[MOPO] BLADERUNNER FAKES
Probably my first collision with a fake poster is from one of my all time favorite films BLADERUNNER. It was being linenbacked by a well known studio and I mentioned it didn't look authentic. With that I remembered I had one in my car being shipped out. I went out, undid the packaging and put my original against what I strongly felt was a bogus copy. Boy I'll say.Everything from details in the credit block to the smoke from the lit cigarette clearly indicated bogus.Linen backer wasn't perpetrating a fraud, just linen backing for a client, but he did say he wouldn't want to mention this finding to this particular client. I just acquired one folded and three rolled BLADERUNNER onesheets from a very respected dealer that I was thrilled to add to my inventory. I wasn't present, but at the last Court's show one of these were used to confront a seller present who was selling fakes. Denials and words were exchanged but do not know much more at what went down. My intention is to bring these out to coincide with the 5 disc ultimate DVD BLADERUNNER collection (what! you haven't pre-ordered?) first week in December. What kills me is I really need to get about $300 for each, but the confusion and doubt surrounding these onesheets have kept the numbers depressed. Possibly Ebay will not be the proper venue but one-on-one sales to existing clients whose confidence I have earned. On a completely unrelated topic, RATATOUILLE just came out on DVD. This is one of the most gloriously beautiful PIXAR animated films and you owe it to yourself to rent or purchase if its theatrical run passed you by. I promise, you will be absolutely blown away. Save for 3:10 TO YUMA its my favorite film of the year so far. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll dr. #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 310-6579426 ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] OT Congrats Morrie Everett
Whoa, Received an impressive mailer from Morrie Everett's 5th Annual Hollywood Poster Auction and what an impressive tease of items for sale. An INVISIBLE MAN insert, a DRACULA window card, DeMille's first 10 COMMANDMENTS onesheet, halfsheet of BABE COMES HOME along with many other impressive pieces including one of my all-time favorite pieces of in theatre movie paper, the insert for TARZAN THE APE MAN. This is the one with an illustrated Weissmuller swinging on a vine with Jane clutching onto him for dear life and the shadow cast against the dark greens of the jungle is that of an ape; such imaginative art. I think there are pieces in auction that will make their mark on the record books if in fact one is being maintained.? Congratulations Morrie on an impressive line-up so far. freeman freeman fisher 8601 west knoll dr. #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 310-6579426 ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Hitchcock Suggestion Of Formats
Helmut, I could not agree with you more regarding the appeal of the REAR WINDOW window card. In fact I have up on Ebay a lot of 4 vintage window cards, REAR WINDOW, TO CATCH A THIEF, DIAL M FOR MURDER and PSYCHO In a separate auction I have the NORTH BY NORTHWEST reissue from '66 in stone mint condition. I think I have both lots priced reasonably and the condition of the pieces are great never mind all that hard searching has been done for you. _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=260164974280ssPageNa me=STRK:MESE:ITih=016_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=260164974280ssPageName=STRK:MESE:ITih=016) freeman Freeman Fisher 8601 West Knoll Dr. #7 West Hollywood, CA 90069 ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] RE I WAS 50% OF BRUCE'S EMAIL
MOPOER'S This email comes straight up and truly sincere a heads up given its coming from me.BUT I too slipped off the Bruce List whoa 6 years ago I think...and it was remarkable how fast prideful locking of horns segued into so many missed opportunities personally but way more importantly for my business. Oh sure I might would call someone and bother them to place a bid for me on something I considered essential but without the benefit of that feel one gets with certain sellers the results were feeble and worse I felt like I did skipping Chapel at my High School...great for the moment to watch moon landings or listening in the car to eight tracks of THE DOOBIE BROTHERS but alas my soul was empty. That may be overplaying it a bit but you get the drift. So months and months ago I wrote a letter to Bruce after having watched a 1920's 3 sheet that had my name all over it just go poof and into the hands of someone I am sure undeserving and worse at a way reasonable price. I said to myself [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]())$*@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]())$*@@$) get your [EMAIL PROTECTED]^%$$$_ (mailto:@^$$*^$$$)and write Bruce. Tired of feeling I was on Woody Allen's bus in STARDUST MEMORIES nose pressed to the glass, my Yazoo Mills tubes barren...while the party bus sang and danced their way to poster nirvana. SO I wrote him what I thought was a very nice note, spell checked, the whole nine yards. Seven months later I got a great note back, a brief up to date on dos and donts and immediately was put on the mailing list (6 years and still 28 catalogs going out the door my god are they're breeding)So first I thought let me just watch the first couple of auctions...you know like watching the other team get dressed in the lockerseh that may not be quite the sports analogy I am looking for but anyway took a dive head first after j watching the ins and outs for two weeks. That was six weeks ago so five weeks ago I placed bids and got sniped on every goddamn onebut IT WAS OKAY...a little rusty, a little to wimpy on the Sabrina poster okay okay, So one more week seeing what's inflated, what sneaks by what's still hot, what cooled (Jeeze what happened to 50's Bogart wrap'em up with fish already So now I'm pumped, I'm ready now everybody get the hell out of my way AND HOT DAMN AM I GLAD I DID AND THE NEXT WEEK AFTER EVEN BETTER...NO SLAM DUNK YES YES YES YESshit I forgot how much fun it could be too. So take it from your buddy FREEMAN on Mopo...flixspix for those that spend (thank you) if you found your self cross wise with the man in that oasis known as WEST PLAINS or is it by now HERSHENSON FLATS ...a few words sincerely spoken just might make all the difference for you too. It already has for me so Bruce thanks.glad to be one of the gang again. THIS MESSAGE IS AN ENDORSEMENT OF OUTREACH AND PAID FOR BY THE COMMITTEE THAT KICKED FREEMAN'S BUTT OFF HIS HIGH HORSE AND GOT HIM ONTO THE RIGHT BUS AND ALREADY SEEING GREEN ...SEATS STILL AVAILABLE. SOME RESTRICTIONS APPLY RESULTS MAY VARY, BUT IF NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED AT LEAST DIALOGUE AND MUTUAL INTERESTS ACHIEVED AT NO EXPENSE AND OPTIONS REMAIN OPEN. 'cause you never know when that perfect one of a kind stone litho pops up and bites you right in your collectibles. freeman freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Well casting is progressing for the remake of one of the grand-daddies of all science fiction films: Keanu Reeves has signed for the role of Klaatu in the remake of DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL well, he certainly has a lock on alien presence in Hollywood but I see Ralph Fiennes as a more appropriate choice ...but why a remake seems to be the overriding question here. I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. - klatuu freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Six-Sheet Non-Glare, UV
I am to understand its special order only from the manufacturer and you have to purchase an entire panel which are those long sheets you see strapped to the sides of A-frames on truck beds. It will run around $2500 Sue Heim while she doesn't frame 6 sheets might could give more accurate firgures since she is a heavy purchaser of smaller sizes freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FS 21 RARE MINI-WINDOW CARDS
My Friends, I have listed on Ebay, 21 truly rare mini-window cards from the 1930's ending in about 36 hours. As most of you know these are highly prized studio printed promotional materials produced for only a short time for theatres. I have linked HOTEL FOR WOMEN below. Clicking or swiping and pasting the URL will then allow you to click seller's other auctions to view them all. Other titles include MANNEQUIN, THE GREAT WALTZ, CONQUEST, DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK, YOUNG MR. LINCOLN, THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CRY, LOVE IS NEWS and other great titles representing stars as varied as Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, Will Rogers, Linda Darnell, Henry Fonda, Loretta Young and William Powell and directors like John Ford, Victor Fleming, Henry King, and Frank Borzage all distinguished film makers and the titles here are some of their best. Many are in mint condition and others have minor restorations carefully spelled out in great detail.I think this is an opportunity at least worth a quick look and for that I thank you in advance. _http://cgi.ebay.com/HOTEL-FOR-WOMEN-39-Linda-Darnell-Ann-Southern_W0QQitemZ26 0129198466QQihZ016QQcategoryZ2319QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/HOTEL-FOR-WOMEN-39-Linda-Darnell-Ann-Southern_W0QQitemZ260129198466QQihZ016QQcat egoryZ2319QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) freeman freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Are We Not Where We Were On The Issue Of Whitey-white Inserts 6 months Ago
MOPOSTIES!! Bruce's polls are illuminating and quite surprising on occasion but always entertaining. This week he enjoyed his own IS TONY DEAD moment on the issue of WHITEY-WHITES in our poster pond.however these kudzu insertsdid anyone's opinion change in any measurable degree from 6 months ago?...a year ago?...three? And what do we do with this avalanche of opinion all wrapped in righteous indignation... Are we empowered to do anything with this torch of truth burning oh so brightly? Witch hunting seems crude and mean-spirited just in one salvo that I thought originally was Dario having fun...I didn't even look at David's insert he knows his paper I thought it was a funny Canadian hahaha lobbed across the border to tweak with a wink. like Anne Murray, or hyper-hyped auctions entitled Important Canadian Art Truly Whitey-Whites is Mopo's equivalent to Universal Health Care or Immigration Reform.It gets bumped around, prodded, poked and irrigated and then stalls under its own weight of personal experiences resulting in nothing that could be called reform. And is this meant as a call to arms? If we see listed do we file complaints in mass to Ebay? Do we strike the sellers from our tony soirees? Do we place bids pay then return them boys on odd numbered months, girls even numbered?And aren't we talking about what, nine titles? Nine against 111,000.00 other possible's? Okay I am feeling tres KOSOMOTO this morning.CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITIVE SKINNY ON THE FULL SET OF 8 LOBBY CARDS FROM A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS?...AND WHY IS OUR BELOVED M.E. DRAWN INVARIABLY INTO THE DISCUSSION (in hushed voice usually copped by Republicans when discussing actual tax burdens presently or TCM members only now fully realizing their queen, Kate, was actually a mean old dyke with long time beard Spencer and before him beard with eye patch John Ford, swam with the dolphins and never once smelled of fish) AND. IF TRUE ...WHY IT HAS NEVER COME UP IN THE 41 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT INSERTS SINCE OCTOBER OF 2000 OR IS THAT A 500 POUND OOPS IN THE ROOM? And is Matt Shapiro still dead? freeman freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Topic SOPRANOS The Finale Sublime
Okay I don't know how many Mopo'ers were regular viewers of Sopranos...but I truly spent my Sundays at 6:00 or 9:00 (East Coast transmission or West Coast airing many time both) since its first HBO airing. When between seasons I turned into a relentless channel switcher looking for movies or some programming approaching SOPRANO'S quality and unless it was a true classic on TCM it proved a futile exercise. The stunning series ended tonight in brilliant fashion, building suspense oh so slowly while attending to loose story lines. Then Tony having a rare dinner just with the wife and his adult kids at a favorite diner, while familiar hit men quietly enter and then.literally. Those dots will leave you spellbound. As for inserts if doubtful don't buy. That simple. Pass it on. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Topic Sopanos Spoiler Warning
Do not continue if you haven't seen the finale. David regarding whack or no whackthe main point I was making was Chase left it shockingly ambiguous. That was what was spellbinding to me. I think personally it was a race to the finish for Tony's life, either dead or alive but dead in hands of Feds.First thought, not enough muscle for an FBI interceptand the individual going to the restroom called up Pacino going to the head and coming out with more than just his dick in his hand. But beautifully up to us to debate. But leave it to Chase to create suspense to near unbearable heights brilliantly just by Meadow's inability to parallel park wonderful, As for AJ his character's maddening naivety , unrealistic, self-absorbed, purpose driven life was given I think the needed extra time so to be served up by Chase and skewered a searing indictment on the current lack of integrity,passion and dedication of today's youth for a better future. This by witnessing AJ's complete surrender of any of his declarations to address dependency on oil, rights violations of Muslims, Nuclear proliferation, and his supposed epiphany of material wealth and conspicuous consumption with his SUV burned up all rendered moot when given an entry level film deal and a new car albeit with somewhat better mileage and poof there went global pro-activity. And it allowed once again the delusions of Tony and Carmela the idea of success...that AJ is working for an active film production company.exactly one step up above porn now venturing into cheapie torture horror films. Carmela's classic yes make those phone calls and get valuable contacts. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] YOU CALL THAT A BLOCKBUSTER?
THE NEW YORK TIMES has a great chart assessing the real blockbusters of movie attendance, with figures in MILLIONS adjusted for inflation. 1. GONE WITH THE WIND $1,329 2. STAR WARS $1,172 3. SOUND OF MUSIC $937 4. ET THE XTRA TERR $933 5. 10 COMMANDMENTS $862 6. TITANIC $845 7. JAWS $843 8. DR. ZHIVAGO$817 9. THE EXORCIST $728 10. SNOW 7 DWARFS $717 11. SHREK 2 $468 12.SPIDER MAN $457 13.SPIDER MAN 2 $396 14.PIRATES CARIBBEAN$333 15.SHREK $311 One interesting note is TITANIC, as high as it appears on the list, never had a re-release. All the ones preceding had several which in the case of Star Wars added a 100 million to its gross. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] RE REISSUES
MOPO'ERS The reissue for THE HUSTLER runs twice to three times the original SUSPICION the paper from this re-release has tripled in price from just two years ago. Infinitely better art work Heritage Auctions has really ushered in the irrefutable success on this paper One Eyed Jacks...on a much smaller lever the original onesheet is in dull sepia and the re-release with exact same art is in color. So instead of a $50 poster its a $100 poster. Casablanca now I am referencing Italian paper here but the 1960's paper still can choke most people's budgets with photobustas commanding over a 1000 and the two or four foglios commanding over 5 grand which considering how recent is mind boggling but admittedly beautiful paper. The Wizard of Oz re-issue was an interesting campaign by MGM capitalizing on Garland's popularity as an adult singer and entertainer just a decade or so later. Inserting her image at the time of the re-issue was to attract those new fans of hers to see her in an older film. Remember, WIZARD OF OZ in its original release was a disappointment at the boxoffice. In fact it did not recoup its investment until its broadcast on television freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Holiday Affair No Big Mystery
look closely, its obvious that Ken ended his listing and then re-listed with a 2800 dollar price.who wouldn't do the same? For there had to be another buyer willing to pay $50 less than the final bid on Bruce's auction...Doesn't always work out like that but its a sensible try none the less. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] OFF TOPIC AND UTTERLY FASCINATING PICASSO, BRAQUE AND THE MOVIES
Art When Picasso and Braque Went to the Movies * _RANDY KENNEDY_ (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/randy_kennedy/index.html?inline=nyt-per) Published: April 15, 2007 IT was _Picasso_ (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/pablo_picasso/index.html?inline=nyt-per) doing the noninterview interview, decades before Warhol came along to elevate it to an art form. In 1911 a writer for Paris-Journal was asking Picasso about the radically new kind of painting people were calling Cubism, the lightning bolt that had shot forth from his studio and that of his friend Georges Braque. Picasso claimed never to have heard of such a thing. “Il n’y a pas de Cubisme,” he said blithely, and then excused himself to go feed his pet monkey. In part because its creators said so little about it during their lifetime, guarding it like a kind of state secret, Cubism has generated a library’s worth of scholarship, probably more than any other artistic innovation in the last century. The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons. But while almost every aspect of these two artists’ live has been scrutinized — their friends, lovers, favorite drugs, hangouts, hat sizes and nicknames (Picasso called Braque Wilbourg, after Wilbur Wright) — one mutual fascination has been largely overlooked: Both men were crazy about the movies. They were also coming of age artistically in the city of the Lumière brothers, where the modern moviegoing experience had just been born, starting in cafes and cabarets and then moving into theaters, packed with people still in disbelief as they watched a two-dimensional picture plane leap to life. “The cinema was not simply in its earliest infancy,” wrote the critic André Salmon, one of Picasso’s friends and fellow moviegoers. “It was wailing.” For more than 20 years the New York art dealer Arne Glimcher had carried around a theory, more gut feeling than scholarly conjecture, that Picasso and Braque had been seduced by that siren song of the early cinema, and that Cubism, with its fractured surfaces and multiple perspectives, owed much more to the movies than anyone had noticed. Five years ago Mr. Glimcher finally decided to do something about his hunch. He enlisted Bernice Rose, a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and now director of Mr. Glimcher’s gallery, PaceWildenstein, to undertake the daunting academic work of trying to find traces of the silver screen hiding among the endless histories, archives, criticism and art of the early Cubist years. The result of that work, which opens Friday at the gallery’s East 57th Street location, is “Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism,” an exhibition that Mr. Glimcher calls one of the most ambitious in the gallery’s 47-year history. The gallery has gathered more than 40 paintings, collages and other works — none for sale, Mr. Glimcher said — from private collections and from museums around the world, including the Georges Pompidou Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the _Art Institute of Chicago_ (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/art_institute_of_chicago/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. (To get one Picasso he wanted from a museum in Prague, Mr. Glimcher even parted temporarily with a 1951 _Jackson Pollock_ (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/jackson_pollock/index.html?inline=nyt-per) he owns, swapping the paintings for the length of the show.) Besides paintings, the exhibition has rounded up rare examples of early cinema’s deus ex machina, the cinematograph: a whirring hand-cranked camera and projector of the kind that Picasso and Braque would have seen, not yet ensconced in a booth but out among the seats, acting as a powerful mechanized metaphor for the artist, absorbing the world through its eye and beaming it back out again. A part of the exhibition space will also be transformed into a simulacrum of an old Belle Époque movie house, where dozens of short movies from the medium’s first years will flicker again, this time through the magic of digital projection. For Mr. Glimcher the show is about personal obsessions in more ways than one. Beginning in the early 1980s — after he had a small film role in his friend _Robert Benton_ (http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=212225inline=nyt-per) ’s “Still of the Night” as an auction bidder (bidding on paintings he himself had lent for the scene) — Mr. Glimcher became, as he said in a recent interview, “completely bitten by the movie thing.” He began producing movies, including “Legal Eagles”
[MOPO] SLABBING SHOULD BE VIGOROUSLY REJECTED
Slabbing. Bruce has offered up this subject so I'll bite. Why slabbing for lobby cards? I am to understand for coins, comics and trading cards, there existed a pervasive malaise in accurate condition reveal. With internet sales exploding, for comics, with multiple pages, a lot of sins were frequently overlooked and it was impacting the industry. So if I recall correctly, Heritage hosted a major comic auction and virtually all the items were slabbed and results were impressive Slabbing established its foothold. Now the company(ies) (are their still two?) who grade and slab are a business.and expansion of their supposed impartial grading to other paper formats is critical for their long-term foothold into the future. So just because they claim their is a problem are we as sellers just going to drop to our knees and rejoice that the Calvary is here to purge the cancer of egregious inaccuracies in the sales of lobby cards? For comics, fine, there existed a serious problem in accurate condition and grading within their sales universe and most agree it saved the biz. But I do not see anywhere that kind of skullduggery or mis-representation with the majority of auction houses or sellers present regarding movie material. So why jack up one's cost of goods with the additional fees for grading and slabbing, never mind additional insured postage. So if any auction house tries to instigateI cannot shout loud enough to not bid.tell your clients to not bid as well. If the prices don't deliver watch how fast they drop that idea. Our business is not broke, occasionally a tweek here or there is necessary but otherwise I think most people are happy with how sales are conducted. If they are not they will go to another that delivers to their expectations. Accepting the concept of slabbing is akin to saying were too indifferent and stupid to police our industry ...we need third party intervention...take our hard earned monies we're lobby card lemmings without conscience or backbone. And besides, I like how I frame my lobby cards and window cards and that doesn't include a a half inch thick rectangular slab with bar scans stuck in plain view more appropriate for display on retail racks for expensive Monster Cables not treasured lobby cards. SLABBING= Irrelevant, unnecessary, an imposition, costly and demeaning. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Fwd: [MOPO] A shift in thinking, linen-backing slabbing?
