25 People I Must Meet!

1. Boris Karloff (How did you become so cool?)
2. Peter Cushing (Tell me something about God, and then Frankenstein.)
3. Stephen Fry (Hasn't you brain exploded yet? Thank you for Moab is my Washpot.)
4. Alec Guinness (Are you really the world's only respected actor who didn't go to RADA?)
5. Bela Lugosi (Typecasting? Me! Too!)
6. Claude Rains (Here's a tape recorder. Now, read from that telephone directory. I'll be rich soon.)
7. Charles Laughton (Cheer up, Charlie. And take that twnety-pound hump off.)
8. George Zucco (Why does nobody know who you are except Greg Mank and I?)
9. Alfred Hitchcock (How did you go forty-seven years without smiling?)
10. Vincent Price (Enough said.)
11. Simon Callow (Where on earth did you get that bouffant? And learn to write so very well?)
12. Joseph Merrick (Sick of all the pity? I have friendship to offer!)
13. Christopher Lee (I won't mention Dracula, but I'll make you as many cups of Earl Grey as you like.)
14. Henry Daniell (You made body snatching and chopping fingers off look positively cool.)
15. Alistair Sim (You put all other Scrooges to shame. You are the king.)
16. Bette Davis (Bloody hell, you did well for yourself. Deservedly, of course.)
17. Lon Chaney, Sr. (You suffered beyond compare to entertain the world. And it payed off!)
18. Carole Shelley (Hey-hey! A worthwhile character actress who isn't Meryl Streep!)
19. James Earl Jones (Do the voice, do the voice, do the voice, do the voice...)
20. Tod Slaughter (You are the definition of ham. A shining beacon to all!)
21. Richard Griffiths (See you in London. I'll bring my mobile phone.)
22. Greg Mank (How do you go about becoming the world's greatest film historian?)
23. David J. Skal (I want a slide lecture! Posthaste!)
24. Tom Weaver (You are so putting an audio commentary on all my DVDs.)
25. Miriam Margolyes (Sorry for saying you look like James Davies so much. You do.)

Fifteen of you are, kind of, y'know, uhm, well, how shall I put this... DEAD, so I'll be seeing you at the Pearly Gates. Another incentive to be good.