LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kruse GWS Auctions announced Wednesday, Elvis Presley fans, if they have the money, can take to the road in his personal white 1973 stretch limousine (the car the music icon often used to get around Memphis, Tennessee), a GMC pickup truck that has since been restored or his last motorcycle, a 1976 Harley Davidson FLH 1200 Electra Glide. The auction house said the items will be part of its Artifacts of Hollywood auction on August 31.
Elvis Presley’s keys to his 1973 stretch limousine.
Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr.(February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in theater, television and movies and win an Emmy in his 60s for his comedy turn on TV’s "The Larry Sanders Show," has died.
According to his publicist Rick Miramontez,Torn died Tuesday at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut with his wife, Amy Wright, and two daughters Katie Torn and Angelica Page by his side. No cause of death was given.
Legendary actor who won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Philadelphiain 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994. He has starred in many other classics, including Cast Away (2000), The Green Mile (1999), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Apollo 13 (1995). He voiced the lead character Woody in the Pixar animated film series Toy Story beginning in 1995.
The front-page headline of the Liverpool Evening Express on July 6, 1957, read “MERSEYSIDE SIZZLES,” in reference to the heat wave then gripping not just northern England, but all of Europe. The same headline could well have been used over a story that received no coverage at all that day: The story of the first encounter between two Liverpool teenagers named John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Like the personal and professional relationship it would lead to, their historic first meeting was a highly charged combination of excitement, rivalry and mutual respect.
It’s easy to assume that John and Paul would eventually have met on some other day had a mutual friend not chosen that hot and humid Saturday to make the introduction. But as much as they had in common, the two boys lived in different neighborhoods, went to different schools and were nearly two years apart in age.
Only John was scheduled to perform publicly on July 6, 1957. The occasion was the annual Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, a parade and outdoor fair at which John and his Quarrymen Skiffle Group had been invited to play.