Jeff, absolutely linenback that vintage French poster.The acids in the inks on foreign paper can lay waste to the poorly milled paper stock, coupled with the numerous intersecting fold lines all weakend again by age , wear, and acids. So not backing I fear the next to you check on your French treasure...its going to be down to an UHOLY TWO and starring On Chan freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] POSTERS MOM WOULD NEVER ALLOW UP
Hey Guys, I just wanted to point out about 10 auctions I have running the collection I call POSTERS MOM WOULD NEVER ALLOW UP. Below is the link for the first one, literary allusions to Melville aside, entitled: THAR SHE BLOWS Then click seller's other auctions to view the rest. WARNING these posters are misogynist, vulgar, appeal to the lowest common denominator, and void of any Republican/Family Value ethics so I know most of you will love them. Great prices and overall the bunch in VF+ or better condition. For Pam Grier fans, she is very well represented and of course there is a collection of Bardot, Mansfied and Novak whom all three speak to a more innocent (?) place in time however MOM never looked at their films quite in the same way. Copy/past or click onto the below URL _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemih=016sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3 AITviewitem=item=260102081974rd=1rd=1_ (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemih=016sspagename=STRK:MESE:ITviewitem=item=260102081974rd=1rd =1) Thanks for looking, you'll be glad you did. freeman freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Big Titled Horrormeisters Are Breathing A Sigh Of Relief YES?
Heritage so far has grabbed some almost obscenely high returns on their high end horror pieces. This should put to rest those that wondered if high end horror was becoming too incestuous. With the death of two of the most well know collectors of the genre, it seems there still remains a healthy audience whether actual collectors or investors who still blindly pony up the big bucks as if Munster Money. Then of course in between auctions these same guys have no problem beating up independent dealers over $700 lobby cards of equal scarcity. Just a backslap of an observation you know I like to joke Anyway, I have to confess the entire genre is a language that escapes me. For instance THE RAVEN halfsheet. I had a truly eye-opening experience with Ron Moore who had acquired the halfsheet and from myself a truly beautiful Italian 4 foglio for THE WOLFMAN for Johnny Ramone, literally days before his passing. Meeting him at his hotel before he was leaving to meet with Ramone, to deliver again in my estimation a stunning Italian 4 foglio at a reasonable price. We talked a bit and then he said would I like to see what else is being delivered. Sure! So Ron proudly removes the halfsheet from its sleeve and shows me with his usual flourish. Now honest to God I looked at and mentally thought it was on par in appeal and value with House On Haunted Hill maybe a bit more given the age. But hell my 4 foglio ran circles around this rather banal halfsheet. Then he told me the price... Up to that point, Ron seemed to me a helluva a nice guy but I was so thoroughly convinced he was taking advantage of a very ill client.this halfsheet in my mind so completely unremarkable that I thought Ron was engaging in a horrific bedside gouging and I began to feel queasy and really creepy..it took forever to get back to WEHO from Burbank. I then immediately called my Horror mentor Ron Magid who went all a dither that I got to see such a rare Horror Holy Grail. Ohhh ahhh! okaay Yeesh!! ...But to hell with my ignorance I was so relieved that Ron Moore wasn't the Anti-christ. If you read the forward in the Hertiage Johnny Ramone Collection you will read a glorious first person account of just how much that halfsheet meant to Johnny Ramone. and the ulitmate disposition of the Wolfman 4 foglio. Well anyway another halfsheet of the Raven sold for 51,000.00 Its mostly the image of a bookthese people are fucking nuts freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] WHY FILM NOIR IS SO DAMN SPECIAL GREAT INFORMATIVE ARTICLE
Don't know how many of you guys read SLATE but yesterday one of their critics at large posted this article regarding film noir as an overall observation in light of a half dozen titles just recently released on DVD. Double Indemnity WC available if anyone is interested. by the way. Cynics, sluts, heists, and murder most foul. By Stanley Crouch Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007, at 7:05 AM ET Film noir evolved from the American crime thrillers that rose to pulp prominence between 1920 and 1940. Hollywood took those tales and put the focus on cynics, fall guys, sluts, heists, and murders most foul. The huge screens in movie theaters provided lurid masks for the resentments that pulse within Americana. Our hatred of the upper class and of goody-two-shoes morality got plenty of play. So did our repulsive puritanical troubles with sexual attraction, our reluctant but ultimate belief in the righteousness of force, and our tendency to answer life's pervasive horrors with conspiracy theories. Noir's popularity was inevitable. How could American audiences resist the combative stance of an unimpressed hero whose ethos could be reduced to: Is that so? How could they fail to be lured by all of the actresses cast as Venus' flytraps? Everything in film noir takes place at the bottom, in the sewers of sensibility. It holds that the force of the world is not only indifferent to, but obviously bigger than, the individual, which is why personal satisfaction, whether illegal or immoral, is the solution to the obligatory ride through an unavoidably brittle universe. A black and white phenomenon, film noir is thought to have achieved its greatest heights between 1945 and 1950, though the apparent moment of final brilliance arrived in 1958's Touch of Evil, directed with the heightened imagination of genius by Orson Welles. As a genre, film noir appeared as an antidote to the Hollywood conventions of pristine character and fulfilled romance because its creators sensed that rah rah was no longer the best prescription for the blues. Possessed of a shrewd aesthetic that was both meretricious and rebellious, film noir generously utilized sex and violence, firmly rooting itself in American culture. A number of its most influential directors were European Jews like Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Billy Wilder, all of whom had escaped the Nazis. The enthusiastic support of the Third Reich by the German people had convinced such artists that conformity always had to be questioned, ridiculed, and perhaps resisted. Another assumption was that corruption hid behind images of a gilded civilization, high-class refinement, uplift, and thorough social improvement. So, in one sense, Adolf Hitler was a major player in forming the sensibility of film noir. That Austrian boy whom Chaplin accused of having made off with his mustache had done it again but, as usual, not in the way the paperhanger intended. With the recently released two-disc DVD of 1944's Double Indemnity and the three volumes of The Film Noir Classic Collection, one gets the essentials of the style and all of the information necessary to recognize the school that the French saw long before Americans did. Barbara Stanwyck, Claire Trevor, Jane Greer, and Peggy Cummins are each but separately the brilliant stars of Double Indemnity; Murder, My Sweet; Out of the Past; and Gun Crazy. They are the essential film noir amalgamations of Eve, Salome, and Carmen: there to bring men down through the pulsating syncopations of their glistening orifices. After but one night with any of them, men were not only willing to bay at the moon of homicide but snap at it with a determination that pushes a full circle of murder into the air. Double Indemnity is the first film in which Billy Wilder's impeccable talent as a director and a screenwriter came forward in full force. It is also considered the first pure film noir. Though Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray have been rightfully praised as the murderous lovers, they are nearly overmatched by the imperishable skill of Edward G. Robinson. Robinson's extended speeches are delivered like dark, probing arias—they are full of wit, syncopation, and an intuitive recognition of the sinister that we learn is essential to being a great insurance detective. There is no better performance in all of film noir. Claire Trevor, an adroit master of subtle vocal modulations, blooms downward in Murder, My Sweet, like a flower overladen with a working girl's perfume. The actress appears lyrically jaded, but it is easy to see how she helped define the femme fatale in an era when only allusion was available. Opposite the spectacularly ominous Lawrence Tierney in Born To Kill, Trevor projects a sexual longing that is realistic but never overstated, compelling in its desperate but bungling confusion. Her performance
[MOPO] CITIZEN KANE On Ebay. Antiques Roadshow the Verified Appraiser?
I am sure many of you guys have seen the 10 grand listing on Ebay for the Citizen Kane poster. I of course being Mr. nice guy tried to point out the error of their listing. I made mention that at the time of the film's roll out, a small printed version of the onesheet was made available during the initial engagements for inserting into big city newspapers, not all that different from a herald. I made mention I have seen several on Ebay, and in fact had one put on linen for a client and that they sell for $150 -$200 I also pointed out that no dimensions of the poster is posted anywhere in the listing to confirm definitely the value of this piece I got this reply: this is not a reprint. yes the reprints are in full color to help sell them. this has faded over the years. there was only 1200 made and I have one. this was shown on the antique road show several months ago with my client and they verified it is authentic. value 10K - 20K at auction sorry your limited to a very small amount of information on this item. if it does not sell we will be sending this to NY for auction I replied in a second email saying I never mentioned that this was a reprint. I also again requested the measurements of the poster to positively identify. But Antiques Road Show is the verified appraiser of this poster? Good grief I doubt seriously they would make such an error Good Morning Freeman I will get the correct size later today. thanks for your input and your help. Guy Hodges World Wide Auction Proven Auction Results. Getting the most out of your auction Live or Online. Now notice the tonal difference and that reply is signed by an individual with the auction company. I think that is the difference between an employee and an owner..but not sure. Still no email about the size, but I know what it will be. Its trying to gently awaken the seller that what they think they isn't. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] SPIDERMAN 3, Lenticular
Well geez, try offering to Mopo'ers, reasonably priced will find you the success you seek. But don't say everybody submit an offer and I'll take the best one. Name your price and I am sure you will get offers. If outrageous, you will need a friend or family member to scrape you off the wall. Quite simple really... freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 BRBRBR**BR Check out free AOL at http://free.aol.com/thenewaol/index.adp. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, millions of free high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and much more. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] ANY MOPO'ERS GOING TO THE HOLLYWOOD COLLECTORS SHOW?
Hey Mopo'ers! Anyone attending the Hollywood Collectors Show this Friday and Saturday? I am sure we'll see Rich,Morrie, Carl and Daniel S all with great pieces. But the reason I bring this up is because I have been re-located to the outer foyer instead of in the great room and I fear it will be the Siberia of Vendor Tables. SO DO MAKE A LOOP PLEASE. And speaking of frozen waste land its seems they have their full compliment of who was and who cares which draw hundreds of Darwinian anomalies that line-up to fork over $30 for a signature and as a group NEVER purchase anything vintage even if it features one of the stars present (Yes the shame of slinking back home with my inserts and lobby cards of Tab Hunter, Debi Reynolds, and Beverly Garland). However they do have Pee Wee Herman this time. So in the spirit of if you can't beat'em, join'emnot only will I have some great lobby cards and vintage posters many on linen I will have inexpensive and virtually mint 50's sci-fi and horror, sword and sandal, even a bad girl or two and everything in between I WILL BE CRACKING OPEN MY AUTOGRAPHS of when I saw dead people offering absolutely authentic sigs of Fred Astaire, Barbara Stanwyck, Mary Pickford, James Mason, Marie Dressler, Dolores Del Rio, Marion Davies, Virginia Mayo and Ray Bolger as well as some not so dead like Charlton Heston , Jerry Lewis and a killer Cyd Charisse. So hope to see anyone there! Below is the Court's latest update freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 Emmy Award Winner Paul 'Pee-wee Herman' Reubens (“Pee-wee's Playhouse” “ Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”). Emmy Award Winner Sally 'Gloria Bunker' Struthers (“5 Easy Pieces”, “The Getaway”, “Gilmore Girls” “All In The Family”). Academy Award Nominee Diane Ladd (“Rambling Rose” “Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore”). David 'Squiggy' Lander (“Laverne Shirley”, “Scary Movie” “Funland”). Golden Boot Award Winner Jane Russell (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” “The Outlaw”). Connie 'Cricket' Stevens (“Palm Springs Weekend”, “Rock-A-Bye-Baby” “ Hawaiian Eye”). Young Artist Award Nominee David 'Bud Bundy' Faustino (“RoboDoc”, “Killer Bud” “Married With Children”). Golden Globe Award Nominee Katey 'Peggy Bundy' Sagal (“Married W/Children” “8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter”). PLUS: Emmy Award Nominee Edie Adams (“Love W/The Proper Stranger” “Call Me Bwana ”). Golden Boot Award Winner Julie Adams (“Tickle Me” “The Creature From The Black Lagoon”). Bill 'Cru' Allen (“Sioux City”, “Streamers”, “A Stoning In Fulham County” “Rad”). Reb 'Captain America' Brown (“Captain America” “Yor, The Hunter From The Future”). Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes (“Grease”, “Yellowstone Kelly” “77 Sunset Strip”). Emmy Award Winner Pat Carroll (“The Brother's O'Toole”, “Caesar's Hour” and the voice of 'Ursula' in “The Little Mermaid”). Golden Globe Award Winner Joanna Cassidy (“Buffalo Bill” “Boston Legal”). Chase 'Conrad' Chavarria (“The Cat In The Hat”). Connor Chavarria (“The Work The Glory III: A House Divided”). Kyle 'Laura Ingalls' Chavarria (“Little House On The Prairie” “Saving Shiloh”). Phyllis 'Lois Lane' Coates (“Panther Girl Of The Congo” “The Adventures Of Superman”). Bill 'Jose Jimenez' Dana (“The Steve Allen Show”, “The Nude Bomb” “The Golden Girls”). Golden Boot Award Silver Spur Award Winner Michael Dante (“Winterhawk” “ Crazy Horse Custer”). Edward Faulkner (“The Hellfighters”, “Chisum”, “The Green Berets” “The Undefeated”). Janet Gallow (“The Ghost Of Frankenstein”, “It Ain't Hay” “Butch Minds The Baby”). Bert I. Gordon (“Attack Of The Puppet People”, “The Amazing Colossal Man” “Empire Of The Ants”). Susan Gordon (“The 5 Pennies”, “The Boy The Pirates” “Picture Mommy Dead”). People's Choice Award Winner Karen Lynn Gorney (“Saturday Night Fever” “ All My Children”). Gogi Grant (“The Big Beat”, “The Tennessee Plowboy”, “Milk Punch” “The Helen Morgan Story”). '91 '94 U.S. National Figure Skating Champion Tonya Harding (“The Prize Fighter” “Breakaway”). Emmy Award Winner Mariette Hartley (“Dirt”, “Ride High Country” “Marnie” ). Charlotte Kemp (“Posed For Murder”, “Repossessed”, “Fairway To Heaven” “ Frankenhooker”). Golden Globe Award Tony Award Winner John Kerr (“Tea Sympathy”, “Gaby” “South Pacific”). Cammie 'Bonnie Blue Butler' King (“Gone With The Wind” and the voice of 'Faline' in Disney's “Bambi”). Linda Lawson (“Night Tide”, “Apache Rifles”, “Let's Kill Uncle” “ Adventures In Paradise”). Tanya Lemani (“That Tender Touch”, “The King's Pirate” “The Hell With Heroes”). Rick Lenz (“The Shootist”, “Melvin Howard”, “Scandalous John” “Hec Ramsey”). Lawrence 'Stonn' Montaigne (“Star Trek: Of Gods Men”, “Dakota” “The Psycho Lover”). Cynthia Myers (“Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls” “They Shoot Horses, Don't They?”). John Newton (“Desert Kickboxer”,
[MOPO] GREATEST SPORTS MOVIES
Its always interesting to think back which sports related films rise to the top. Just in quantity it seems the most frequently used sports in films are without question Baseball and Boxing. Is it because one is easily adapted to following a group of characters to meld as one, and the other the triumph of an individual over adversity both easily followed by moviegoers? So its odd that the same story arcs can's be applied with similar success to say volleyball , and shot put. I guess its a question of how compelling. Baseball is a sport everyone plays at some point when young, whether at school, little league or family reunions so the immediacy of familiarity is instant with a moviegoer. But couldn't the same be said of volleyball or hockey? With respect to the individual, boxing is familiar and has the overriding risk of physical harm, but so does long distance running, powerlifting or downhill skiing. Boxing may edge out in overall number the rather subjective notion of greatness or classic status when compared to films about baseball even though I would think baseball is the sport most frequently used in film by almost double. And a lot of the truly great baseball films one is still following the rise of a single individual My Boxing List RAGING BULL (classic character rise and fall brilliant and visceral) THE CHAMP(King Vidor classic comeback with tragic results) HARDER THEY FALL (underrated drama of corruption in boxing) WHEN WE WERE KINGS (killer evaluation of the Ali-Foreman fight) ROCKY/CINDERELLA MAN (basically the same well executed crowd pleasers) CITY LIGHTS (comic genius set piece in a boxing ring yet to ever be equaled) My Baseball List FIELD OF DREAMS (baseball as metaphor for life and second chances) THE NATURAL (mythic treatment of good Vs evil beautifully executed) BULL DURHAM (comedy and sex never better folded into sports) LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (funny, melancholy and great period detail) freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Buyer pays PayPal fees?
