Tom should run for president. A very verbose and wise fellow, two traits that do not often go together.
MAGA..."Martin's A Great Amigo". I like it!
His first act post-inauguration would be to declare all punctuation illegal.
Greg Douglass
Sunny Coos Bay OR, where the deer (but no antelope) play
PS-I may still have one of the tabs of blue mescaline I took to go see "2001" back in the summer of '68. Boy, what would THAT be worth? That bad boy kicked in during the second half of the film and that was the one time I watched that movie where it all made perfect sense. Of course the ride home in my Mustang convertible during rush hour on the San Francisco Bay Bridge was just as entertaining. The tail lights were lava. Woof!
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 6:34 PM
From: "Paul W. Hazen" <00000134c196813f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 2001 Premiere Screening Ticket
From: "Paul W. Hazen" <00000134c196813f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.american.edu>
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 2001 Premiere Screening Ticket
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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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
>> Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com
>> ___________________________________________________________________
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