NORWESCON Guest Revealed!
 Who are you, o Mystery Wizard?
 Seattle, Norwescon, Wizard, Jittlov, Egomaniac

Dave Xxxxxxxxx  writes:
 >I just read your posting in rec.arts.sf.fandom, and checked it out
 and
 >discovered that you actually _do_ have your own newsgroup!! Excuse
 me,
 >but.....  Who _are_ you???
 >And how do you rate having your own Newsnet group??????

Well, believe me, Dave - I was as surprised as You, to find this
 li'l corner of surreality.  But why question a Miracle?  Though
 McCluhan's Law states I'm only supposed to get 15 minutes of Fame,
 the Hollywood Norns have apparently forgotten to reset their Cosmic
 Egg-Timer.  Exercise that ego while you can, I say.

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  * Press Release * Press Release * Press Release * Press Here *

March 25th, 1:00 PM, the Red Lion Hotel, Bellevue, Washington State


             THE WIZARD RETURNS TO THE EMERALD CITY!
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Film Producer, Screenwriter, Movie Star - and yes, Living Legend -
 MIKE JITTLOV has just been chosen as the Surprise Mystery Guest of
 Honor [tell your Friends!] at Seattle's NORWESCON 16.  Jittlov's
 strangely charming, hyperkinetic and effects-packed feature film,
 "THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME", will be screened at the mammoth
 science-fiction and fantasy convention - after which Mike may
 reveal how in the world this movie even got made, despite the
 misbegotten cretins who run Hollywood.

Self-taught in every field of film production, Jittlov has actually
 co-starred himself on two Walt Disney TV specials (animating the
 first stop-motion Mickey Mouse and 1000 Disney toys marching around
 a psychologist's office).  His imaginative works have been festival
 favorites, winning many top awards and honors world-wide; and have
 drawn standing-room-only crowds at international screenings, from
 Hollywood's famed Chinese Theater and the Smithsonian IMAX, to the
 outside walls of large buildings.

Though listed in "Who's Who", Mike Jittlov's range of jobs, hobbies
 and eccentricities would probably better qualify him a listing in
 "Ripley's Believe It Or Not".  He ghost-starred as the entire troop
 of avenging spirits in last year's megahit "GHOST", performed the
 first broadcast of silent movies on the radio, and floated
 weightless with Astronaut Gordon Cooper in a TV special.  For
 leisure, Mike has hitchhiked across Europe with a giant hand on a
 stick, rafted down the Colorado River in a wading pool, skydived
 off the Gerald Desmond Bridge at midnight, and climbed to the top
 of volcanic Mount St. Helens without a permit.  If cajoled, he can
 sign ornately legible autographs, whistle three octaves, and fold
 dollar bills into amusingly animated shapes.  And he is still,
 remarkably, single.

Until he finds his Perfect Mate (and can afford Her), movie-making
 remains Mike Jittlov's prime passion.  He has been dubbed a "Mega-
 Hyphenate Auteur", after recently working in over 130 job
 catagories (from Producer-Director to Key Schlepp) to create his
 first 35mm feature.  A quasi-autobiographical action-comedy about
 Hollywood's terminally creative and abysmally underfunded
 special-effects wizards, the movie stars Jittlov, Miss Virginia
 (Paige Moore), and some genuine local geniuses.  It actually won
 five significant awards and received astoundingly excellent
 reviews, before being mysteriously buried by its alleged
 distributor.  (There is an amazing story here...)

Jittlov is currently seeking a very wealthy buyer of his Mr. Spock
 Sugar Smacks cereal box (on display at NorWesCon) and world-class
 comicbook collection (warehoused), so as to finance his next movie.
 Or move to Scandinavia and live happily ever after.  Maybe both.

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  Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc         .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.
   Hollywood, CA 90026-2714         '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  *
 jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu    (: May All Your  \V/  Good Dreams
   <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov>      and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:)
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"Sometimes, a lost cause is the only one worth fighting for."
                -- Jimmy Stewart ("Mr. Smith Goes to Washington")