign in a really crowded place (or seeing the big car arrive with its important content) is more memorable than just paying for the autograph at a con. This is the real autograph-hunting, mostly long waiting for just that short moment, and that sign is more valuable and memorable than paying lots of euros at cons. Staying next to a star during a con though must be a really thrilling experience, I really envy those who assist the stars at the Cons. Sadly I cannot share these moments, but I can tell you that the best stories to tell are from the signs I obtained 'in the wild'.

[imaniac]

beejay said:

I agree, everybody has its favourites and I think you cannot compare meeting stars at cons are the same than meeting (much bigger stars like for example Johnny Depp) at a premiere. Of course you can have a better chat with them at a con than that quick smile or 'hi, how are you'. The adrenaline of trying to get the sign in a really crowded place (or seeing the big car arrive with its important content) is more memorable than just paying for the autograph at a con. This is the real autograph-hunting, mostly long waiting for just that short moment, and that sign is more valuable and memorable than paying lots of euros at cons. Staying next to a star during a con though must be a really thrilling experience, I really envy those who assist the stars at the Cons. Sadly I cannot share these moments, but I can tell you that the best stories to tell are from the signs I obtained 'in the wild'.

That's EXACTLY how I feel about it. Premieres etc are autograph HUNTING. It's the excitement of notknowing if the star will sign, not knowing who will be there. That's why I said the a sig for me is a memory.