These pricks actually love you.
💯.
There’s something sleazy & desperate about a celebutard selling autographs.
How much does it cost to get them to keep their mouth shut?
People have a hole in their heart that they try to fill with anything other than God. It’s sad they would pay money for some person that probably despises them.
Raking in many thousands for sitting down and signing your name a bunch of times, for fanatics who drool over you.
It’s no wonder where the outsize egos come from.
I have a few autographs. I got the Ramones back in the day at a record store signing. Cost was the record they autographed (actually the paper inner sleeve). Ditto Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and Papas. I got Gary Larson of the Far Side comics also at a book signing. That was a gift to a friend and cost was the book itself. I have a few major league baseball players who autographed bats and balls. Cost was game admission and showing up early for batting practice. Adam West and Burt Ward from an auto show. Cost was admission to the show. There are a few more I’ve probably forgotten about. The autographs themselves aren’t the coolest thing it was meeting and having a short chat with them. Maybe making them laugh and smile is a bonus. I don’t go out of my way to get autographs anymore. Celeb culture no longer interests me.
In my decades as an airline pilot I steadfastly ignored or avoided “famous” people. Example:
The company once deadheaded me - in uniform - from Miami to Denver in first class next to the football quarterback Joe Namath. I sit down; he says “Hi, I’m Joe”. I answer “Hi Joe, I’m John.” We both spend the next four hours reading. After landing in Denver, my next words to him are “Nice to meet you, Joe”. Answer: “Same here, John. See ya”.
One exception: In 1980 or so, before an early Sunday morning departure from Cleveland to New York, the gate agent asked me “We’ve got a Mr. Myron Cohen - a comedian - as our only passenger in first class. Do you know who he is?” (I grew up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood and knew him and all his routines by heart.) He had spent his life in the garment industry and, at the urging of friends, entered into comedy after retirement. On board, I briefed the flight attendants as to who he was. So, Mr. Cohen spent the entire flight with three admiring young ladies flitting about him. As he departed, I stood at the cockpit door and said “Much better than being a pants cutter, Mr. Cohen?” That was the punch line of one of his most famous jokes. He grinned ear to ear and shook my hand. (-:
I don’t know who most of those people are.
Must be an old article.
Most of these people charge 2 to 3 times that amount now.
I have a HUUGE collection of autographs starting in the 1950s. Some actors; some scientists. No politicians. But all free. I’ve enjoyed standing in autograph lines and the people in them. Best people EVER are fans. Creative, exciting to be around and they push you to be the best that you can be. Grateful for every convention I’ve attended and every fan I’ve met.
I paid like 15 bucks for Tom MacDonald’s autograph. came with a free CD
There was anybody on that list that I would even pay a dollar to for their autograph. I keep thinking of anything more absurd than paying celebrities for their signature.
The article showed how one actor Matt Smith made $250,000 on a weekend at $100 for an autograph.
That is a very good reason to charge money!
My favorite autograph is of Jonas Salk. Its a first day of issue “A Century of Modern Chemistry” Stamp and envelope release from US Mail.