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Topic: Citizen Kane Oscar worth just a $1?
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Mitchell Cope
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From: Overland Park, KS, United States
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-23-2003 11:58 AM
There's a report in today's USA Today that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bought back Orson Welles' 1942 screenwriting Oscar for Citizen Kane for $1. If it had gone to auction on Friday at Christie's, it was estimated to have been worth $300,000 to $400,000.
Now, don't get me wrong. I can understand why the Academy doesn't want these statues starting to show up on eBay, but it was worth just a $1? Did they not have any mercy on Beatrice Welles, the filmmaker's daughter. The Academy (as well as the MPAA) are so cheap. Give us, and the Welles family, a break. You pirates!
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