# Did you ever write a letter to your favorite celebrity? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901 "2012-06-02T23:40:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/101 "2012-07-06T15:47:46Z")
I had a short email correspondence with author Christopher Moore several years ago. But I was afraid I might be looking like a stalker so I stopped. I’ve also discussed Roman History (what little I know) with author Steven Saylor. My most exciting response was after reading In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, I emailed Dr Mary Beth Norton to tell her how much I enjoyed the book. And she emailed me back and thanked me for picking up on some of the subtler aspects of the book. ---
**Author:** ![RedBloom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@RedBloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedBloom)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/102 "2012-07-06T18:10:53Z")
I wrote a letter to Bea Arthur a few years ago and I got an 8 x 10 autographed photograph of her (and she wrote “To: RedBloom”)… I had it framed for awhile and my husband eventually made me take it down. I cherish that! ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/103 "2012-07-07T03:38:11Z")
I emailed Guillermo del Toro a question about the symbolism he used in Pan’s Labyrinth and he sent me back a prompt, cordial, well thought out response. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/104 "2012-07-07T03:50:38Z")
I don’t think I did. I was horrible about even sending thank you notes as a kid. By the time I got to college there was email, and nowadays many celebrities are fairly responsive through twitter. Besides, most of the actors or writers I like eventually show up at conventions where you can interact more directly. I have corresponded with author Douglas Rushkoff a few times through email, but he’s had an email discussion list for a long time so it’s not unusual. My friend wrote to Reagan to warn him about the Indian curse against our presidents and got a signed thank you form letter. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/105 "2012-07-08T04:33:36Z")
I sent a t-shirt to Terry Pratchett based on a remark he had made. He didn’t reply (and I didn’t expect it) but he DID wear the shirt during an interview recently. Shirt: [Fantasy Writer T-Shirt | Zazzle](http://www.zazzle.com/fantasy_writer_t_shirts-235517181649168133) Interview: [Terry Pratchett - the most wizard writer in the cosmos](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9310479/Hay-Festival-2012-Terry-Pratchett-the-most-wizard-writer-in-the-cosmos.html) ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/106 "2012-07-08T09:08:35Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > I sent a t-shirt to Terry Pratchett based on a remark he had made. He didn’t reply (and I didn’t expect it) but he DID wear the shirt during an interview recently. > Shirt: [http://www.zazzle.com/fantasy\_writer\_t\_shirts-235517181649168133](http://www.zazzle.com/fantasy_writer_t_shirts-235517181649168133) > Interview: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9310479/Hay-Festival-2012-Terry-Pratchett-the-most-wizard-writer-in-the-cosmos.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9310479/Hay-Festival-2012-Terry-Pratchett-the-most-wizard-writer-in-the-cosmos.html) Very, very cool; both the T-Shirt and the interview. OT, I just re-read _Colour of Magic_ and _The Light Fantastic_ this weekend. I remember waiting for the latter to arrive from the publishers to the tiny bookstore next to my work. Brilliant send-up of every fantasy novel I’d ever loved. But re-reading it (oh dear), well over 20 years later, I’m astounded that the Discworld was still recognisably _itself_. He’s gone into it deeper, found the real characters behind the stereotypes, but it’s very much the same place. I still wait at the bookshop for the newest story to arrive. /OT ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/107 "2012-07-08T13:26:30Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Nope. I saw the Christmas and birthday cards he’d gotten too. Red Rum and Desert Orchid were similarly sent cards and gifts annually > [@kayaker](#): > > Years ago, on another message board, I responded to a post made by Wil Wheaton, who was an occasional poster there. He PM’d me. I replied. He asked me for my email address and we corresponded back and forth for a few months. > > It was a bit stressful. Each email I sent was rewritten/edited many times. He seemed like a truly cool guy. Wil’s great, I’ve been following him online for years! 😃 I don’t know if it’s been mentioned on here before, but there was a fella on The Late Late Show (RTÉ) a while ago, who as a child had been press ganged into watching a Dracula movie staring Christopher Lee, which had terrified him. After a lot of ragging, his brothers/friends told him to write to Mr Lee as he was an actor and not really a vampire (in a bid to calm him down!). He wrote off and later received a signed photo of Mr Lee In full Dracula costume. Well, he nearly died of fright and to make matters worse, Dracula now knew where he lived!! LOL Personally I wrote to some TV director ages ago (like in the 80s or 90s) and got back a standard “Please do not send story submissions to any employee of \ as they cannot read them for legal reasons” (OWTTE) but I didn’t send a story suggestion! ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901/108 "2012-07-10T21:08:04Z")
Does two days count as a zombie thread? Yet another Asimov correspondent here. The short note I received in reply was typed, not on a postcard, but on a strip that was maybe 1/3 or 1/4 of a sheet of typing paper (this was way before e-mail). I thought it odd at the time, but years later learned that he always did that so as to save paper. Don’t know if he was being green or just cheap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-write-a-letter-to-your-favorite-celebrity/623901.md?page=5)