The TV Zone

Rich people are different from you and me - they got money! (Ba dum...) And they got money to spend on stuff that I can't imagine spending it on. Case in point: Today's Christie's auction, wrapped a little while ago, in which a few dozen Tony Soprano et al costumes, clothes, shirts, pants, and other generally assorted wearable things, were sold for $187,800.

What went for the highest price, by FAR? Tony's blood-stained shirt and pants - the ones he was wearing when Uncle June came down the stairs in a fit of insane dementia, shot him and left him for dead, setting up that great multi-episode dream sequence where (among many other things) Tone was slapped around by monks at an elevator. This went for $43,800. If the cleaning person had washed off the clothes after this memorable scene, it probably woulda gone for $500.

That would be essere fottuto.

Don't you agree?

Got me to thinking: What would Pussy's talking fish head have gone for? (It wasn't on the block.) Those funky statues in Melfi's office? The fridge in the Soprano's kitchen? (An empty orange juice carton, proven to have been drained by Tony himself?) The newspapers in Tony's driveway?

My point: There are billions to be made here.

Here's the Christie's site with the full list. A hoot worth checking out.