Well, even though I met Bruce at Fansource, I was still just as star struck with this meeting. At the Friday night signing, I didn't bring anything for him to sign, I figured I would leave that to Saturday. I also wasn't thinking and didn't bring a camera to that signing. I just wasn't thinking at all, knowing I was going to meet him again. Anyway, on with the important stuff. : )

I must say that Bruce ages quite well. He is still *VERY* good looking. When we got to the book signing, there were barely any people there whatsoever. It stayed like that for the rest of the night. Well, my friends, who will remain nameless, and myself could barely even get up to the table where he was signing the books, we hid three times (and I've met the guy before). Anyway, since my friends did bring things for him to sign, we got in line. Well, we didn't leave after Bruce signed my friends' stuff. In fact we just kind of hovered around the table. Bruce was *SO* nice. He sat there and talked with all of us (and let me tell you, that man can talk and will talk your ear off if you'll let him. Not that I'm complaining you understand : )). He answered all of our questions, was willing to take pictures with everyone and he was just really nice. The thing that killed me was the eye contact. Since there were only a few of us and we were standing around his table, he was able to make eye contact with each of us and quite often. I almost had to look away every time he looked me in the eyes, SIGH!! I just kept thinking, "Oh, my gosh, Bruce Boxleitner is looking at me."

I do remember some of what he talked about, but not all of it, because I was just so much in awe of standing right in front of him, it was very hard for me to concentrate. I will tell you the things I do remember him talking about though.

----- Well, first off, he was talking about how Pax is doing this Bonanza special. He was going to audition for the role of the father. So his agent talked the president of pax (who happened to be the president of CBS in the 1980's). Well, the president said to BB's agent, "Isn't Bruce like 46 now?" and he said his agent said, "Yeah, he's 46" (you know he's 50 right?) and the president said something like they were looking for someone a bit younger (Bruce doesn't look a day over 40). Well, then the president said something like, "Anyway, Bruce is always being pushed in my face. I get over 800 e mails a day asking for us to do an SMK reunion movie with him and Kate." We all laughed (the one and only time I did speak) and said at the same time, "Yeah, that would be us sending in those e mails." He already wasn't too fond of the president of pax, and him saying that Bruce was too old, didn't go over too well with him.

----- He did say he thinks that there definitely would've been a 5th season to SMK if Kate hadn't gotten sick. He said five seasons is the magic number in a television series. He said that they weren't hurting in the ratings and that there was no hint of cancelation. He said when Kate got sick though, they all knew that was it, there wouldn't be another season. He still said, that he and Kate would do a reunion movie given the chance. He then told an interesting story about Kate and when she got sick. When she found out she was sick, she just took off for a while and nobody knew where she was, he said it was really scary. He also said back then though, you didn't dare say that you had cancer or anything like that.

----- He talked about TV shows being in re run form. He said that when something is in re run form, especially on a tv station like Pax, that things do get edited a lot and botched. He also said that pax was really cheap. They would shoot their own shows in a certain area (I think it was Canada only) and that they never went out on location and that he didn't get paid nearly what he's used to getting paid when he did the episode of "Twice in a Lifetime."

Those were the major topics he hit on. It was so cool to just talk to him like that. He is so down to earth and nice, he doesn't let the fame go to his head at all. He just talks to you like a regular person does.

Finally the book store people said, "Well, as soon as you're finished with your fans, you can go." He said, "I'm never finished my fan club." He was teasing of course. So anyway, he talked to us for a while longer, then he said he wanted to do some shopping. So we decided to do some shopping as well. : )

My friend and I were looking at books and talking about fanfiction. We were talking about an SMK fanfiction in particular. We were talking kind of loud, but not arguing. Bruce comes around the corner and says, "And what are you two girls arguing about?" We both stopped, turned around and said, "nothing" at the same time. What was funny about it, was that we were talking about SMK fanfic when he turned the corner. I have no idea if he knew that was what we were talking about.

A while later, those of us who were left, ventured out in front of the store to the Starbucks coffee stand. After we got our coffee, we were all standing around talking. Bruce came up to us as he left the bookstore. He said, "Just enjoying some coffee, huh?" We all turned around, stunned that he had come up to us. Then he asked us if we knew where a toy store was, because he wouldn't be allowed to walk in the door at home, if he didn't have a toy for Mikey. We showed him where there was one right across the way.