Roland, First try the passive aggressive approach. But only if you really want the item. But this approach positions you as a good guy while still busting him if he tries to charge for the fees Say something like Thanks for getting back to me on the cost relating to shipping. The cost is fair and reasonable and for that I thank you. As you are abroad, obviously the fastest and simplest way to pay for an Ebay item is through Paypal. However let me be a friend to you for a moment. Apparently you are not aware of a critical violation of Ebay's policy. Anyone reported charging for fees associated with Paypal, or inflating shipping to cover Paypal fees is subject to immediate suspension. I certainly don't mind taking the time to make you aware of this aggressively policed rule of sales As you know others may not be as understanding and file a complaint without ever giving you the chance to explain that you were sincerely unaware. If you have your policy anywhere in your listings you will want to remove it promptly and of course discontinue collecting the fees. thanks again for the shipping costs and will be watching your auction with interest. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FS Original 40's Crime Posters On Linen Each Less Than $100 Such A Deal!
hey guys, these are swell posters and offered for less than $100 each and indeed linenbacked for optimum display. Including The Whistler, Bulldog Drummond and The Lone Wolf _http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZflixspixQQhtZ-1_ (http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZflixspixQQhtZ-1) freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Bill At Granada Posters Wins The Prize
Mopo'ers I could not let this go without praise. I just received a rolled poster from Bill at Granada Posters in Texas. I have never received a poster packed to arrive as safely EVER as this one was. He took a square carton measuring 6" X 6" x 42" and inside box he had 4 evenly cut strips of styrofoam 1" thick by 4" wide by 32" long. Those kind of locked in place creating a cushioned square cartoninside the double-ply cardboard carton. Then asturdy 3" round tube, a quality I wish most peoplewould use as standard, was wrapped smoothlyat least three times around the entire length of the tube which thenslid snugly within the styrofoam walls allowing5" of bubble on each end of carton You would have thought I purchased a rolled Real Art FRANKENSTEIN but no, a 30 x 40 GODFATHER and the trouble taken so the thick stock paper wouldn't ding or crimp in transit. Thanks Bill you raised the bar. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Frankenstein 1951
Rich, I was watching that auction also.A redflag went off in my headabout artydeco who bid multiple times in not so large increments.But with a user ID of evilbidr, that just sounds like someonewho is ahorror collector. Given that, Claude is of the philosophy, all other distractions aside, if there is a piece on Ebay he wants, he bids what he is willing to pay and if what he bids isn't enough, he doesn't agonizeor become suspicious of activity before or after his bid.He is of the mind that "posters are like buses, eventually another one comes along." Now if seller were to come to Claude and say,"I have failed to collect from the high bidder", orthe rarer and equally unbelievable, "I actually have two examples of this poster" as next in line would you be willing to purchase, then I wouldhave to think, knowing Claude, would tell him to take a flying leap.But Claude doesn't need me to speak for him I am just assuming based on his street smart savvy. Both the above scenarios has happened to me, but with tin toys and not posters. Both times I declined which was painful but it forced sellers to relist. One item sold relistedthree weeks laterfor about the same, the other which was relistedabout 5 days laterI purchasedfor several hundred dollars cheaper. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Hello Again and WTB Goldfinger Insert
Mark Ellis Well let me one of the first to welcome you back after a waltz with the real world. WHILE YOU WERE AWAY: Regarding your inquiry of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S all semblance or reason and logic hasceased to exist for that title. However MY FAIR LADY onesheetshave plummeted to such lows thatone could getbetter use of themin wiping the shit off shoes at Ascot. Okay Mopoer's bring Mark up to date with the latest observations regarding the poster biz by adding to this list which no doubt could prove valuable. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Signatures On Posters Have Consistently Been A Bonanza For Me
Interesting that many people think a signature on a vintage piece may more often than not hurt instead of help. I think the nay-sayers have never really had any experience with that. I would file this in THEORIES THAT COLLAPSE UNDER EXAMINATION where such declarationslike "Always buy a mint folded onesheet over a linenbacked version, it'srarer and far more in demand" are filed away. I was fortunate to have a CITIZEN KANE insert consigned to me signed by Orson Welles. The provenance was beyond reproach.Insert was NMint folded with one fold fairly deep where insert was folded back the wrong direction in order for Welles to sign easier while sitting at a table. Insert was purchased with buyer fully aware that a mint rolled version would be up for auction only 4-5 days later at Heritage.But I estimated what it would sell for and then felt strongly Welles' signature worth a 20% extra premium based on the results of signed 3 sheets years earlier I was able to track down. I followed live on-line with great anticipation and when bidding stopped so did my pulse. Heritage's insert sold foralmost three thousand dollarsLESS.All of a sudden acid reflux is causinga burning inching its way up my esophagus while thoughts ofclient dissatisfaction extrapolating to a drive by hit ora smart bomb on my headwerebeginning to seem perfect legitimate scenarios inmy immediate future. I was in agony. But in one of the most considerate actions ever madeon my behalf that I had ever experienced in this business, while the auction at Heritage was still going my phone rang and it was my client. Immediately launching into "I know you and you are probably upset over the sale etc. ... Do not worry I am thrilled with my signed insert and I have no regrets what so ever" That was class.Insert has since been sold at an even greater premium,again keeping in mind this over a mint rolled version. So maybe Wells is one of only a handful that a signature can so impactpositively the sale of a vintage item. But the same dramatic differenceas a percentage of sale price over the average price has occurred for mewith a Lucas signature on THX-1138, Charleton Heston on anything from Ben Hur, Patrick Swayze on Dirty Dancing and David Lean big time on Lawrence of Arabia. But I was lucky as these arematerials with directors or actor associations that are so cool. My most recent example was I had the great italian super-photobusta on linen for JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS and had listed on Ebay twice possibly three times with no sales or even solicitations for an offEbay purchase. With the help of fellow Mopoer Ron Magid at the Spring Courts, while I manned my table he got Ray Harryhausen (for $20 ) to sign the piece along the bottom with a bold black marker. I listed on Ebay and it sold in 5hoursBuy It Now at a higher price than I had originally listed the first time. But on the whole, singling out the Courts Shows or the upcoming Chiller theatre, theseevents host a ballroom full of forgettable 20 seconds of fame personalities that rarely qualify as household names..Hell if you farted on live TV back in the 60's they'll havea table waiting for you if desired. But people seek their autographs and pay to have them.But I made a very interesting observation at the last Courts Show. The two big "draws" were Mickey Rooney and Debbie Reynolds. They actually caused lines to form especially Rooney on Saturday. What I noticed going down their lines besides the fact that 80% of the people were as wide as they were tall and the event again 100% white, was that no one was having original studio material signed. Most were blank 3 x 5cards the balance stills or magazines. I had Rooney and Reynolds lobby cards as low as $10 and not one sold. So it does beg the question why mix? But clearly its the autographseekers the dog and poster vendors the tail..each drawing their own collectors. But would anyone there or at Chiller Whatever in Jersey, their signature actually undermine the sale of a vintage piece? I don't think so, at worstthe impact would beno measurable increase in sale price. And when offering a signed piece, its just another positive to encourage a purchase over a competitor. Butit would be great to hear from Rich and Grey on the following. Rich, say you had a comic book slabbed and graded a 9.2 of the third Batman comic book. If it were signed by either the illustrator or author on the cover.how much if any penalty in grade points would be levied? What if it was Walt Disney's signature on aDonald Duck comic book? Or to Grey, a nmint to mint folded Double Indemnity onesheet is in the offer by Heritage. If it was signed by Fred MacMurray would you alter the onesheet's grading downward or simply ignore its presence and grade the poster as submitted by its condition? freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at
[MOPO] Just What The Hell Is That Spell That Is Veronica?
I mean really, this is shocking. I purchased the same card only slightly less condition, but not by much at all,for a client for $1093.00 last December. Oh..at Heritage. and it wasn't like no onewas watching. Well I hope he hits thunder with THE LADY EVE. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemih=015item=250029986102rd=1sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AITrd=1 and poor Veronica, found in 1962 living in a flea bag hotel in Baltimore serving drinks in the lobby bar. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Remember The Discussion Of What Film Posters Are Visible In A Movie?
Freeman here This has nothing to do with anything but I am just distracting before going back on Andale to throw even more good money at Ebay with no tangiblereturns...kind of like a strip club. Anyway PLAY IT AGAIN SAM was on HBO. What a hilarious film. But more amazing was the posters, no doubt all real, none in frames and all over the apartment of Woody Allen's hereplaying the most neurotic film critic on the planet livingin San Francisco (weird to see the PacificOcean and not Central Parkwhile Woody afoot.) Anyway above breeze through to kitchen was THE JUNGLE PRINCESS, TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD WOMAN, ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT. In kitchen KEY LARGO, near front door re-release1sht CASABLANCA.Far right of sofa on wall an original release CASABLANCA insert. And tons of festival and rep house calendars. But the most jaw droppingpiece, a pinned up Six Sheet ofMALTESE FALCONdirectly above his bed. With bottom edges crimping from pillows hitting. Ouch. Film shot in 1972 possibly these pieces were still dirt cheap. Taped up, no frame Quickly wrote down one of my favorite bits of dialogue for your Sunday chuckle Allan Felix: That's quite a lovely Jackson Pollack, isn't it? Girl in museum: Yes, it is. Allan Felix: What does it say to you? Girl in museum: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos. Allan Felix: What are you doing Saturday night? Girl in museum: Committing suicide. Allan Felix: What about Friday night? freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] WTB ----- TWO ONESHEETS
Good Friday Mopoer's I am in need of extremely mint folded or preferablyrolled original release onesheet(s) for Spielberg's EMPIRE OF THE SUN Also looking for a pristine on or off linen FUNNY FACE US onesheet original release. Thanks in advance freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] David Kusumoto His Quite Colorful Response
Re Kusumoto's colorful response, I was just wonderingwhen writing a thoughtful essay if or what colors hammer a point home. Admittedly, my mind began to drift to unrelated thoughts bythe second time Jeannie's name is mentioned such as "is my left front speaker of my theatre system working properly while watching POSEIDONon DVD" But I remained intrigued by what is behind Koose's use of differently colored paragraphs. Do I give more weight to those commentshighlighted in vermillion or periwinkle? When reading, do I move my lips only with those paragraphs incadmium? I have always thought, butthen again this is just me, that the best color for a David Kusomoto essay is the color brief. It goes with any decor. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Topic JR Your Finesse Is Off
Honestly JR, Your posts are catching many of us by surprise in their unnecessarily caustic tone or recently down right bizarre knee jerk reaction. Using posters instead of planetary bodies, were Walter Reuben and Tony Normand arrogant in theirinvestigations and conclusionsthat Saul Bass did not design the WEST SIDE STORY onesheet or the onesheet of BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ after years of being identified as his work?. Of course not So youbeing intelligent in the broadest sense, your comment on a global convention of some of the brightest physicists and astronomers in the world reaching consensus on a controversial issue as being arrogant, I really couldn't tell if you were pulling our Mopo legs with this exciting reclassification witnessed in our lifetime regarding PLUTOor merely talking throughURANUS. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Snakes Did Get Two Major Positive Reviews
Both the NY Times and SLATE magazine, two on line rags I respect highly for certain things like movies and reporting on the end of the civilized world as we know it, both gave it rave reviews...Slate called it the best post 9/11 film yet and the points drawn out of the film made for interesting debate. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Little Miss Sunshine
Kirby, AARPMovie MemberNights in Austin are always crowded...there's a matinee of Sincerely Yours still showing seats available freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Subject Grosses Estimated For Weekend
Never underestimate Nascar Nation. They are everywhere and even more frightening is they vote. Helluva gross BOX OFFICE MOJOWEEKEND ESTIMATESPREPARED FOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]-Week #31: August 4-6, 2006Rank. Movie Title (Distributor) / Theater Counts / Theater Change Weekend Gross | % change | Theater Average | Total Gross | Week #1. Talladega Nights (Sony) / 3,803 $47,000,000 | - | $12,358 | $47,000,000 | New2. Barnyard (Paramount) / 3,311 $16,040,000 | - | $4,844 | $16,040,000 | New3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Buena Vista) / 3,436 / -398 $11,011,000 | -46.6% | $3,204 | $379,709,000 | 54. Miami Vice (Universal) / 3,026 / +5 $9,683,000 | -62.4% | $3,199 | $45,740,000 | 25. The Descent (Lions Gate) / 2,095 $8,800,000 | - | $4,200 | $8,800,000 | New6. John Tucker Must Die (Fox) / 2,566 / +6 $6,050,000 | -57.6% | $2,357 | $28,623,000 | 27. Monster House (Sony) / 3,029 / -524 $6,000,000 | -48.6% | $1,980 | $56,952,000 | 38. The Ant Bully (Warner Bros.) / 3,050 / 0 $3,900,000 | -53.8% | $1,278 | $18,161,000 | 29. You, Me and Dupree (Universal) / 2,266 / -554 $3,603,000 | -49.3% | $1,590 | $66,782,000 | 410. The Night Listener (Miramax) / 1,367 $3,600,000 | - | $2,633 | $3,600,000 | New freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FS PART TWO Exclusive To Mopo'ers Mint Folded Materials Please Take A Look
