Winterfest Interview with Linda Moore
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| Title: | Winterfest Interview with Linda Moore |
| Interviewer: | Winterfest |
| Interviewee: | Linda Moore |
| Date(s): | 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
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In 2007, Linda Moore was interviewed for Winterfest.
It has a focus of Beauty and the Beast (TV), conventions, and A Life Without Limits, a 20th anniversary convention.
See Winterfest Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Did any of you have experience doing conventions prior to B&B? If so, how did that help you put together B&B cons? Oh yes. In 1978 I attended my first Convention ever for Space:1999. Made a lot of friends, and by 1979 I was in charge of ‘something’ every year after that. Eventually I ‘chaired’ 2 Cons in Cincinnati and 3 here in LA. The last one we did was in 1999. We raised $20,000 for our Charities that year.
How has your group changed from the 1995 con to the 2000 con to the present?
We are much wiser. The group we are now and was in 2000 do this for the pure love of the show and it’s fans. No personal gain… which turned out to be a hidden agenda for a few in 1995.
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You learn who is the most hard headed. Those with ‘stars’ in their eyes. Who is the most dependable. The ones who want only the glory. I can see that without working with them on a Convention.
How do you approach the stars - through agents, personal contact, a combination, other?
A combination of all of the above. Over the years, some of the actors you get to know on a personal level. That’s a good thing. Others you must contact through the agent. I am dead set against paying anyone to appear!
We know that your group was able to obtain a lot of the costumes from the show that were only going to be thrown out. Can you tell us a little about that experience and how it came about?
Now this story is a hoot. I pick up the phone one day and Mike asks, “Are you off work today?” I was. Seems he got a phone call from Judy Evans who is getting ready to move to Washington State. She wants us to come with two cars and take as many costumes that we can cram into them! We met at the lot. Security was expecting us and we drove back to the huge warehouse where many costumes are stored. Judy is a lovely lady (very shy and did not want to come to the 1995 Con). We took what they planned to throw out and then she took us into a ‘locked’ section where she gave us some of the good stuff. We have auctioned off many for Charity, and sadly, to pay off the debt left from the 1995 Con. We still have some that we will never let go.
Is there anything else that we haven’t covered that you would like to say to your fellow BATB fans?
I’d just like to say that B&B fandom has some of the best people who make up for the really bad ones. I find that any fandom has people in it for all the wrong reasons. Thankfully, there are not many of those around anymore. Thank you all for your interest and hope to see you this July!