It must be nice to be able to afford things like this

but then again, isn't this just a bit much?

I talked to my granddaughter last night and she sounded so despondent because her job search isn't going very well.

Yet people have 5 million dollars to buy a fucking dress?

Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress sells for $5.6 million at auction



Los Angeles (CNN) -- Marilyn Monroe's white "subway" dress sold for more than $5.6 million in a Beverly Hills, California auction Saturday night in which bidders paid another $2.7 million for three other Monroe movie outfits.

It was the first in a series of auctions to sell the massive Hollywood history collection that singer, dancer and actress Debbie Reynolds accumulated over the past 50 years.

Collector Keya Morgan said Saturday's bids were "totally crazy, especially in this recession."

Bidding for the iconic ivory pleated dress Monroe wore in "The Seven Year Itch" was "totally magical," Morgan said.

Reynolds was in tears when, after 20 minutes of drama, the gavel sounded an end to bidding with the price at $4.6 million.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/19/hollywood.auction/index.html

:D

:)

:rofl:

This kind of shit keeps up the gated communities better build higher fences

Last night I watched House Hunters, this couple were buying a house in Fiji if you can believe it. She pouted throughout because she wanted the $2 million house and he wanted the $1 million house. Tsk tsk, so many fucking
decisions to make.

Have the Frogs had enough boiling yet?

:spank: at least as far as the guy was concerned it was an investment. The husband wanted the cheaper house and was more concerned with privacy but the way she carried on about the extra crap. :argh: Plus that place she wanted, it was stupid with 3 "master suites" in 3 separate buildings. :puke:

being bought to wear. It's a museum piece, and any time you start noticing the insane prices paid for museum pieces you can make yourself crazy.

High profile things like this I've noticed ALWAYS go for much more than expected. The same thing happened when things Jackie Kennedy had owned were auctioned, and when the Duchess of Windsor's jewels hit the auction block. To me, these things just don't matter in the larger scheme of things.

check out the auto auction shows. Watch the same model as the beater you drove as a teenager sell for more than your last house. :wow:

they're gold plated collector's items.

a guy in my home town for $250 when I was 16, back in 1961.. I drove it for a couple of months, then traded it for a Model A Ford. Uff da! Given my druthers, I'd have kept the Jag. It's worth a pile these days.

'59 VW Bug convertible. Apparently they're worth somewhat more than the $150 I originally paid for it when I bought it in 1967. I haven't actually bothered to try to find out what one would go for these days.

What SHOULD have happened in a perfect world is that the Government offered Reynolds something like $100 million for the entire collection and then created a museum for all those pieces. (she has/had some spectacular items)


But NOoooo.....


We can't afford to do something like that as a nation. Better to leave it all up to the private sector.

could all enjoy if the damn top 1% paid the taxes that they should. :mad:

disappear for another 20 years and show up on the auction block again. But, I'm betting that it will be worn one more time by someone.

You have to start going deeper and get your fantasies met tenfold. The other stuff gets bought on the black market and kept a secret. Just as Limbaugh.

The Seven Yerich

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:hi:

it is a historical artifact.

Sorry, film lovers, I am one of you and yet there is no rationalizing the value assigned to this old piece of movie wardrobe, which at most can be displayed on a motionless mannequin for the momentary and likely minimal viewing pleasure of a few thousand people a year in one location.* I mean, if at least someone would wear it and perform it, you could imagine semi-rational prices as high as $20,000.

Then again, you could easily make the case that it's merely one of thousands of such totemic relics on which the market and its most powerful players (the ones who can spend this kind of cash either individually or as institutional controllers) have completely fucked-up and irrational values. Commodity fetishism at its highest and sickest expression.

* Except in the unlikely case that it can be sold later at a profit, but then there would be no rationalizing the new buyer's even higher price.

to sell her collection to make ends meet.

Although I get your point. When people with too much money buy luxury items and works of art or collectors items for millions of dollars when the majority of people are living hand to mouth. It is excessive in bad times and those billionaires who can afford these things need to start paying more taxes. Are you reading this Congress and President Obama?

I saw an interview with her earlier this week.

Sure, the money is part of it but she could have just sold off a few items if that was all. She is selling EVERYTHING!

And/or leaves most of her estate to charity.

Our whole country, however, has developed a certain amorality.

on notorious bobbles...there will be people to sell them the things no one really needs.

DU will be busy.

I wonder if James Dean's car was ever auctioned off, or Liz Taylor's bridle from "National Velvet".

These are things that the new rich invest in. They are devoid of investing in their fellow man, which really is a shame, since they stand to do WAY better, if they only saw the bigger picture.

But, you can't fix greedy in a system that nurtured "I've got mine" mentality, can you?

What I am is sad that Ms. Reynolds was never able to fulfill her dream of housing her amazing collection in a proper museum dedicated to it.

Incidentally, the blue cotton jumper and blouse worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz sold for $910,000 and one of the pairs of Ruby Slippers sold for $510,000.

According to this article, the majority of buyers were reportedly located in foreign countries:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/06/19/debbie_reynolds_auction_breaks_up_historic_hollywood_collection/

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