Syndicated columnist and blogger Arianna Huffington was the featured speaker at last night's St. Louis Speaker Series presentation at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis, Missouri.

She stuck out her hand to greet me as she exited the town car upon her arrival. Ms. Huffington then agreed to pose for this photograph and signed one 8 x 10, commenting, "wow, you are really prepared."

Today in St. Louis I met up with Richard Springthorpe. Richard who? You probably know him better as Dr. Noah Drake from the television soap opera General Hospital, or perhaps as musician Rick Springfield. The rock-n-roller is in concert tonight at Sangamon Auditorium on the campus of the University of Illinois-Springfield.

Springfield flew into Lambert St. Louis International Airport early this afternoon. He stopped for me and several other collectors and fans as he made his way to secure his baggage. He was a bit pressed for time, but did sign one autograph for each person and pose for photographs with all that asked. He looked especially rested after just wrapping up the Rick Springfield Cruise to Cozumel.

He's achieved success in three major medias: television, movies, and music. He's won numerous Grammy Awards. He's an Academy Award nominee. He's the only actor to have eight consecutive movies gross more than $100,000,000. And, he's one of my favorite actors.

Will Smith was in St. Louis today to promote his newest movie, Seven Pounds (watch the trailer here). I met Will as he left the Four Seasons Hotel about 6 p.m. to attend a screening of the flick at a local theater. The screening also served as a fund-raiser for an area food bank. As he had been doing all day, Will gladly stopped to sign autographs (he placed a beautiful personalized autograph on my Hancock promo poster; top row/far right) and flash his million-dollar smile (I swear he has the whitest teeth I've ever seen) for this photograph.

You can really tell Will enjoys meeting his fans. He's definitely one of the good guys.

Two-time Emmy award winner Sally Struthers stopped in Bloomington, Illinois, last night as the lead character in the play, Nunsense, at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. Struthers is best known for her role as Gloria Bunker Stivic on the long-running television sitcom All in the Family.

I arrived about five minutes before her bus pulled into the backstage area at the facility. The production manager asked that we wait until after the performance for autographs and photographs since Sally was in the "pre-show" zone. So....about four hours later we met Sally as she departed the backstage door for her tour bus. Although it was extremely windy, cold, and beginning to spit snow, she gladly stopped for this photo and signed one 8 x 10.

Here's Barack Obama, your next President of the United States.

This shot was taken during President-elect Obama's visit to a town hall meeting in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 2006. He signed a Time magazine cover and an 8 x10 and posed for this photograph as he arrived at the event.