Last night, on Pawn Stars, there was a segment where a lady brought in a presentation script from the movie,"The Godfather". the book was supposedly signed by Al Pacino and given to the director of the movie, Robert Evans.
Today, the Las Vegas Sun wrote an article on how the book was found at Catholic Charities and brought over to the Gold and Silver Shop and eventually on TV.
From the Sun: This is how Diane Hutton, who runs one of the largest thrift store operations in town, ended up on the hit cable TV show "Pawn Stars" on Monday night.
A while back she was explaining to one of the workers in the warehouse at Catholic Charities how to spot valuable books. The fellow was staring at six months’ worth of donated books that had yet to find their way onto the shelves at the charity’s main store on North Rancho Drive near Vegas Drive.
Yes, she told him never to judge a book by its cover.
“I showed him how to flip through the pages and look for money. I’ve found lots of cash in books,” said Hutton, director of retail operations for Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada. “And I told him to be on the lookout for old, first-edition books, and for anything signed by an author.”
The conversation was prompted because Hutton had realized the worker had thrown away a set of 18 Dr. Seuss books — first editions from 1953 and 1958. “He said he thought they were just junkie kid books,” Hutton said. Oops.
She retrieved them and will display them behind glass, for sale, at Catholic Charities’ newest thrift store, opening Saturday at Rainbow and Charleston boulevards.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jul/19/godfather-screenplay-not-big-hit-pawn-stars/
Moral of the story, always look for money in used books and if you want top dollar, don't go to a pawn store.
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script was NOT signed by al pacino, but instead by al ruddy, the godfather's co-producer. autograph expert todd mueller of todd mueller autographs broke the story on autographnewsliveDOTcom
ReplyDeleteauthenticator got it wrong in front of 6 million viewers.
The complete and accurate story is on live.autographmagazine.com . Muellers reputation is covered here as well, but you can always google him to get a better picture of who he really is. It is reported on this site that he was kicked off eBay twice and why.
ReplyDeleteMueller's ebay reputation doesn't matter here because simply stated he got it right and Reznikoff got it wrong.. on national television.
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