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...clone a human being. (He hasn't been heard from since.) Now comes Ron Harris--fashion photographer, soft-core-porn videographer and the entrepreneurial mind behind such Web ventures as Eros Entertainment Inc. Harris' latest idea: a sexy, come-hither website called Ron's Angels that intends to auction off the eggs of beautiful models...
...Yankees took the field for Game Four of the World Series, Christie's auction house opened bidding on an "eternity band" given by Joe DiMaggio to MARILYN MONROE. The bidding proved more competitive than the game, with the diamond ring scoring $770,000 from an anonymous buyer. Among the less eternal items, which nevertheless sold big during the auction of Monroe memorabilia, were a makeup case (with used cosmetics), which sold for $266,000, and six pictures of her dog that fetched $222,500. Singer Mariah Carey laid out $660,000 for a piano, and designer Tommy Hilfiger ponied...
DARWIN'S ANGELS? Playboy filmmaker and soft-porn entrepreneur Ron Harris' website got more than 5 million hits its first day of business. His commodity? Eggs harvested from models for in-vitro fertilization. The auction could be a fraud, but if people want models, they should get the best. We asked fertility clinics what characteristics clients look for in donors and rated models to see whose eggs would be best...
...considers fashion to be art, she must allow it to transform. It seems that because the couture pieces don't sell so much anymore (imagine something with big slits and peacock feathers) they are no longer art. All that has happened is that the runway has transformed from an auction block to a museum exhibition. Agins does give excellent portraits of the designers and her extensive experience as a journalist in the fashion industry reveals itself in her sensitive rendering of the large personalities of the industry. Despite the attention to individual detail, though, Agins seems to have only constructed...
WOULD YOU BELIEVE? At Friday's auction at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley's draft card was sold for a whopping $22,500! Viva Las Booming Economy...