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Post by vectisfabber on Jun 6, 2013 10:12:29 GMT -5
Comments to make casually when in the vicinity of Paul McCartney no 3: "I put no store in history. It's just a matter of opinion."
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Jun 6, 2013 11:46:24 GMT -5
Comments to make casually when in the vicinity of Paul McCartney no 2: "I've always thought that artistic credibility comes a very poor second place to commercial success." How about: "Hey, aren't you Angela Lansbury? I didn't know you were developing a crown on the back of your head!"
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Post by mikev on Jun 6, 2013 14:03:19 GMT -5
Comments to make casually when in the vicinity of Paul McCartney no 3: "I put no store in history. It's just a matter of opinion." Too funny-all 3! How about: Comments to make casually when in the vicinity of Nancy "McCartney" no 1: "I know I was texting during an important meeting, but at least I am at the meeting!!!"
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 6, 2013 15:16:00 GMT -5
On the other hand, meeting a celebrity on the street or in any other kind of social situation has the potential to turn sour and I don’t want an unfortunate incident to tarnish my opinion of that person. Knowdja' mean. I got to meet one of my idols, the cartoonist Charles Schulz, and what a disappointment that turned out to be. Talk about a harrowing experience! acidheroes.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/my-interview-with-charles-schulz/
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Post by theman on Jun 7, 2013 16:43:35 GMT -5
Hysterical!!!!
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 7, 2013 17:11:46 GMT -5
On the other hand, meeting a celebrity on the street or in any other kind of social situation has the potential to turn sour and I don’t want an unfortunate incident to tarnish my opinion of that person. Knowdja' mean. I got to meet one of my idols, the cartoonist Charles Schulz, and what a disappointment that turned out to be. Talk about a harrowing experience! acidheroes.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/my-interview-with-charles-schulz/Schulz. What an a$hole.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 21:13:40 GMT -5
I was just joking of course. In 1983 Schulz invited me up to his studio in Santa Rosa. Gave me a 4 hour interview. Gave me a guided tour of the facilities. The coolest thing was the museum with the thousands of different Peanuts products....named of course The Peanuts Gallery. Ha ha. Showed me a half finished Peanuts strip that he was working on that day. Showed me the kind of fountain pen he used. Just a very cool dude Charles m Schulz.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 21:17:32 GMT -5
He did rebuff me when i propositioned him for sex. But nobodys perfect.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 21:19:48 GMT -5
What can i say. I was a teenage Peanuts fanboy. A Charles Schulz groupie. Good grief Charlie Brown.
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Post by debjorgo on Jun 7, 2013 21:56:29 GMT -5
I was just joking of course. In 1983 Schulz invited me up to his studio in Santa Rosa. Gave me a 4 hour interview. Gave me a guided tour of the facilities. The coolest thing was the museum with the thousands of different Peanuts products....named of course The Peanuts Gallery. Ha ha. Showed me a half finished Peanuts strip that he was working on that day. Showed me the kind of fountain pen he used. Just a very cool dude Charles m Schulz. I got the joke but was your article irony, sarcasm, satire or lampoon. I'm never sure about that kind of thing.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 22:11:52 GMT -5
All of the above Debjorgo. This life is so bizarre it can be hard to tell satire from reality.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 7, 2013 22:16:37 GMT -5
But just to set the record straight i did interview Schulz in 1983. I didnt mace him or proposition him for sex. At least i hope i didnt.
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Post by scousette on Jun 7, 2013 23:47:05 GMT -5
I think I once read that Schulz could be moody and sort of a downer to be around. Glad you found him to be in a pleasant frame of mind.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 0:16:39 GMT -5
Oh man i loved Peanuts and Charles Schulz. And you gotta admit it was pretty cool of him to invite a weirdo like me up to his studio in 1983'
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 0:19:43 GMT -5
But yeah Schultz suffered from serious meloncholy.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 0:29:29 GMT -5
I just brought it up in the context of the discussion of fans and their idols. Because Scultz is one of my personal idols i got to meet. So i can understand if you want to meet Paul or Ringo or whoever. But i still think you shouldnt harass them when theyre walking down the street. Just my opinion.
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Post by mikev on Jun 8, 2013 8:06:36 GMT -5
Oh man i loved Peanuts and Charles Schulz. And you gotta admit it was pretty cool of him to invite a weirdo like me up to his studio in 1983' Funny you met him in 1983. In 1984 I was nearly sued by him for allegedly sketching a lampoon cartoon of Charlie Brown for my college's lampoon paper. I completely denied being the cartoonist, as it was signed "Schemp". But a huge article by the city newspaper proped up just days before graduation.The editors said it was an anonymous submission.I was afraid I wouldn't be allowed to graduate. True story.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 14:39:18 GMT -5
Oh man i loved Peanuts and Charles Schulz. And you gotta admit it was pretty cool of him to invite a weirdo like me up to his studio in 1983' Funny you met him in 1983. In 1984 I was nearly sued by him for allegedly sketching a lampoon cartoon of Charlie Brown for my college's lampoon paper. I completely denied being the cartoonist, as it was signed "Schemp". But a huge article by the city newspaper proped up just days before graduation.The editors said it was an anonymous submission.I was afraid I wouldn't be allowed to graduate. True story. I believe it. In 1980 this friend of mine was publishing this little zine with a print run of about 100 copies. He printed some doodles of Charlie Brown drawn by this crazy homeless guy who just happened to be named Sparrky (similar to Schulz's nickname). Believe it or not my friend got a cease-and-desist order from one of Schulz's lawyers. But I wouldn't blame Schulz for that. I doubt he was even aware of it. When you got multi-national corporations paying millions to use those characters to promote their products, you better believe they've got an army of lawyers to police their properties.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 14:42:49 GMT -5
On the other hand, in the issue where my interview with Schulz was published I also drew a parody comic strip with Charlie Brown as a Hollwood celebrity (with shades and flashy jewelry) hawking his autobiography on a TV talk show ("CHUCK: My Life"). And Schulz and his lawyers never bothered me about that.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 14:47:47 GMT -5
And then on yet the other hand, the underground cartoonist R. Crumb drew the famous "Keep on Truckin'" poster. To make a long story short, people started reproducing it without his permission, and he knew about it but didn't bother to stop them. So a judge ruled that the image was now in the public domain and Crumb lost his copywrite on it, as well as tons of dough.
It can get weird when art bisects with lawyers.
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Post by mikev on Jun 8, 2013 16:56:06 GMT -5
On the other hand, in the issue where my interview with Schulz was published I also drew a parody comic strip with Charlie Brown as a Hollwood celebrity (with shades and flashy jewelry) hawking his autobiography on a TV talk show ("CHUCK: My Life"). And Schulz and his lawyers never bothered me about that. well this was poitically incorrect college humor- pretty suggestive and vulgar, but I told the editors I wanted no part of the authorship. But when they said they would get another cartoonist to draw it, my ego got the best of me.
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Post by acebackwords on Jun 8, 2013 17:39:42 GMT -5
"....pretty suggestive and vulgar." Ha ha. Sounds right up my alley. I almost got sued by the lawyers for Ripleys Believe It or Not for doing a sexual version called Sexleys Believe It or Nuts. They only backed off when i agreed to stop doing the strip. I was sick of doing it anyways.
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