Wiz World Austin wasn’t a complete bust this year. Sure it was only over two days. Sure Peter Weller bailed with three days to go (his VIP package was Somara’s birthday present). Sure all the major vendors skipped because it’s not worth dragging all their gear out for two days and a 6 PM closing on a Saturday. But Chris Sarandon was there!
Many of you know him as the villain Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride, a favorite in my top 10 easily. The Goth crowd know he’s Jack Skellington’s voice in The Nightmare before Christmas and for me, the great modern-day vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fight Night.
He enjoyed my little story about meeting Christopher Guest and laughed over how so many technical documents for troubleshooting computers give a symptom of partially dead. Remember, dead says it all, unlike The Princess Bride, there’s no state for electronics called “mostly dead.”
