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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