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Calendar of Upcoming Celebrity Autograph Signings

Upcoming signings around the country include Pete Townsend, Chris Elliott, Weird Al Yankovic, Stanley Tucci and many more!

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Discounted Tickets to the Hollywood Show in Burbank Next Weekend

Discounted Tickets for the Hollywood Show through Goldstar

The Hollywood Show is world-famous for giving fans the chance to personally meet and purchase autographs and photos from literally scores of their favorite celebrities from the '70s and '80s right through today, while regularly featuring various star-studded cast reunions from hit TV shows and movies. In the past, these have included Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar from TV's Batman, the casts of the classic The Waltons,The Brady Bunch, Dallas, The Twilight Zone, Happy Days, classic films like West Side Story and many more. Going stronger than ever since its first event in 1979, The Hollywood Show takes place only four times a year and boasts a large array of vendors selling comic books, posters, autographs, vintage magazines and other pop culture, entertainment and celebrity-related memorabilia.

Discounted Tickets to the Hollywood Show in Burbank on October 6 and 7

Calendar of Celebrity Autograph Signings for September 2012

As a service to our fellow autograph collectors out there, Collector's Shangri-La provides a monthly calendar of selected celebrity autograph signings through our blog at: http://collectorsshangrila.blogspot.com/

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9/6/2012 6:30 PM at Barnes & Noble - Northline Avenue. Greensboro, NC.
9/7/2012 7:00 PM at The Village Presbyterian Church - Mission Road. Prairie Village, KS.
9/8/2012 1:00 PM at Blue Willow Bookshop - Memorial Drive. Houston, TX.
9/15/2012 10:30 AM at Children's Book World - West Pico Blvd. Los Angeles, CA.
9/18/2012 3:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - North Blackstone Avenue. Fresno, CA.
9/29/2012 at Anderson's Bookshop - West Jefferson. Naperville, IL.
Jamie Lee Curtis, the original "scream queen" and star of Halloween and A Fish Called Wanda, signing her children's book My Brave Year of Firsts

Ed Wood Photo with Johnny Depp Signed by Martin Landau

9/7/2012 7:30 PM at Hollywood Palms Cinema- South Route 59. Naperville, IL.
Martin Landau, star of Mission Impossible and Ed Wood, will be hosting a screening of Ed Wood

Coffy Photo Signed by Pam Grier

9/7/2012 7:30 PM at Hollywood Palms Cinema - West 75th Street. Woodbridge, IL.
9/9/2012 7:30 PM at Hollywood Palms Cinema - South Route 59. Naperville, IL.
Pam Grier, blaxploitation star, hosting a screening of Foxy Brown and Jackie Brown

Terminator Anthology Limited Edition Print Signed by Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong, Michael Biehn, Kristana Loken

9/7/2012 to 9/9/2012 HorrorHound Weekend at the Marriott Indianapolis East.
Scheduled guests include: Michael Biehn, Elvira, Edward Furlong, Anthony Michael Hall, Linda Hamilton, Lance Henriksen, Tom Savini, and many more.

2001: A Space Odyssey Print Signed by Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea

9/7/12 to 9/9/12 The Hollywood Show at the Hilton Rosemont at Chicago O'Hare Airport.
Scheduled guests include: Loni Anderson, Angela Cartwright, Keir Dullea, Barbara Feldon,  Pam Grier, Bernie Kopell, Sally Kellerman, June Lockhart, Gary Lockwood, Robert Loggia, Bill Mumy, Connie Stevens, and many more.

Incredible Hulk #181 Re-Creation Original Art Signed by Herb Trimpe

9/8/12 to 9/9/12 Baltimore Comic-Con at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Scheduled guests include: Stan Lee, Neal Adams, Brian Bolland, Frank Cho, John Romita Jr., Herb Trimpe, and many more.

