Closer Weekly

In 1989, James Comisar purchased his first piece of TV memorabilia — two hand-painted title cards from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Since then, he’s acquired more than 10,000 items from some of the small screen’s most beloved and iconic shows. “I like to concentrate on the historic value of these TV treasures,” says Comisar, who is selling an array of his prized possessions through Heritage Auctions on June 2-4. Highlights include Johnny Carson’s desk and chair from The Tonight Show (est. $100,000), a George Reeves Superman tunic (est. $80,000) and William Shatner’s original Starfleet Captain’s tunic from Star Trek (est. $90,000). “Just as the universe brought these pieces to me to care for and elevate them, so, too, will they find forever homes with the next generation of…

HARRISON FORD & CALISTA FLOCKHART All Smiles Before a screening of his latest movie, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, Harrison received an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement — something he really credits to his wife, Calista. “My life has been enabled by my lovely wife, who has supported my passions and my dreams,” shared Harrison. “And I’m grateful.” Cannes Film Festival MICHAEL DOUGLAS Sealed With a Kiss After daughter Carys and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones showed how they felt, Michael got even more love on May 17 When he, too, was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or at the 76th annual film fete. “This means so much to me, because there are hundreds of film festivals around the world, but there is only one Cannes,” admitted Michael,…

Amy Yasbeck jokes that she, with her late husband John Ritter’s children, remember him by “acting like idiots” together. “We celebrate our burps and farts, falls and slips, just constantly doing bits,” she tells Closer. John’s oldest son, Jason Ritter, even sends her jokes by text. “We do puns back and forth until we’re exhausted,” she says. Twenty years after his death at age 54 from aortic dissection, a sudden tear in the heart’s main artery, John’s memory is very much alive. His family, close friends and co-stars from Three’s Company and 8 Simple Rules recently came together at the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health’s An Evening From the Heart celebration. “John was just pure human loveliness,” says actress Holly Robinson Peete, a close friend of Amy and John. “Even…

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