Autographs - Page 2

And is named after you.

I have a copy of the Constitution signed by Justice Scalia on my desk.

No, seriously...

It's only awesome if he tried sneaking his name into the other signatures at the bottom.

I have my Michael Keaton autograph hanging above my desk. The frame's shit but I've had it since 1993. My signed Guster CD sits with the other CD's. I never met Keaton but I did meet the guys from Guster and they were incredibly friendly.

I used to have a MST3K The Movie one sheet signed by Mike Nelson. It was stolen two years later, along with an Abe Vigoda autographed headshot. I'm still saddened by that.

Somewhere, I have Barry Williams autograph. He visited my university in the early 90's and for some reason I really wanted Greg Brady's signature.

Devin, or Justin Clark, or anybody else for that matter, is it cool to ask for autographs on the interview/junket thing? I guess that would be the ideal time and place, but is there a rule of etiquette?

On one hand, I agree that most autographs are meaningless, but often they're great mementos and are connected to good stories, like the above about sneaking to meet Elvis in '56.

On the more meaningless front, in addition to a ton of comics signed by people who were popular 10 years ago, I bought a copy of Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, and it was signed inside. The guy at the book store said he was there earlier in the week.

On the other hand, there's some stuff I'd never part with. My Terminator 2 dvd metal slipcase signed by Stan Winston and the accompanying photo of us together. The signed Harvey Birdman DVD and "I Am America" from Stephen Colbert. My "Mellow Yellow" album signed by Donovan that I keep with the guitar pick he gave me.

Most of all though, was the magical day I spent on the set of "The Good Shepherd" where I studied Robert Deniro directing Matt Damon, and got cinematography tips from Robert Richardson.
Richardson signed my The Aviator DVD twice because he was afraid he smudged the cover and so he signed the disc too. Really great guy.
At the end of the night when they wrapped, Deniro was nice enough to shake my hand and sign a Raging Bull DVD for me.
Those two represent a lot of hope and aspiration for me as a budding filmmaker.

I don't have anything autographed

My favorite is a baseball signed by Hank Aaron.

Also...

A signed copy of Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk when he was doing a Powell's in-store,

And a poster signed by all of White Zombie from the La Sexorsisto era.

Here's an autograph story: Several years back, I went to see Warren Zevon play. His opening act was Jill "I Kissed a Girl" Sobule. I enjoyed her set quite a bit and thought she was a terrific performer. She mentions during the set that she'll be at the merch table if anyone wants to get a CD signed "so you can put it on eBay." After she's done, I head back to pick up a CD. I asked her which album had a particular song on it and she tells me. She asks if I want it signed, I say sure.

Then she looks at me for a second and I look at her. There's kind of an awkward pause. She then says "Who do I make it out to?" Me: "Oh, sorry. Make it out to Will." She signs it, I go on my happy little way and watch Zevon perform for what would turn out to be the last time I'd get to see him.

The next day, I take a look at what she wrote. I read it a couple of times and think I must be misreading it. I finally show it to a friend of mine who reads it and asks "Does that say 'To Will: Lame'?"

Me: "That's what I thought it said."

I guess she thought I really was going to put it on eBay and didn't want her to personalize it. So, I have my very own personally insulting copy of Jill Sobule's Pink Pearl.

I'm changing my name to Ahoatam and burglarizing your house.

I have a few signed books, including a nice edition of Gaiman's Dream Hunters.

I ran into Tommy Lasorda at a Hooters in Jacksonville and got him to sign a menu for my dad, who used to be a huge Dodgers fan. Note: Dads generally don't want signed Hooters menus as gifts. Go figure.

Only two - signed tickets by Neko Case and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. My indie cred is almost nonexistant.

I have a signed Clarity CD by Jimmy Eat World. That's pretty much it.
Devin won this thread for Scorsese, on a Last Temptation of Christ DVD, no less.

Someone get this woman a Ford autograph, stat!

Maybe we could solve two problems and Devin could send her his ugly poster.

The one that says 'To Devin'

That's certainly the bearded one. Now that is something to frame. Wasn't it a signed poster of Munich?

My family still has a "Mein Kampf" edition signed by Goebbles as a wedding gift for my granny. Go figure.
Not to much to impress movie geeks I suppose. Exept Leni Riefenstahl groupies maybe.

Devin... Eileen... whatever. Easy as changing a F to a B on a report card...

You can only go to a B?

...sssaaaad.

C'mon, A's are tricky. B's are the easy out.

Though I really do think autographs are silly, I did have John Frusciante sign the ticket after one of his concerts, but in my defense, it's fucking John Frusciante. And it was just a scribble.

