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...Harlem during World War I, shooting weddings, funerals and back-to-Africa parades as well as thousands of carefully composed portraits. Sadly, his "discovery" by the public and critics coincided with severe financial distress: evicted from his studio only weeks later, Van Der Zee lost much of his huge, priceless collection of prints and negatives and was forced to live on public assistance...
...international furor arose over the authenticity of the diaries, Stern's editors would say only that their trusted correspondent Gerd Heidemann, 51, had acquired the priceless documents and that he would not disclose who gave them to him or who had hidden them...
Benjamin recalls one collector of rare autographs who verified, wholly by accident, that his priceless document containing the signatures of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was genuine. A hurricane had caused the paper to be submerged in water for five days. When he retrieved it, the owner found to his relief that all the signatures remained clear and bright. They had been written with iron-gall ink on rag paper...
Among the most consummate works are enameled sprays of flowers and fruits; to ensure verisimilitude, Fabergé kept a garden on top of his Moscow workshop. Some of these beauties, priceless today, originally sold for less than $1,000 each...
...three characters finally merge and Hoffman triumphs as we witness his dexterity in wielding the various personalities. The energy he put into this performance and the resulting masterpiece drown out all accusations of high salaries for temperamental superstars. Because in this case this superstar's performance is so priceless that perhaps only an Oscar can be the final reward...