These pieces continue the materials offered yesterday, but no need to call that email up as I have included the pieces that remain. Thanks to all of you who made purchases. Most of these titles are from the 40's and 50's, and 60's and a smattering later decades.The majority of them aremint folded with the balance near to mint as indicated. Shipping is FREE with the purchase of $75or more to anywhere on the Planet. Paypal is preferred but MO's okay FIRST TO EMAIL OR CALL FIRST SERVED LET'S DO IT! THE SPIDER '58 Awesome 1sht. ofgiant spider art. Intense colors and as mint, folded as the day printed.We should all look so good this close to 50. Sci-fi imagery at its lurid best. $450 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155237763724_TheSpider.jpg THE LOST CITY Chpt 4 '35 Astonishingly mint serial poster with no toning or any wear whatsoever. Impossibly rare in this condition $400 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1152853440082_TheLostCity1sht.jpg THE PRODUCERS '68 Style A onesheet in perfect mint condition that has hit some sky-high numbers in the past 3-4 years. Great poster fromthe outrageous Mel Brooks classic that he produced into arecord busting stage musical. The recent film adaptation of that stage musical however failed to find its audience, which only points back tothe original 1968source material as the only paper to have on this film phenomenon. Fantastic! $375 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1154915297717_TheProducers1sht.jpg ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE'52 ultra-mint onesheet $175 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1152511757202_ZombiesOfStratosphere1sht.jpg MELODY '53 Walt Disney 3D Animation Entry Rare $275 mintsave fora light censor stamp but hey proves its real. http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155299478841_Melody1sht3D.jpg MELODY TIME '47 Western Singing Stars Very Scarce $325 mint. Take both MELODYS for $575 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1156263380876_MelodyTime1sht.jpg MY FAVORITE BLONDE '42 Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll $225 Basically mint. A knockout actually http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/115378286_1152280458856_MyFavoriteBlonde1sht.jpg A Doris Day lovefest! 3 original release onesheets all near mint ON MOONLIGHT BAY '51 (very scarce), LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME '57, SEND ME NO FLOWERS '64 with Rock Hudson $175 for all three AMAZING value http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1154203117837_OnMoonlightBay1sht.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1154199257992_LoveMeOrLeaveMe1sht.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155045742925_SendNoFlowers1sht.jpg THE GODFATHER'74 Original release 6 Sheet 81 x 81 mint unused All four panels mint. I couldn't get a photo as too windy but trust me its as mint folded that is available.Its the Godfather Is Now A Movie campaign $150 JOLSON SINGS AGAIN '49 Larry Parks, Barbara Hale $75 mint http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1153685303988_JolsonSingsAgain1sht.jpg TOM JONES '63 Albert Finney Best Picture Winner 3Sheet $75 mint unused 3 sheet great art great film http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1152555798357_TomJones3sht.jpg BRAVE HEART '95French Original Release 47 x 63 mint folded Different art than in the US, includes Sophie Marceau $40 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155769321703_1152560383369_BraveheartFrench.jpg WYATT EARP '94 French original release 47 x 63 Now considered boasting one of the single great images created for a film in the last decade a magnificent, heroic image of Costner as famed lawman.. Same image as US but bigger and in this case better. $40 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1152767577053_WyattEarpFr2panel.jpg MAN FOR ALL SEASONS '66 Mint French original release 47 x 63 Different art than US Poster and quite nice. $35 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1154539873259_ManForAllSeasonsFrench.jpg TWO RE-RELEASE MINT UNUSED 3SHEETS OF TWO ACCLAIMED TITLES FROM THE 1950'S. David Lean's OLIVER TWIST,and Marlon Brando with a peerless cast in JULIUS CAESAR Both full color 3 sheets $65 for the PAIR mint http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1153283960672_JuliusCaesar3shtRR.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155181678887_1154567207772_OliverTwist3sht.jpg NIGHT OF THE IGUANA '64 Great design for Burton, Gardner, Kerr, Huston collaboration. Mint 1sht $50 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1156437296409_1155099706790_NightOfTheIguana1sht.jpg DARLING '65 Best actress winner Julie Christie MINT Folded $50 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1155877815090_Darling1sht.jpg BROADWAY DANNY ROSE '84 FrenchThe most logical door panel ever created as its an image primarily of a door. Nice its from one of Woody Allen's sweetest films from his prolific albeit uneven
[MOPO] OFF SUBJECT Chloe Sevigney, Mel Gibson
Regarding Chloe, Guys she's doing just fine, after Brown Bunny she has gone on to lend her acting chops as one of the three wives in HBO's BIG LOVE. Disregarding Mel Wheninibriated, with mind clouded and appropriate stop gaps with regard to sociability impaired what usually bubbles up is a window into the real fabric of a person. Mel's been found out but for many including myself his legacy of misogyny, homophobia, and anti-Semitism was veiled in many of his films but clearly in evidence when working with him at press events and publicity tours. He is foul. Alcoholism may have been the result of trying to stifle his inner demons of turmoil and conflict carrying the weight of such hate and intolerancethat were drummed into him as an adolescent, but I still have a hard time summoning up the appropriate compassion to forgive him or the scores of other personalities and spokespersonswho carry the torch for their politicalor religious affiliationsand in turn their frequently stifling and repressive dogmas. Iknow that finding forgiveness is the moral benchmark but I would much rathersee them smote from this earth... freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] When Great Mopo'er Say Stupid Things We Let'em Then Cry Flag On The Play
Jr, You stated with absolute certainty the following ". It is also why a restored on linen poster, even one that "looks mint",is never going to bring in as much money a non-backed poster, if the non-backed poster is in C8 or better condition (as defined by Jon Warren at): JR. I can disprove that statement100 fold rendering thatdeclaration to its knees. Now are you sure you want to go to that near-to-mint, un restored, original release edition of famous quotes we should have known betterlike"all minty white inserts are fakes" or "all re-release onesheetsare always less in value than their original year of release". Okay I didn't think you didyour absolved. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Boxoffice Treasure In Pirates
JR I am not or even suggestedequating the number of runs dictate in some calculated ormeasured waythe actualnumber printed...the case I was making that it was a lot, a whole lot of posters requiredto be printed, the minimum run we know having to bein numbers enough tocover 7500 screens meaning an excess of 20 thousand posters. Extrapolating my observation furtherI was asking how can this title or the scores like it ever be a valuable collectible years down the road when introduced into the poster pipeline at these staggering quantities. Scarcity is only one of about four considerations when a poster is assessed for its value.my point was this poster and the scores like it from the final 3 STAR WARS on will never be scarce so getting back to Rudy Franchi's original declaration, we will be selling and reselling the same 500 posters for years to come-- posters that wereprinted in quantities a mere fraction of the totals being issued in the last ten years. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Boxoffice Treasure In Pirates
.and SUPERMAN had generally much better reviews overall by a considerable margin. Now notePIRATES is on 8500 screens that has to represent at least 2 onesheets each. That's 19,000 posters right there. 50 years from now that poster will be worth what? By the way did anyone notice and congratulate MOPO's own Rudy Franchi's Emmy Nomination for Best Reality Show? His show up ended such programs as CHEERLEADER NATION, DANCING WITH THE STARS, ROLLER GIRLS, COUNTDOWN TO LOCKDOWN, FILTHY RICH, ULTIMATE COYOTE UGLY SEARCH, WIFE SWAP, and ANIMALS WHO EAT THEIR YOUNG. Congratulations Rudy for this auspicious recognition. Who knows a new collectible may be on the horizon for you! Yo ho, yo ho. A pirate's life for… everyone. Or so it seems after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest plundered the record books with an estimated $132 million opening weekend, swatting Spider-Man's long standing $114.8 million milestone atop the all time chart. Buena Vista's swarthy sequel marauded over 8,500 screens at 4,133 sites—the third widest debut ever—compared to Spider-Man's 7,500 screens at 3,615 sites, though Pirates' estimated 20 million admissions out-paced Spidey by only a hair. Pirates pilfered a trove of records, but the key ones, in addition to opening weekend, were biggest single and opening day and fastest to $100 million. On Friday, Dead Man's Chest raked in $55.5 million (including $9 million's worth of 2,100 midnight showings), eclipsing Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith's $50 million and grossing more in one day than its predecessor, The Curse of the Black Pearl, did in its entire opening weekend. Dead Man's Chest also became the first picture to cross the century mark in two days flat. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] A HUGE AUCTION ON THE HORIZON SET PHASERS TO STUN
July 6, 2006 It's an Auction, Jim, but Not as We Know It By JAMES BARRON The stuff of "Star Trek" — uniforms, communicators and other props, including pointy rubber ears — has boldly gone to a place where the intrepid crew never took the Enterprise: the Bronx. In a windowless warehouse in Crotona Park East, boxes of "Star Trek" memorabilia that were shipped from the part of the galaxy known as Hollywood are being cataloged and photographed. The catalogers and photographers work for Christie's, the auction house that more often handles impressionists and old masters. The trove will be sold for dollars. Not Federation credits. So, hanging on one coat rack in the warehouse are Klingon costumes. On another are the Enterprise crew's uniforms, even William Shatner's uniform. "It's a great" — long pause — "leisure suit," said Cathy Elkies, the Christie's official overseeing the sale. "Star Trek" fans are passionate. They attend conventions. They know "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." They correct dumb mistakes, no matter how obscure, in any articles having anything to do with "Star Trek." They take the idea of being a fan to extremes, and proudly so. And they are not Christie's usual crowd. No one dressed as a Klingon was in attendance when Christie's sold the dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she sashayed into Madison Square Garden and sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy. So when Christie's marketers asked Ms. Elkies who was the intended audience for the sale, which is scheduled for Oct. 5-7, she did not have a ready answer. "I had to say, I really don't know," she said. That is partly because so few actual props from the various television series and films have been sold before. The items in the sale had been stored in warehouses, some since the original 1960's television series went off the air. But after the cancellation of the UPN prequel "Star Trek: Enterprise" last year, Paramount decided to lighten its holdings. Now Christie's is preparing descriptions for each item — descriptions that are decidedly different from the ones usually found in Christie's catalogs. Consider this one, for a pair of items that Christie's expects to sell for $1,000 to $1,500: "Two tribbles of imitation fur stuffed with foam rubber, one gray and black, the other white, gray and brown." Tribbles were small life forms that reproduced at remarkable rates, according to Memory-Alpha.org, one of many sites on the Web devoted to "Star Trek." Christie's says this pair was used in the "Deep Space Nine" episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" and also in a "Star Trek: Enterprise" episode. Ms. Elkies said she was approaching the sale in "a democratic way" — meaning, she explained, "We are pricing it so there will be something for everyone." She said there would be items with estimated prices of $200 or so. But the estimates on some items are far higher. Christie's expects to sell a model of the Starship Enterprise-A, made from a plastic hobby kit and used on "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" in 1991, for $15,000 to $25,000. According to the Memory-Alpha site, the Enterprise-A had made its debut in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" and had gone on a surprisingly speedy journey to the center of the galaxy in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." Christie's also has a model of a Work Bee, which, according to Memory-Alpha, was "a small utility craft in use by the Federation since the mid-23rd century." Ms. Elkies said this one was used in the drydock sequences in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and also in the main title sequence of "Deep Space Nine." Christie's estimates that it will sell for $6,000 to $8,000 at the auction. Ms. Elkies said she was impressed by the craftsmanship of the costumes and props. "If you see something on TV, you don't think there's a backside to it," she said. "But you see these things and you realize how much time and labor went into each object." The Starfleet officer Worf's silver rifle "almost looks like an Uzi," Ms. Elkies said, lifting it off the shelf, "and it's heavy." And then there was the Xindi alien in the stasis chamber from the series "Enterprise." The stasis chamber was a clear plastic cylinder. The Xindi alien was a yellow figure about the size of a 5-year-old child, with wires attached to places that, on a human, would be painful if attached without anesthetic. Ms. Elkies was not a major "Star Trek" fan before she started to organize the sale. She got her baptism in "Star Trek" mania when she went to a convention in Germany in May. "The funny part was, I couldn't always tell if it was German or Klingon that they were speaking," she said. At 41, she was a small child when "Star Trek" originally went on the air. "I think it was so different than anything else that was on," she said. "Remember, we had five channels back then, so we weren't inundated with
[MOPO] Any Particular Star(s) Make A Poster Hard To Sell?
(cue sounds of rolling thunder) I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND THERE ARE ONLY 500! I have had a thorough baptismofzero or pathetic salesof artists that literally "dead in the water" doesn't begin to describe their appeal. I have been attempting to move a plethora of items all froma collection by a consignor who collected materials of certain stars he most likely had a personal relationship with as a an indedpendent publicist for over 40 years. And many of them were boxoffice champions in their years as leads, but any success subsequent has everything to do with their co-stars. Some of the names surprise but trust me, the following have anappeal to collectors that can best be described as inert. Rudy Franchi in one ofhis posts described an individual's auction as selling and re-selling the same 500 titles that everyone else does. Well, withorders toliquidate collection for whatever the market pricewill bear irrespective of what he paid for the items three, five or eventen yearsago, I can honestly say there is a reason 500 titles are recyled time and again. Introducing scarcely seen vintage paper of titles starring well known starsis like leading that proverbial horse to water but unable to make it drink. Below represent the most frustrating artists to move Danny Kaye -- "White Christmas" excepted Deanna Durbin- in spite of being one of the biggest musical stars in Hollywood, saved Universal from bankruptcy (not by monsters, vampires, or the undead) incredible voice, and was asked by Benito Mussolini to ask Roosevelt not to intercede in WWII while Churchill asked to see her films before release... Donald O'Connor "Singin' In The Rain" excepted Ava Gardner Burt Lancaster Betty Grable Robert Taylor Jerry Lewis (Absent Minded Professor excepted) Bob Hope Unless teamed up with Bing and Dorothy or to a lesser extentLucy or Jane (Russell) a stunning indifference to material Frank Sinatra (excluding Oceans 11) Van Johnson Red Skelton Audie Murphy Richard Widmark And what remains the #1 star in this collection with unquestionable talent yet virtually impossible to move paper unless priced under $50 considering his tenure in the business Spencer Tracy freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Topic Funny Look By LA Times Of Past Studio Ads That Tied In The 4th
I am fairly sure this link will get you there.. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fourthads-pg,0,2545892.photogallery?coll=la-headlines-entnews freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] SUPERMAN a bad remake?
