who knew?

 Sometimes I am just surprised

    Not like when I find a dusty M & M buried in the couch.  

    Or when the Bears score a touchdown.

    I am not even surprised when someone says they are not going to rip down part of a national treasure and then they rip it down.

    But I am surprised at people who buy......well, I am not sure what to call it.

    Remember Rosebud?  The sled in Citizen Kane?  The sled thrown into the fire a the end of the movie?  That Rosebud?

    It seems there are 3 surviving Rosebuds in the world and one of them sold for $14.75 million.  For a prop in a movie.  

    It doesn't seem to have any historical significance, but it does have a cultural significance.  I guess.

    Much like a pair of Dorothy's ruby red slippers that sold for about $30 million.

    Darth Vader's light saber used in the battle with Luke sold for $3.6 million.

    What??

    Can you imagine the buyers having kids? 

    Halloween is coming and junior is out with his Darth Vader costume and his dad's light saber.  (I say dad's because I don't think a woman would be inclined to spend that much money on a light saber.)

    I hesitate to guess what happens to the person who puts Dorothy's slippers on as part of their Halloween costume. 

    Winter finally comes and  little Ian wrecks his granddad's sled going down a super steep hill, only to have granddad have a massive heart attack upon seeing the wreckage of Rosebud.

    The rich are sure different from us, aren't they?

    Speaking of movies, I went to bed last night with a vision stuck in my brain. 

    It was from a movie, or book, maybe both.

    A man goes into a gypsy camp to get some help in a plot.  Two women get in an argument and they are bound at the wrists and given knives to fight to the death.  As they woman juke around each other, gunfire opens and the gypsy camp comes under attack

    The man, who I thought might be Bogart but not John Wayne, grabs the girls and saves them.  The gypsies fight off the attack and the plot continues.

    That was all I remember.

    You would think that I would not be bothered, but I was. 

    So at 2:30 this morning I Googled gypsies in movies.

    From Russia With Love with Sean Connery was on the list.

    I have seen the movie, and read the book, but I have no idea what the context was for him to be in the gypsy camp.

    But it sure kept me awake!

Peace and Love