Word: autographs
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Star Wars fans love to stand in line - for movie tickets, for Billy Dee Williams' autograph, for limited-edition anything. That much was clear Thursday, as a few thousand of them contentedly cooled their heels in a line that wound around the Los Angeles Convention Center on the first day of the largest Star Wars party in history, Celebration IV. The event, only the fourth official Star Wars fan gathering ever, marks 30 years since a fictional galaxy far, far away burst into our cultural consciousness and gave grown men an excuse to hang onto their toy collections. By Memorial...
...actor Eric Dane, passes through that it becomes clear Halloween is sharing turf with the cast of Grey's Anatomy, also filming at the VA hospital that day. This is a classic L.A. moment, in which fictional doctors from two different media and vastly different genres might give an autograph to a real doctor in the parking lot. But the juxtaposition of the two casts also highlights the differences between Zombie's Hollywood and almost everyone else...
...course, he can't count on their votes. The primaries are more than a year away, and Minnesotans don't like to be rushed. I ask one woman who has just requested Franken's autograph if she plans to support him, and she replies, "I haven't a clue...
...world of business or government: full speed ahead from the pages of The New York Times to Cambridge, Massachusetts! And all the better if the new president has a gimmick, for these are the sort of kids who were utterly delighted when former University President Lawrence H. Summers would autograph their dollar bills beneath his signature as Secretary of the Treasury. Thank goodness Harvard doesn’t work like that, at least not all the time. It remains an academic institution, however inconvenient or archaic that may seem to these “disappointed” few. No institution...
...face of it, the Washington Capital Area Historical Autograph and Manuscript Show seemed like many such shows held around the country each year. Some 20 top dealers gathered at an Alexandria, Va., hotel on Dec. 9 to peddle thousands of autographs, letters and official papers of the famous - many of the more expensive items locked in glass cases. But among the customers wandering through the exhibits this time were two investigators from the National Archives. They passed out brochures on how to spot historical documents stolen from the government and chatted with the dealers to let them know that...