Jr, Its worth the bother, as my friends have reported. I am waiting to go to Imax to see the 2 0 min 3d presentation during the second half. I think your friend would have enjoyed the film but alas he failed to remove the stick up his ass. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Bonham's Sale
Michael and Moposties Enough with the insert Dude.But you will be pleased to know auctioneer paused to correct listing to make aware to phoners and people present that piece is graded C minus and please bid as to what you see and not how listed in the catalogue And then I think it sold to someone in the room for $300. Just because no postings on MOPO does not mean you can gauge its quality. What would you want to hear? That a lot of pieces passed? Noonly one or two passed I was aware. Were prices high? No, in fact if you must know many a dealer were able to procure popular pieces at very, very good prices. To me that's a successful auction who wants to attend an auction where everything is high? Sets of lobby cards were particular stand outs performing well, but still with potential upsides due to quality and scarcity. Biggest Surprise? DIRTY HARRY LIFE MAGAZINE poster around 1200.00 and a Raging Bull signed by Scoresese and Jake LaMotta 2200.00 Noir was soft but the better Leithold pieces were in previous auction Biggest disappointment. While signing in for my paddle the French UNINVITED sold as the receptionist handed to me. Nose diving into the auction roomyelling BIDwas to no avail but made for a spectacular entrance. Damn that poster was really deluxe, However, the IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT was withdrawn due in fact that it was a re-releasefrom I believe 1936surprising two very experienced dealers I know well.Rudy,that qualifiesas a major screw-up,not your usual oversight. I haven't a clue who noticed or how it was determined. Still an amazing onesheet. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Rudy's Wicked Sense Of Humour
Hey Mopo'ers Trying to corner the market as Curmudgeon At Large, Rudy Franchi, host of that blip on the radar screen "IsThat Junk Really Gold" reality show on wheels...out does himself with his latest observations and preoccupations with aninsider's wit and wisdom. Its not really accurate, but who cares its funny. And who knew he actually had a key to the Grand Hotel for a brief shining moment. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Posters In Movies
Pulp Fiction JackRabbit Slims 24 sheet of Young Racers 40 x 60's on Attack of 50 ft Woman, Motorcycle Gang, Rock All Night, Sorority Girl, Daddy 'O, Hot Car Girl, Road Racer and one I have never been able to make out freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Interesting Article In NY TIMES About Ebay
How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear By KATIE HAFNER Published: June 4, 2006 IN quick succession one morning last month, Louisiana state legislators plowed through a long list of bills, including one to relocate the motor vehicle commission, another to regulate potentially abusive lending practices, and yet another that was the handiwork of eBay, the digital shopping mall that bills itself as "the world's online marketplace." Cheryl Brown, who is authorized to sell other people's items on eBay, said she was "blown away" when Louisiana forced her to get a license. Sherrie Wilks and Jim Steele of the Louisiana Auctioneer Licensing Board felt the backlash from their license enforcement efforts. EBay had worked overtime to ensure the passage of Senate Bill 642, which sought to exempt some Internet transactions — like those that occur on its Web site — from Louisiana licensing requirements for businesses conducting auctions. As the State Senate's Commerce Committee convened to consider the bill, Duane Cowart, an eBay lobbyist, testified that forcing eBay "trading assistants" to fork over $300 for a license was unduly burdensome. "What they do on the Internet is not an auction, and they are not auctioneers," Mr. Cowart told the committee. Trading assistants take items on consignment from other owners and put them up for bid on eBay, but Mr. Cowart said their activities were more akin to placing classified ads. Louisiana's senators seemed to agree with him wholeheartedly. "I think eBay is great," said one, while another regaled the room about his adventures shopping for a Plymouth Prowler on eBay. State Senator Noble E. Ellington, a Democrat who sponsored the bill at Mr. Cowart's behest, beamed as his colleagues gave the legislation their unanimous support. EBay's lobbying activities are not confined to Louisiana. As the company has spread its innovative and influential wings across the Internet, it has also woven together a muscular and wily lobbying apparatus that spans 25 states. "It is a fast-moving train, and if you get in front of it you'll get flattened," said Sherrie Wilks, an official with Louisiana's licensing agency, who is concerned that eBay flouts regulatory oversight by persuading state legislators to take the company's side. Regulators in other states also say that when they try to erect guidelines around eBay's activities, they quickly encounter the realities of the company's political power, raising anew the perennial questions about the proper balance among public policy, consumer protection and business interests. EBay's lobbying tactics, meanwhile, illustrate the spoils to be won when a savvy, resourceful company combines local political persuasion and grass-roots rallying to get lucrative regulatory exemptions that allow it to safeguard its profits. EBay's efforts have been remarkably successful, and the company, which has worked tirelessly to cultivate its image as a friendly neighborhood bazaar even as it engages in hard-nosed lobbying, is not shy about boasting of its victories. Last year, Ohio passed a law that would have regulated eBay sellers, but the company moved quickly — with the help of seasoned lobbyists — to have a pre-emptive and more favorable bill passed. "We realized what was there, and we worked with local lobbyists and were able to get the law reversed," said Tod Cohen, eBay's vice president for government relations. He oversees the company's efforts to convince state lawmakers of a core eBay belief: that state regulation can impede the flow of e-commerce. The Federal Trade Commission, which has loosened regulations across a broad range of industries, appears to agree. Late last week, responding to a request from Mr. Ellington for an analysis of the Louisiana bill, the agency advised that the bill promoted competition and increased consumer choice. Unlike many other Internet companies, eBay has to be especially fleet-footed when it comes to stopping what it perceives as hostile regulation, whether it involves the growing number of eBay drop-off stores — places like UPS stores and small shops where people take their goods to be sold on eBay — or the more general category of trading assistants. Anyone engaged in selling on the site depends on a relatively friction-free environment in order to make a profit. So does eBay, because its overall corporate goal is to keep sales volumes high. At any given moment, 89 million items are for sale on eBay, and the mother ship — eBay itself — gets a fee for each successful transaction. It also charges its 193 million registered users listing fees for any products they display on the site. EBay's gross transaction fees for the first quarter of 2006 alone were more than $500 million, a 30 percent increase over the same quarter in 2005. Keeping regulators at bay, particularly those whose efforts might slow down sales traffic, is a particularly high
[MOPO] DEADWOOD
DEADWOOD has its full third season line up set to go and it begins in two weeks..producer David Milchis fighting fora fullFOURTH season and he turned down an offer to have a mini-season send off like SEX IN THE CITY had, and that the Sopranos will have. His episodes have ballooned to 5 million each. But its some of the greatest television I have ever seenanyc#%k suc$#ers, from Hollywood realize with such astonishing beauty and depth. And if Ian McShane doesn't get an Emmy for his role their will be HELL to pay. I could not believe by the way catching PUSSYCAT PUSSYCAT I LOVE YOU on showtime that was Ian as Fred Dobbs. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] STAR WARS POSTER SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?product_id=105083rid=SMCMFH1 DOESN'T YODA LOOK LIKE BUSH'SDWEEBIE NEO-CON FOR THE CIAMICHAEL HAYDEN? IF ONLY HALF AS WISE.. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] How Did This Pass On The Mopo Radar 25,000 For A Cocoanuts Lobby Card?
Until I heard about a lobby card from Public Enemy fetching over 20 grand it just never occurred to me that a lobby card could hit such an outrageous figure.well on Ebay many of us witnessed with shock and awe a Marx Bros card, no doubt a record for a single lobby card on EBAY. hit $25,333.00 That's $220.00 a square inch! Ebay # 7615817836 freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] o/t- OSCAR® has left the building! the story can be to ld.
In a message dated 4/25/2006 9:32:27 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So then i became panic stricken,,, what if I tried to give it back and they said they didnt get it so I hired a attorney.. and i said I will Tom, What How fuse blown do you have to be to not considershipping Fed Ex overnight or eventwo dayinsured, signature required upondelivery. Furtherin the utterly remote chance it would have been lost, you had a contract specifying amount to be paid upon arrival which would have satisfied FED EX insurance..you hired an attorney? You engaged this site for suggestions and input and then when you were pointed the right direction youpiss it away on attorney nonsense? I am angry and it wasn't even my deal. Further, I got over 3 times what you netted selling an Oscar replica prop on EBAY two months ago. Well hope you had fun. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Framing The French Double Panel.
Tom, Your framer is wimping out. What you are asking them to do is simple remount this piece of canvas probably 66" x 97"onto a wood frame that has been structurally enhanced with additional support, 1" x 2" slats angled from connecting top of frame to the sides of frames. Also metal L joints, the kind used to support book shelves are to be screwed into all 4 inside corners.Then using the extra canvas surrounding poster is carefully folded over frame and stapled but not excessively taught. That will hold in check rippling. Outer ornamental frame is then measured carefully to receive inner frame. That means it has to be a thickness to accommodate the plexiglass and innerframe. Outer frame then is screwed to inner frame using two hole metal connectors when 2 panel liesface down onfloor protectedby a movingblanket or carpet remnant. With the fortified inner frame connected to outer frame two people should be able to carry on its side the framed 2 panel with a minimum of bowing. Use 150 pound test eyelets two on each side one on top of the other measured from top frame 15" and 17" down. Then screw hooks exactly where you want picture to hang on wall again two on each side equal distance apart as they are on back of frame and hook them onto the eyelets. This isn't rocket science but it is awkward to handle due to size and requires exact measurements. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Shipping Nightmare
Doug that sucks. For two pieces to have made it through 60 plus years only to have some nimrod feel the mail service was handled by a butterfly's wings is just outrageous. I would neg him. Reminds me of my two disasters. First was paying a fortune for a mint vinyl Jawa (Star Wars collectors know the small figure I am referencing where an extremely limited amount were made with a vinyl cape in lieu of wool which proved far more durable) and it was shipped with zero packing simply stuck in a white business envelope. The other was a guy shipped me the only known halfsheet style B from the original release of THE WOMEN without taking it out of its metal frame and regular glass plane. Heplaced halfsheet in a box with several inches to spare on all sides with only one paper dinner napkin taped overtwo-thirds of the glass and nothing else. Shattered glass simply rocked back and forth across the three stars faces from Durham to LA. I was so pissed off I shipped the broken glass back to him hoping he would cut himself. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] To Sell Oscar Or Not To Sell Or Donate
Freeman here, As Tom knows I was investigating his Oscar for several weeks as to its authenticity and market value for a very motivated client. While there are still some questions I have about the piece that could have only been satisfied having the piece in hand for a thorough examination, something he curiously would not allow nor would hestand behindits authenticity with a money back guarantee if on the very slim chance it was evaluated as something less than authentic. That wasn't really the deal breaker but certainly contributed to my client bowing out. The other overridingissue was the lack of a base plate. No one I or my client talked to in great detailfelt there was any tangible value anywhere near the ten thousand dollar price for theworld famous statuette. So donating to the Academy would certainly be a magnanimous gesture, but I certainly would pursue some advantage with taxes.But that might prove a tricky deduction as you can only deduct dollar amount paid over its recognized price which I believe is less than $700. To ascertain an appraised value would be to have it evaluated by a licensed appraiser in such matters but again that would require sending the piece most likely here to LA. And after numerouspersuasive and earnest emails I could not get that to happen. Nevertheless my opinion of Tom was raised to the highest notch as he gave new meaning to the word "intransigent". freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Anniversary
Well of course it would be eleventhat's because Scott your site ranks one more notch above a perfect ten. Thanks for all the patience, dedication and clarity in your management. To eleven more just like'm. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] A Scam? Please Weigh In
freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] From walter reuben
hello I got this email a few days ago sent via the ebay system. It was about the title card which I currently have listed in an ebay store with a buy it now price of $1,000. Dear Walter are you aware there is another seller on ebay selling this card with a buy it now price of $695 their name is jessie_cat807 and are registered in Canada but are shipping from SanFrancisco i was just looking at their full scan and despite them saying it is better than yours they appear to have taken your scan and used it on their site if you look closely there are a couple of marks on your card that would not be on anybody elses a little dot above the G in nothing the bottom left hand corner and 2 thirds up the left hand border i doubt they even have the card or why else would they use your scan yours most sincerely I had a lot of other things on my mind when I got this a few days ago and only thought to check it out just now. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=2321item=7592162855 You will notice that the seller claims to have "bought this about three years ago from a Heritage auction." I went and looked at the Heritage online sales realized list. They never listed the title card separately, and, the one time they sold an incomplete set of the cards, which included the title card, I bought it, in 2005. The only other time Heritage sold cards from this film, they sold the British lobby set, which looks nothing like this American lobby card. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] For Sale Exclusive To MOPO'ers ORIGINAL SHAW BROS. CLASSIC POSTERS
I just obtained four authentic rolled posters from a relation of Sir Run Run Shaw literally hand carried aboard a flight from HONG KONG As you know he and his brother formed Shaw Brothers Releasing and were responsible for the production of some 200 Kung Fu films of which a handful have ascended into cult statusand influenced many a director, cinematographer and writer, the most notable beingQuentin Tarantino.As these pieces require a knowledge and appreciation most likely not found on Ebay, I thought I would give the learned assembly of MOPO first opportunity to these rare pieces. 1. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN '71 $550 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1139373345575_36thChamberOfShaolin.jpg 2. THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARMS '79 $400 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1141975755027_KidWithTheGoldenArms.jpg 3. EXECUTIONERS OF SHAOLIN'77 $500 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1140037611539_ExecutionersFromShaolin.jpg 4. BOXER FROM SHANTUNG'72$450 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1140183247468_BoxerFromShantung.jpg Kill Bill Volumes 1 2 have scenes heavily influenced from the above 4 films. In the film notesof bothDVDs, Tarantino refers to Shaw Brothers Films on several occasions and specifically titles 1 3. Further title #4 BOXER FROM SHANTUNG which by the way the assistant director was none other than John Woo, starred Gordon Liu. In Kill Bill II Liuplaysthe characterPai Mei, a character that was introduced in Boxer From Shangtung a remarkablebit of stunt casting. Anyway posters are authentic, have been stored away for nearly 25 years and are mint. Price includes shipping to anywhere in the world and available on a first emailed first served basis. The prices may seem arresting but there is scant supply of these titles in circulation presently and in mint, rolled condition quite impossible. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] 3D Collection the price
Yikes, I forgot to put price on collection For the lobby cards asking $500 or best offer. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] For Sale Collection OF 3-D Title and Lobby Cards Exclusive To Mopoers
I know there are Mopo'ers that collect 3-D paper or have an interest in the genre based on past postings. To those and anyone else that would be so motivated read on. I have a collection of title cards and scene cards from a variety of genres that glommed onto the 3-D craze that was over almost before it began in the 50's. This collection isvirtually all from 1953. I want to sell the entire collection in total. Below is a list, condition and price for total collection. Now all from 1953 and all have banners, star bursts or some kind of studio printed 3D slug and know all NSS numbers all end in 3D. Some 30 cards total $ IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE TC paperbacked for repairs scattered throughout two sides of bordernow looks great BWANA DEVILVery Fine title cardsmall pinholes glues residue on 3D (minor) MAN IN THE DARK Edmond Obrien mint TC STRANGER WORE A GUN Randolph Scott Mint TC ARENA Two title cards, one mint another paperbacked THE FRENCH LINE Jane Russell Heading has JR in 3D huge Three lobby cards in Mint condition FLIGHT TO TANGIER Joan Fontaine NMInt TC SECOND CHANCE Robert Mitchum Two lobbie Good Condtion MISS SADIE THOMPSON Rita Hayworth 2 SCs Very Fine THE GLASS WEB Edward G Robinson Nmint TC MICKEY SPILLANE'S I THE JURY '53 Full set of lobby cards title card is a bit on the showing wear side most of scene cards excellent. THE CHARGE AT FEATHERRIVER '53 Guy MadisonFull Set oflobby cards 1-8in VeryFine conditionplus 3extra cards 1,2 and4 GUN FURY '53 Rock Hudson,Donna Reed TC fair condition chip in upper right corner light wear. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Framed Larger Posters - Warping Can Be An Aesthetic Bitch
Tom and gang, My experience is consistent with your comments. I had a 2 panelFrench Lawrence De Arabie (63" x 94") and initially it was really a buckler which drove me nuts. The framer came back out to my house, and putting in both leaves into my dining table and clamping plexi-glass on one end I was able to create a workspace to handle the size of the poster. we basically trimmed more of the linen at top and bottom for it appeared the buckling was more a quotient of poster creating more slack from hanging vertically and possibly moisture in the air, rare in LA but this was January a rainy season...thus buckling as it had no room to stretch its legs. We staple gunned very evenlyonto the linen as closely to the actual paper tightly along top of inner frame - that'sthe support inter-frame that reinforces the outer, decorative frame due to theweight of the plexi-glass. Then only lightly pulling canvas to bottom of inter-frame to allow for shrinkage in warmer months. It worked great but I think if I had attempted this in Summer I would have had more sag or warp in winter as poster relaxes due to moisture. Theabove was my firstproblem experiencing this with large paper. I nowhave a slightly different approach whenframing such posters, especially 6 sheets. My clients do not want sagging. So now I assist a framer I use regularly and we wrap poster around an interframe with excess linenas if re-stretching a canvas.The paper usually isjust short of flush with edge of inter frame. I was worried that in drier monthsthat poster could split if temp variations caused to shrink too tightly. So when stapling linen to frame, we now staple all four sides witha slightly relaxed stretch that allows for some give and take due to environment changes. Of course many installations are in homes or buildings with very regulated temperatures. However I still do the same as heat would cause subtle tightening. This has worked out great thus far. Noscreaming calls of terror with a poster splitting from being stretched to tightly...if that even ever happens. The trick is to staple with very little space in between each. For example I counted the number of staples used in one of my last installations and it was close to 300. Admittedly its a bitch when switching out 6 sheetsor 4 foglioswhen client wants to rotate out a poster. Pulling every one of the staples out carefully so as to not shred or tear excess linen so it can be hung again later is agonizingly TEDIOUS and hell on the forearm. But its a service call and it adds to cash flow and great one on one client interaction. Your rippling though is not necessarily exclusive to large paper. A onesheet can demonstrate similar traits...and that can be a function of linenbacker cutting poster out of its original stretched rack while not 100% dry. If still slightly holding moisture and cut out early, as it dries, poster will undulate when laid flat due to cotton backing drying with no tension to its four sides. That is why whenever I am in receipt of poster freshly linen backed I lay in my flat-files with 4 large heavy Italian tiles wrapped in heavy plastic to protect from scratching surfaces and place all four two across and two down all but covering entire stack of one sheets for about a week. Occasional warping hasn't been an issue since coupled with reminders to linenbacking studio to not cut out a poster before its time. For French posters I lay in between to equally sized sheets of plexi-glass and weight down with heavy books. Overly cautious, maybe but it avoids problems down the line. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Re Does MOPO Need Fixing?