My friend, who will still remain nameless, was dared to ask Bruce something by a friend of hers a couple of days before going to the signing. She didn't ask him during the book signing. After Bruce went into the toy store, we talked her into going over there and asking him. So she and our other friend went over to the toy store. They didn't go up to him right away. Anyway, a few minutes later he came up to them and showed them the toy he was buying for Mikey and said, "this is what Mikey is into now." That was pretty funny. He started to walk away when my friend called him back over. She said, "I was dared to ask you this, so I have to ask you. Would you like to go out to dinner with us?" He said, "Now?" looking at his watch. It was about 9pm. He said, "I can't. I've got an hour drive ahead of me, but I'd like to rain check on that." (you think we should make Bruce pay on that rain check?) Anyway, he was extremely nice and suffice it to say, we all went home happy campers.

One thing I noticed that he did quite often, both Friday night and Saturday afternoon (besides talking, lol) was running his fingers through his hair practically every five minutes, so I guess that's not just a Lee Stetson thing after all...

Stay tuned for the Saturday book signing report...And for pics from the Saturday signing...

Okay, onto Saturday's signing. The store was cool, it was a little hole in the wall type store, but those stores are the best, because people are personable and hard to find old books are there. The owners had dogs and the dogs were there playing in the store. There were a lot of people at the signing, as soon as you thought the line had ended, more people showed up. Bruce's book sold out.

Okay, on to the beginning. I was so nervous again, and I don't know why, Bruce is really nice. My friends and I were up toward the front of the line. Bruce was saying something about how the line was much longer than Friday night's signing. He catches a glimpse of us and says, "they were my line last night." lol, we started laughing.

Finally, it was one of my friend's turn to get her stuff signed. Amongst the stuff that she had brought for Bruce to sign, one of the things was a model Porsche. It wasn't a really small model and it wasn't a huge model either; it was just kind of in between. It looked just like Lee's Porsche. When my friend gets up there, the first thing she hands him is the Porsche. He says, "Oh, my old clunker, that would never start when it was supposed to and that would cut out in scenes all of the time. That's the reason we got rid of it." So that is why they made the Porsche go down the hill in SMK and had Lee get a Corvette. It was finally my turn. At this point, Bruce is having a conversation with a guy who was taking photographs for an interview he had done with Bruce earlier. They were talking about Babylon 5. Of course, as usual, Bruce was really caught up in the conversation. I was up there for at least 5 minutes, because he would quit signing to talk, lol (In SMK it's Amanda that rambles, in real life it's Bruce, lol). He asked me my name, I actually got it out this time (at fansource I stumbled over my name. Thank goodness for the name tags at fansource, lol). So he�s signing and talking, and I�m not even listening to what he�s saying. I mean he�s right there in front of me, that�s all I can think of. I finally hear him say something to the affect of, "if that were to happen, it would have to be big." Then he says, �Isn�t that right, Lori?� I�m like, �Yeah, sure.� I was thinking, 'whatever you say, honey,' lol. I had 4 things for him to sign. His new book, Frontier Earth: Searcher, his first book, Frontier Earth, a black and white photo I bought of him at fansource and one of the SMK scripts I got at fansource. When he gets to the script he says, �Okay, let�s see here,� and looks at the title. He opens it up and starts reading some of the lines. He says, �I don�t remember any of these lines.� I found my voice and said, �it�s first season.� And he said, �oh, first season, that explains it, my memory is going and I can�t remember things like I used to.� The script was �Remembrance of Things Past." He started talking to the photographer again, but he still had one more thing to sign for me. Finally, he realizes this and picks up the book (the first one) to sign it. He says, �Is this still for you, Lori?� (about died that he said my name twice. Yes I admit it, I am completely star struck and always have been. : )). I said, �yes,� and he said, �boy, I feel like I�ve been signing your name all day.� My friends and I just went into a fit of giggles at that. I gave one of my friends my camera and had her take a picture of me with him (sigh).

We didn�t leave after we got our stuff signed (barely anyone did). We pretty much hovered around the table again, but couldn�t really sit and talk to him as there were too many people. We just kind of sat there and listened in on the conversations.

