GLASGOW has played host to a galaxy of stars over the decades.
For one movie fan from Clydebank, there was a surprise in store when he met Hollywood film star Janet Leigh at the Glasgow Film Theatre in 1995.
“She was talking about her career and took part in a question and answer session,” explains Michael McNulty.
“The cinema was packed and I asked her if there were any modern film directors she would like to work with.
“She said she’d love to work with Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg.”
Michael adds: “I met her after the Q and A to get her autograph and she thanked me for asking a question. I was surprised she remembered me as there were so many people there.”
Leigh, most famous for THAT shower scene in the Hitchcock suspense thriller Psycho, was not the only screen star to brighten Michael’s day.
“I met Mickey Rooney the same year, and I saw Charlton Heston at the Cannon cinema in Sauchiehall Street in 1990, but there was too much of a crowd near him to be able to get his autograph.
“I have also been lucky enough to meet Richard Attenborough, Mr Spock himself Leonard Nimoy and Kathleen Turner in 2008, who was promoting her autobiography.
“She signed my Photoplay Film magazine. These are stars I will remember for the rest of my life.”
Kathleen Turner visited Glasgow in 2008 to promote her autobiography Send Yourself Roses, as part of the city’s Aye Write book festival.
She was interviewed in front of an audience at the Mitchell Library by BBC Radio Scotland presenter Janice Forsyth.
“The good folk of Glasgow were not only as enthralled, as always, by a Hollywood star in their midst, but also added a clutch of interesting questions of their own. Essentially, though, this was a personality giving honestly and interestingly of their time,” reported our sister newspaper The Herald the next day.
The book had been compiled from 35 hours of interviews.
Speaking at the festival, she quipped: “Thirty-five hours of me - can you imagine?
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“At first I said no to a book, it just seemed so egotistical. But it was pointed out to me that I had a lot of lessons in life I might be able to pass on. It’s not a book of gossip, because I don’t do gossip. It’s about the experiences I have learned from.”
Turner is one of the most famous actresses of her generation. Her films include Body Heat, The Man With Two Brains, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Prizzi’s Honor and Peggy Sue Got Married. She was also the voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? She has also been acclaimed for her stage work, including The Graduate and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
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