I was there when he hold it. It was at the avant-premiere of Land of The Dead at the UGC Cinéma, Bercy in Paris. T'was cool to have a presentation of the movie by the meister. Even if the translator was awful (I understood very well what George was saying without the lame help of the translator).
I saw someone run to Romero with a copy of Zombies (Mall of Horror), but it was just when I came on BGG that I knew why

Well done to the happy possessor of a Romero-signed copy of Zombies.
Loris.