Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....

[ljay889]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#1

Posted: 12/31/10 at 1:09pm

oh my....


http://talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat/d.php?id=1935630

[Mister Matt]

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

[AC126748]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#2

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

[iluvtheatertrash]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#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

[tazber]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#5

Posted: 12/31/10 at 2:23pm

Why are we believeing some random poster?

It sounds like one of WiCKedRoCks stories.

....but the world goes 'round

[Bettyboy72]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#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.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Mr Roxy]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#7

Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:02pm

I guess those MASH residuals are drying up.

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[DAME]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#8

Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:10pm

I have met her. She is a cool lady.

HUSSY POWER! ------ HUSSY POWER!

[singtopher]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#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

[Jordan Catalano]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#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.

[Mr Roxy]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#11

Posted: 12/31/10 at 3:20pm

Dollypop stopped sending in his monthly payments to her.

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[ghostlight2]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#12

Posted: 12/31/10 at 5:47pm

Not so tacky after all

[Mr Roxy]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#12

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

[Jordan Catalano]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#13

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.

[ghostlight2]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#14

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.

[Dollypop]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#15

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)

[FlyingMonkey1223]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#16

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.

[tazber]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#17

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?

....but the world goes 'round

[PalJoey]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#18

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.

Updated On: 1/1/11 at 03:26 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Loretta Swit charges fan for autograph at stage door....#19

Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:27pm

Well done Joey

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[PalJoey]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#20

Posted: 1/1/11 at 3:29pm

She doesn't take the Discover card though.

[Mr Roxy]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#21

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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[morosco]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#22

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

[alterego]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#23

Posted: 1/1/11 at 8:23pm

I'm surprised the fan didn't charge her.

[Dollypop]

Loretta Swit Takes Cash/Personal Check/American Express/MasterCard & Visa#24

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)