Author: Moyra J. Bligh
Email: moyra@interlog.com
Date: 1998/11/02
Forums: alt.fan.mira-furlan
Message-ID: <364c1d27.80891537@news.interlog.com>
I don't think I've ever seen Mira look more beautiful. She is the
picture of a woman who is all filled up with love, and that love is
spilling out on to those she comes in contact with. Radiant does not
begin to describe the way she looks.
Friday I chose to sit in the auditorium and catch the couple of talks
that she did, rather that attempt the hell that was the autograph
lines. She was asked, of course, when in December she was due, what
the sex of the child was and if they'd picked out any names, but
declined to answer, so officially I don't know anything more on that
subject that I did before VOR.
I did meet Goran on Friday and he is very charming, and much better
looking than I would have thought from seeing his photos on the web.
We had a brief conversation and I said something about being the crazy
lady who drove everywhere to see Mira at which point he asked my name.
When I told him he stood up with outstretched hand and said something
about being pleased to meet me that left me with the definite
impression that he knew exactly who I was, which was very nice. A
couple of other comments he made to me leant to that impression too. I
could be wrong, but I enjoyed the moment. Unfortunately, I didn't have
the presence of mind at the time to tell him that I was almost as big
a fan of his as I am of Mira's. We did have a very pleasant
conversation, however, and I'd very much like to meet him again.
Mira arrived on Saturday just after noon. I'd been standing in the
autograph line since about 10:00 a.m. since I didn't want to take the
chance that I'd miss her and with the horror of the Friday autograph
session I thought it likely that I'd only get one chance to see her.
She just looked up and said "It's you!" which brightened my mood
considerably. I got her to autograph the still I had found from "When
Father Was Away on Business", which prompted an interesting reaction
from her, and she commented that a lot of time had passed.
Unfortunately the situation was far from ideal for her, where she was
sitting the music was overly loud and distorted and I could tell that
she was very stressed and frazzled, and very overwhelmed. I can't help
but think that the whole event must have been hard on her. Thankfully,
very shortly thereafter she was moved much further up the building to
a spot that was better lit and not nearly so bombarded with noise and
hoards of people.
Later that day I was talking to an artist (Douglas Shuler) who has
done some really fabulous drawings and prints of some of the B5 stars.
I was drooling over his, as yet unfinished portrait of Mira, of which
I badly want a print when it's finished. He's managed to capture her
face and her spirit so beautifully. He mentioned that she had not yet
seen it and would I like to take it over for her to have a look at.
Needless to say I jumped at the chance. Mira's autograph line had
dwindled down to a manageable level, so I went through the line and
showed her Doug's version of herself, which she appeared to like very
much. "It's wonderful" she commented, I agreed. As I walked away to
return it to Doug, she called after me "Thank you." Gracious, as
always, warm and gracious.
Sunday she looked absolutely stunning in a low cut crushed green
velvet top, it's a fabulous color on her. I'd been getting all the
casts autographs on the back and the front of my program, so I braved
the autograph line again and got her to sign and personalize it. She
did - it still amazes me that she can spell my name correctly, I have
clients I've had for ten years who still insist on spelling it with an
i rather than a y. She put her pen down and looked up, "How are you?",
she asked. I told her I was fine and commented that she looked
absolutely beautiful. "I'm growing every day", she said softly. I
told her that it was obvious that it agreed with her.
She's happy, and I wouldn't have missed seeing her this happy for
anything in the world. I'm also very glad that I had the opportunity
to say congratulations in person, it was important to me to do that.
For those two reasons alone this convention was worth it for me, but I
very much doubt that I'd ever go to another event organized by these
people.
Oh, and even though I did not drive to this convention, I still
managed to put 1400 miles on the rental car, just about the distance
from Toronto to Dallas. <g>
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Moyra J. Bligh - moyra@interlog.com
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