Even if you're not a Whedonite yourself, you've got to give it up for the fans of Joss Whedon. The Buffy, Angel and Firefly fanatics have created a community that has held multiple nationwide fundraisers for Whedon's favorite charitable organization Equality Now and single-handedly acted as the grassroots marketing engine behind Whedon's directorial film debut Serenity. Let's just say, they're a nice bunch.A group of those fans has now turned its attention to honoring Whedon with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Their collective reasoning is sorta sweet. "It's a tangible way to show respect by giving him something else to add to his legacy and to show how much he means to us...It's not all about Joss...It's about family, not the one we are born into by blood, but the one that Joss created out of his work...We cannot give him the prestigious awards; most of us are not on any academy boards, nor people that have a choice of nominations." Sorta makes you tear up a bit, doesn't it? Pop culture making the connection. The people's star.
There is, of course, a catch. Anyone can nominate a celebrity for the Walk of Fame, but once that nomination is accepted, fans must raise $15,000 to make the star happen. The folks organizing the campaign are accepting donations online. Each donation qualifies you to win an autographed photo of Buffy's Giles, a Serenity premiere flipbook or a kinda gross vampire prosthetic signed by Angel's David Boreanaz. Maybe don't donate for the forehead-thing. Donate because you want to see Joss Whedon get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - a star that can be pissed on by drunk nightclubbers and slept on by Hollywood's transients.
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11-08-2006 @ 12:47PM
AlanVD said...
This is a really good idea! As a dedicated, well-earning Browncoat I can part with a $100 to make this happen :)
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11-08-2006 @ 12:51PM
corey said...
Sure, they gave one to Ryan Seacrest, so might as well hand them out to any Hollywood loser who asks for one.
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11-08-2006 @ 12:53PM
Akbar Fazil said...
"a star that can be pissed on by drunk nightclubbers and slept on by Hollywood's transients."
Just about the only credit Joss deserves after destorying the Firefly story. But I think my opinions on that are well known around here ;)
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11-08-2006 @ 1:26PM
MattIsWaldo said...
You should also mention where you got that shirt picture.
Thinkgeek.com, under the PvP banner.
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11-08-2006 @ 8:35PM
Andy said...
Ah I am certainly going to do this!
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11-08-2006 @ 8:35PM
Andy said...
Well I just started here a week or so ago Akbar, so why such a negative attitude? Firefly/Serenity owns!
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11-08-2006 @ 8:54PM
Dorv said...
You had to know there would be a continuity crack by Akbar in this thread :)
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11-08-2006 @ 8:54PM
Dorv said...
Andy: TVSquad did Retro Reviews of all of the Firefly episodes this summer. Read through those, and specifically the comments, and you'll get a good feel for Akbar's postion. To quickly summerize, though, he thought the show was great, but the changes to the canon and the continuity for the sake of telling the story in the movie really brought down the luster of the whole franchise.
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