Courtney Cox Signing Report, Marcia Cross Failure Report by Mike Sametz I’m really having one of those weeks. You know the kind, where everything has the potential to be wonderful and perfect and then just drifts down into a pit of crap. Sigh… Yesterday I got dissed by Drew Barrymore, my number one person (the person I have always wanted to get - I’m not naming names cause it’s embarrassing) flaked out at an event, Woody Harrelson and Salma Hayek refused to sign, and here I am waiting for Ms. Marcia Cross.
Sigh… My odyssey with Ms. Cross has been going on for three years now. She is the only one I need on my Desperate Housewives poster.
You can read about it here: http://www.mishmashmagazine.com/tabid/106/itemid/531/Jodie-Foster-Eva-Longoria-Felicity-Huffman-Sigin.aspx and then she did not show up at the Paleyfest. You can read about that here: http://www.mishmashmagazine.com/tabid/106/itemid/585/Desperate-Housewives-Paleyfest-Signing-Report.aspx. Yet still I persist. Tonight there is the “Rock a Little, Feed a Lot" benefit concert at Nokia Live. Ms. Cross is supposed to be there along with Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Christina Applegate, and more. I’m crossing my fingers for luck… sigh… 7:21 p.m. – M’Lou is joining me on this adventure. She said that she wanted to be there when I got Marcia Cross to finish my DH poster since she’s been hearing me bitch about it for three years now. LOL… Sigh… I also brought my Scream laserdisc and well… okay… I brought something else for Courtney Cox as well. It’s a long story… hmmmm I’m debating about telling it... 7:32 p.m. – Okay, so let’s just say that perhaps there was a group of individuals who saw this promotional sign for the new Courtney Cox show “Cougar Town” and these individuals perhaps decided to try and “borrow” this sign from the corner where it was placed in front of a gas station. Perhaps, after a play one night they went and tried to be stealthy… perhaps they were not so stealthy and ran around Hollywood with a giant Courtney Cox sign dragging out of the back of their car, and when they saw a police car these individuals pretended they were only standing by the sign. Perhaps this is true, perhaps it is fake, and perhaps there is video, who knows? It’s all alleged and hypothetical...just like this photo:
7:38 p.m. – There is a red carpet set up, with interviewers and photographers with a barricade. I would also like to get Lisa Kudrow on my Romy and Michelle Laserdisc as well. 7:41 p.m. – Tom Morrello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave is here… Christina Applegate just showed up, and of course I forgot my “Sweetest Thing” DVD! Grrr…. 7:43 p.m. – The press line is huge... Lisa Kudrow just showed up… The interviews are taking forever!
7:45 p.m. – Oh, and there she is… MARCIA CROSS! Christina just finished the press line and is coming this way. They are ushering her off, but she is signing a bit. She is so sweet!
7:46 p.m. – A lot of people from NBC’s the Biggest Loser are here as well. The host and one of the trainers, I believe.
7:48 p.m. - Courtney Cox is here with David Arquette. 7:51 p.m. – Oh Marcia just got finished with the press line and is coming this way. I have my huge poster out. I have like 14 people on it now. As she comes this way, I call out to her “Ms. Cross can I please have an autograph, you’re the only one I need.” There are four other collectors here. She ignores us all! No! 7:52 p.m. – The others chase her down the walkway to the VIP entrance, one of them is getting into a fight with the security, and there is pushing involved. I’m behind them, and Marcia steps back from the scuffle. I’m very close to Marcia, and say, “Ms. Cross, you’re the only one I need on this poster can you please sign it quickly.” She looks at me and kind of shrugs like, she wants to sign but there is such a commotion she can’t. Then she goes inside. 7:55 p.m. – Sigh…. 7:56 p.m. – I’m back at the line, and Lisa Kudrow is gone now. Ugh! I missed her too… man… this sucks. 8:05 p.m. – Courtney Cox just finished the line. She is so sweet and comes right over to sign. She signs the alleged “Cougar Town” sign… It only hypothetically exists mind you… I also got her on my laserdisc. I asked David if he would sign it as well. He says, “Sure if you walk with me cause we have to get in.” So, I do. He’s a really cool guy, and Courtney is amazingly sweet.
8:22 p.m. – Everyone is in, and M’Lou and I decide to wait to see if anyone exits. 9:01 p.m. – We got Starbucks... mmmmm… hot chocolate and pumpkin creamcheese muffins… what a nutritious dinner…. 9:15 p.m. – So far, only a couple people have come out. Thomas Jane and Patricia Arquette. Thomas Jane was not friendly. Patricia was very sweet. 9:22 p.m. – The trainer from NBC’s Biggest Loser, Jillian Michaels, just left. She is so nice. 9:44 p.m. – Isla Fisher left... she signed and posed for pics. No Marcia yet… 10:23 p.m. – I’m starting to wonder if there is another exit. I’m not giving up! 10:45 p.m. – Oh, yeah, it’s getting cold now… 11:15 p.m. – Okay, there hasn’t been a lot of commotion and I can’t imagine that Marcia is still inside. People are leaving the show. The show isn’t over yet. 11:32 p.m. – The show just broke. Lots of people are leaving. No Marcia. Sigh… 11:59 p.m. – Well, M’Lou and I decided to take our Cougar Town sign and go home. Again no Marcia Cross and my DH poster is still unfinished. I really just want to frame the damn thing. Sigh… Oh well… I guess there will be another time. (I would like to asterisk this with the text I sent my friend after the event: “I’m burning my Housewives poster, it will never be finished!” Of course I did not burn it, but for two days I really wanted to.) Check out the full set of pics.