Scott, The site is completely satisfying from where I sit. I think the occasional tangents are on the whole welcome and in general stay pretty well in check ormembers doindeed call FLAG ON THE PLAY and discussion halts rather abruptly. JR isn't the only one, there are others, myself included who prefer to cautiondirectly to the posting member. Scott,I feel mostpeople who have remained onMopo as this subject has been covered many times before think open questions regarding political, religious and lifestyle topics are inappropriate.. But using Brokeback as an example most observationsin the past days and weeks were okay until the recentopen endedand obvious answer of theChad Allen casting in a Christian filmcausing fringe religious group objections. THE BROKEBACKMOUNTAIN dialogue and observationssimply mirrored the phenomenon many print and broadcast outlets are evaluating, with discussion of demographics,marketing and the like..and because of it, you can bet there were at least a dozen dealers who proceeded to stock up on the film's poster because of the participation and thoughtful observations by so manyon MOPO, realizingit would not be a stretch to say its a subject among the poster cognoscenti outside as well. And that means poster sales. I recently submitted the Joan Crawford video mega-mix link. Its a tangent that I felt a majority would get a kick out of. I would therefore hate to see MOPO so straight jacketed as tohave such amusements leached out completely. Scott carry on and thank you very much to boot. I have had probably more luck and success than anyone selling posters directlyon MOPO. At last count it was over 20 grand in 3 years..yet only14posters total. So again thank you. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] ARTICLE IN NY TIMES REGARDING EBAY , FAKES SOLD AND TIFFANY'S SUIT
January 29, 2006 Seeing Fakes, Angry Traders Confront EBay By KATIE HAFNER SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 — A year ago Jacqui Rogers, a retiree in southern Oregon who dabbles in vintage costume jewelry, went on eBay and bought 10 butterfly brooches made by Weiss, a well-known maker of high-quality costume jewelry in the 1950's and 1960's. At first, Ms. Rogers thought she had snagged a great deal. But when the jewelry arrived from a seller in Rhode Island, her well-trained eye told her that all of the pieces were knockoffs. Even though Ms. Rogers received a refund after she confronted the seller, eBay refused to remove hundreds of listings for identical "Weiss" pieces. It said it had no responsibility for the fakes because it was nothing more than a marketplace that links buyers and sellers. That very stance — the heart of eBay's business model — is now being challenged by eBay users like Ms. Rogers who notify other unsuspecting buyers of fakes on the site. And it is being tested by a jewelry seller with far greater resources than Ms. Rogers: Tiffany Company, which has sued eBay for facilitating the trade of counterfeit Tiffany items on the site. If Tiffany wins its case, not only would other lawsuits follow, but eBay's very business model would be threatened because it would be nearly impossible for the company to police a site that now has 180 million members and 60 million items for sale at any one time. Of course, fakes are sold everywhere, but the anonymity and reach of the Internet makes it perfect for selling knockoffs. And eBay, the biggest online marketplace, is the center of a new universe of counterfeit with virtually no policing. EBay, based in San Jose, Calif., argues that it has no obligation to investigate counterfeiting claims unless the complaint comes from a "rights owner," a party holding a trademark or copyright. A mere buyer who believes an item is a fake has almost no recourse. "We never take possession of the goods sold through eBay, and we don't have any expertise," said Hani Durzy, an eBay spokesman. "We're not clothing experts. We're not car experts, and we're not jewelry experts. We're experts at building a marketplace and bringing buyers and sellers together." Company officials say they do everything they can to stop fraud. The company says only a minute share of the items being sold at any given time — 6,000 or so — are fraudulent. But that estimate reflects only cases that are determined by eBay to be confirmed cases of fraud, like when an item is never delivered. Experienced eBay users say that the fraud goes well beyond eBay's official numbers, and that counterfeiters easily pass off fakes in hundreds of categories. "EBay makes a lot of money from a lot of small unhappy transactions," said Ina Steiner, the editor and publisher of AuctionBytes.com, an online newsletter. "If you've lost a few thousand dollars, you might go the extra mile to recover it. But if you've lost $50 or $20 you may never be able to prove your case, and in the meantime eBay has gotten the listing fee and the closing fee on that transaction." The Tiffany lawsuit, in addition to accusing eBay of facilitating counterfeiting, also contends that it "charges hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees" for counterfeit sales. In 2004, Tiffany secretly purchased about 200 items from eBay in its investigation of how the company was dealing with the thousands of pieces of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry. The jeweler found that three out of four pieces were fakes. The case will go to trial by the end of this year, said James B. Swire, an attorney with Arnold Porter, a law firm representing Tiffany. The legal question — whether eBay is a facilitator of fraud — is a critical issue that could affect not only eBay's future but Internet commerce generally, said Thomas Hemnes, a lawyer in Boston who specializes in intellectual property. "If eBay lost, or even if they settled and word got out that they settled, it would mean they would have to begin policing things sold over eBay, which would directly affect their business model," Mr. Hemnes said. "The cost implied is tremendous." But eBay members like Ms. Rogers have little desire to wait for court decisions; they say that the uncontrolled flood of fakes is driving down the value of the authentic goods. For the past few months, Ms. Rogers and three women she met on eBay who are also costume jewelry buffs have banded together to track the swindlers they say are operating in their jewelry sector. "People have faith that eBay will take care of them, but it doesn't," Ms. Rogers said. "EBay has done nothing." Carrie Pollack, who sells jewelry from her home in Sudbury, Mass., and is part of Ms. Rogers's group, said an authentic Weiss brooch of good quality could command $150. But she said the profusion of counterfeits had confused the market and diluted the value of such a pin to as
[MOPO] HELP ON HONDO ONE SHEET
Guys, Need some informational assistance onthe JohnWayneHONDO onesheet. I have a HONDO onesheet with the 3D banner across the bottom of poster, then just below it the usual credit block etc. But there is no copy write information or the NSS numbers usually found in far right corner. I have an extremely annoyed client so there is some urgency here. I thought it strange, but I checked my onesheet against Bruce Hershenson's JULY 2004 publicationof JOHN WAYNE POSTERS AUCTION and he dedicates a full page to that onesheet. It is clearly obvious his onesheet likewise does not have that information as well. However in checking Heritage's database, they have HONDO, exactly as mine and the one featured in Bruce's catalogue with respect to 3-D and there's does have the fine small print. Is there any explanation as to why there might be this discrepancy? Right now my client is returning the onesheet because he is unmoved by merely Bruce H's catalogue image and admittedly I might be curious as to this unusual contradiction. Any input appreciated. Thanks in advance. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] BEST MOVIE POSTER IN COLLECTION
Actually I am pleased how the comments have gone because they have nothing to do with value, but more an inexplicable attraction to a piece and no matter howmany truly great pieces that have come and gone whether in "inventory" or "collection"you can't bring yourself to part with it. Mine like Rick's may also have something to do with its scarcity, knowing you are in possession of something no one in the world likely owns.I have such a piece however I do know of one other but that is fine, the owneris supposedly dead even though he keeps bidding and selling on Ebay which only adds to the tilt. Its a lost 1912 Italian production of HOMER'S ODYSSEY and this is the US half sheet sized poster, a Morgan stone litho that has to be seen to be believed its soloopy. So be my guest..swipe copy and paste into your URL. http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1139821164512_Homer_sOdyssey.jpg freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Letterman's Top 10 Reasons: HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE A GAY COWBOY
NOT STARTING ANOTHER THREAD BUT: these are pretty funny 10. Your saddle is Versace. 9. Instead of Home on the Range, you sing It's Raining Men 8. You enjoy ridin', ropin' and redecoratin'. 7. Sold your livestock to buy tickets to Mamma Mia! 6. After watching reruns of Gunsmoke, you have to take a cold shower. 5. Native Americans refer to you as Dances With Men. 4. You've been lassoed more times than most steers. 3. You're wearing chaps, yet your "ranch" is in Chelsea. 2. Instead of a saloon, you prefer a salon. 1. You love riding, but you don't have a horse. Years ago I had changed the lyrics of Willie's great song MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS to MY COWBOYS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HOMOS. I'd sing a few bars but it probably would have the list running for the exits... On a business note I willbe participating for the very first time as a seller at a poster show joining such Mopo'ers as Dan Strebin, Rich Halequa, Ray Ruggeri, Bob Di Pietro and other superstars of the bizSo if attending the Courts show this Fri and Sat come find me...I'll have available a veritable plethora of Hollywood ephemeraincluding original release onesheets WOMAN OF THE YEAR, PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL, ON THE WATERFRONT, COPPOLA SIGNED GODFATHER 2 AND APOCALYPSE NOW, HESTON SIGNED 10 COMMANDMENTS, BEYOND BENGAL,as well as a 40 x 60VIVA ZAPATA, SHADOWOF A DOUBT DEAD OF NIGHT 3 SHEET,as well as someswell looking French posters and a ton of premierelobby cards as well asa file of 10.00 lobby cards and $10 posters mostly from the 40's and 50's of titles you have never heard of!!!To resist is futile! Come by and say Howdy freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FS NINE CHARLIE CHAN ONE SHEETS
A Mopo Exclusive ( and any others forwarded this email) CHARLIE CHAN posters are like Chinese Food. After purchasing one you're hungry for another in a mere fewhours it'strue, I read it in an articlein Learn About Movie Posters. Well then obviously a solution would be to serveup a veritable banquet of onesheets. Offeringa total of 9 Charlie Chan Posters three starring Sidney Toler andallsix of Roland Winters'. The onsheets were all in very fine condition prior to their expert linen backing to address any touch ups to fold lines and optimize their appeal when displaying. I am preferring to sell these in one lot. Prior to this offer I had enlisted MOPO's resident Chan expert,the oft imitated but never equaled, Claude Litton, to impart his opinion on the collection. Obviously Warner Oland Chan's are the most in demand.Wellokay that's a given. But he did mention that the collection did include posters withseveralfeaturing images of black co-star Mantan Moreland that can significantly increase theirdemand. In particular he singled out the onesheet for Black Magic which accounts on its own forjust lessthan a thirdof the asking price for the entire collection, aprice he felt was exactly right. Also with regards to the last two Winters' Chans, Key Luke returned to play number one son a role he originated from the Oland Chansbut in life, Luke playing Winters' son was actually older. That may actually trump Ava Gardner playing Loren Green's daughter in EARTHQUAKE.but I digress. ALL NINE ONESHEETS . $3500 Shipping is $40 within the Continental US and abroad is close to $100. The posters each have their own individual link below SIDNEY TOLER AS CHAN BLACK MAGIC (1944) - Sidney Toler,Mantan Moreland retitled MEETING AT MIDNIGHT which remains to date for why I can only guess due to Orson Welles' film of the same title. http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1137956542275_chanBlackMagic1sht.jpg THE TRAP (1946)- Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1138841662524_chanTheTrap1sht.jpg DANGEROUS MONEY (1946) Sidney Toler http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1139141042632_chanDangerousMoney.jpg ROLAND WINTERS AS CHAN THE CHINESE RING (1947) Winters, Moreland http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1137341293551_chanChineseRing.jpg DOCKS OF NEW ORLEANS (1948) Winters, Moreland http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1135013548444_chanDocksNewOrleans.jpg THE SHANGHAI CHEST(1948)Winters, Moreland http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1138090548780_chanShanghaiChest.jpg THE GOLDEN EYE (1948) Winters, Moreland http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1135986897326_chanTheGoldenEye.jpg THE FEATHERED SERPENT (1948) Winters, Moreland, Key Luke http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1139102628611_chanFeatheredSerpent.jpeg . THE SKY DRAGON (1949) Winters, Moreland, Key Luke http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1136280276348_chanSkyDragon.jpg LET ME KNOW IF INTERESTED. FOR DEALERS THIS IS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STOCK INVENTORY OF A SCARCEFILM GENRE WHOSE APPEAL IS INCREASING WITH COLLECTORS TO BE SURE. BUT ALSO HIPSTER ASIAN AMERICANS WHO APPRECIATE THE FOOTNOTE AND CONTRADICTIONS IN AMERICAN CULTURE THESE FILM'S REPRESENT. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Kickback Mountain
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHa but it took me a while, I had a Delay'd reaction freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Article In NY TIMES Regarding Poster Design Hey And Happy New Year Friends
January 1, 2006 Not Just Another Half-Dozen Pretty, Floating Faces By CHRISTIAN MOERK SINCE the dawn of film marketing, studios have relied on posters featuring "floating heads": as many movie star faces as can be crammed onto a single page. In 1927, for instance, state-of-the-art ads for "The Jazz Singer" featured two disembodied Al Jolson heads - one in blackface, one without makeup. Since then floating heads have become an industry cliché: the formula that once guaranteed success is now so ubiquitous that posters in that vein are nearly invisible. So what does it take to get noticed some 80 years later, especially when you're selling yet another horror film, without the luxury of big stars? Surprisingly, the answer may be fine art. Tim Palen, the executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Lionsgate - the company responsible for the gory "Saw" movies - was recently looking for a fresh campaign to introduce "Hostel," a slasher film that is to open on Jan. 6. Directed by Eli Roth, it is about a group of gullible and horny American males who find themselves in a Slovakian hostel, where promises of easy sex turn to gruesome snuff. Mr. Palen said he figured that a poster with mangled bodies wouldn't do the trick. So he dropped by the airy, tastefully decorated Chelsea studio of the Australian photographer Mark Kessell. A soft-spoken former physician who practiced medicine in Sydney for what he calls "several unsatisfying years," Mr. Kessell, 49, now takes pictures of things he's fully aware the larger public may not appreciate. One collection of daguerreotypes, "Perfect Specimens," shows the human body in its physical extremes; there are several shots of fetuses and old people near death. But it was Mr. Kessell's "Florilegium" (or "collection of floral images") daguerrotypes that caught Mr. Palen's eye: each image is close-up of a surgical instrument, so poetically rendered that it seems almost organic. Some of the macabre implements resemble exotic flowers. One, from a distance, could be mistaken for the horns of a gazelle. "We were sort of blocked, and all the pieces fell into place once I saw that image," Mr. Palen explained. A deal was made to use that daguerreotype, which actually shows a surgical clamp. It now appears in theaters and on widespread promotions. (Billboards for "Hostel" rely on a more conventional image of a masked tormentor with a chain saw, which, a Lionsgate spokeswoman explained, translated more easily to the horizontal format.) Mr. Kessell may seem an unlikely choice to sell unapologetic horror to a large youth audience; he has no interest whatever in popular culture. Over tea in his loft, the elegantly dressed Mr. Kessell confessed to not having seen "Hostel" or, indeed, to remembering the last film he had seen. "It may have been 'Dogville,' " he finally allowed. With a grin, he said that in selling his work to Lionsgate, "I am prostituting myself." But he added: "The money has to come from somewhere." And, he said, that money would be poured right back into an art project. In the process, his work is placed before an audience of millions. "I have a lot of trouble as an artist getting people to either look at my work or know my name," said Mr. Kessell, who generally finds that his pictures repel as much as they fascinate, much like the horror genre. "I'm interested in what makes us human," he said, "what makes our sex drive and the drive to violence the way they are. And what happens at the other end when we die." Bill Sienkiewicz, an illustrator, writer and director who has worked on movie posters for more than 20 years, said the tide was turning toward more provocative designs. "If there are any floating heads, it will have to be a decapitation," he said by telephone from his studio in Stamford, Conn., where he was working on a poster for the horror movie "Evil Aliens." Mr. Sienkiewicz, whose work has included posters for Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" and "The Green Mile" starring Tom Hanks, pointed out that some classic posters, like the one for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," found a more artful way to use actors' faces. "It had headshots," Mr. Sienkiewicz said of the "Apocalypse" poster. "But it also had the ambience and the heat of the jungle, and the levels of desperation. There was lots of information in the poster that set the tone. You don't see that today." Universal Pictures' president for marketing, Adam Fogelson, agrees that a saturated marketplace has forced everyone to think differently about poster ad campaigns. "I would say that there is a mistake in equating artistic with distinct," he said, citing Lionsgate's creative use of two strategically hacked-off fingers to sell its "Saw" sequel as a good example of an approach that managed to do both. "Making something different or artistic for its own sake is not the answer I advocate. I am not in the business of creating art, I am
