Want Elvis' Pill Bottles?

[underpants]

This black doctor’s bag was used by Elvis Presley’s personal physician, George C. Nichopoulos — better known as “Dr. Nick” — for making house calls to Graceland. It will be accompanied by a photo of Dr. Nick about to board Elvis’s plane, with Lisa Marie holding the bag, at the auction of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe personal items being held in Las Vegas later this month.

By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 9:51 a.m. ET, Thurs., June 4, 2009
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31100610/?GT1=43001
A white fox stole may not be politically correct these days. But the one that appeared on the TODAY show Thursday belonged to Marilyn Monroe, and that makes it a piece of pop history — not to mention a potentially potent investment in these troubled economic times.

“This is something very personal to Marilyn Monroe,” Martin Nolan of Julien’s Auctions told Meredith Vieira, inviting her to try it on.

Items of icons
Among the hundreds of items are prescription pill bottles that once held the many medications Presley was taking at the time of his death at the age of 42 on Aug. 16, 1977.

In a similarly macabre vein, one of the Monroe items is the bathrobe that is said to be the last article of clothing she wore on Aug. 5, 1962, the day she died in her Brentwood, Calif., home of an overdose of barbiturates.

The auction event will take place on June 26 and 27 at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

The measure of the enduring popularity of both Monroe and Presley is the $800-$1,200 that each of 12 ordinary pill containers is expected to bring. One of the bottles bears a label showing it was prescribed the day before Presley died. Another item is a curious bit of glass tubing called a nasal douche that Presley used to irrigate his sinuses with saline solution before a concert performance.

[Taverner]

1. Was that the "Dr Nick" the one on Simpsons was named after?

[tridim]

7. First thing I though of too.

It makes complete sense.

[underpants]

9. Wow I never made that connection

I know that the Dr. Hibbert is a play on Dr. Huxtable because the Simpsons used to go head-to-head against the Cosby show

[SteppingRazor]

2. If I had the cash to throw around, I'd totally get the doctor's bag...

and then use it to store my own medications. :evilgrin:

[virgogal]

3. I'm speechless.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Just the pills, please.

[madaboutharry]

5. This is just a whole new level of weirdness

to me.

Why on earth would anyone want these? I think it is kind of sick.

[spanone]

6. the kind of 'news' that made the Today Show what it is

[underpants]

8. The link isn't *just* a news story- it also a commentary on how it went on TV

As Vieira tossed the fur — estimated to be worth $12,000 — over her shoulders, Nolan and the auction house’s Darien Julien talked about their upcoming sale of personal items once owned by two of the most luminous and iconic stars of 20th century America: Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.

“People want anything to do with his life or career,” Julien told Vieira.

--yeah that is some great stuff. They post a "news story" that highlights their on air personalities-- :eyes: