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...Boasting the only onscreen union of members of the Goons, the Beatles, and the Pythons, the film stands as a kind of watershed in British movie comedy. Like the novel, it is an episodic affair, with some scenes working and others missing the mark (Southern himself disliked an amusing auction sequence written by and featuring a young John Cleese). Unlike the aforementioned psychedelic comedies, the cameos here produce intentional laughter. Laurence Harvey, Christopher Lee, Yul Brynner, and Raquel Welch (as "the Priestess of the Whip") all seem to having a hell of a good time - generally a dangerous sign...
Less than 50 years later, its own finances in tatters, the hotel was on the auction block, its occupancy rate for the summer season at only 30%. For a mere $3.5 million, four couples bought the place. Sensible north-country folk, they were quickly operating in the black, drawing only on annual profits for the $12 million needed to renovate and winterize the 200-room palace so it could stay open year round for the first time since it was built in 1902. They also bought back 1,000 acres of the original property...
...Public-auction websites like eBay are doing a fire-sale business in surplus tech hardware. A new Cisco AS5300 access server with a recommended retail price of $50,000 was auctioned off for less than $2,500. Even busier these days is Virtual Chip Exchange, a private marketplace for 4,200 established buyers and sellers of computer chips and semiconductors in 40 countries. VCE is currently the planet's largest electronics B2B exchange, as rated by Jupiter Media Metrix. The privately held company reports that revenues rose past $37 million in the first quarter, up 238% from the same period...
...Then, in a 1999 windfall for the University, the MTA, strapped to pay for the Big Dig, put 48 acres of Allston land beside HBS up at a blind auction, which Harvard snatched easily with a $151 million bid. The closest competitor was Genzyme, which offered 26 million for its property and an adjoining parcel...
...separate sets of tickets have been put up for sale on the Internet auction site e-Bay—one set currently at the price of $30/each and the other at the price of $41/each. Seniors at Harvard are allotted four free tickets each...