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The Movie & Story => News Coverage, Reviews & Awards => Topic started by: Buddy on Feb 15, 2006, 12:28 AM
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From LA TIMES-
(Sorry, I never know where to post such things...)
'Brokeback' shirts for sale on EBay
By Martin Miller, Times Staff Writer
If you can't get to "Brokeback Mountain" on your own, you can still come away with more than a lousy T-shirt as a souvenir. A local children's charity was given the shirts worn by actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal early in the Academy Award-nominated film and is auctioning them on EBay.
By midday Monday, bidding was already at $17,000 for the two garments, which have quickly achieved a weepy symbolic status among the film's many fans. The auction ends Feb. 20.
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"We're overwhelmed by the bidding," said Maria Schmidt, executive director of Variety — The Children's Charity of Southern California. "This is already way over what any of us thought the shirts would bring."
The charity periodically auctions off Hollywood memorabilia. Until now, its biggest windfall came from putting the VW Beetle from "Herbie: Fully Loaded" on the block, which raised $24,000.
Initial bidding for the western wear, which appears again at the end of the film as a symbol of love and loss, has been strong.
"They are so iconic," said Dennis White, 48, of Seattle, who bid $17,000 for the garments. "They are like the ruby slippers."
The charity obtained the shirts from a board member with close connections to Focus Features, the film's distributor, Schmidt said.
Not everything on Variety's ebay website is so expensive: a pair of motocross pants worn by Vin Diesel while filming "XXX" were available for less than $60 at press time.
The local chapter is one of Variety's 49 international chapters in 13 countries dedicated to aiding children in need. The charity, which is not connected to the entertainment trade publication of the same name, has raised more than $1 billion since its founding in 1927. Locally, Variety has contributed to institutions including Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and various boys and girls clubs.
To participate or watch the bidding, visit www.ebay.com/varietyskids.
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it's now up to $31,000
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current US $55,300.00 :o
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:o :o :o oops
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:o :o :o oops
Thank god it's all for charity..anyone won the lottery lately?
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:o :o :o oops
Thank god it's all for charity..anyone won the lottery lately?
i won £50........ & spent all on BBM!!!!!. i know - could not afford the shirt though!!!! Today i bought BBM shortstory book. Hey have you checked the cover....... it has changed.......
it is now our 2 guys........ LUV'em
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A pair of jackets worn in the movie were auctioned this past Saturday in New York at a gala for Human Rights Campaign for $42,000.
The pair of shirts are also up for auction on ebay proceeds to benefit Children's Charity of Southern California.
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Thankx for the info, I'll move this to the tread about the ebay shirts.
Hope you don't mind
x Froggy
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:o how do I get my hands on $55,301 dollars, quick?
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*thinks about selling cars and first-born* ;)
Wow! What a great thing to do for charity! And I love that pic of Ennis with the shirts... :'(
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*thinks about selling cars and first-born* ;)
hahahahaha!!!
No car, no first born here...where is my Clyde Barrow when I need him!!!
signed a brunette Bonnie Parker!
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Why couldn't I have won the powerball last night.
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Are we going to see the shirts and the jackets at the Smithsonian anytime soon?
Afterall they had the Seinfeld pirate shirt.... haha... :D
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*thinks about selling cars and first-born* ;)
Wow! What a great thing to do for charity! And I love that pic of Ennis with the shirts... :'(
*giggle*.. ;D
Wish i was born as a super rich heiress like paris hilton,.. :P....then i can afford to buy those cute J/E shirts,..*ssiigghhh*.. ;D
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Or I could shave one tiny skin cell off the US military budget, and buy the shirts and get the boys to model them, and build a wing at the Smithsonian. I also thought, when I first heard of this sale, that they should go to the Smithsonian. Our military budget wouldn't even notice the loss.
-btb
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I'd love to see the shirts go to the Smithsonian! Great idea! Rather see those than Archie Bunker's chair any day...
Can you imagine what the "washrag" from the movie would go for--the one Ennis used to wash his genitals during the bathing scene??? :D
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oooooooooooooooooooooooodonnotevengothere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(though I would in a NY minute)
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist mentioning it, though I tried real hard. :-X
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Haven't seen it here: does everyone know that they Shirts from the movie are going to be auctioned on e-Bay for a charity?
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http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=1564.0
http://www.ennisjack.com/index.php?topic=508.0
I am going to merge this topic with the first one. Hope they are what you are looking for. Enjoy your time here.
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the auction for the shirts...