[MOPO] Shipping Charges Increasing
Actually, prices have already been increased with both UPS and Fed Ex for when you scan receipts, there usually is a charge that says "fuel tariff or surcharge" that is usually 3-4% of the total. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] A Talented and Familiar Character Actor Passes Away
LOS ANGELES (Nov. 25) - Actor Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73. Morita died Thursday at his home in Las Vegas of natural causes, said his wife of 12 years, Evelyn. She said in a statement that her husband, who first rose to fame with a role on "Happy Days," had "dedicated his entire life to acting and comedy." In 1984, he appeared in the role that would define his career and spawn countless affectionate imitations. As Kesuke Miyagi, the mentor to Ralph Macchio's "Daniel-san," he taught karate while trying to catch flies with chopsticks and offering such advice as "wax on, wax off" to guide Daniel through chores to improve his skills. Morita said in a 1986 interview with The Associated Press he was billed as Noriyuki "Pat" Morita in the film because producer Jerry Weintraub wanted him to sound more ethnic. He said he used the billing because it was "the only name my parents gave me." He lost the 1984 best supporting actor award to Haing S. Ngor, who appeared in "The Killing Fields." For years, Morita played small and sometimes demeaning roles in such films as "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and TV series such as "The Odd Couple" and "Green Acres." His first breakthrough came with "Happy Days," and he followed with his own brief series, "Mr. T and Tina." "The Karate Kid," led to three sequels, the last of which, 1994's "The Next Karate Kid," paired him with a young Hilary Swank. Morita was prolific outside of the "Karate Kid" series as well, appearing in "Honeymoon in Vegas," "Spy Hard," "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "The Center of the World." He also provided the voice for a character in the Disney movie "Mulan" in 1998. Born in northern California on June 28, 1932, the son of migrant fruit pickers, Morita spent most of his early years in the hospital with spinal tuberculosis. He later recovered only to be sent to a Japanese-American internment camp in Arizona during World War II. "One day I was an invalid," he recalled in a 1989 AP interview. "The next day I was public enemy No. 1 being escorted to an internment camp by an FBI agent wearing a piece." After the war, Morita's family tried to repair their finances by operating a Sacramento restaurant. It was there that Morita first tried his comedy on patrons. Because prospects for a Japanese-American standup comic seemed poor, Morita found steady work in computers at Aerojet General. But at age 30 he entered show business full time. "Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did," he commented. "If I tried it in Japan before the war, it would have been considered blasphemy, and I would have ended in leg irons. " Morita is survived by his wife and three daughters fr freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] FS: HOLMES IN WASHINGTON DC I MARRIED A WITCH
HEY MOPO'ers. Pleased to give you guys first pass ontwo scarce one sheets from the early 40's -1943 and 1942 to be exact SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON and I MARRIED A WITCH Both are consignments(different owners as well)so I haven't wiggle room like usual but all offers considered.However with a little evaluation Ithink you'll agree the asking prices arevery fair AND INCLUDES SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE CONTINENTAL US AND A FLAT $25 ABOAD.Holmes I have only seen offered twice in 5 years and this is one of the two. Its how I first met the inimitable Claude Litton who promptly emailed me after prevailing overan avalanche of snipessome 4 or 5 years ago and congratulated me. A victory made even more satisfying. And a gentleman whose memory I would caution anyone to challenge, he can certainly attest that the asking price including a de-mount and linenbacking by Poster Mountain is very, very close to break even. Onesheet is in very fine condition, displays even better, and has had minor touch ups to fold lines primarily where vertical and horizontal folds meet at center half way down the poster atthe center (or second)horizontal fold lineas well as the thirdhorizontal fold line. This amounted to filling in at the cross foldsthe diameter of an eraser on the end of a #2 pencil. SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON $1375 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1132095239642_SherlockHolmes1sht.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1133006521805_SherlockHolmes1sht2.jpg Veronica Lake has demonstrated astonishing escalation in value with prices realized on titles as diverse as Sullivan's Travels, The Glass Key, This Gun For Hire and The Blue Dahlia. But I MARRIED A WITCH is truly in demand by virtue of Miss Lake alone. This onesheet is in fine condition as is but I would definitely have demounted and re-linenbacked for one reason, and that is to brighten the paper. It has toning throughout then againthat only serves to demonstrate just how vibrant the colors are. imagine the overall leap in appearance with the power of non-invasive scrubbing bubbles and whitening agents do their trick. A onesheet sold at Heritage two weeks ago for $4200 AND IT WAS TRIMMED one half inch on top and bottom measuring 27x40. All paper is present on this one offered with pin holes in the corners, crudely filled in and touched up. The fold lines tight with no enhancements. Poster for some is perfectly acceptableas is.Butfor a couple of hundred dollars, remounting would prove bewitching and still fall well below the price ofthe trimmed1sht at Heritage I MARRIED A WITCH $3550 http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1132328124639_MarriedWitch1sht.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1131852055784_MarriedWitch1sht2.jpg http://images.andale.com/f2/103/113/1705198/1134404592548_MarriedWitch1sht3.jpg Let me know, a simple email, first in first out gets you a great rare poster from the 40's. I think RARE qualifies here yes? freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Can The Guys Who Might Know Weigh In An Opinion Please
Hey Guys, Freeman here, Bruce The H has a French I MARRIED A WITCH endingTues that a client of mine is interested in. Its # 7551820217 or the below URL http://cgi.ebay.com/m079-I-MARRIED-A-WITCH-linen-French-1p42-Veronica-Lake_W0QQitemZ7551820217QQcategoryZ60347QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Is the lower image of Lake's face some Cubist interpretation or is it a misprinting, possibly even a stain? I mean obvious the piece needs help but taking on her face would be difficult even for the most experienced restorer and my client was just wondering... Thanks freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Thanks For Everyone Chiming In On Witch
Telling her to move her black magic ass outta here. And take the broom too. freeman fisher8601 west knoll drive #7west hollywood, ca90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Bid History
...maybe its from a bidder who stutters..? freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Off Kilter Off Subject
SO JUST WHAT IS BUSH'S POSITION ON ROE VS WADE? He doesn't care how the poor leave Louisiana freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] That's The Best Blog I Have Read Of Any Source
Sue, Thanks for sharing. The steps and frustration, the highs and the lows, are valuable when as FEMA states all of us are to have evacuation and emergency plans where ever we live.And these details of time wasted, communication meltdown, and chaos at the most basic level cannot be swept aside as inconvenience for in that time hundreds perished. Every step has to be considered. ..I can't imagine LA during a fullevacuation.its beyond the pale of reality. When the Rodney King Fires hit I had to get visiting execs with Cineplex Odeon out to the airport within a very narrow window and all involved still talk about my Hell Hath No Fury Like Freeman behind the wheel of a rented Mini Coach...did you know they can tread fairly large bodies ofwater? That was Fridayso Saturday a migration of WASPS went to beach locations south that was almost nine hourswe are toast when the category 4, 6.2 on the Richter, 440,000 acres blazing "conflumaquake" hits. I hope a Democrat is in the Big office,otherwise I can just hear Hystart in the distance saying I can't see rebuilding, wasn't it all make believe anyway? and Rush Limbaugh in a fit of religious zealotry cheering that Sodom and Gommorrah have finally been smite by the hammer of God...and promptly assumes the role to rebuild Fox Broadcasting. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] My Gosh For Once None Of The Honorees Have One Foot In The Grave
Kennedy Center Honors ROBERT REDFORD TINA TURNER TONY BENNETT JULIE HARRIS SUZANNE FARRELL (Balanchine's prima ballerina) Condi Rice will be hosting as George Jr was only just made aware that none of them bowled. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Cinecon poster auction results?
Hollywood Poster Auction 2005 By chance I was interested in items in the first 50 lots and then in the last 25. So I submitted bids on the site and timed appearing in person for the last of auction. I will have to say there were more people in attendance than I can recall from prior auctions. Morris and his wife were in seemingly great spirits. Always the perfect hosts with warm greetings and supremely efficient operations with regard to check in and check out. I am to understand Clara Bow's "IT" onesheet hit $21,000.00 and I was present for the 1936 onesheet of Katherine Hepburn's A WOMAN REBELS which I have NEVER heard of until this auction but what a striking one sheet...itclosed at6 grand. Otherwise this has always been an auction that initially has a considerable amount of passes. But that doesn't necessarily reflect its overall success, for the next day one has an opportunity to purchase items passed at their reserve price and its amazing the amount of material that moves. It makes sense. If by chance there were items you might haveconsidered but held off from bidding as you had your eye on pieces being offered later only to lose, monies budgeted can still do their magic. So today I am sure they were hopping, but fortunately I nailed just about every piece I had my eyes on and went home last night with a big smile. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] I AM GOING TO SOMETHING SHOCKING IN LIEU OF POLITICS FLOOD......DANCING
Yes today we are serving DANCE okay Ralph B itssafe to come back, I promise from today's NY TIMES and indeed I have watched every film from this set except Barklys and they are swell. fwfisher September 2, 2005 Escaping Depression? Just Dance Blues Away By JOHN ROCKWELL Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made 10 musicals together, from "Flying Down to Rio" in 1933, when they didn't yet get star billing, to "The Barkleys of Broadway" in 1949, a full decade after the ninth and a kind of coda to the rest. At their peak, between 1935 and 1937, they were America's beloved couple. Their musicals offered the purest form of escape from the woes of the Depression, a fantasy of the 1920's seen through the darker prism of the 30's. They provided the opportunity to commission and inspire the country's great songwriters - Berlin, Kern, Gershwin. These films, these actors/singers/dancers, have since also inspired a small library of critical commentary, of which Arlene Croce's "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book," now lamentably out of print, remains the classiest. Still, any excuse to write about Astaire and Rogers is always welcome, and Warner Home Video has provided a dandy excuse. In Volume 1 of the "Astaire Rogers Collection," we have five DVD's of five Astaire-Rogers movies. Since there are five more, and this is billed as Volume 1, we can safely assume a Volume 2 is in the works, though Warner Brothers coyly won't confirm that. Still, these DVD's, in their crisp, vivid transfers with sometimes illuminating, sometimes tedious extras, include three of the films generally considered to be the best of their best: "Top Hat" (1935), "Swing Time" (1936) and "Shall We Dance" (1937), along with "Follow the Fleet" (1936). "Fleet" has its improbabilities (Astaire as a gum-chewing swab), but also "Let's Face the Music and Dance," which floats blissfully free of the plot and may count as their greatest self-contained dance drama. The Warner set is rounded out by "The Barkleys of Broadway," their only one in color and their only one not for RKO, in which the magic is pretty much gone but which is still full of craft and nostalgia and a plausibly witty mirroring of the popular image of their collaboration (onstage harmony, backstage dissonance). What made the Astaire-Rogers team great was talent, synergy and context. Rogers was already a budding movie star when Astaire did his first film in 1933. But he was long-established in vaudeville and on Broadway. When the Astaire-Rogers collaboration took off, Astaire and his dance master, Hermes Pan, laboriously worked out the dance numbers for the next film while Rogers was off making something else. Then Pan taught Rogers the moves, Astaire and Rogers danced, and America swooned. Astaire's sister, Adele, was widely considered his "best" partner, before her retirement into marriage, but Rogers clicked with the broader public through film, a simultaneously intimate and populist medium. It has been widely, endlessly repeated that, in terms of their images, Astaire brought her class and she brought him sex. She also brought him emotion and romance. Astaire was never an actor with a wide range; he looked like the Joker in "Batman" and always played the dapper sophisticate, nervously skimming the surface of feeling. Rogers, in turn, was never a classic screen beauty. But she glowed in the best of these Astaire-Rogers films. Partly that has to do with a seemingly unstoppable parade of gorgeous costumes, like those (ostrich? chicken?) feathers in "Cheek to Cheek." But her glow had even more to do with their chemistry. She could act; some of her reaction shots are really moving. But together, in their dancing (and his singing, thin-voiced but consummately stylish), they made a new kind of acting - dancing that was acting all by itself. Their dancing (meaning his choreography and their execution of it) was formal and reserved, like him. It was ballroom dancing mixed with swing and jazz and tap. But though some of the virtuosity remains remarkable, it was never vulgar and flashy like ballroom dancing today, at least as epitomized by reality TV shows like "Dancing With the Stars." The mid-30's was the era, after all, in which the Motion Picture Production Code had cracked down, to the point of prudery, on the more salacious excesses of Hollywood in the 20's and early 30's. There was never anything covert in the sexual play of Astaire and Rogers. Their dancing together was sex; it was romance. "Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance," Astaire once said. "We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in dance." For me, the magic in their relationship had as much or more to do with the lead-ins as with the dance itself; more with foreplay than consummation. Often the song itself, sung by one or the other or both, precedes the dance, as in "Cheek to Cheek" from "Top Hat." In "Let's Face
[MOPO] LIBERALS?
RALPH, Before you go I am curious to hear a conservative's positive outlook on the handling of the crisisjust curious. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] EBAY SCAM CONTINUES Fwd: eBay International Second Chance Offer In...
Just remember that official Ebay email has to be addressed to your NAME not ebay member or your email address or user ID. And besides, the text is so overly verbose its reads as if you were asking a Pakistani barrista how his family is doing back home.. in short order you realize where all the extra espresso goes and also at thatsame time you recall Jeffrey Jones line as the Emperor in AMADEUS, "there are simply too many notes". freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Who Would Best Fill Those Well Worn Shoes?
So who could be or should be and most importantly should not be? Best ChoiceFor New 007 Clive Owen Worst Choice For New 007 Jude Law To reincarnate Pussy Galore seems almost redundant butAnjeline Jolie could suck the chrome off an Envoy Denali and that's worth something What about a gay James Bond? Nonot the fizzy, singing dancing (though chances these would come naturally) straight swell of the thirties, I am talking about a sophisticated, edgy,devastating , dangerous, butt- wrangler in the service of her majesty The Queenany queen. Suggested Titles: DoctorOk Maybe From Russian River With Love Thunderballs Brownfinger (oops!out of bounds,sorry) You Only Shop Twice On His Majesty's Secret Tea Service Moonporker (well ooops again) Live and Lets Dance Diamonds Are For Sissies The Man With The GoldenPrince Albert A Kill With A Fabulous View The Living Daylights On A Dimmer Switch Onopussy freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] King Kong Documentary Is Actually One Of Mopo's Own
Well this may take a few by surprise.yes Peter Jackson is producing the DVD for King Kongbut that doesn't mean he is actually breaking a sweat.no that dubious honor falls on Mopo's own Ron Magid.. But please don't email him just yet, he is completely and totally swamped.He calls me and I swear I think he is nodding off when we talk...or at least more than usual. I will ask him to share this once in a life time experience once donebut I can answer why he was selected. he is thebastard of Fay Wray and the Big Monkey. Its why his arms drag the ground when he walks. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] TO OUR FRIENDS IN LONDON
Tony, Ali, Roy, Adrian, Don , Tim and other UK friends A collective heart-felt condolence to the despicable act of terror perpetrated on your fineCity especially after distinguishing yourselves in winning the Olympic Host City for 2012.Butmore to thepoint may you, your friends and loved ones stayout of harm's way in this world of ever growing threat by the madness of a few. Buy posters not bombs. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Trailer For That Big Guy
Maybe this will help for those that sell current onesheets on just how many to order.5 or 6 should do it. http://www.kingkongmovie.com/ef239524432ba87f1ca8f70eed4b1fa7/en_splash.html freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Voyage to the bottom of the Sea
In a message dated 6/18/2005 5:52:11 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on ebay at $24.95 big Italian beauty... someone wake me up is our hobby going to the 99 cent store? Please look at this poster here I dunno looks like some animal's weenie dragging in the water. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Charlie Chan's Dilemma! Assistance Please!