Later on in the signing, a man came in to get his book signed by BB. It was an author that BB is really into. It was so cute, because here are all these girls just totally star struck over Bruce and he�s star struck over this author. He promoted the author though, telling us how good his books were. When the author gave Bruce his book to sign, Bruce said like 3 times that he didn�t know what to write, it was cute. Another thing he said about that author that made us go into a fit of giggles was, "Melissa thinks he's a hottie." Those were his exact words. My friends and I were laughing and then saying, "she has that to look at everyday and she still looks at other men?" : )

When the book signing was over, Bruce did hang out and talk to us for a while. At one point he said something kind of funny. He was talking about his new movie and he said, �it�s kind of Scarecrow and Mrs. Kingish, but without Mrs. King.� We all started laughing at that. He talked to us for a while, got up and talked to the book store owners, etc. Later on, someone asked him if he would be willing to take more pics and he said sure. So he took a few more pictures with people, standing up with his arm around them. I said to my friend, �I missed out on that type of picture at fansource, I want a picture of him with his arm around me.� So as soon as one person was done getting their picture taken with him, one of my friends grabs my camera and pushes me up to him. I get up there, he is standing up (he is *SO* tall) and so I got my picture taken with his arm around me. SIGH! You know in fanfic when people write romantic L and A stories and they say, �Amanda melted into Lee�s arms?� I so see why now, lol!

After hanging out with us for a while longer (and you know he didn�t have to. He could�ve done the signing and left, but instead he chose to spend time with us) he really did have to leave. So here we are, following him out of the store, but we don�t want him to know we�re following him (almost all of the girls were). He must�ve known we were going to follow him outside to his car, so he just gave us the invitation. He said, �come on, girls, let�s go� and motioned us out the door as he was walking out. He shouldn�t have said that, because we all did follow him out, lol. His car was parked right out front. He stood at the car and said, �so what are we going to do now?� I was tempted to yell out, �dinner with us,� but didn�t. He was just joking anyway. He talked to us for a while longer outside. Then someone asked if we could take one more picture of him, against his Ford Explorer. He must�ve thought we were nuts. He was really nice though. He said, �sure.� He took his sun glasses off (bummer, because he looked *REALLY* good in them) and leaned into his car. Of course, every camera came out for that pic, lol. He looked good in that pic to say the least. He finally said he really had to go because he had an hour drive home and Melissa was going to her sisters b-day party and he and Mikey were going to stay home and watch the movie, �Dinosaur.� Now whether that was made up just to finally get out of there, or the truth, we�ll never know, lol. Anyway, he said, �Goodbye, girls, thanks for coming." He honked his horn at us when he left, lol.

One of the friends that I came with, bought a huge poster of a pink semi-truck for Bruce to sign for Anke, since she couldn't be there (It was Anke's idea). That was very funny. He did sign it. Later on, all of the people who were left at signing, signed the poster as well.

His outfit on Saturday was quite, what's the word I'm looking for, appealing, I guess, for lack of a better word. It fit him very nicely. He was wearing the famous Wrangler jeans, he had a black turtleneck on and a denim jacket covering that. When he first came in and started the book signing, he kept his jacket on, then he finally took it off. When he took it off, every girl in the store took a sharp intake of breath, lol. He knew it, too, because he stopped for a second and looked at all of us, lol!

Bruce is very nice and very down to earth. He isn't egotistical in the slightest (but I think maybe he sort of enjoys the attention : )). It is really nice that he is willing to spend time with his fans.

This next report is from Sunday, Feb. 11th's signing. It was an awesome signing.

Okay, well, I actually got us there without getting lost, which was a big feat in and of itself. We got there way early. We left early just in case we got lost, etc. We just bummed around looking at books and what not for a while. Other people were there as early as us too, though. When it got closer to 2:00 a voice came over the intercom and said that author and actor Bruce Boxleitner would be there at 2:00P.M. They said that he was known for being Captain Sheridan on B5, and for those that were older, they might remember him in the phenomenally popular SMK. If Bruce would�ve been there at that point, I do not think he would�ve been happy to hear that last comment.

Bruce actually got there early. He must�ve left early as well. He was about 20 minutes early, but didn�t start the signing right then. At 2:00P.M. exactly Bruce came and said hello and started signing books. We weren�t too far back and so it wasn�t long before We got to the table. Between our group, we had a million things for the poor guy to sign.

As we were getting closer, he looked at us and said, �Oh, my Seattle group is back.� We all started laughing. We were so stoked that 2 weeks later he remembered us! I thought we were all going to burst.

