LHMC: ‘A Deadly Secret’ and ‘36th Chamber’ lobby art
Original lobby cards from two Shaw Brothers classics joins our Linn Haynes Memorial Collection. A DEADLY SECRET (1980) is a bleak martial arts actioner from Mou Tun-fei, the director of infamous war film MEN BEHIND THE SUN. It stars Yueh Hua as a ruthless magistrate so desperate to learn the whereabouts of a hidden fortune that he buries his daughter (Shih Szu) alive and tortures her lover. Included are several cards from Lau Kar-leung’s kung fu masterpiece THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN.
Movie Memorabilia Auction in London
"It's a general film auction, the first section is vintage film posters, about 300 lots, and then we move into the general memorabilia sale where we have sections for very iconic areas - James Bond, Marilyn Monroe, we have good autographs section, we have great animation section from Disney, original Disney drawings, so there's something here for everybody really. If you've got an interested in movies, there'll be something here for your particular taste."
Tim Burton's private movie memorabilia unveiled
Hollywood director Tim Burton has lent some of his favourite pieces of art and movie memorabilia to New York's Museum of Modern Art. The collection is an insight into the head of a man behind some truly weird films, from Sleepy Hollow to Sweeney Todd. Burton says the collection is quite intimate. “A lot of this stuff is just private, personal things that, you know, just meant for me or to kind of explore other ideas. It's like opening up somebody's closet,” he says.
Rite-Aid workers get leg up on shoplift suspect
Instead of walking off with a "major award," a 30-year-old local man with a trunk full of stolen goods received a court summons for trying to steal a replica piece of movie memorabilia from an Ashland store, police said. Employees of Rite-Aid Pharmacy on Rte. 135 called police Sunday shortly before 2 p.m. after confronting Matthew Garland, of 70 West Main St., Hopkinton. Employees said Garland tried to leave the store carrying a replica of the famed lewd leg lamp from "A Christmas Story."
Mark Klaus’ "Holly"Wood Christmas Movieland museum
Continuing its mission to bring Christmas back to Cleveland and showcase the world’s largest privately held collection of holiday movie memorabilia, Mark Klaus’ "Holly"Wood Christmas Movieland museum will host the grand opening of its new location this Saturday.
Streisand's personal treasures for sale
The wooden "a" that hung on the wall of Barbra Streisand's New York apartment as a reminder of the one she once dropped from her name is hitting the auction block.
You can see it before somebody - maybe even you - snaps it up.
The distressed gold-painted letter, along with more than 500 items from the entertainer's private estate, will be exhibited free to the public at The Beverly Hilton starting today, and in the days leading up to "The Collection of Barbra Streisand" sale by Julien's Au
New lunchbox museum captures spirit, color of childhood
Behind the brightly painted blue door of a former firehouse along Highway 20 is a new and unexpected attraction: A lunchbox museum and collector's emporium.
Step into the newly opened Clarke's Collectibles and Lunchbox Museum and you'll be greeted by Debbie Clarke, a smiling and energetic woman whose enthusiasm for the wonderful stuff of childhood has coalesced into a colorful and magical new shop.
She and husband Duane transformed the former Nice Firehouse into a shop and museum that is p
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