Sunday: Today is the day Bill
and I had planned on going to the city to see the shoes at Christie's.
Bill, armed with his camera, and myself with my still and my video camera
arrived early so we walked around nervously passing the time.
Christie's finally opened! We walked
around the floor briefly (surprisingly, it's not a big room!) and we couldn't
find the shoes! Bill spotted the case where they were supposed to
be, and we asked. The person looked at us as if to say "Oh, my!",
muttered something and walked off, whispered something to someone else...
We decided to go look at the Cowardly Lion costume for a minute and by
the time we turned back around, a sparkle caught our eye about the same
time.
They were there!
I must admit, Bill and I did everything
but press our noses to the glass to get a good look at those shoes! I think
Bill did have his nose on the glass once, but I promised him I wouldn't
say anything.... It's like we'd look a while, walk away, be drawn
back, over and over again. As much Oz 'stuff' as they had there that
normally would have fascinated me - the shoes are what I went for.
We were quite amused by the 'Dorothy double'
that Christie's had hired to walk the floor, who claimed to had been in
her ruby slippers (retch!) for 60 years... That her stuffed Toto
was acting funny because he 'fell off the roof when her house landed on
Christie's that morning....' Yes, she 'came by twister...' This Dorothy
acted as if she was going to tell us about the ruby slippers, but Bill
and I certainly set her straight on what was what with those shoes!
Much video was taken of the shoes that
day - a lot of it was with the camera right up against the glass, getting
minute details, tracing the shoes from toe to heel on both the exposed
sides, the toes, etc.. For every yard of video I took, I think
Bill took a picture!
After our stint at Christie's, we headed
out for lunch at Planet Hollywood. We couldn't find any Judy there,
except for her face (via A Star is Born) in a large b/w mural type thing
She was noticeably crooked - to which Bill went over and straightened her
up!
Then it was time for the Warner Brothers
Store! It was jam packed with Oz material, they could have almost
called it the Oz Wing! I bought a ruby slipper pen. And I also took
Bills picture - next to his namesake.
That night, our nightcap consisted of watching
the tape of the day all over again to see what our spoils were - the tape
turned out pretty good!
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