I had an SMK script, a few pics off the internet, a pic of him that I bought at fansource and a book for someone else who had sent me money to get a book, for him to sign. As usual he was quite nice and signed everything, all the while talking away. He could tell that I got a few pics off of the internet. He told me they were neat and he would like to see that site, and did I know what site it was. I turned around and pointed to my friends and said, �blame them. They printed them up for me.� He just laughed. He then picked up the script and started looking at the it. He then signed it, �To Lori from Scarecrow Bruce Boxleitner.� Then he saw the pic of him that I bought at fansource. He went, �Whoa. I was really young here. This was like 1982.� He signed that one *love* Bruce Boxleitner. Yes, I know I sound like a lovesick teenager here, lol. I asked if I could get a picture with him and as usual, he was very nice and said yes. It was the best pic of him and I thus far.

After we got everything signed, we just hung out around the table while everyone else got their stuff signed. There was a big line, but it went quickly and when it was through, that was it.

As usual, he looked really good. He was wearing jeans, black cowboy boots, a long sleeve black t- shirt and a denim shirt not tucked in. He had just a hint of beard stubble that looked very good. His hair was longish, and the color he had put in for Perilous (a movie he was going to film after fansource) was growing out. I actually think he looks much better just leaving his hair the way it is, even though it is gray. He looks really good with gray hair and even though I thought he looked great at fansource, I think he looks even better now, just natural.

After he was done with the fan signing, the bookstore brought a lot of books for him to sign. At that point, he started talking a little with the fans that had stayed around. He finished the books and said �Well, time to pack up." Someone asked him a question, and he kind of sat down, and said that he was meeting the family later, but had time to kill. Then he stayed and chatted for almost 2 hours with us.

He told lots of stories, answered lots of questions, and was very funny.

These stories are not in order, and sometimes one topic would veer off into another before coming back on topic, so bear with me.

He said that he was shopping Frontier Earth around as a movie, and that he had written the Sarah Nevers (the main woman character) character with Melissa in mind. He hoped that she could play that role if a movie were made. He said that Melissa was looking at pilots now, but it didn�t sound like she was finding much she liked. He said that she would like to do a series.

He talked a little about the state of TV today and said that it was really sad when a show like Temptation Island beat the West Wing in ratings. He said he would love to be on West Wing, maybe as a character opposing the majority party. Someone you would love to hate. He mentioned that he was really evil in the movie with Bo Derek. He talked a little about Perfect Nanny. He said that his character was kind of a wimp, but that it was ok, since he was a still grieving widower.

Someone asked him what type of series he would like to do if he were to ever get into a series again. That is when he mentioned West Wing. Later on, I can�t remember what we were talking about, but it was something SMK related and he said, �you guys want to know what type of series I�d like to do again, I�d love to do something again like Scarecrow. That would be the type of series I�d be in the market for.

Bruce said that some of his recent projects should be showing up. Perfect Nanny was sold to USA, and that he had finished doing some looping for some other projects. He said that he had to do a lot of looping on Perilous because the sound was so bad.

He also said that he had had dinner with the producers of Bring Em Back Alive and Perilous the night before. He said that doing Perfect Nanny had gotten him the part in �Contagion� that he had just finished. He said he loved being The President in �Contagion� and riding around waving at people in the limo.

He said he still loves to ride horses, but he doesn�t have his ranch anymore, but that he is doing a horse show in Scottsdale in March. (The 11th National Festival of the West). He said they are giving him an award, and that he would also enter some shooting and riding competitions.

He said that Melissa couldn�t join him because she was going to be in Houston with Dakota (her son from her previous marriage). She is enrolling Dakota into a school for gifted children and Bruce was going to join her there after Scottsdale. He said that Dakota is very good at Science and Biology (my subject totally : )).

He said that Sam was playing in Mammoth this weekend and that he was doing really well with his band.

Someone asked about his other son, Lee and said �he�s named after� Bruce smiled and interrupted and said, �Lee Stetson.� That spawned a talk about some SMK related things.

He started talking about the SMK trip to Germany. He really loved that trip. He said that he and Gary Davis, his stunt double were �very bad boys� on the trip. He smiled and his eyes lit up when he said it. He said, "Oh there are stories that will never be told about that trip, at least not by me.� Someone asked if he cared to elaborate and he just smiled and said, "no."

