Let me express my total disgust with how the Celebrity Table was run today.
As many of you observed yesterday, the crowd was down conciderable from previous years. This is either from the quality of talent at the table, or the finincal state of the country right now.
I am a trooper, and was still looking forward to many of the people at the table. I was also looking for the volenteers to be ready when everything started at 11. I was let down on more than one ocassion today by this inept staff, and I am seriously pissed off. I will describe some of the situations.
Autograph-Photo Booth line transfer:
In years past, there were a volenteer walking up and down the line to accomplish this. That was nowhere to be found today. God knows they had enough of then with theit thumb up their behind to have someone to do that. I had to scream my head off to get someone's attention so I could finally get a transfer done. I apologise to anyone who was upset by my yelling, but that shouldn't been necessary in the first place.
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When it was time for them to do photos, volenteer KEVIN told the people in line he would get them out to get the picture. I wasn't really upset when he failed to do that with In The Heights the hour before, but I was LIVID when he failed to do it this time. He absolutely lied in my face and had the nerve to act like it never happened. He took away a moment I can never get back, and I despise his actions.
Marian Seldes:
When I finished getting another picture, I wanted to get in line to get a picture with her. The guy carrying the money for the booth told me flat out no. I assumed they had closed off the line for Marian and went back to the autograph line. When back in the line, they let three more people on for her. I want to know why my money wasn't good enough for them when it was good enough for the rest. I feel totally disrespected by that situation.
Failure to announce celebrities at the photo booth:
This really only happened to me once. At the 2PM table, Harriet Harris went over to the photo booth. No one announced this. By the time I realized this, she was gone. I know this wasn't the only time this happened, and it's riduclous.
3PM Table
This was the biggest joke of all. They never notified any one at all, either on the boards ot otherwise, that Phyllis Newman and Timothy Busfield both pulled out. I understand the day-of pull out of Bailey Hanks and Lynn Redgrave, but this situation was completely unacceptable.
These situations made for a bitterswet day for me. I am happy with all the performers I met, for the fact that I got through all the lines, and for getting over 20 pictures, but I am very upset for all of the fowl-ups along the way.
There were less people here of the three years I have come, and it was organized the worst of them. As far as I'm concerned, BC/EFA needs to issue an apology for allowing these situations to happen.
I don't think I am being unreasonable. After all, the goal of this event is to raise as much money as possible for the causes involved. Because of the volenteer's neolithic incompentence, the event a lot less money I was willing to spend.
I know for a fact that there other people who feel the way I do about today's events at the celebrity table. I suggest you do what I am planning to, contact BC/EFA and let them know that they need to improve the situation before next year's flea market.
Thank you fou your time.
Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
"Unwritten" Natasha Bedingfield