19 minutes to go and it is at $70,100.00 us dollars
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7589737258
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The shirts have sold for US $101,100.51 :o
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oh, my! $101 thousand. That's one lucky bidder.
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Here the the link to the auction that closed yesterday on eBay for the "Two Shirts". Someone paid $101,100.00 for them! It went to a good cause.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7589737258&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Also, the coats that Jack and Ennis wore in the film were auctioned at HRC's recent benefit in New York on February 11 for something like $62,000.00!! I couldn't find any press release from HRC from my web skimming this AM
Bruce
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The shirts have sold for US $101,100.51 :o
Wow!!!
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Here the the link to the auction that closed yesterday on eBay for the "Two Shirts". Someone paid $101,100.00 for them! It went to a good cause.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7589737258&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
Also, the coats that Jack and Ennis wore in the film were auctioned at HRC's recent benefit in New York on February 11 for something like $62,000.00!! I couldn't find any press release from HRC from my web skimming this AM
Bruce
One of my friend today bought a Jacket similar to the one Jack twist wore in the movie, juts to tease me, so I told him he had to give it to me of hell'e die! he found it at a thrift shop, lucky b****stard ;D
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Brokeback" shirts' auction winner speaks
http://www.gay.com/entertainment/news/?coll=pno_entertainment&sernum=1188&page=1
When news spread last week that the two shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain" were being auctioned for charity on eBay, fans and the media paid attention. Early predictions estimated that the shirts would sell for $50,000, but when the auction closed Feb. 20, they went for more than double that.
Collector Tom Gregory, the life partner of David Bohnett of the David Bohnett Foundation won the auction, paying $101,100.51 for the iconic shirts. He spoke to PlanetOut minutes after the win.
Moments ago, you spent a little over $100,000 on the two shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in "Brokeback Mountain." How do you feel right now?
I'm thrilled to have gotten them, but it's more than that. The shirts represent such a significant moment in the history of film. And when you see the shirts together in the closet in the film, it's an extraordinary moment for gay people.
In the last hour of the auction (between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. PST), the page views on the auction page itself jumped by more than 5,000, so all eyes were on the prize. At 4:50, with 10 minutes left, the highest bid was $70,000. Then you struck. Not only did you strike, but you outbid the guy by $30,000. What was going through your head in that last hour?
I was thinking of doing the three-minute snipe at 4:57, but what happened was that I just couldn't stand it any more! [Laughs]. All I could think about was that someone would come in higher and I would be mad! Isn't that a horrible thing to say? I wanted them badly. But in that last hour, I decided I had to have a ceiling for my bid.
So what happens now? How will you get the shirts and what will you actually do with them?
I think I'll probably just drive there myself and pick them up tomorrow. I know Variety [the charity] is excited and I don't want them to think I'm going to shortchange them. [Laughs.]
But in all seriousness, I want people to know that I am never going to separate the shirts. And I'm never going to let anyone put them on. Now, I don't know how they are at this moment, if they've been hung together like they were in the film since the film wrapped, but if they are on the original hanger, they will stay on the hanger, together.
You told me you were a collector. How do the shirts rate against the other things you've bought on auction?
I've acquired wonderful things over the years, but these shirts are iconic. I have so many other collectibles, but these shirts mean more than everything else I have.
This is such a significant movie for us. This is a landmark. And for this film to happen at a time that is so bad for the gay community politically makes it all the more poignant. In fact, midway through the auction, they posted something that said the winner has to sign something that promises you won't destroy the shirts. I think they were afraid some right-wing freak would get hold of the shirts and burn them in public or something.
Even in the face of the Bush administration, that this film can flourish means that we really are a group of people that refuses to be knocked down, and we want our story heard. And it's not just a story about same-sex love; it's a story about love and I think the film affected me because it validated so much. The story is about something . . . lost that could have been so wonderful.
So many people from all around the world were involved in this auction. Have you heard from any of them?
Yes. I got many emails, some of them so touching. And I want everyone involved to know that these shirts are in a safe place. This is all about emancipation, and for those people who are hanging shirts together in the closet.
We asked Tom Gregory to share with PlanetOut some of the emails he received from the other bidders in the auction. He sent us the one below, name withheld.
"Just a big THANK YOU for making this particular auction a newsworthy event. 'Brokeback' is a beautiful film with an important message and deserves all the attention it can get. A small-timer like myself knew that these items were going to go WAY beyond anything I could have afforded, and I'm just awfully glad that you went the distance and gave these iconic shirts from an important movie such an outstanding bid -- I just hope you didn't say Ouch! when you hit the enter button that last time! So Thank You for what you've done to draw attention to a film that hopefully is helping a few people out there to see gay folks in a new light."
