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September 4, 2007 at 5:00 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in News
DRAGON*CON PARADE: APD Chief Richard Pennington went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that Han Solo and Chewbacca did not attack Saturday’s parade.
Seemingly every social subgroup had its own special event last weekend. Hot-rod-loving, tattooed rock fans had Drive-Invasion. Proud, black, gay people had Black Gay Pride. People with exceptionally bad taste in music had Hootie & the Blowfish at Chastain.
And the sci-fi and fantasy set? They, of course, had Dragon*Con. This year’s special guests included the usual selection of stars of space-themed shows (Gil Gerard, Richard Hatch, Jonathan Frakes, etc.) as well as, mysteriously, Erik Estrada. The hunky Hispanic actor rode a black motorcycle in Saturday’s Dragon*Con Parade, evoking his days as “Ponch†on the late 1970s cop dramedy “CHiPs.” Estrada was my generation’s Wilmer Valderrama.
(Photo by Sarah Harms)
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