Thanks. How my boyfriend got it is kind of fun - it was really just a stab in the dark that paid off. He had read, I think in Premiere, that Jimmy Stewart still answered all his own fan mail. So he bought the picture of him, and mailed it out with a note, explaining that my birthday was coming up, that I absolutely loved him, etc., and would love an autograph for my birthday. And Jimmy Stewart signed it, mailed it back to my boyfriend and that was pretty much it. Of course it would have been cooler if he'd gotten to actually meet the man and get the autograph, but this was a pretty fun story to relate as well.

Lisa wins this thread in my eyes.


As shamed as I am to admit it, I collected Star Wars figures back in the day, and it was my mission to get every figure signed by the actor that portrayed them.

I was successful with all of them except Harrison Ford and, of course, Alec Guinness. I am convinced that Billy Dee Williams was drunk and/or sick when he signed my Lando figure.

I later grew up and sold them.


I also have Patrick Stewart's autograph and the thing that struck me about him was that he smelled great.

Outside of that, not much else.

I once saw Iggy Pop sign a 6 year-old boy.

Please tell me they put it on ebay afterwards.

i got trent reznor's autograph at one of the "meet and greets" in 2005.
he was.. pretty short. didnt like the idea of shaking my hand at first and eyed me up but nodded and gave in. was pretty quiet as he signed my ticket and my broken album, and when i asked him about the drummer troubles all of a sudden it was a different world. couldn't get the guy to shut up.

also was in toronto once walking down the street and passed by muchmusic. kevin federline was appearing i guess promoting his album. he signed my hotel receipt. his legion of fans consisted of about 12 people. i honestly had nothing better to do. let it be known that that was the night britney broke up with him by texting. i like to think i had something to do with that.

Depends on the size of the interview, really. If they're not on an absolutely strict time limit, most interviewees stick around a few minutes to sign stuff, especially if it's a smaller roundtable with only 4 or 5 other writers. (One of my big regrets is that my first interview, I got to interview Michael McKean. He signed a copy of both Spinal Tap and Clue for the other two writers. While he did this, I kicked my own ass internally for not thinking of bringing either.) It's damn near impossible during a panel, though, where if the interviewee's people don't swiftly whisk them out of the room the second someone says "Thank you all for coming", there's 30-40 other writers vying for attention. And I've seen the mad scramble for autographs at a panel, and it's just embarrassing.

Generally, I was more excited about doing video interviews, where there was a few minutes before and after the cameras rolled to just chat with whoever I interviewed. Both The Rock and Matt Damon were just class acts all the way.

Getting signatures at a junket is bad form, but also standard practice.

This isn't an autograph story, but in a lot of ways it's better.

A while back a friend called me, all excited. He had just got off the phone with Carrie Fisher and Joe Mantegna. We've got a mutual acquaintance who works for Paramount's regional offices in the southeast and has done a lot of work on movies shot in and around North Carolina. On the set of a film one day he called my friend and handed his phone to Carrie Fisher. A few minutes later he did the same thing with Joe Mantegna ... who stayed in character as Fat Tony for the entire conversation.

To keep things on topic, this acquaintance worked a film with Brittany Murphy, who he said was a sweetheart. On the last day of filming she brought him a King of the Hill poster signed by the entire cast.

Did I mention that I hate my friends?

I actually have a ticket from the screening of The Filth and The Fury signed by Steve Jones while he was doing his radio show. Great times.

I do understand the appeal. I'd probably have a small collection of signed DVDs if it weren't for the fact that I haven't really met any famous actors.

The one thing I do have somewhere is a photo of Rutger Hauer signed by him with a little message to me. It's from about 1989 I think. I never actually met him, but the father of my best friend at the time was a TV commercial director and had done some of Hauer's ads for Guinness ("Guinness... Pure Genius"). My friend knew how much I loved the guy from The Hitcher and Wanted: Dead or Alive, so he got Hauer to sign a pic for me. It's just amazing to own something he has touched.

Oh, and once I met Chow Yun Fat. He signed for everyone, grinned away, and was totally cool.

And that is the epitome of Will's life.

The epitome of my life? All my autographs are either wrestlers (The Undertaker, Marty Jannety, Hawk, Greg Valentine, and others) or 80s hair metal band members (which includes Tony Franklin, Carmine Appice, and John Sykes of Blue Murder).

Marty Jannety? Nice.

Army of Darkness original theatrical one sheet signed by Bruce Campbell, but unframed until I get lucky enough to somehow meet Sam Raimi and have him sign it as well.

I dislike the idea of autographs in general, but everybody has the people they'd geek out for.

I had a napkin that was singed by Alice Cooper that i proceeded to loose in about 3 months, but still it was nice meeting him. He was a very nice man.