Celebrating St. Bruce Campbell Day

Almost one week ago, I experienced the pleasure and glory of seeing Mr. Bruce Lorne Campbell do a Q&A after a screening of his new movie "My Name is Bruce."  This is the second celebrity Q&A I have been to since moving to Seattle (the other was Crispin Glover, but that experience traumatized me to the point I never wrote about it).  But Bruce did not traumatize me.  Bruce entertained and delighted me, as expected.

First, they showed his new movie "My Name is Bruce" which is about Bruce Campbell playing a character named Bruce Campbell.  He has to save a small town called Gold Lick from a Chinese demon named "Guan-di".  Interestingly, the Guan-di demon also moonlights as the patron saint of bean curd, and as you can imagine, that becomes his Achilles heel which allows Bruce to save Gold Lick and banish Guan-di back to wherever Guan-di came from.

Once it was over, we all applauded extra loudly knowing HE was listening...and suddenly he came sprinting from the back of the theatre to the front.  He was amazing.  Bruce bravely and aptly single-handedly handled the audience...moderating all the questions himself and being all-around ridiculously charming and great.  A few gems:

• "It's not every actor who gets the chance to portray Elvis Presley with cancer of the penis."
  
  
• "If anyone needs an old west town, I have one on my property now. With a livery stable and everything."  (He built the town of Gold Lick there on his own land.  Gold Lick is not on Google Maps.  YET.)
  
  
• After someone accused him of tailoring some answer to a rather liberal Seattle audience..."oh, you think I'm pandering to this audience? I would never do that. Hey, anyone want to go get vegetarian after?"
  
  
• Question from the crowd: "What are the fans like overseas?"
  Bruce's solid gold answer: "Smelly."

Sadly for me, there was no meet and greet or really any opportunity to get near him and "give him some sugar," so all I have is this to remember him by: