Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true fan, interested more in the relic than the souvenir a walk down Common wealth Avenue is in order Hiding among the apartments is Fenway Cards, the only baseball memorabilia shop in Boston and perhaps the best baseball museum this side of Cooperstown...
...telephone bid of $60,500 to an auction at Sotheby's in New York City, Spielberg acquired that most famous of cinematic props, the symbolic sled Rosebud from Orson Welles' masterpiece, Citizen Kane. It was the highest amount of money ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia, but Spielberg was unfazed. "It would have been an insult," he said, "if it had gone for only $20,000"-the expected price tag. "Rosebud," promises the hot hit-making director, "will go over my typewriter to remind me that quality in movies comes first...
...Stallone's lavish, sprawling house behind a high brick wall and green canvas gates in Pacific Palisades, slightly to the left of Beverly Hills, film memorabilia vie for space with fine art in rooms accented with rich woods and polished brass. A mammoth Leroy Neiman portrait of Rocky hangs near a Rodin sculpture, a boxer's headguard inscribed "To Sly from Muhammad Ali" rests near Andy Warhol oils. Another treasured possession is a worn photo album that the star uses to document his "roaches to riches" story. Stallone, dressed in running shoes and warmup suit, puffing...
...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...
...small museum in San Clemente, California that housed a collection of Nixon's personal memorabilia closed about four months ago. Warren Esterline, editor of the San Clemente Daily Sun Post, said yesterday, because "basically not enough people came" to keep the museum open...