He said that in some of the scenes you could see the bags under his eyes, that no amount of makeup could cover it up. He said, �Gary and I got into some major trouble and then Kate got involved in it, too, but it was really fun, we all had a great time.� I can only imagine what went on there. I can totally see he, Kate and his stunt double going out for a night on the town. Whew! Better watch out with that combination, lol.

He said that he took Melissa back to the castle where they filmed Das Geisterschoss.

He talked a little more about the Porsche and Corvette in SMK. He said that the Porsche cornered like a bathtub, and that Gary Davis kept trying to get him to suggest that they get rid of it, which he did. Gary said he just couldn�t do any cool moves in it. It�s like here you are, needing to have the car skid and stuff around corners in some scenes, and they just could never get that car to do that. He said from the very first episode, they had problems with it and the problems never stopped until they got rid of it. In the very first episode, I can�t remember which scene it was, but he was saying that it was the middle of the night and he was supposed to be driving in front of the Jefferson Memorial. They couldn�t get that car to work for anything (which was why they were still filming in the middle of the night), and so they had have a tow truck tow it in front of the Jefferson Memorial and just edit the tow truck out in the scene, lol.

He said he loved the Corvette. When you�re filming something, the cops block off that street so that no one comes down it. So he said, he�d get in the corvette and just take off. He said he�d go really fast because he could. You could just see it in his eyes the way he talked about that, he really loved that car. He was smiling the whole entire time he was talking about the Corvette. And he talked about it a lot! : ) He said "all engine and fiberglass."

He said that Kate and the producers were always pressuring him to put on a seat belt, but he resisted saying that he just couldn�t see this spy riding around after bad guys buckling and unbuckling his seat belt. I can kind of see his point. Don�t get me wrong, I�m a big advocate of seatbelts and I don�t ever go anywhere without wearing mine, but the way he worded it, �the hero can�t worry about having to buckle and unbuckle his seat belt.� Then he pretends to be in the car, unbuckling his seatbelt and then pretends like it gets stuck. Everyone started laughing. It was funny. His stunt double also didn�t want him to wear it because of all the safety contraptions he needed to wear.

This next part just cracked me up beyond all belief and the voice he said it in just made it all the more funny. He was talking about when he�d be driving the corvette fast and Kate was in the car with him. She�d be slapping him and saying, �Slow down, slow down, slow down, you�re going to get us killed. SLOW DOWN!� The voice he said it in though, was like, you know when you�re sarcastically mimmking someone? That was the type of voice. I was almost on the floor in hysterics I was laughing so hard at that one. Then of course he had to add something else that just about did send me to the floor. He said Kate would be saying those things while they were in the corvette, but when she�d be driving the station wagon, she drove really fast. So then he said, �Why are you getting on me when you drive so fast, too?� That was funny.

Someone asked him if he did his own stunts in SMK. I�ve heard a lot of different answers in different articles on this one, so it was cool to actually hear it straight from him. He said, that yes, he did do a lot of his own stunts. He said, �Yeah, they always tell you that you won�t have to do the stunts or anything like that, but then they need an up close shot while the stunt is being done, so you end up having to do part of it anyway.�

He also talked about the house they used for SMK. How on that side of the street the houses are privately owned, but across the street, they�re studio owned. He said some really strange things went on. The privately owned house owners I guess weren�t too thrilled with them shooting there. So whenever they would see the film crew coming they would start playing their music really loud, or mowing their lawns, etc. I�m a little sketchy on this part, so bear with me, but if I remember correctly, they continued to film exterior quickie shots there, but for longer exterior and all interior shots, they built a house at the studios that was identical on the inside to that house (he even mentioned the little step thingy in the house, pretty cool). He also said that Danny Glover�s house in �Lethal Weapon� was directly across the street and in the movie you can see the SMK house.

He also said that one day he was in the other room at home and that Melissa was flipping the channels around on the TV. She said, "honey, you're on." So he came in the room and it was SMK that was on. It was "The Legend of Das Ghiesterschloss" episode. He said he sat down and they watched the whole episode through. He said it was really weird for him to be watching himself from like 16 years ago.

He talked some about Tron, said he would love to be part of the sequel, and would really like it if Jeff Bridges would be, too. He said that he could see himself as an Old Tron, that the show was really about medieval knights or gladiators. Then he made a joke, �Yeah, can you see me trying to get into those spandex tights now?�

He also told about hurting his shoulder on one of the stunts in Tron. Then, he had to do an interview and was the last one out of the studio that night. He tried to pull off his Tron boots and his shoulder snapped out of place and he fell. He said he had to crawl out onto the street to get someone to help him, he was in such a tremendous amount of pain.