9/8/2012 7:00 PM at Hollywood Palms Cinema - South Route 59. Naperville, IL.
Loni Anderson, television sex symbol, hosting a screening of WKRP In Cincinnati

9/11/2012 5:00 PM at J&R Music - Park Row. New York, NY.
ZZ Topp, rock and roll musicians, signing their CD La Futura

Breakfast Club Cast Photo Signed by Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall

9/11/2012 7:00 PM at Brookline Book smith - Harvard Street. Brookline, MA.
9/13/2012 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson Books - Prince Street. New York, NY.
Molly Ringwald, 1980s "Brat Pack" star, signing her book When It Happens To You

Dark Shadows Poster Signed by Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker

9/13/2012 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Peachtree Road NE. Atlanta, GA.
Kathryn Leigh Scott, star of Dark Shadows, signing her book Dark Shadows: Return To Collinwood

9/14/2012 7:00 PM at Book Revue - New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
9/15/2012 12:00 PM at the Free Library - Vine Street. Philadelphia, PA.
9/17/2012 7:30 PM at Skylight Books -North Vermont Avenue. Los Angeles, CA.
9/19/2012 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Broadway at 82nd Street. New York, NY.
9/20/2012 7:00 PM at R.J. Julia - Boston Post Road. Madison, CT.
Tony Danza, star of Who's the Boss? and Taxi, signing his book I'd Like To Apologize To Every Teacher I Ever Had

9/18/2012 6:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Warren Street. New York, NY.
Cyndi Lauper, 1980s pop music star, signing her book Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir

9/18/2012 6:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Plaza Place. Southlake, TX.
9/20/2012 7:00 PM at Book Revue - New York Avenue. Huntington, NY.
9/21/2012 3:30 PM at Bookends - East Ridgewood Avenue. Ridgewood, NJ.
Jewel, singer and actress, signing her children's book That's What I'd Do

9/18/2012 12:30 PM at Barnes & Noble - Fifth Avenue. New York, NY.
9/19/2012 7:00 PM at Barnes & Noble at Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD.
9/30/2012 7:30 PM at the 92nd Sreet Y - Lexington Avenue. New York, NY.
Wyclef Jean, member of The Fugees and solo pop music star, signing his book Purpose

9/19/2012 7:00 PM at McNally Jackson Books - Prince Street. New York, NY.
9/20/2012 7:00 PM at Bookends - East Ridgewood Avenue. Ridgewood, NJ.
9/24/2012 5:30 PM at the Apple Store - Prince Street. New York, NY.
9/24/2012 7:00 PM at the Half King - West 23rd Street. New York, NY.
9/27/2012 7:00 PM at Book Pasage- Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA.
9/29/2012 4:00 PM at Vroman's Books - East Ridgewood Avenue. Ridgewood, NJ.
Andrew McCarthy, 1980s "Brat Pack" star, signing his book The Longest Way Home

9/29/2012 2:00 PM at Barnes & Noble - Grove Drive. Los Angeles, CA.
Weird Al Yankovic, musical parodist, signing Weird Al: The Book

Information sometimes changes. Before showing up, please contact the event location to verify accuracy, and let us know if there are any errors in our listing. Thanks!

Thanks to the following resouces for schedule information: 92nd Street Y, American Cinematheque, Amoeba Music, Anderson's Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, Book Ends, Books & Books, Books and Greetings, Book Passage, Book Revue, Book Soup, Books & Co, Celebrity Signings & Events, Chiller Theatre, Collectormania, Comic-Con.org, Creation Entertainment, Dragon*Con, Frank & Son Collectible Show, Garden State Comic Con, Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show, Hollywood Palms Cinema, Knight Rider Festival & Car Stars, LA Comic and Sci-Fi Con, LA Times Festival of Books, Malaprop's, McNally Jackson Books, Mendham Books, Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, Monsterpalooza, Motor City ComicCon, Outwrite Books, Politics & Prose Bookstore, Powells, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Steel City Con, Strand Books, Texas Frightmare Weekend, Vroman's Bookstore, Warwick's, West Hollywood Book Fair, Wizard World

The Autograph Legacy of a Society Hostess

Guest books can be a treasure trove for the autograph enthusiast—especially if the guest book belongs to someone famous in their own right. I’ve recently acquired for my personal collection a guest book used by Cobina Wright (1887–1970), an American opera singer and actress who later became a syndicated gossip columnist. She was quite famous as a society hostess, and her guest book that covers the years 1950-1967 contains hundreds of pages of autographs of A-list celebrity guests. It’s no wonder she had so much inside “intel” to fill her society columns—she was a true insider in the celebrity worlds of her day: Hollywood, Broadway, politics, high society, music, and art. It’s clear in studying this book that all of these worlds were inextricably linked, and it is utterly fascinating to see who was hobnobbing with whom! In alphabetical order, a sampling of the luminaries include:

