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[TheSaint]

Lana Wood will be one of the guests at the upcoming Chiller Con, June 2-4, in New Jersey. Other guests of note include Steven Seagal, John Wesley Shipp(The Flash), and Kevin McCarthy(Body Snatchers). More details can be found here...

Chiller Theatre

[zencat]

Lana's the greatest.

Gotta get to one of these Chiller Cons someday.

[Bryce (003)]

She is a true gem and an absolute wild card when it comes to chatting.

One of the few Bond girls I've had the great pleasure to meet several times and trade the occasional email with.

Again, a gem and one no BS type of gal.

Saint - be sure to say hello on behalf of the LA CBn crew.

[TheSaint]

Count on it!

[TheSaint]

So, I see Lana and say hi to her on behalf of CBn, which she was happy to hear. I ask her how she's doing, and she's doing fine. I ask about her daughter, and she tells me that during some test for her daughter's Hodgkin's disease, they find 30 mini-tumors in one of her lungs! The doctors want to take a biopsy of said lung. Lana's daughter refuses so, they don't know how bad it is. Lana's not happy about that.

On a happier note I met & got autos from John Wesley Shipp(The Flash), Brent Spiner(Data), and Jonathan Frakes(Riker). All 3 were very cool & friendly.

[MarcAngeDraco]

Thanks for the report, Delmo!

Sincere best wishes to Lana and her daughter!

[Qwerty]

I basically must echo what MarcAnge posted. Sounds like it must have been a nice event to attend.

[trs007]

The best part of CHILLER this year was that it was at a new venue, for it simply outgrew the old locale and there were constantly lines for EVERYTHING. Here, walked right in, no line for tickets, no line for dealer rooms and minimal lines to see the celebs.

I was hoping Robert Vaughn would have had some HUSTLE stuff, as I am totally thrilled with my DVD sets of Series 1 and 2, but all he had were 2 piles of Napoleon Solo stills--1 in b/w and the other in color--same pose. NO one was at his table while I was there--he sat reading a novel on the war in Iraq. Still, others drew more a crowd and it was a fun few hours.

[doublenoughtspy]

Vaughn is a stick in the mud at most conventions. And charging more for items that you bring to sign (instead of charging less, like most signers) - doesn't win him any points either.

Other reports of Napoleon Sourpuss out there on the interweb as well.

It's too bad. I wonder if McCallum will ever do a show?

[Blofeld's Cat]

Chiller Con reminds me of chili con carnie.

[TheSaint]

The best part of CHILLER this year was that it was at a new venue, for it simply outgrew the old locale and there were constantly lines for EVERYTHING. Here, walked right in, no line for tickets, no line for dealer rooms and minimal lines to see the celebs.

Actually, this is the hotel Chiller used to be held at, before it moved to the hotel near the Meadowlands. I prefer this location better.

Vaughn wasn't there Friday.

TRS007, how were the lines for Seagal?

[trs007]

Segal cancelled. There were signs all over the place upon approach on Saturday. I guess they expected him to be a big draw--but guess what--we all survived the news just fine.

[Kara Milovy]

I really enjoyed Chiller Con the one time I went. Met a ton of people: Richard Kiel, David Heddison, Robert Vaughn, Maud Adams, Caroline Munro, Denise Crosby. Totally fun but very, very crowded. Like a subway. So I'm glad to hear they changed venues.

Poor me, I was in Brazil during this year's con. Maybe next year.

Blofeld's Cat, Chiller Theater was a local movie show in the NYC area in the 60s and 70s. One of the local channels would show genre movies, old sci-fi, that sort of thing. So for a New Jersey con, the name captures the flavor of it.

[TheSaint]

Finally got the photos I took at Chiller developed.

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