Celebrities can do anything!

February 6, 2009 on 4:11 pm | In Comic Cons, Movies, Music | No Comments

Believe it, true believers. A celebrity endorsement can sell anything from shoes to hot dogs to underwear (all sold by Michael Jordan), and at the NY Comic Con here at the Javits Center, celeb endorsements of products long forgotten still sell for top dollar. Or, middle dollar. I wouldn’t spend my bottom dollar on them though.

Case in point:

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Elsa Lanchester’s album “Bawdy Cockney Songs.” If you don’t know what “bawdy” means, it’s British for “naughty”, while “Cockney” is a type of English spoken by the very underclass. The whores in the Jack the Ripper stories all spoke Cockney. And Elsa Lanchester? She was the bride of Frankenstein. I have no idea what demographic this was aimed at, since I can’t see people actually paying money to listen to the Bride of Frankenstein sing songs they could hear off a drunk in the gutter or a sailor at the docks for free.

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And who can turn down OJ Simpson’s coloring book, especially with that patriotic flavor? Yes we can! Yes we can!

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Then there’s the barely-celebrity/counting-down-those-15-minutes/non-endorsed products, like this (short) biography of teenyboppers’ favorite vampire! Really nowhere else you can sell these other than a comic con, but trust me, they were selling about as well as if they were being sold at a Home Depot. Mr. Pattinson is not attending this convention, as he is off in England somewhere, being cool.