The Paul Muni Special

The Paul Muni Special was a slash convention held in Baltimore, Maryland to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Starsky & Hutch. Around 65 fans attended. 
It was nicknamed "GloriaCon" because it took place in the middle of a hurricane.
It was the precursor to the many SHarecon conventions that followed.
April Valentine, one of the convention organizers discussed the convention in an 2000 article written for the SHarecon 2000 fanzine: "In 1985, Starsky and Hutch fans celebrated the 10th anniversary of the show and in Baltimore we put on a con, The Paul Muni Special. It took place over about the same weekend as [the SHareCons that later followed], although there was a hurricane that time that added to the fun." from The Herstory of Sharecon by April Valentine 
Programming was informal and on a single track (See gallery below for the schedule).
There was a Video Room, and a Song Video Competition.
 
==Some Contents of the Program Book==
* schedules 
* Encore Award Winners
*Starsky & Hutch by L. Bright
*The History of Fandom by Ima Fool
* A Short, Spotty History of S&H Fan Literature by Paula Smith
==The Con Com's Introduction==
From the con's program book: 
==Progress Reports==
There were three progress reports, all printed in the convention program book for the gathering.
* March 1985 (listed 19 planned attendees, 7 supporting members)
* July 1985 (listed 58 planned attendees, 7 supporting members)
* September 1985
==Some Tidbits==
* Winners of the Encore Awards were announced. See the gallery below for the winners.
* The con skit was "Fudge and Fury," later reprinted in Shadowplay
* there was a fabulous cake
* there was a song tape contest but it was interrupted by having to watch a Miami Vice episode directed by PMG, hence people forgot to vote -- by audience reaction, though, 'I'm So Excited' by Pam Perry was deemed to be the winner
* the hotel accommodations were less-than-ideal
* there was a con t-shirt
* the con was videotaped
* the weather was terrible due to Hurricane Gloria, so the con was nicknamed "Hurricon"
* zines that were there: Scales of Justice, Day by Day, Discovered on a Rooftop, Moonlight and Mists, Coda and Love is a Many-Splendored Zine
* some Star Trek fans showed up and wore buttons that said, "Greater love hath no woman than to help at the con of a friend in another fandom"
* there was a S&H art auction, and then right after, a private S/H art show. Suzan Lovett won two art show awards for a drawing of Starsky & Hutch entwined in a heart, and a Champion and Other in color (see the black and white illos in Moonlight and Mists. Caren Parnes won for a color rendition of the brass bed seen here PMG poster and Pat Cash won for a Hutch portrait. Ruth Kurz also won two art show awards.
* At the art auction, Jean C.'s Doyle sold for $275 with two other Doyles going for $90 and over $100. What didn't sell in the auctions sold afterwards privately when people who had been outbid on the ones they wanted decided they could now afford others.
==The Con's Namesake==
The convention's name came from an episode of Starsky & Hutch where Hutch calls Starsky's mother to find out what his partner's favorite dinner is and cooks it for him:
Hutch: Look at this. (Takes the lid off the dish, it's meat and vegetables)
Starsky: Hey, hey, hey. Hey, that's my favorite. How'd you know?
Hutch: I called your mother up.
Starsky: You called my mother.
Hutch: Yeah, she calls it the Paul Muni special. (He pours the wine) Eat your vegetables.
==Convention Reports==
==Gallery - click to read==
File:Paul muni convention schedule.jpg|convention schedule
File:Paul muni encore awards.jpg|Encore Award winners (called "Favorites" rather than "Best", page 1
File:Paul muni encore awards2.jpg|Encore Award winners, page 2
==References==
Category:Slash Conventions
Category:Starsky & Hutch Conventions
Category:1985 Conventions
Category:Conventions in United States