FRIDAY: MORE OF "THE BEST"

Best Big Spender:

                            

pictured above: “Rothschild Faberge Egg”

Purchased by Who: Big Spender

Where:  Christie’s Auction House

Price Paid:  $18 million (American) dollars !

Best Bun In The Oven:

                                  

pictured above: “Jen-Ja”

(It sounds Oriental-ish but it’s just my combination of the names Jennifer and Jason) .

Best Stamps:

pictured above: “Sinatra”

Commemorative 41 cent U.S. Postage Stamp unveiled on December 12th and to be released next spring…

                                

Best Mummy Dinosaur:

pictured above: Hadrosaur “Dakota”

Discovered in 1999 (in North Dakota) by the then 16 year old Tyler Lison.

Best Actor/Comedian:

Congrats Steve on your Kennedy Center Honors (2007)….

Best Picture:

pictured above: “Simon”

Best Diva: “Renee”

  Opera Diva Renee Fleming….

Best Classic Films: (as selected by the Library Of Congress)

                           

Ten of the 25 “classics” selected are: “12 Angry Men”, “The Naked City”, “A Lonely Place”, “Oklahoma”, “The Strong Man”, “Bullitt”, “Dances With Wolves”, “Days Of  Heaven”, “The Women”, and  “Wuthering Heights” (1939)….Can you name the remaining 15?

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