Re: [MOPO] Oscar Sale Brings in More Than $3 Million

2012-03-01 Thread Helmut Hamm
What a REAL shame that tons and tons of material are sitting in museum archives, in institutions that very often don't have any idea what they own. Museums only exhibit the tiniest fraction of what they own, many of them sit on loads and loads of material that isn't even ARCHIVED. In the hands

Re: [MOPO] Oscar Sale Brings in More Than $3 Million

2012-02-29 Thread Franc
2012 1:39 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Oscar Sale Brings in More Than $3 Million It's too bad the rule about the selling of statues wasnt put into place until 1950. What a true shame that some of the greatest awards from films like KANE, GWTW etc as well as to th

Re: [MOPO] Oscar Sale Brings in More Than $3 Million

2012-02-29 Thread lovenoir2
It's too bad the rule about the selling of statues wasnt put into place until 1950. What a true shame that some of the greatest awards from films like KANE, GWTW etc as well as to those actors who were in these films are sitting on private mantles or office shelves where no one else or the film com

[MOPO] Oscar Sale Brings in More Than $3 Million

2012-02-29 Thread Scott Burns
15 shiny examples of probably the ultimate piece of movie memorabilia, an Academy Award, were auctioned last night, bringing in $3,060,089. None of the individual Oscars topped the record-breaking price of $861,542 paid in December 2011 for Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" Best Screenplay Academy Awar