Then he talked about an incident that happened years later with that same shoulder. He and Sam I believe it was, or maybe Lee were at the beach. They were in the water and Bruce was walking back toward the shore. Sam (or Lee) yells, �Dad, look at this.� He turns around and a big wave just gets him the wrong way and that same shoulder gets snapped out of place. I think there were a few things that made this so funny. First of all his tone of voice and things he was saying, but also, he had been sitting down on the table where he had done the signing, and he got up and just started running around showing us what he was doing and what had happened. It was so funny. Okay, so he says his shoulder gets snapped out of place. Well, of course he�s in tremendous pain again. So he�s walking out of the water, holding his shoulder and cursing like there was no tomorrow. So there are a lot of mom�s and little girls on this beach. So here he comes walking out of the water cursing like that, and remember, he is not a small guy. He�s not exactly being quiet either, he�s being pretty loud. He said the pain just overtook him and he wasn�t thinking. This is the point where he got up and started running around. He said that these mother�s were literally picking up their daughters and running away. He showed us by getting up and running around, pretending to pick up the kids. I was already sitting on the floor and thank goodness I was, because I practically had tears running down my cheeks I was laughing so hard. Seeing us laugh, put him into a fit of giggles and he started laughing too while finishing the story. I could just see this happening. I mean all these women thinking there is a crazy man coming out from the water. What my friend and I were wondering afterwards, was if anyone had recognized him. LOL!! He is a great storyteller. I didn�t even come close to doing that story, or any of the other ones justice. He just really knows how to tell a story. I�m assuming that�s good since he�s an actor.

There was also this little tiny child that went running through the group chatting with Bruce. He ran right by Bruce and disappeared into the store. Then a minute or two later the father was obviously looking for him and we all pointed, he went that a way. Bruce mentioned that that really worried him, that a child could be taken in an instant. He was really worried, you could tell. He kept looking at the child and then looking around for the childs parents. The child was pretty young, too.

We said �Mikey�s not spoiled much, is he?� Bruce said something like, "completely. It�s the last one, why not?"

Finally, Bruce said that he had to go meet the family, and he kind of talked his way to the elevator. Some people got on with him, but we didn�t. He waved and said goodbye to those of us who hadn�t gotten in the elevator. Pretty cool.

That is pretty much the gist of that signing.

Okay, this last report is from Thursday Feb. 15th's signing.

Okay, there�s not nearly as much to tell for this last signing, Half the time I couldn�t hear him talking due to people standing in front of me, etc. All I know is we were waiting there in line and he walked in. I about fell over, because I don�t how, but he looked even better than he had at the other signings, and that�s saying a lot, because he looked awesome at the other signings. He was wearing, of course, jeans and then he was wearing pointy cowboy boots and a short sleeved gray shirt with a Babylon 5 pullover fleece on. At the very end of the signing he went in the back to do something. He had kept the fleece on the whole entire signing. Well, I was in the middle of a conversation with someone when he came back out. My friend whom I brought with me said, �Lori, Lori, look, he took off his jacket.� I spun around and about fainted dead away. The gray t-shirt wasn�t exactly loose on him. In fact it was exactly like that dark blue t-shirt that he wore in �Stemwinder part 2� that was pretty tight that he looked so good in. Anyway, the only difference was that it was gray. Too soon he put the jacket back on.

