$100,000 for ‘Brokeback’ Shirts!
Focus Features, distributor of “Brokeback Mountain,” donated the two shirts worn by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie to be sold on the auction Web site ebay.com to benefit Variety — the Children's Charity of Southern California. Tom Gregory logged his winning bid of $101,100.51, just seconds before the 10-day auction came to a close on Feb. 20.
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LOS ANGELES - Tom Gregory just spent more than $100,000 on two used cowboy shirts. And he couldn't be happier.
The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain." The shirts that represent their relationship. The shirts that, to Gregory, represent the ongoing plight of gays for acceptance in society.
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45.
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