Thank you for sharing. Great show...Joe and Brian are such great
guys...they truly love what they do...big question, I am currently in
Taiwan and love to watch tonight...anyone know if and how I can watch
both episodes online? Please let me know.
Philipp
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Sent: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 1:19 pm
Subject: [MOPO] New Syfy Series ‘Hollywood Treasure’ Has Practically
Perfect Connection to Disney
Oct 27 - 10:00 PM - Hollywood Treasure - Let The Bidding Begin
Oct 27 - 10:30 PM - Hollywood Treasure - I'll Get You, My Pretty
New Syfy Series ‘Hollywood Treasure’ Has Practically Perfect Connection
to Disney
Television, movies, living vicariously through others, Disney, rare and
unique finds, whiskers on kittens and cheap and feeble attempts at
humor by parodying Hollywood’s most beloved classic musicals: these are
a few of my favorite things. So needless to say I was thrilled when I
learned that Syfy would be introducing a new series titled ‘Hollywood
Treasure’ in which we followed the path of Hollywood’s treasures from
unearthing to ending up on the auction house block. And when Syfy
reached out to me to ask if I would be interested in reviewing the
first two episodes from the 12-episode season, I would have ordinarily
jumped at the chance, but what could Syfy (owned by NBC Universal
incidentally) possibly offer me, someone who focuses on The Walt Disney
Company? Apparently everything (but more on that later).
The series centers on Joe Maddalena, the founder and owner of Profiles
in History, a prominent auction house that focuses on Hollywood
memorabilia. Profiles in History was the company recently responsible
for the recent ‘LOST’ auction and exhibit as well as an upcoming
auction to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future at
Universal Studios (which we’ll give some more information on at a later
date). Essentially Joe and his staff act on leads and previously
established relationships to find the owners of desirable props and get
them to agree to consign the object to be sold at auction. Not
everything always works out in Joe’s favor however and fortunately the
show doesn’t bury the non-successes and instead offers us the
opportunity to experience collectibles we might not have had the chance
to see otherwise, or even know to exist.
It’s in the first episode in fact that a lead comes in the form of one
of the magic carpet bags used by Julie Andrews in the Disney classic
Mary Poppins. According to the bag’s history (which isn’t as detailed
in the episode), current owner Erik Rosen’s grandfather received the
carpet bag as the result of a company raffle held for the film’s ad
agency. Stuffed with cash as a bonus, the original winner wasn’t
interested in the bag as much as the cash and gladly passed the carpet
bag off to Rosen’s grandfather who gifted it to his wife. Although it
was well-loved by Erik and his siblings as children, it eventually
ended up packed in a cardboard box in the cellar and there it sat for
decades until the family moved out of the home and the grandchildren
decided to see who could get the most money for it.
Initially Maddalena is impressed by the carpet bag when he examines it
and tells Rosen that he believes the bag could fetch as much as $15,000
at auction if the bag could be confirmed as authentic screen-used, but
when Profiles in History has trouble substantiating Rosen’s claims,
it’s up to the Profiles in History crew to further investigate into the
true origins of the bag and what they ultimately discover will
definitely surprise you.
Even the second episode, whose star is one of the Wicked Witch of the
West’s hat from MGM’s Wizard of Oz, has a touch of Disney in that it
was filmed around the time of the LOST auction and features several of
the props from the ABC series. Maddalena also pays a visit to the Sony
Pictures Entertainment archive as well as offers appraisals to a
private Batman memorabilia collector who not only collects items but
built his own functional Batmobile replica solely from photographic
references and a Heath Ledger as the Joker life-size figure that must
be seen to be believed.
I have but one gripe about the series and it’s probably not all that
surprising given the state of reality television nowadays and that is
that some of the dialogue between the crew appears scripted and
artificial for the sake of enhancing the viewing experience.
Fortunately however it’s a rare scenario and the genuine content of the
show is compelling enough to forgive it.
The first two episodes of ‘Hollywood Treasure’ premiere back-to-back
tonight on Syfy at 10 pm and 10:30 pm.
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