Memorabilia

The 131-character dispatch arrived mournfully within two hours of sunrise May 4, at 7:58 a.m. to be exact. "When u give Give GIVE and they take Take TAKE at wat point do u draw a line in the sand?" Kobe Bryant wrote on his Twitter feed, adding the hashtags "hurt beyond measure," "gave me no warning," and finally, "love?" Bryant's career with the Lakers has often been pushed aside by internal family matters, the recent court battle over his memorabilia the latest in a string of cheerless events.

LAS VEGAS - On this day, there was no Johnnie Cochran. There was no brash fist-pumping former Heisman Trophy winner in a tailored suit hugging his lead defense attorney after beating murder charges in a California courtroom. After a nearly five-year absence, in which he was locked away in a northern Nevada prison cell, O.J. Simpson returned to the public spotlight Wednesday. The 65-year-old fallen football star, once known for his manic bursts of speed on the field, has been in scores of end zones, TV commercials, movie trailers and two well-publicized Los Angeles court trials.

Hollywood rummage mongers, trash pickers and garage-sale mavens listen up. There are diamonds among secondhand celebrity pickings; gold to be found in star dust bins. How about Elvis Presley's black-belt karate degree? Or Boris Karloff's driver's license application? Frank Sinatra's cigarette lighter, Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein blue jeans or John Lennon's wristwatch? They're worth thousands of bucks, according to Christie's East, which hosts its annual pop memorabilia auction Wednesday.

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The market for infamous cars took a hit Saturday when the souped-up 1968 Chevrolet Camaro owned by Branch Davidian leader David Koresh sold at auction here for $37,000, not the $80,000 the seller hoped the car would bring. Donald Feldpausch, 64, of San Antonio bought the two-door hardtop on impulse.

Still a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe would have been 86 this month, and to celebrate the Hollywood Museum is hosting the largest collection of the actress' memorabilia in the nation. Among the collection are the famous "red velvet" photographs from 1949, rarely seen snapshots and, in a bit of a macabre flourish, the prescription pill bottle found next to her bed at the time of her death. 1660 Highland Ave., L.A. Through Sept. 2. $15 http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com/

A cardboard guitar cut-out from Keith Richards. Several velvet jackets. A lithograph of Eric Clapton. According to a Reuters story , these were some of the items sold at auction Saturday by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and his ex-wife, Jo, following last year's dissolution of their 23-year marriage. The memorabilia sell-off took place at Julien's Auctions' Beverly Hills gallery.  The auction reportedly raised tens of thousands of dollars from such items as a 1955 Fender Stratocaster guitar that Wood often played in concert.

Much of the tennis memorabilia stolen from Pete Sampras last November has been returned, according to an attorney who worked with investigators on the case. Anthony Salerno, a Century City lawyer hired by the Sampras family to help in the investigation, said Sunday that another attorney allegedly representing those who took the material from a storage facility had contacted his investigator early Saturday morning to say the trophies and other items would be returned, with the expectation of no further investigation or penalty.

In the hours before dawn, 50 tons of President Clinton's memorabilia were unloaded into an old Little Rock auto dealership remodeled to store the country's largest presidential collection. The first shipment for the Clinton Presidential Library contained paintings, antiques, books and gifts from the heads of state of foreign countries, said Skip Rutherford, coordinator of the privately funded $25-million project.

Fifty years after his first appearance on the TV show that became known as "American Bandstand," Dick Clark let go of the microphone. The famed host auctioned off a number of items from his personal collection of musical memorabilia, including a microphone he used beginning July 9, 1956 -- his first day on the show that made him famous. The microphone went for $33,000 Wednesday at Guernsey's auction house.