Dude, Never turn down freely given dollars, bird in hand and no bush in site. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] LINEN BACKING VS PAPER BACKING
JR, A fine article thanks.However you failed to address a significant practical stand point. Paper backing a half sheet, insert, or window cardindeed if done by a qualified studio or individual does indeed allow for the piece to be exhibited at its most optimum. However it is a rather fragile, acid-free hybrid you are left with. I am sure all of you have experienced that sick-in-your-stomach catastrophe when a paper backed piece literally cracks in your hands if handled brusquely or inadvertantly bending, dropping, framing orclosing a dooror hatch back on it. Literally its a fracture of the underlying cardboard supporting the layer of original paper being restored. This becomes quite an issue when having to ship a paper backed piece some distance. I have found it takes with respect to packing, no less than 6 sheets of cardboard to assure near gorilla- proof conditions for shipping. Conjointly, shipping expenses are higher due to dimensional weight over actual weight and now every shipper evaluates both costs and op for the higher price. Now chances are a linen backed half sheet or insert really can't be shipped rolled into a tube due to itsinflexibility in reducing to a 4 inch column. But the potential for damage is greatly reduced during shipping as linen can withstand a variety of stresses that is absolutely catastrophic if paper backed. Visualize what is required to ship a linen placemat versus a sheet of matzo the same sizeand you will understand my point.Many dealers have gone to the additional expense of precutting masonite to ship paper backed pieces. Trueposter will likely arrive intactbut due tothe significantweight of masonite as well asits price... costof shippingitem sky rockets by virtually triple. So who made the rules? Restoration studios? Possibly,because it is considerably more expensive topaper back a half sheet or insert than it is to linen back. But once framed I defy anyone to be able to tell the difference. Possibly its paper versus card stock, andpaper backing was deemed to be the avenue of restoration for cardstock. BUT IS THEIR ANY FACT BEHIND THOSE DECLARATIONS? I have seen and own numeroushalf sheets and inserts on linen and in my opinion there isn't enough perceived value of a paper backed item over the same piece on linen.Of course if Iowned a restoration studio I am sure I could come up with a list.But as a consumer and seller, in the all out pursuit of keeping expenses down, I would love to see a move to all linen all the timeonly when necessary. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] TIME MAGAZINE'S PICKS OF THE TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME
Hey Guys, Freeman here, Thought this might be of interest to all. Richard Corless and Richard Shickel in tomorrow's TIME select the top 100 films of all time. Here they are in alphabetical order: Browse by: By TitleBy ActorBy Date A - C Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972) The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1956, 1959) The Awful Truth (1937) Baby Face (1933) Bande à part (1964) Barry Lyndon (1975) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) Blade Runner (1982) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Brazil (1985) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Camille (1936) Casablanca (1942) Charade (1963) Children of Paradise (1945) Chinatown (1974) Chungking Express (1994) Citizen Kane (1941) City Lights (1931) City of God (2002) Closely Watched Trains (1966) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) The Crowd (1928)D - F Day for Night (1973) The Decalogue (1989) Detour (1945) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Dodsworth (1936) Double Indemnity (1944) Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to StopWorrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Drunken Master II (1994) E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 8 1/2 (1963) The 400 Blows (1959) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Finding Nemo (2003) The Fly (1986) G - J The Godfather, Parts I and II (1972, 1974) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Goodfellas (1990) A Hard Day's Night (1964) His Girl Friday (1940) Ikiru (1952) In A Lonely Place (1950) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) It's A Gift (1934) It's A Wonderful Life (1946)K - M Kandahar (2001) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) King Kong (1933) The Lady Eve (1941) The Last Command (1928) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Léolo (1992) The Lord of the Rings (2001-03) The Man With a Camera (1929) The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Metropolis (1927) Miller's Crossing (1990) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Mouchette (1967)N - P Nayakan (1987) Ninotchka (1939) Notorious (1946) Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938) On the Waterfront (1954) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Out of the Past (1947) Persona (1966) Pinocchio (1940) Psycho (1960) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Pyaasa (1957) Q - S Raging Bull (1980) Schindler's List (1993) The Searchers (1956) Sherlock, Jr. (1924) The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Singin' in the Rain (1952) The Singing Detective (1986) Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Some Like It Hot (1959) Star Wars (1977) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Sunrise (1927) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Swing Time (1936)T - Z Talk to Her (2002) Taxi Driver (1976) Tokyo Story (1953) A Touch of Zen (1971) Ugetsu (1953) Ulysses' Gaze (1995) Umberto D (1952) Unforgiven (1992) White Heat (1949) Wings of Desire (1987) Yojimbo (1961)Return to the ALL TIME 100 Movies Index Copyright©2005 Time Inc. All rights reserved.Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.Subscribe | Customer Service | Help | Site Map | Search | Contact UsPrivacy Policy | Terms of Use | Reprints Permissions | Press Releases | Media Kit freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Well You Can't Argue With Success, Gentleman Chan
Claude, and Mopo, Timing is everything and Michael (as do others) posted a 3 hour countdown. This actually works well for me as I rarely place bids with 5 or 6 days out and I never know what clients needs are from one day to the next. Well, I logged onto the computer with about 2 hours left in his auction after reading his posting.So I checked it out and low I found three great sci-fi posters allat that timeshowing$150 - $170 in bid totals that I could certainly haveused and placed bids of $135 - $175 more than were showing knowing I couldn't stick around when they closed for a snipe, and I was comfortable with where the net totals would be if I won them at max bid. ILOST all threeone only by two dollars the others by at least ahundred more. I can't state categorically thatMichael'sadmirable escalation of prices overallwere due to the three hours left posting.but I CAN say that was the case for three of them. MOPO is here to educate, notify of skank ebayers, talk film posters, and hopefully stimulate poster sales. Success comes in all manner of utilization. Spurring impromptu bidding was Michael's strategy and hell he got three from me. Who knows, he could have had an even cheaper Charlie Chan In Honolulu!!! It would have only taken a second to click and check. Respectfully freeman freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Cinevent Next Week .. Couldn't it be .....
anyone coming to Cinevent next week.. lets get a bunch of MoPo-itestogether for a couple drinks Well if it was just in a city with running water and Democrats it would make all the difference. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Valley Obscured by Obfuscate Claims
Okay ignoring Bruce as an issue any issue, how or where Gary is it determined that this particular piece is a repro? I say that because I happened to have overseen the marketing at The CINEMA III in NYC located in the basement of The Plaza which in its finalthree years where in fact itmade more money renting to the Plaza for meeting space than the films playing. But in its day when indeed specialized films played exclusively in one house for all of Manhattan. independents and at times some of the larger studios would create special runs of posters just for that market. Their primary use, wild-posting. Barbet Schroeder's trippy, excursion to Papau New Guinea with lots of pig clubbing (that's all I remember save for the bursts of laughter speckled through out audience at times uncontrollable,no doubt due tothe shrooms mixed in with their Snow Caps) opened in latespring of I thought '72 some have it as '77 anyway I have never heard this poster questioned especially in view of the fact it was printed. I still have several examples of onesheets that actually measure 27 x 43 or 44 where along top or bottom Coming Soon To The Baronet/Coronet, (Mommie Dearest) or ZIEGFELD (Barry Lyndon). To make the special printings affordable, it was actually more cost effective to print up a set standard amount which was I believe 1500 or 2500 so obviously hundreds could be left over.Case in point, while in DC and working for Circle Theatres and Circle Films.who were also the major partners behind CINEMA 5years earlier,I threw out at least 800 onesheets for THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, and hundreds of SEVEN BEAUTIES, JABBERWOCKY, GREASER'S PALACE AND f*ck merunning whoknew.. the black versions ofGIMME SHELTER. All had theatre ID's so not much use in sending anywhere else unless out of standard posters and we needed the closet space..o the horror. freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] Rock And Roll Ephemera
Saul The best in the country for RR concert posters,frequently mentioned as one of the founders of its escalation into gallery and collectible art pieces in several of the most respectedpublished reference books onthe topicis none other than MOPO's DebiJacobson at Limagerie Gallery in Studio City. She is the Big Kahuna Mama of all things RR paper and can set you on an informed path and sensible collecting choices at any price level. Contact her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
[MOPO] Eugene Hughes
Hey Mopo'ers, I am not sure where thedialogue ended on Eugene Hughes and his gross negligence in being forthright in either completing contracted linenbacking or returning items.ButI have friends at Folio Gallery in Santa Monica, Daniel Strebin and Roger Fenton,in this casethe list below belonging to Roger. Not onlydid he sendthese pieceswhileEugene wasin Texas, but regrettably he paid for their backing in advance. Anyway, if by chance a collection resembling below is offered to anyone on the list, could you please contact Roger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any information or any information where Eugene might be newly residing. Its a shame for anyone to take such a hit. I know any help would be appreciated. DEATH WISH 1974 Italian 39x55 posterGODFATHER 1972 41x81 posterGODFATHER 2 1974 U.S. 41x81 posterHIGH PLAINS DRIFTER 1973 French 47x63 posterMOMMIE DEAREST - 1980 French 47x63 posterSCARFACE 1950 French 47x63 poster SOME LIKE IT HOT - 1959 French 47x63 posterUNION PACIFIC - 1950's French 47x63 posterWHERE EAGLES DARE - 1968 French 47x63 posterWRECKING CREW - 1969 French 47x63 posterYOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - 1967 French 47x63 poster freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
Re: [MOPO] A VERY BIG DEATH IN HOLLYWOOD
If you ask me, Kerkorian was the Kervorkian of MGM.the only difference beinghe didn'tbother to ask The Lion That Will Roar No MoreBy DAVID THOMSON an Francisco IT was a long time ago, but there are many who still remember that Stanley Donen (who was 81 yesterday) did "Singin' in the Rain"; that Cyd Charisse made X's and O's with her long legs in that film, as well as in "Brigadoon," "Party Girl" and "Silk Stockings"; that Elizabeth Taylor gave her violet eyes and her black hair for Technicolor tests; and that there were other stars like Debbie Reynolds, Margaret O'Brien (who smashed the snowmen even after Judy Garland had sung "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"), and many more, not forgetting the Mick, Mr. Rooney - hail to thee, blithe spirit - who ran the gamut from Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to "Baby Face Nelson." I know, those last two films were not thought of by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but nobody's perfect, and Mickey Rooney was the all-American boy at his home studio, which effectively went out of the movie business last week with its purchase by Sony and a group of other investors for nearly $5 billion. The death of this institution, of MGM, has been announced many times over the course of its 81-year history. In 1936, when the boy wonder, Irving Thalberg, died, there were those who said it would never be the same. But it pretty much was, for good and ill. Thalberg loved Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer; he encouraged the Marx Brothers but he put songs in their pictures, just as he cut about four-fifths of "Greed," Erich von Stroheim's wildly ambitious 10-hour epic. Boy wonders are often boys who wonder what they can get away with. Then Louis B. Mayer, Irving's father figure, boss and secret opponent, was fired in 1951, after being head of the West Coast operation since 1924, the highest salaried man in the United States, a friend to presidents and the most heartfelt and constant actor at the studio. What did that mean? That he reckoned he was living in a movie all the time. He was, as they say, a man who drank his own liquor and never noticed he was drunk. For 20 years more or so, MGM seemed to be the old place. Hanging on, remaking a great hit from the past, "Ben-Hur," redoing "The Philadelphia Story" as "High Society," and having the lion's head on "Doctor Zhivago," "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Zabriskie Point." But in 1969, the financier Kirk Kerkorian bought the studio. Eventually he would plaster the three great initials on an emerald bunker in Las Vegas. He cut back on movie production. He organized a sale of studio properties - just little things like Dorothy's red slippers, nothing to break your heart - and he is said to have burned a great volume of papers (the history of our story) to make space. By 1985, Mr. Kerkorian owned both MGM and United Artists, and Ted Turner subsequently bought the package from him so that he could own the thing he maybe loved most in the world, "Gone With the Wind," and so that he could obtain the video rights to the Metro library. Having been stripped of those assets, the diminishing, ever more tattered property went back to Mr. Kerkorian. Giancarlo Parretti was the next owner, and then in 1993 Sony bought the Culver City property, which meant the soundstages, the Thalberg building, the Grecian colonnade on Washington Boulevard and all the sentiment there was left. Three years later, the dogged Mr. Kerkorian came back as his own sequel, older and with fewer ideas on every return. Now at last the whole thing belongs to some investment companies and Sony. To help pay for the purchase, the staff will shrink from 1,500 to 200. Nothing will be left except for a few people to run a small library, and the memories of people like the Mick. As studios become libraries, and film turns to digital, so the movies - the great things we made once - seem doomed to become miniaturized experiences, with outtakes, variant endings and directors remembering how smart they were. It's not that MGM was the best studio, though it did better financially than most. It was not always as daring as Warner Brothers, Paramount or RKO. It liked to project a very safe, conservative view of the American imagination. And it could cheat: though it claimed "Gone With the Wind" as an MGM film, that monstrous thing owed itself to the obsession of David O. Selznick, who had every reason to keep away from Mayer (the man was also his father-in-law). Creative obsession was not really Metro's thing, and the studio picked up "Wind," finally, only out of Selznick's madness and a stealthy set of deals made by Mr. Selznick's former wife (and Mayer's daughter). It was a family business, then reason enough not to get too sentimental over it. On the other hand, it is the studio where King Vidor directed Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" and later, when idiots thought the song too sad, Mayer said, "Keep it in
[MOPO] KING KONG IS NOT SO BAD ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW HIM
Hey Mopo-aficionados, freeman here. In my 5 years of selling movie posters, the biz has been at its most rewarding meeting new people of all backgrounds, but with that single bug first and foremost, the love of vintage movie posters and ephemera. Ephemera? Well little did I know just how diverse and reachingthat little sub-heading could encompass (e.g. Hey Marty! Greatvintage slides this week). But it was only recently did I know just how big and tall ephemera could be asand in this cases how strange it can sometime be in acquiring. Interested? Keep reading ... A close friend of mine has a penchant for horror and sci-fi and has for years enjoyed collecting one of everything especially pre-1945. But when it came to the 1933 version of KINGKONG with its astoundingtechnical achievements by his hero,Willis O'Brien, wellnow we would be approaching religion. He has held in his hand the fully articulated Ape, helped restore the stegasauraus to its ready for close-up glory.and in his own lair Kong press book, stills.lobbies,vintage model kits,never mind authentic props usedby the natives andeven a scream by Fay Wray sealed inside a mason jar. So there it was, a one of a kind 10 foot die-cut standee, made from almost a double six sheet printing where paper was to be mounted on a board 10 foot by 4 foot and then cut along Kong's outline. ectly mounted on archival material, supported from behind with metal rods emanating from a center metal spine for consummate stability. So was it really any wonder that only into its first daymy friend depresses BIN, and then immediately called me to drop the bomb. Well understandably I was quite in shockfor earlier in the day we spent 15 minutes discussing the scantmeritsof an additional $100 on a consignment item of his.Now in stark contrast consider the number ofzeros on the BIN... well,suffice to sayifI ever attempted to enter a bid with that queue of zeros,such an actionwould automatically cause my computer to crash and my mouse to conk me on the head. "Whose the seller?" My friend replied "Matt Shapiro" At that moment the sound of horses braying in the distance pierced the late night silence. "You know", I replied, "Isn't he dead?" Jump to 5 days later, we still don't know if he is alive or dead.But the attorney is very alive and well. Lawyer we never meet. But we are meeting a lovely girlfriend with a predisposition to look with eyes glazedalmost tearfulwhenever asked about the legendaryShapiro with words to accompany like "its so sad". Whatever. Instead of delivering this 10 foot tall glorious ephemera, to my friends house, it seems it is to be "presented" first. where then it can be inspected (this is the partmy assistance is requested,well, me and my trusty portable hand held black light to sniff out if any in-painting or replaced paper and the like which I am glad to report only the most minimum contrary to rumour). Location selected by seller's "grieving" life partner is a non-equity actors theatre in the valley a rocks throw from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Upon agreement that standee is as described, bank is call and wire transfer is initiated and no less than 6 pages of documents are signed and co-signed presented by both parties. Well walking in to the theatre, KAPOW there it is all 10 feet of animal fury balanced atop the EmpireState Building cradling Fay Rayin one arm andin the other with raised fist acrumple bi-plane bathed in a flood of lighting both heavenly and forensic. Whipping out my big 3 inches of black light I begin to pour over every square inch of stone litho paper. But then the grieving lovely asks, "Do you mind if I video tape this?" "Well okay, but how did you come by this theatre?" "Oh I am an actress"My head is bursting.. BINGO tears on a dime!!! Anyway the rest is they sayishistory...in fact this piece is in Profiles In History solely to sate a curiosity if its appeal is heightened by Peter Jackson's pending blockbuster. I have a hunch there won't be a sad face on my friendif it doesn't meet its modest reserve. But its a spectacular piece and if by chance someone places an informed and successful bid, he or she will be in such a delirious state of mind for they will be shipping home a truly grand,glorious and near mintpiece of Classic One-Of-A-Kind Hollywood that literally earns the moniker as THE EIGHTH WONDER OF YOUR LIVING ROOM. Auction is FridayApril 1, beginning at 1:00 PM Pacific Coast Time fwf freeman fisher8601 west knoll #7west hollywood, CA90069 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
