First, let me say, I love seeing Wallace Shawn on Young
Sheldon.
Second, Princess Bride, as I have said many times before,
was a wonderful surprise. The Wife literality
dragged me to the theater. I did not want to see a ‘chick flick’ and I made no
bones about it. I am so glad she was persistent.
Third, I’m going to gripe about the line. On Saturday I spent about 40 minutes in line
before he needed to take a break. I do not begrudge him a break. I moved on to other things. Then later, I had
about 2 hours before the Ben Affleck signing and I joined Wallace’s line with about 50 people in front of me. After 90 minutes I was still about 20
people from the front and I gave up.
Sunday I got in Wallace’s line after Jodi Benson. I was in line about an hour. He needed to do a photo op or a panel or
maybe both. They gave the people in line
numbers so we could do other stuff and come back. We would be the ‘first’. Okay, that is nice and friendly. I was number
20 or so. I went and sat and I think I ate
a protein bar. When I got back, they
queued us up in numerical order. That was nice too.
When he returned the molasses like line started flowing. It did not help
that the VIPs attendees kept filtering in. They
have that privilege with their badges. They paid extra for that. It is just a beating
to have invested so much time to see new people added to the line in front of
you.
If a fellow hound had not asked me to get his item signed, I
would have given up. Even though this is great practice for SDCC, there is such a thing as overkill. When my marathon ended and I was
in front of Wallace, I got a big smile from him. He seemed excited to see me. As
I’m sure he was with each fan.
I handed over my buddy’s item first. It had several signatures
from Princess Bride on it already. Wallace
asked about those. He seemed impressed my buddy had gotten Carl Reiner and
Carol Kane. After he signed, I handed over my photo. To be truthful, I really
wanted a quote added: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the
line!
By this time, I just wanted this to be over. I was ready to
go home. I did not ask for the quote. He signed and I turned and left for the day.
AH
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