I Hung With Loni Anderson!

By Michael Musto Wed., May 4 2011 at 10:30 AM

And the Brady Bunch! And the Munsters!

And Ernest Borgnine!

And oodles and oodles more!

Click here for my hilarious yet socially insightful column in which I detail my trip to the "Chiller Theatre" autograph convention in Parsippany, where Oscar winners, kitsch sitcom stars, and horror-flick oddities all allowed the obsessed masses to kneel at their thrones for a mere 20 bucks a pop.

I was in Nick at Nite heaven -- and while everyone else paid for head shots and signatures, I pushed my way into absolutely comp exchanges with ...

Bai Ling!

Rae Dawn Chong!

Jane Wiedlin!

Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka!

And ...

I'll shut up now.

(Photo: Angelo Pitillo. And way more photos to come later today.)

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Treborjw

I was there. You didn't mention Busey though, didn't you get to see him?

Musto

No, there was such a long line for his room.

Bill Huelbig

Still hoping for Debbie Reynolds in October. She was supposed to attend, or so she said last October, but this weekend she was at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood instead. And stole the show, so I hear.

Bill Huelbig

I got to see Gary and Jake Busey (P.J. Soles from "Carrie" and "Halloween" was in that room also). Gary couldn't have been nicer. When I mentioned Celebrity Apprentice, all he would say was, "My team betrayed me." But he will be back for the season finale - should be good!

I don't know what day Mike attended, but for anyone else planning to go in the future, I find the lines are not as long on Friday night. Except for Ann-Margret in 2009 (2 hour wait).

Musto

I went on Saturday. That's the busiest day. I actually did get in the Busey room and talked briefly to Alex Winter (Bill & Ted), but I had a friend waiting outside so I didn't want to do any more in there. I had tons of fun, though, Great photos to come in a minute.

Moderno

Ernest Borgnine gave such a left handed compliment to Bette Davis!!

Don

Loni looks cute and I love what you asked her. And I LOVE Rae Dawn Chong. Plus you tracked down Joyce Hyser form "Just one of the Guys." That is major, dude. I'd love to go to one of these.

latenitebump

glad you had a nice time. wish i was there.rae dawn chong. lucky you.

Barkley

Jane "The Brain" Wiedlin & The Go-Gos (all original members) are touring this summer, "Ladies Gone Wild" tour. Susan Olsen's comment to T. Curtis was funny!