Re: Revisited: Truth Will Out: Ever notice...

rstapp wrote:

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> Was that James Marsters by any chance?  There is a date up now (1962),
> but I remember the huge uproar over in the Angel/Buffy groups when
> someone found his official California birth record and it very much
> contradicted the age he claimed to be.  Ridiculous numbers of people
> (i.e. crazed fanboys and fangirls) wouldn't accept he might have fibbed
> about his age since that is *so* rare among actors.  Considering he also
> had a teenage son at the time, the lower age never made any sense
> anyway.  Good times.

Yeah. But the odd thing is Marsters has pretty much always openly
admitted his age, so it was probably his publicists who determined the
"best" age for him to be.

A different PR company I had occasion to deal with once got all huffy
when I asked if they could keep me aprised of their clients' upcoming
projects, in case there was anything I could work with. And I quote,
"We don't do that. Our clients are so big everyone knows what they're
doing!" Um, promoting their clients' successes is sort of a
publicist's job, but the funny part was the only people I'd heard of
on their client roster  were has-been 80s sitcom stars and one actor
who was then on a low-rated series. That's just to illustrare how some
PR companies have odd ideas on how to bolster their clients' images -
making them instantly (in unbelievably) younger, trying to convince
others (and themselves) that their clients are actually im****tant, or
saying they're suffering from "exhaustion" when everyone knows its a
hangover.


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> > Back in the day we just called the The Calzone and Dullard. Or was
> > Dullard their "couple" name? But I think my favorite character
> > nickname was BBQ.
>
> I don't believe this group ever indulged in couple names.  Dullard was
> definitely Ballard and vice versa.


FrankenTim is the ultimate HLOTS couple name. Heheheh. But there
weren't many convnetional "couples" on the show other than the
reviling ones.

La Reina