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The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction

Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:05pm

I'm thinking of starting a kickstarter campaign to hire PalJoey to Live Tweet the event of the season.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:17pm

I'm just reminded by that scene in A Christmas Carol with people purchasing Scrooge's belongings at a fraction of their cost while talking about how glad they are he's dead.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction

Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:38pm

I've got my eye on the Nick & Nora paperweight.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:45pm

I've put in some small bids for a tschotchke or two. But only things I remember.

Meanwhile, if he were still alive and this were someone else's estate auction, you know what he would say?

"This only proves that he spent his ENTIRE life amassing TRASH. Those things were tacky when he bought them--AND THEY'RE STILL TACKY NOW THAT HE'S DEAD."

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:27pm

ugh... so much old-lady junk!

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:35pm

He would also say that, Deena.

The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction

Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:40pm

I'm going to be in the city to see the new John Kander workshop at The Vineyard that day, and I'm seriously considering stopping in to see this interesting "theatrical event."

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:14pm

All the more reason for PalJoey to tweet from there.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:52pm

I'll pay $20 for all of the paperweights. How many of those could someone need?

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:54pm

They were opening-night presents. It was a "thing."

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:58pm

Would someone let us know who bids on Bernadette's gift of the Gypsy script? I'm forseeing a bidding war like we've never seen before. Who will end up with that?

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:03pm

Well, it won't be Patti LuPone.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:04pm

Please go, PalJoey, PLEASE!

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:11pm

As Arthur would say, "I haven't got the time. Nor the inclination."

I put in my absentee bids. They'll let me know if I won.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:18pm

"Well, it won't be Patti LuPone."

Oh I don't know. Didn't Bette Davis buy up Joan Crawford's porn movies?

I would think Patti would mount it on her wall as an "Anything you can do, I can do better" monument.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:21pm

Not to put a damper on the fun, but are the proceeds going to some sort of charity? Cause if not, the Estate is as c*nty as the man.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:29pm

Having to pay a 29% premium and sales tax on everything puts some of this stuff out of my league.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

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Posted: 5/24/12 at 5:22pm

Arthur would probably have replied to Robbie:

"Charity begins at HOME. If you don't want my tschotchkes, DON'T BID."

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 10:13am

Well, the tension is mounting. The auction is over at 11 AM EST and there are several people bidding against me on the two most hotly contested items in the auction:

LOT 1132
Arthur Laurents Poisoned Pen
Pen with which Laurents wrote revisions of West Side Story and three volumes of memoirs.

LOT 739
Arthur Laurents Cup of Bitterness
Ornamental cup from which Laurents drank blood of his collaborators.

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The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction

Posted: 6/2/12 at 10:24am

I'm going with Mary Rodgers.

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 10:53am

Michael Riedel on the auction.

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:13am

They have an app so you can watch it live on the Internet

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:21am

Arthur was always charming, if too opinionated about things he shouldn't have been, to me, and the last Dramatists Guild "Legacy Project" interview he taped was very touching, but too many paperweights...really.

If anyone goes, please report. :)

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:27am

5 glass paperweights going once, twice, three times for $10, 20, 30, 40 50, 60.

Sold for $60

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Posted: 6/2/12 at 12:28pm

A Louis Comfort Tiffany Footed Salt Cellar just went for $100. A Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrile glass bowl went for $600.

A Revere sterling silver bowl, inscribed "La Cage" asking price $500--reduced to $300. Sold for $450.

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