Thursday, December 9, 2010

Michael Jackson's New Record: Iconic Glove Sold for $330,000 at Auction

Michael Jackson's "Bad" tour glove is seen during the preview day of the "Icons and Idols" auctions at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Nov. 19. 2010.(Credit: GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images)

When it comes to celebrity auctions, Michael Jackson memorabilia is the "baddest."

So when one of the sequined gloves the King of Pop wore during his "Bad" Tour went up for bid at an auction of celebrity memorabilia in Beverly Hills, Calif., there was a frenzy surrounding the hot item.

The furious bidding took place at Julien's Auctions, where the lone glove worn by Jackson in the late 1980s sold for $330,000 at the "Icons & Idols" auction Saturday night.

More of Jackson's duds from his stage wardrobe went up for auction, including a jacket signed by the icon, which brought in $96,000 and a fedora he wore on stage, which went for $72,000.

There were also some unusual items from Hollywood legends up for bid -- an x-ray of Albert Einstein's brain, which brought $38,750, and a pair of Marilyn Monroe's empty prescription bottles, sold for $18,750.

Competing with the price of Jackson's glove was a military-style jacket worn by John Lennon for a 1966 Life Magazine photo shoot, which sold for $240,000.

According to Julien's Auctions, the two-day event brought in more than $3 million.

Article courtesy:-NEW YORK (CBS/AP)

Another war in TELUGU FILM INDUSTRY

Mega brother Nagababu’s outburst at Mirapakay audio launch has been the most talked about topic in Tollywood today. Nagababu’s disappointment and agony was about Orange movie budget.

Already the industry buzz says that, Chiranjeevi made hard comments about the budget of Orange movie that ''whats the need of spending a huge budget for a simple love story" and he too express angry about director that the film zoomed up due to Bhaskar’s confusion over the script.

Even though Nagababu didn’t mention Bhaskar’s name on Mirapakay stage, anyone who has little knowledge about the happenings in Tollywood could assume who he is referring to. Nagababu is usually a calm going, soft spoken person. Its the first time that he reacts that hot that to in Mirapakay function.

Nagababu’s outburst and calling few directors as virus (supposedly Bhaskar) has hurt the Orange director to the core. There is a buzz that Bhaskar wasn’t pleased with Nagababu’s remarks. Bhaskar is getting irked as many of his friends and colleagues are calling him and expressing their concern about Nagababu’s emotional speech. Definitely a sad state to be in, isn’t it?

He also added that "Directors of this modern age must try and learn the skill from astute filmmaker like Ram Gopal Varma who normally concludes a movie in one month. A brilliant example is 'Sarkar' which was finished in one month of time. Our Telugu directors are a total contrast, wasting years of working days, burning huge negative and crores of rupees in handing over a below average result movie. Calculations of Varma must be learnt by our directors. I sincerely express my desire to Varma not to leave the Telugu industry before our directors learn something from him," said Naga Babu praising RGV.

Now every tollywood cine follower can analyze his comments.

The topic he raised is the right one. But why the producers are not controlling the directors on the initial stages like at the script or on the filiming time itself.

Cine lovers are also saying that "Everyone in the film industry has forgotten their role." Then whats the use of out-bursting about some one depending on the movie result.

Some says with laugh "Late wake-up, better luck on his next project that too his family person project." "If the hero isn't Ram charan then he too got what bhasker got indirectly"

On the audio launch Nagababu told that "Bhaskar gave fabulous script." May be if the film is hit and he got his money then those words in audio launch are perfect. Now when the result turns to flip side poor director is facing all the bad remarks.

So the unknown answers that cine lovers asking are"What the producer role. Whats the Directors role and what the So GREAT HERO role in making the movie