Big Apple Con 2005

This last weekend was the Big Apple Con 2005! It's a show featuring comic books, art and toys. Featured to show was Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia!!! Missed her though. Got there too late and instead got hounded by:
After Todd got Peter Tork's (of Monkees fame) autograph we were headed down to a few comic book panel discussions downstairs but were stopped by this slightly crazed woman. She had been sitting all alone at a table full of cd's, glossies, and 8 X 10's. She must have got up as we were passing. She got up to ask us if we wanted her autograph! We were trying to fight the crowd to get downstairs so we kept going. But she didn't give up! "You know you'll have to pay for them though!" I think referring to her signatures she wanted us to have. Wow. How sad. I hadn't a clue as to who this woman was, but, the idea of this woman - someone who obviously had nothing to do with comic books - sitting all by herself at a comic book convention just hoping someone would notice her plagued me and my friends thereafter. Later, after attending various comic-book lectures, riding the train back to Brooklyn, and a few episodes of Dr. Who later, we had to know who she was.
I found Karen Lynn Gorney's Story on both the Big Apple Con's website and the IMDB.
She was the brassy woman John Travolta fell in love with in Saturday Night Fever!!! So, again, what was she doing at a comic-book convention? Was she sooo desperate for publicity or cash that she had her agent get her a gig at this comic-book convention? I felt so bad for her. I thought about going back the next day and giving her some flowers or something. Or telling her that she must feel good that Madonna based the concept of her new music video "Hung Up" as an homage to Karen's SNFever work. Or dressing up in all white Tony Manero disco suit and asking her to the Hustle or the Bus Stop. But I didn't. And so the sadness lurks on...