Isn't she just the sweetest, most charming person? I will never forget meeting her at the one and only DS Fest I attended back in '03. She called me and my friends over to her table (it was the last one in line and nobody had made it that far yet), saying: "Hey, boys, I'm lonely here! Come and talk to me!" And so we did for a long time. She gave us her undivided attention, and we gabbed about a myriad of things. She and a friend of mine discovered that they both had involvement for the same cause (pediatric AIDS) and she gave him her card, telling him if she could ever be of any help to call her. And, of course, we got the must-have autograph and photo shot with her. We would've just stayed and continued on kvetching with her until Robert Rodan, whose table was nearby, shouted: "Hey, Marie, stop hogging all the fans and send them over here!" Marie is just fantastic, the absolute best!
Gerard