You betcha,
TE, you handsome young thing, you!
“Whipper snapper” was probably not the best word choice, since it is a bit archaic now and means like a smart aleck (or worse). I had an uncle who used to live upstairs from my grandmother. When I’d stay with my grandmother, he would stop by in the morning and say (with an intermountain drawl) “How are you two young ladies this morning?” My grandmother was in her eighties by then, and she would be so tickled that her son-in-law would always call her “a young lady”.
Yes, a job, exactly. Perhaps some fans don’t realize that saying lines someone wrote for you (figuring out how to say them, the body language, etc) is a different set of skills from doing essentially “improv” on stage, or interacting with complete strangers. I’ve heard Brent Spiner wouldn't do the conventions because he’s very shy. As someone who was shy in my younger years, and also did some drama in college (seeing both extroverts and introverts who went into acting), I can appreciate all of that. I waited between 2-3 hours in line to get an autograph from Robert Beltran at the Galaxy Ball I went to (also from Picardo & Robbieboy but for me RB was the main event). In retrospect, I think he must have been tired because he was kind of quiet, especially compared to Robbie who had been quite chatty. But for Beltran it wasn’t just an event he showed up to, it was his deal, for his charity. He had other people running it, but it was his responsibility for everything to go well. Still, I had thought for weeks what I would say that might be a little different from everybody else and in a positive way. It worked and I got a good response. So he’s OK in my book.
Now, I will say that was the year 2000. I saw on Youtube an appearance of his some years earlier where he came out kind of nervous and said, “This is the first time I’ve done one of these sober.”(!) And I think someone on this forum said they ran into him at some event where they could tell he’d been drinking, so maybe it was true. Maybe it took awhile for him to get comfortable with the appearances. I don’t know and don’t really care (They say Richard Dawson from Hogan's Heroes used to host the Family Feud a bit drunk because the live TV aspect of it was a bit terrifying). It’s not that important to me, except as an observer of people. I mean, Picardo kept telling the same dumb dirty joke over and over again that I thought was idiotic, but it’s not a big deal to me.
I do have to say I agree with you that some of the fan questions during the Q&A can be pretty stupid (at least at this event I went to). And half the time was wasted with fans just telling them how wonderful they were. Why don’t they wait to tell them all that when they get the autograph? Just ask your question. Instead, everyone else had to endure their “private conversation.” "Do you remember me...?" Arrrgh
That would be fun!
And I suspect I’ll never be able to catch up to you with the Hungarians. Does watching Eva Gabor on “Green Acres” count--?
Yes, and another good Tom-Neexlix scene is in “Repentence”where Neelix starts having sympathy for one of the inmates. Tom tries to tell him that in prison “everybody has a story. I didn’t take too much stock in them and you shouldn’t either.”It was a good warning as Neelix learns that the guy was playing him.
I loved Star Gate the movie, but never got into the series. I had a friend who was really into it and I read her fan fiction, so she would have to catch me up on the series to understand her story. It did seem like they did some annoying and eternally frustrating things with the characters. Hasta luego.
