{"id":93289,"date":"2024-12-01T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93289"},"modified":"2024-12-01T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T21:00:16","slug":"tinseltown-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/12\/01\/tinseltown-on-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinseltown on the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are fast approaching, and perhaps you have a someone in your life who is hard&#8230;well, aren\u2019t you lucky!&nbsp; But what if they\u2019re hard to shop for?&nbsp; Check out the renowned <strong><em>Julien\u2019s Auctions<\/em><\/strong>, where a fistful of celebrity wares are going on the block.&nbsp; Say you\u2019ve got someone a bit long in the tooth who loves old movies.&nbsp; What about something from the estate of <strong>Sir Laurence Olivier <\/strong>and <strong>Dame Joan Plowright<\/strong>?&nbsp; Sure, Dame Joan is still with us \u2013 but what she doesn\u2019t know won\u2019t hurt her.&nbsp; Their belongings hit the market on December 10<sup>th<\/sup> at 10AM PT.&nbsp; The next day, the legendary <strong>Bob Mackie <\/strong>is divesting himself of some choice creations made for the likes of <strong>Cher<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Collins<\/strong>, <strong>Diahann Carroll<\/strong>, <strong>Carol Burnett<\/strong>, <strong>Pink<\/strong>, and oodles of others.&nbsp; That takes place on December 11<sup>th<\/sup>, also at 10AM PT.&nbsp; Later that day (at 11AM), there\u2019s a number of assorted items from even BIGGER movie stars.&nbsp; How big?&nbsp; How\u2019s about <strong>Marilyn Monroe<\/strong>\u2019s bathing suit from <strong><em>Some Like It Hot<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Judy Garland<\/strong>\u2019s test dress from <strong><em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em><\/strong>, some of <strong>Greta Garbo<\/strong>\u2019s undergarments, one of <strong>Elizabeth Taylor<\/strong>\u2019s gowns from the kinda thin years, and even the mink coat <strong>Liza Minnelli <\/strong>wore to her wedding to <strong>David Gest<\/strong>.&nbsp; I\u2019m told Gest called it his \u201clucky coat\u201d \u2013 because he got lucky on it on numerous occasions.&nbsp; If only Liza had been in town at the time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are fast approaching, and perhaps you have a someone in your life who is hard&#8230;well, aren\u2019t you lucky!&nbsp; But what if they\u2019re hard to shop for?&nbsp; Check out the renowned Julien\u2019s Auctions, where a fistful of celebrity wares are going on the block.&nbsp; Say you\u2019ve got someone a bit long in the tooth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93290,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93289\/revisions\/93290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}