Retail giant Target came under fire this week for selling a "Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume," which essentially amounted to a kid in blackface dressed like a Jim Crow-era minstrel. Whoops! However, that wasn't the only costume Target was forced to pull from its shelves.
John Travolta's iconic white suit from Saturday Night Fever could fetch up to £300,000 when Propstore puts more than 1,400 pieces of film and TV history on the block next month. The auction house's Summer Entertainment Memorabilia Auction will run four days and feature props, costumes, and collectibles spanning decades of Hollywood production. Among the […] The post Travolta's Saturday Night Fever suit and Shining axe headline massive Propstore memorabilia auction appeared first on American Almanac .
John Travolta's iconic white suit from Saturday Night Fever could fetch up to £300,000 when Propstore puts more than 1,400 pieces of film and TV history on the block next month. The auction house's Summer Entertainment Memorabilia Auction will run four days and feature props, costumes, and collectibles spanning decades of Hollywood production. Among the headline lots: the fake axe Jack Nicholson swung through a bathroom door in The Shining, a hoverboard Michael J. Fox rode in Back to the Future Part II, and a golden snitch from the Harry Potter franchise, The Sun reported . The single priciest item on the docket is not a costume or a weapon. It is a 15-inch stop-motion animation puppet from the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young, estimated to…Open
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