Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Sunday, November 12, 2006


Perhaps the movie biz has made too many movies of Truman:

The auction made $241,999 (including the buyers’ premiums) from the books, snapshots, furniture, bric-a-brac, clothes and memorabilia. Some items garnered amazing prices: $3,750 for a curved horn trophy that Capote claimed he'd lifted from Hemingway's house in Key West and $2,750 for a baby blanket crocheted by his Aunt Sook. But 74 lots didn't sell, including the tux he wore to his famous Black and White Ball 40 years ago this month. The sale's centerpiece was his "last manuscript," a handwritten account of a long-ago meeting with his literary idol, Willa Cather, that was estimated to sell for $20,000 to 30,000. In the end, it found no takers.

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