Kobe Bryant is locked in a court battle with his mother because she is trying to auction off his old Lakers and high school memorabilia. Pamela Bryant was given $450,000 up front by Goldin Auctions, a New Jersey auction house, so it could sell mementos from Kobe's days at Lower Merion High in Ardmore, Pa., and in his early seasons with the Lakers. She planned to use the advance to help purchase a home in Nevada. Goldin Auctions announced plans Tuesday for an auction in June of what its website calls "the bryant collection.

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a sweet poem for actress Helen Hayes' daughter, Mary McArthur. Then, six years later, he penned her another one on the reverse of the same page that's, well, a little unsettling. Would you write to a 7-year-old about the "thumb-print of lust"? The poems can be seen at the website of Nate D. Sanders Fine Autographs and Memorabilia . They are part of a lot that is set to go up for auction on April 2. The first poem was written to Mary when she was just a year old. It's a singsong verse: "Is Papa / Your Papa / My Papa?

Like hundreds of fans lining the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards this past weekend, Karalee Miller was determined to memorialize a celebrity moment. From behind the velvet ropes, the 35-year-old Burbank woman screamed and screamed for actor Bradley Cooper's attention. When the "Silver Linings Playbook" actor finally approached her, she drew out her trusty point-and-shoot camera and at arm's length snapped a strained cheek-to-cheek photo with Cooper. It was just the beginning of an evening of such pictures for countless other fans and performers.

Sprawled out on the floor of a New England home, surrounded by yellowing photographs and a flag that once rode in the presidential motorcade, appraiser Dan Meader leafed through history. A folder labeled “Texas Trip” piqued his attention. He opened it and found documents dated the week John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas' Dealey Plaza in 1963. He scanned the notes taken by Kennedy special assistant David Powers. “Three shots,” he read, and then, “I carried my president onto the Air Force One in the casket.” He got goose bumps.

Lady Gaga got a little bad over the weekend in Los Angeles. Actually, she got rather a lot of "Bad. " Gaga was among the bidders Sunday when Julien's Auctions sold off a number of costumes worn by Michael Jackson, including the jacket he wore on his "Bad" tour, and a couple of his trademark crystal-encrusted white gloves. And she took home quite a few pieces of the action in an auction that generated about $5 million. "The 55 pieces I collected today will be archived & expertly cared for in the spirit & love of Michael Jackson, his bravery, & fans worldwide," she tweeted Sunday.

Deep within the high-security Iron Mountain storage facility in Hollywood, where nearly every doorway except for the restroom is protected by a security-card swipe lock, sits the Grammy Museum's permanent collection of pop music artifacts, recordings and memorabilia. Hundreds of 10-inch 78 rpm discs - some from Thomas Edison's record label - reside in archival boxes on 20-foot-long metal shelves, near antique radios and phonograph players, musical instruments, posters and some celebrity fashion items stored out of sight in sturdy garment bags.

Fans of Maria Callas came to a French auction that took them backstage into the great opera diva's private life 23 years after her death. Callas' good luck charm--a painting of the holy family she demanded be in her dressing room for performances--fetched $120,643 from an anonymous European collector Saturday, the first day of the two-day sale of her belongings in the packed Drouot-Montaigne auction house in Paris.

A cardboard guitar cut-out from Keith Richards. Several velvet jackets. A lithograph of Eric Clapton. According to a Reuters story , these were some of the items sold at auction Saturday by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and his ex-wife, Jo, following last year's dissolution of their 23-year marriage. The memorabilia sell-off took place at Julien's Auctions' Beverly Hills gallery.  The auction reportedly raised tens of thousands of dollars from such items as a 1955 Fender Stratocaster guitar that Wood often played in concert.

Still a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe would have been 86 this month, and to celebrate the Hollywood Museum is hosting the largest collection of the actress' memorabilia in the nation. Among the collection are the famous "red velvet" photographs from 1949, rarely seen snapshots and, in a bit of a macabre flourish, the prescription pill bottle found next to her bed at the time of her death. 1660 Highland Ave., L.A. Through Sept. 2. $15 http://www.thehollywoodmuseum.com/