Flanvention Report - Followups and Answers

POSTED BY: DonCoat
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DONCOAT

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:02 PM

Rather than extending the daily report threads, I'm going to start this new one to answer questions from all four reports.

First, my health: thanks for your concern. I had a rather rough flight home, what with head congestion. After we landed my ears were so blocked I could barely hear, and was staggering a bit. This morning after the meds wore off, I checked my temp: 102 degrees. Guess I'll hibernate for a couple days until I feel better.

RE: Gina's absence: I asked Alan and Summer about it at the luncheon. They said she did a few cons early on, but has pretty much stopped now, since she got married. So it may be a rare thing to get her auto.

RE: Jewel in high school: she was mostly home schooled, but went to public school one year just to have the experience. She said she thought the whole high school scene was just bizarre. I think maybe she was a bit more mature than her peers, since she'd been working as an actress for years by then.

RE: Summer's injury: WARNING! The following story is painful and may produce major butt-willies. Fainthearted browncoats may wish to skip over the next paragraph.

The injury occurred when she was in Texas. Summer was taking some small acting jobs on the sly, without telling her dance teachers. One day she was going over a script that she'd spread out on the floor, when she had to jump up to answer the phone (or some such). She slipped on a page, and her toe whacked into the fireplace hearthstone. It broke her big toe. But wait, that's not the worst of it. Instead of taking time off to heal (which would have cost her several important roles) she just kept dancing on the broken toe. For months. Finally, trying to compensate for the toe, she came down wrong on that foot and tore something up. After that she couldn't dance en point, so her ballet career was over. As I said, this was the year she was hoping to move up to a prestigious company, but that was not to be.

Told you it was painful.

RE: Morena at the banquet: yes, she did pretty much glow. But that could have been just by contrast with the ugly mug sitting next to her! My table had -- let me see -- Morena, Christina, Bruce (one of the con people), and I think seven fans. It was all very jolly.

Sure, I had plenty of time to chat with Morena, and found I wasn't too nervous to do so. She was gracious enough to ask about my work (and some of the other guests'), and told me a bit about her connections to Brazil (she still has family there and goes back two or three times a year to visit). She's from Rio, and moved to the States when she was seven. She spoke English at school and Portuguese at home, but quite obviously has no trace of an accent.

Funny incident I didn't mention -- at one point in the meal, Christina Hendricks got to teasing Morena about something. Morena grabbed her roll and tossed it at Christina. Unfortunately, the latter was holding her wine glass at the time, and that's what the roll hit -- slopping some Merlot onto Christina's party dress and, well, cleavage. Ample cleavage, I might even say. Needless to say, Morena was horrified and immediately jumped up and ran around the table to give her a hug and apologize. Christina just laughed it off -- it was only a few drops, but what a riot.

Christina, by the way, also seemed to be a very sweet person. Nothing like Yo-Saff-Brige! She talked about how welcome she was made to feel on the Firefly set in her two guest shots. She and Morena got to talking about hobbies; Morena's trying her hand at quilting, and Christina invited her to come to her knitting circle. How's that for real folks?

I asked Morena about the kind of jobs she was getting offered. She said she wasn't really getting scripts to read, just doing auditions. She said how hard it was to find good roles. At the luncheon the next day, Summer expanded on this: she said the scripts they were getting were things they wouldn't want to do, so that's why the auditions. Now, if there were any justice in this world, Hollywood would be beati

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:08 PM

I am hanging on your every word, DonCoat, thanks!
Hope you are feeling better soon... take care.

"I'm thinking we'll rise again." Mal

PIFFLE101

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:49 PM

I never got to meet you! WAHH! *sobs*

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:00 PM

I can't wait to hear all about the Flanvention from you and FillionFlan too, Piff.

I know you had a wonderful time and I'm happy for ya'll.

"Is it Christmas?" Mal

PIFFLE101

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:03 PM

Its all so fuzzy!

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Because Dancers are tough,mean...Chicas!! -Summer Glau

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:05 PM

Aw, Piff, in a way that's good, means you had a blast!!!

"Is it Christmas?" Mal

JONUS

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:09 PM

Wish I could've gone. It sounds like it was awesome. Never got to meet the BDH's before. Thanks for the great report.

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Mal would kick Han Solo's ass.

PAINISSCARY

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:18 PM

Thanks for the great stories about the cocktail party, banquet, and luncheon. So jealous! I went to the con on Sat. and Sun and had a blast, but didn't spring for the meal-related stuff, so living vicariously through your reports on them.

Hope you feel better soon, and look at the bright side: at least your cold/flu didn't hit you full force till after the con

"Hamsters is nice."

DONCOAT

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Piffle101:
I never got to meet you! WAHH! *sobs*

Hey, that's right... how did we miss each other?

If I ever do another of these shindigs, I'll announce my badge number, which would narrow the search process. You could hook up before or after the Q&As, where seats are assigned on that basis. By the way, I was 210. How close were we?

I did meet FillionFlan on Sunday -- she was close to me in the auto line, overheard me saying I was posting reports and asked my nick. Great fun. It's so cool to be recognized from online postings: "You're DonCoat???"

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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

GIRLEEKAYLEE

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:26 PM

Flanvention was fun! Yea, there were pros and cons about how it was organized, but I did have a good time.

Doncoat, I'm enjoying your report! GirleeKaylee = Kazumi just so you know.

Seeing BDHs was fun needless to say, but seeing fellow browncoats was such an experience! I really enjoyed everyone that I got to meet.

The thing is whenever I get a chance to say hi to BDHs, I turn into a speechless moron, so hanging out with browncoats was actually more enjoyable! LOL

Actually, I got to chat briefly with Jonathan Woodward, and he didn't make me a speechless moron! I love him a lot - he's in tune with what's going on outside of the US, which surprised me in a good way. (Sorry Jonathan!) Now I respect him even more, and I'm crossing my fingers for him to get more and more roles coming!

I'm hoping to get the pics up, but not sure when that is going to be...

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