January 19th, 2010 → 10:44 pm @ Celebrity Black Book // No Comments
“My mother turns 65 years old next April. She’s one of those old school celebrity lovers who watches all the gossip shows, dresses up for the Oscars, and watches all the red carpet interviews while drinking wine and eating maple nut ice cream.
She’s always been big on autographs, so I decided the best birthday gift to give her next year would be an album of signed celebrity headshots wishing her a happy 65th birthday. I thought 65 personal celebrity wishes would be a good goal.
In March, I wrote a hand written two paragraph note stating my intentions, made copies and used your Celebrity Black Book to send requests to celebrities from all walks of life. While this method may seem a bit impersonal, I figured I was better off going for quantity rather than quality… hell, it works for the credit card companies.
Over the past few months, whenever I had some time to kill, I’d pull out your Celebrity Black Book, highlight some celebrities, address and stuff envelopes, and mail my next batch. I’ve sent out around 800 requests thus far with about 10% being returned with outdated addresses.
My success rate has been between 15-20 percent with many of my earlier requests still producing. While I do get some “generic” autographed copies of headshots sent by studio reps, I still have over 100 quality personalized celebrity birthday wishes to my mother.
While my celebrity wish list is dwindling, I am confident that with what requests I still have in play, I should wind up with over 150 quality birthday wishes from the A-D list celebrities, sports stars, and politicians.
Everybody wins with what I’m doing. First my mom. Secondly the celebrities, some of whom are just flattered to be remembered, and finally me.
I can’t tell you how exciting it is to come home and check my mail for something other than bills. My mail lady thinks I’m a talent agent, and she keeps asking me to audition her nephew.
The thought of Phyllis Diller or Betty White sitting at their kitchen table wearing a housecoat and writing a birthday wish to my mom and sending it to me cracks me up.
Here is a sample of some of the personalized celebrity birthday wishes my mom has waiting for her so far: Betty White, Phyllis Diller, Paul Anka, Regis Philbin, Arnold Palmer, Paul Newman, James Garner, Tom Selleck, Ruth Buzzi, Mary Lou Retton, Don Rickles, Jane Fonda, Bob Dole, Dawn Wells, Bart Conner, The Smothers Brothers, Lovie Smith, Candice Bergen, Vidal Sassoon, John Grisham, Pat Summit, Chad Everett, Tom Dreesen Rose Marie, Bonnie Franklin, Henry Winkler and many more.
- Jerry Wolski
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Tags: Arnold Palmer, Bart Conner, Betty White, Bob Dole, Bonnie Franklin, Candice Bergen, Chad Everett, Dawn Wells, Don Rickles, Henry Winkler, James Garner, Jane Fonda, John Grisham, Lovie Smith, Mary Lou Retton, Pat Summit, Paul Anka, Paul Newman, Phyllis Diller, Regis Philbin, Ruth Buzzi, The Smothers Brothers, Tom Dreesen Rose Marie, Tom Selleck, Vidal Sassoon
