Thanks Tom, already been all over Alan lol
All the best.
Sincerely,
Paul W. Hazen
> On Mar 14, 2024, at 12:28 AM, Tom Martin
> <dreamfact...@hollywooddreamfactory.com> wrote:
>
> That's a great question there is a buyer on Mopo that collects specifically
> 2001 a space Odyssey who might be interested in it and I think he would give
> it a good home as far as value I have no clue I think there is a section on
> eBay for tickets and I've had many over the years I had the original screener
> for ET back from 1982 and I also had tickets to a lot of TV shows like Johnny
> Carson and I always would keep my movie stubs from movies I would've turned
> myself just to remind me of the film and that I had seen it do you still
> typically have piles of tickets in Los Angeles in the hotel rooms that they
> will give you for free there's just like posters could be not bought or sold
> you could not give away tickets to TV shows under FCC rulings I made the
> mistake of having a contest to give away tickets to see the David Letterman
> show in the 80s and round TV commercials and when I tried to get Bill Wendell
> to do the voiceover David's manager who happens to also be Woody Allen's
> agent and manager called me on the phone and told me I must've made a mistake
> because I am not allowed to give away tickets to TV shows for advertise I had
> already booked airfare for the tickets but luckily I put a disclaimer in the
> ad that if we had an emergency beyond our control that everything would be
> Nolan void so I actually had to go to the show myself with my brother and
> watch David Letterman the night they had the band the stray cats were on I
> didn't get to meet David but it was interesting because his secretary was the
> one who said that I could give away the tickets and she done told me don't
> let David's Manager because she could get in trouble so I didn't tell him
> that she gave them to me and left her out of the whole thing and said I made
> the mistake
> We had a very nice TV spot showing a limousine pulling up and then a plane
> taking off for the airfare and then some nice pictures of the from the TV
> show of David one of my big flops of my major history of mistakes and errors
> in my 46 years I'm selling memorabilia when I first started advertising on
> NBC local affiliate I was one of the first to advertise on the David
> Letterman show when I can get a 30 second spot for $15 a spot Johnny Carson
> on the other hand was $200 a spot back then I also advertised on Johnny
> Carson and various other NBC shows when you do ROS it mean they'll put the
> spots in I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on advertising in the early
> days I bought ads in Rolling Stone magazine and the globe and star login you
> name many collectible magazines like from collectors world and comic buyers
> guide in the toy shop wherever they have an opening you could end up on a
> late night show
> The residual effect of advertising for 46 years is that I still have people
> phoned me every day from all over the world that just wanna talk about
> collectibles is a free public service I tried to steer these people in the
> right direction and I typically will send them to Heritage auction or Bruce
> Hershenson movie poster for many of the people that I have met over the years
> in the collectible industry some of them have passed away and some of them
> have been changing venues or who they work for Prop store gray Smith I told a
> woman the other day about the 10 Commandments props that there are having in
> the in the prop store auction and hopefully she can bid on them and put them
> in their collection so I'm always out there trying to advocate for all of you
> because part of the
> the fun of being in the motion picture collectible business what is the
> people that I've got to meet along the way many of them are old timers that
> are now there is a changing of the guard and there's some sadness but then
> there's also thankfulness
> As many of you know I believe that God has a big part of life matter fact all
> of it and so I feel like I've been on a great learning experience yes I will
> be 68 this year and I have no idea what God has planned for me next but I
> trust it will be really good no matter what way I go I totally missed the
> Oscars this year because I only use an antenna plugged into my TV and it
> couldn't grab the ABC signal because of clouds and bad weather so I didn't
> get to see any of it and I didn't even know it was on at 7 o'clock so at 9
> o'clock I started asking around because I had NBC turned on that's like my go
> to channel but I have not heard any buzz on anything I missed I think the
> industry seems to be suffering greatly because of The pandemic
> It seems like people are hungry for good positive message films because
> they've seen enough disasters in reality with Weather and wars and you name
> it so if they can come out with some good positive films I think that will be
> a good effort going forward I may go see Ghostbusters frozen movie that's
> coming out soon and I still have not seen Steven Spielberg's movie that's
> biographical and I never saw Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers movie which I wanted to see
> also other than that I didn't see Oppenheimer but it sure sounds like that
> was one of the winners that did well and sadly I haven't heard any buzz at
> all about the new recent Raiders of the lost Ark movie it seem to have dismal
> box office which was kind of sad to hear because I always like the Raiders of
> the lost Ark franchise
> all the best Folks
> Tom
> Hollywood dream factory®
> since 1977
>
> ps i just got 7 audio books 1 and Judaism yes I'm very interested in the
> Jewish faith and traditions and so I am studying and listening to these
> audiobooks to learn the culture in history so far I can see why it dovetails
> with the new testament of the holy Bible is the Old Testament is basically
> the Jewish aspect so that I noticed they are all closely related because the
> Jews the Muslims and Christians all believe in Abraham salt I am trying to
> learn all about it I've never had a ball bowl of matzo ball so my cousin
> married into Jewish family and so she's actually down in Florida and I think
> is going to coach me on some of the Jewish traditions very interesting people
> and many of the people who have helped me in my memorabilia career have been
> Jewish people and also in my musical career like Lloyd Berman of Hollywood
> Lloyd's camera exchange who is in the movie Bowfinger with Steve Mar he was
> one of my name buyers of my clapboards in Hollywood
> Lloyd was the World War II fighter pilot and he started his camera store in
> 1947 in Hollywood and quango Boulevard and he has a smart speaking part is
> they filmed the movie in his store and when you look you can see my
> clapboards all around the store I think he might've put Frank Oz who directed
> it up to using my boards because he's always trying to help me out he would
> actually pay me extra money on my invoices so we started calling him uncle
> Lloyd because he was such a kind man also Ira Rubenstein offered to give my
> son and his friends a VIP tour of Sony pictures while he worked there and he
> said I'll be your son's surrogate dad while he's in Los Angeles that's when I
> learned what a mensch was
> And lastly but not the only one who is Mel Blanc the voice of bugs bunny who
> took me out to lunch in 1976 in imparting some of the best wisdom I've ever
> had on business or show business when he told me that I could be honest and
> stay in the entertainment industry but that I just needed to realize there
> were some good guys and son that we're not so good but to try my best to not
> work with the good ones and there has been many many more that's why I wanted
> to find out about Jewish Tradition because Jesus Christ himself was Jewish
> and I figure he had lots of good wisdom
>
>
>> On 2024-03-13 16:14, Alan Adler wrote:
>> Dear Mopos -
>> Anyone out there have a sense of the value or rarity of an original
>> 2001 Premiere Engagement ticket - Lowes Capitol - NY - April 3 - 8:30
>> PM.
>> Alan
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