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Wow that is so cool they went to someone who will care for them so much.
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Great Interview. Thanks for posting. These are one of movies newest treasures, I think.
I am so glad this guys got 'em.
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This guy can't loose and I am so happy for him. The value of the shirts will only go up and he sounds like the right sort of person to own them. As a dealer of antiques and collectibles for some years I knew immediately that this item, and it is 1 item, should go far. I expect it to end up in the Smithsonian some day. It's where it belongs.
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It would be nice to be able to see them in person one day, along with other memorabilia from the movie. I hope that becomes a reality. Anyway, I am glad that someone who really will cherish them won the bidding.
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This guy can't loose and I am so happy for him. The value of the shirts will only go up and he sounds like the right sort of person to own them. As a dealer of antiques and collectibles for some years I knew immediately that this item, and it is 1 item, should go far. I expect it to end up in the Smithsonian some day. It's where it belongs.
I hope the Smithsonian guys will reconstruct the same closet scene with the postcard thumbnailed... :'(
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Saw this on the Yahoo website:
All AP Movie News
>Brokeback Mountain' Shirts Auctioned
Wednesday February 22 5:30 PM ET
Tom Gregory just spent more than $100,000 on two used cowboy shirts. And he couldn't be happier. The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain."
The shirts that represent their relationship. The shirts that, to Gregory, represent the ongoing plight of gays for acceptance in society.
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45.
A longtime gay activist, Gregory plans to keep the shirts "as they were, on the hanger, entwined."
"I would never wear them, put them on, or separate them," he said.
Gregory collects signed celebrity photos from Hollywood's golden age, but this is his first foray into movie props. Focus Features, distributor of "Brokeback Mountain," donated the two shirts, which were sold on the auction Web site ebay.com to benefit Variety The Children's Charity of Southern California.
Gregory logged his winning bid $101,100.51 just 28 seconds before the 10-day auction came to a close on Monday.
"There is no buyer's remorse," he said, characterizing the purchase as "the most fun thing I ever bought."
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Thursday Feb 23--He is going to be on Showbiz Tonight, cnn Headline News channel.
my listing is 10pm Central time---check your own listings.
He is on mid way through the show, and talks about the money he spent, and how he feels about the shirts--he brought them with him and shows them on camera too.
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I don't know, if it's been already post here...
Other stuff... Anyone got money ?? lol ;)
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I'm sorry, I didn't know. ;)
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I did something like this once. For me before Jack and Ennis there was Jack and Jen ... I used to really like Jack off Dawon's Creek. It was funny ... as the series was released I was exactly the same age as the characters and the whole coming out thing was a kinda this is how it goes holding your hand kinda thing. The program offered me lots of support when I was scared and lonely.
Anyhow after it ended they aucrtioned off all the set and clothing. In seasons Five and Six Jack had this really nice leather jacket that I used to admire him in. Anyway ... it went on ebay and I bought it from Sony Pictures Entertainment ... cost me £250 for a Versace jacket and it was worth every penny.
:-)
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Anyhow after it ended they aucrtioned off all the set and clothing. In seasons Five and Six Jack had this really nice leather jacket that I used to admire him in. Anyway ... it went on ebay and I bought it from Sony Pictures Entertainment ... cost me £250 for a Versace jacket and it was worth every penny.
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and am still waiting to see a pic of you wearing it!!!
x
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Here is a pic of Kerr in it with Michelle ... :-)
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May the next one be of yourself wearing that jacket!!! x
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Lol ... I dont look anywhere near as pretty ...
:P
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Or I could shave one tiny skin cell off the US military budget, and buy the shirts and get the boys to model them, and build a wing at the Smithsonian. I also thought, when I first heard of this sale, that they should go to the Smithsonian. Our military budget wouldn't even notice the loss.
-btb
How about we shave off the $1,230,000 earmarked for an outhouse at a national park in South Dakota instead?
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I'm sorry, I didn't know. ;)
Don't worry. Thank you very much for your understanding.
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Is that JACK'S TRUCK being auctioned on Ebay right now???
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:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o US $101,100.51 US $101,100.51 US $101,100.51 US $101,100.51 (faints) i would have being killed if i buy them at that price :'( :'( :'( what a lucky person