Muhammad Ali, Army Archerd, Gene Autry, Anne Baxter, Edgar Bergen, Red Buttons, Rory Calhoun, Hoagy Carmichael, Jack Cassidy, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Coburn, Nat King Cole, Gary Cooper, Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Marion Davies, Delores Del Rio, Phyllis Diller, Walt Disney, Doris Duke, Irene Dunne, Edward-Duke of Windsor, Henry Fonda, Joan Fontaine, Clark Gable, Eva Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Paulette Goddard, Howard Hawks, Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Ross Hunter, Van Johnson, Shirley Jones, Hedy Lamarr, Esteé Lauder, Liberace, Art Linkletter, June Lockhart, Fred MacMurray, Jayne Mansfield, Tony Martin, Ann Miller, Ricardo Montalban, Patricia Neal, Richard Nixon, Hugh O’Brian, Merle Oberon, Louella O. Parsons, Norman Vincent Peale, Mary Pickford, Cole Porter, Otto Preminger, Anthony Quinn, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Edward G. Robinson, Buddy Rogers, Ginger Rogers, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romero, Jane Russell, Rosalind Russell, Wallace Seawell, Norma Shearer, Nancy Sinatra, Edith Sitwell, Red Skeleton, Robert Stack, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Mark Taper, Norman Taurog, Elizabeth Taylor (Todd), Mel Tormé, Gloria Vanderbilt, Robert Wagner, Wallis-Duchess of Windsor, John Wayne, Clifton Webb, Mae West, Natalie Wood (Wagner), and Jane Wyman.

Autographs of Lillian and Walt Disney and others

The book itself is a beautiful object—an oversized volume bound in mauve-colored leather and embossed in gold-ink on the front cover “Cobina.” Her guest book takes one into the private celebrity world behind the veil. By looking at the personal sentiments, funny drawings, and “in-jokes” the reader gains a sense of the relationships and humanity beyond the celluloid and print artifacts we usually get to see.

On February 16, 1963 George Hamilton jokes, “hope you don’t mind going out with an old man!” At the time he was 24 and had just played the playwright Moss Hart in the film Act One. Wright was 76.

John Wayne displays his sense of humor in his 1953 entry, “We’re flat on our backs / Our room rent is due / But never mind about us dear / Happy Birthday to you”.

Art Linkletter playfully flirts, “once again My heart trembles as I meet Cobina—‘the other woman’”. He signs as “Art Linklet- ter + wife” while years earlier he had written: “Art Linkletter (a man you spent the night with) over the Atlantic—remember -”.

Not to be outdone in affection, Phyllis Diller signs on Bob Hope’s birthday in 1967 with a self portrait and hearts, “the other half of the Screen Team says Cobina is a silly broad who is lovely and adorable...I love you Cobina...meet my darling Warde Donovan”. This was Diller’s blockbuster year starring in Eight On the Lam with Bob Hope, the animated special Mad Monster Party, and her own Phyllis Diller Show.

Autographs of Judy Garland, Paulette Goddard, Otto Preminger, others

It’s a shame most of us don’t use guest books anymore. It’s an invaluable tool for subsequent generations to be able to peek into another time—and another world.

For more information on Cobina Wright, pick up a copy of her memoir I Never Grew Up (Prentice-Hall, 1952).

article by Kevin Segall, published in Manuscripts Volume LXIV- Number 3 Summer 2012 (a publication of the Manuscript Society)

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Half-Price Tickets to Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles

Los Angeles' first large-scale, multimedia pop culture convention invades the Southland again after a successful inaugural year, celebrating the best in comic books, anime, gaming, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and more. Brought to you by Marvel's legendary comic creator Stan Lee and the iconic Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the second-annual show salutes special guest Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn. Also scheduled to appear are actors Lou Ferrigno and Tara Strong (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic); artist-creators Marc Silvestri (Witchblade); Camilla d'Errico; Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim) and literally dozens of others. Comikaze is also set to include game tournaments; a Nickelodeon Salute Your Shorts reunion; tons of celebrity signing tables and vendors who'll be showcasing and selling their collectible wares. So head downtown and let your geek flag fly at the only cross-genre event of its kind in L.A.

September 15-16 at the Los Angeles Convention Center

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