He was late, but had called telling the bookstore he was stuck in traffic. He walked in and walked over to the table and started signing almost immediately. There was hardly anyone there, so it didn�t take me a long time to get up to him. There were these people in front of me. It was two teenage sons and a mother. The mother said they had a lot of stuff to get signed and would I want to go ahead of them. I was so nervous, which I don't why, because I had met Bruce four times before already and he's so nice. I think it was because I didn't have my group with me. I was like, �no, that�s okay, I have tons of stuff for him to sign too.� The teenage boys were really into Babylon 5 and had a lot of B5 stuff for him to sign. Anyway, after them was me. I walked up there and Bruce said, �you came back for more punishment, huh?� I laughed and said, �that I did.� I must admit I was stoked that he remembered me yet again. Anyway, I said, �I have tons of stuff for you to sign this time.� He said, �there�s no crowd, so I want to sign as many things as I can.� I had bought another book and when I handed it to him, he said, �who is this to?� I said, �me, Lori.� He looked at me and said, �but I�ve already signed a book for you at another signing.� I said, �I know, but I got another one for you to sign.� He just smiled and said, �Okay.� Then I had him sign something for a friend that she had forgotten to have him sign at the last signing. It was a picture of him from The Gambler. It said, �Boxleitner puts up his dukes.� He read it out loud and then smiled. He then said, �I miss those days.� Then I had him sign my other stuff, which was all SMK stuff. I printed up a couple of pics on the internet, on photo paper. He immediately noticed they were off the internet. He said, �You got these off the internet, huh?� I said, �yeah.� He said, �What site, I�m really interested in looking at these.� I said, �I just got them from various sites. There�s still so many scarecrow sites out there and sites of just you out as well. I just went around to the different sites.� He said something to the affect of that he was gonna have to look those up, because it was really neat. All of the sudden he just started talking to me (which I�m not complaining about, believe me). He was signing one of my scarecrow things and he said, �Just the other day, I got another question about a reunion movie for SMK. Also I heard something that Kate is trying to do, too, but I just don�t think there�s a market for Scarecrow anymore. I would love to do one, but it just isn�t going to profit any of the networks, so they�re not interested.� I said, �too bad, because Scarecrow was such an awesome show and there are still so many fans out there for the show all these years later. I know us fans, me included, are trying to get something, possibly on pax.� He said, �yeah, but with pax, it would just be that one movie and that would be it. It wouldn�t be profitable for them at all.� At this point he had stopped signing my stuff and was looking at me and talking. Again I said, �too bad.� He said, �it really is. Pax doesn�t do it�s own originals either.� (which I personally believe is wrong, I think they do). Later on I came in on part of a conversation, so didn�t get the whole part before that, where he was saying, �yeah, pax does do their own originals� and then said something else after that that I didn�t catch. I know he said however after �pax does do their own originals,� so I don�t know what he was going to say. Anyway, he finally got finished signing all my stuff and I asked if I could get my picture taken with him again and he said, �sure.� I think that was pretty cool, since he knows I'd been at 4 out of the 5 signings and have had my picture taken with him every single time. Then the rest of the people got their stuff signed. I talked a lot to a friend that night and because of that, I didn�t catch everything he was saying, but also he was talking extremely softly and it was really hard to catch everything he was saying. I know he talked a lot about Babylon 5.

Later, Laura George did something really nice for Bruce. She works for fox studios, so I guess this is how she was able to get this done. She took the cover of each of his books and had them made into poster size and then framed them. I know it probably wasn�t cheap and it was obvious that Bruce really appreciated it.

At one point Bruce was joking around and said, �let�s go to Brentanno�s.� That was where the first book signing took place and it was right across the street. He was talking to someone about how there were hardly any people at that signing, just like the one that particular night. He looked up and pointed right at me and said, �You were there. You know. There were only about five people at that signing, huh?� I laughed and said, �yes, there were.�

I finally was able to make my way closer to him and was able to hear what he was saying and actually get some eye contact with him, too. He was saying that when cable was first out, nobody thought it was going to last, but it did, and now practically everyone has cable. Then he started talking about politics a little bit and was saying that he was glad at who had won the presidency. He said, �it�s hard when you have a kid and you�re constantly hearing about all the sex scandals going on in the white house.� Then someone said, �Yeah, your kids start asking questions that they are way too young to get answers to yet, to all of those things they hear about.� Bruce said, �exactly.� Those are really only the major points he talked about. I know he talked a lot more, this is Bruce, lol. But I was talking to my friend a lot and was having trouble hearing him.

Finally he decided to hit the road, but again he spent a good hour with us after the signing. It was nice. He gathered up the many things he had. We all walked out together. I don�t know how I said it, because I have never called him by name before, but as we were all walking out, he was right behind me and I turned around and said, �Thank you, Bruce.� He said, �you�re very welcome.� Then he headed off in a different direction than my two friends and I, but said, �bye guys, see you soon� and waved at us. One of my friends who had never met Bruce before was like, �wow, he said goodbye to us.� I said, �I told you he was a really really nice guy.� That was pretty much the gist of all four signings. Hope you guys enjoyed the report.