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NBC to auction bricks from Lennon's home
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LOS ANGELES, California -- NBC is using a unique fund-raising technique to help finance a movie about slain Beatle John Lennon. It's planning to auction 150 bricks from the Liverpool, England, house where his Aunt Mimi raised him in the 1950s.
The network got the bricks from the house on Menlove Avenue, Woolton, during filming in Liverpool for a two-hour TV movie about Lennon's teen years, "In His Life: The John Lennon Story."
No one knows how much these pieces of Lennon history will fetch. But 5,000 bricks from Liverpool's Cavern Club, an old Beatles haunt, are now selling for $300-$500 each on the Web, notes Michael O'Hara, writer and executive producer.
The current owner of Lennon's childhood home is to get half the profits, some will be donated to the nearby Strawberry Fields children's home immortalized in the Beatles song, and the rest will go to cover movie costs.
The auction is slated to take place at www.nbci.com/lennon, from Wednesday until December 4.
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