#1
Posted: 12/31/10 at 1:09pm
Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....
#2
Posted: 12/31/10 at 1:29pm
She must have recognized Dollypop.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#3
Posted: 12/31/10 at 1:34pm
I'm curious: does she charge everyone for her autograph, or just the people with MASH material who will (presumably) be selling it on eBay?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#4
Posted: 12/31/10 at 2:22pm
Are we 100% positive she wasn't joking?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#5
Posted: 12/31/10 at 2:23pm
Why are we believeing some random poster?
It sounds like one of WiCKedRoCks stories.
It sounds like one of WiCKedRoCks stories.
....but the world goes 'round
#6
Posted: 12/31/10 at 2:39pm
I can almost guarantee that if you asked her to sign a Playbill or asked for a photo with her, she would gladly take one.
She saw that person as a memorabilia agent so she was going to charge them.
For the record, many stars will not sign things from past shows or films to separate theatre goers from autograph merchants.
I think she is totally within her rights.
She saw that person as a memorabilia agent so she was going to charge them.
For the record, many stars will not sign things from past shows or films to separate theatre goers from autograph merchants.
I think she is totally within her rights.
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#7
Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:02pm
I guess those MASH residuals are drying up.
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#8
Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:10pm
I have met her. She is a cool lady.
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#9
Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:17pm
Oh, I originally thought she charged them like a bull.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#10
Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:19pm
LOLOLOLOLOL
Oh my God, I seriously spit out my chipotle all over myself as I read that.
Oh my God, I seriously spit out my chipotle all over myself as I read that.
#11
Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:20pm
Dollypop stopped sending in his monthly payments to her.
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#12
Posted: 12/31/10 at 5:47pm
#13
Posted: 12/31/10 at 6:02pm
Baseball players making a gazillion dollars a year have the gall to charge so why not Hot Lips?
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Updated On: 12/31/10 at 06:02 PM
#14
Posted: 12/31/10 at 6:05pm
I'm not doubting that the money she gets goes to charity, however a polite "i only sign playbills" is a lot more tactful than asking someone for $25 on the street.
#15
Posted: 12/31/10 at 6:22pm
What Tazbar said. We have one anonymous poster's word that it happened the way it did - and that poster has a reputation for being entitled and often trashes performers. I think it would be fair, under the circumstances, to give a performer the benefit of the doubt before rushing to judgement and responding the way you did in your earlier (now deleted) post.
#16
Posted: 1/1/11 at 2:17pm
Celeste Holme used to charge for autographs but the money went to UNICEF. (She used to carry a special little purse just for the money she recceved from autographs)
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#17
Posted: 1/1/11 at 2:26pm
Regardless, charging a fan 25 bucks to sign anything is ridiculous! Sign it and shut up. She should be grateful that anyone cares about her these days, given her limited career after MASH. "Donating it to charity" is BS.
#18
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:11pm
So what happens when the fan says "I have no cash".
Does she walk with him to the nearest ATM?
Does she walk with him to the nearest ATM?
....but the world goes 'round
#19
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:26pm
So what happens when the fan says "I have no cash"
I took this cellphone pic of Loretta Swit's swiper.
I took this cellphone pic of Loretta Swit's swiper.
Updated On: 1/1/11 at 03:26 PM
#20
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:27pm
Well done Joey
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#21
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:29pm
She doesn't take the Discover card though.
#22
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:31pm
I don't blame her. I thought she would not take Amex as many merchants do not.
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#23
Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:51pm
So what happens when the fan says "I have no cash".
There's an app for that.
Accept credit card payments with your mobile phone
#24
Posted: 1/1/11 at 8:23pm
I'm surprised the fan didn't charge her.
#25
Posted: 1/1/11 at 10:17pm
Would you people stop trouncing on La Swit. She is the radiant hope of live theater as we know it.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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