This went under the radar for me, o.k. so it’s old news, but interesting nonetheless. Remember the cowardly lion from the classic film The Wizard of OZ? Well his costume, which incidentally was made from real lion fur, sold on eBay for a staggering $700,000 last week. Also sold was Elvis Presley’s wedding ring and that sold for $90,000. Oliver Hardy’s (Laurel & Hardy) trousers, which he wore in film Swiss Miss sold as...

{Picture Source: news.bbc.co.uk.} Legendary cartoonist William Hanna has died in Los Angeles at the age of 90. William Hanna and Joe Barbera were considered to be “the” cartoonists of America for half a century. They created classic cartoons that will forever be any child’s favorite. How can we forget “Tom and Jerry,” (Tom and Jerry won 7 academy awards), The Flintstones (my favorite and a parody of the TV...

A clutter bug saves the day! Mayme Clayton an African-American woman has collected, throughout many years what will come to be known as the greatest collection of African American history. She has amassed dozens of pre-civil war manuscripts, and writings, photographs, journals, cartoons, correspondence, playbills, and magazines. What I found most interesting was her collection of film archives, which she stored in a climate-controlled...

The Mel Brooks Collection is here!!! In addition to “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,“ “To Be or Not to Be” (1983), and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights,“ this eight-disc set includes four Mel Brooks classics. A down-and-out nobleman’s son searches for “The Twelve Chairs” (1970), one of which contains a fortune in jewels. Ron Moody stars. Brooks is a movie mogul on the skids...

TCM has teamed up with Warner Brothers to bring us the sensational pre-code movies of the 1930′s. Just released on December 5th is the Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 1. The DVD set has two discs filled with 308 minutes of what entertained some, and scandalized others in the 30′s. Pre-code movies dealt with subject matter, well, that just didn’t sit well with the masses. Hollywood produced these films...

Breakfast At Tiffany’s gorgeous black dress has sold for a whopping $920,000! The greatest thing about this is that the proceeds are going to help needy children in India. I know Audrey Hepburn would be overjoyed if she were alive today to see this. Her heart was so into serving others less fortune throughout the world. The long and tense auction took place at Christie’s and the bidder wasn’t even present. He or she...