Hef Tags Harris As His "Runaway Bride"

Sneak Peek model Crystal Harris appearing on the cover of the July 2011 issue of Playboy Magazine, with the headline "America's Princess: Introducing Mrs. Crystal Hefner."

According to reports, 85-year old Playboy founder Hugh M. Hefner, was 'dumped' by his cover-model fiancee days before their wedding, after the issue had gone to print.

In a marketing ploy that is certain to boost circulation for the iconic magazine, Hefner has instructed his staff to apply red and yellow 'Runaway Bride' stickers over Harris' cover photo.

Chicago-based Playboy said they are trying to affix as many stickers on the cover of the magazine as possible, before they hit newsstands later this week.

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'Al Hirschfeld' Auction - June 22, 2011

Wednesday, June 22, 2011, US auctioneers Doyle New York will host "The Hirschfeld Sale" auction comprising over 100 lots of memorabilia, artwork, accessories, books, furniture and decorations from the Manhattan townhouse and studio of famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, who died in 2003.

Highlighting the 'Al Hirschfeld Collection' is a rare copy of his 1941 book, "Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld", estimated at $2,000-3,000.

Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis in 1903, and his family moved to New York when he was twelve. He published his first caricature in 1925, and the next year another appeared in The Herald Tribune. In 1928, The New York Times commissioned a work, which led to a 75-year relationship with the paper.

A special section of The Hirschfeld Sale offers artwork by Al Hirschfeld from other collections, including depictions of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in "Casablanca", Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in "Hello Dolly", Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch", Judy Garland in concert, Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and two self-portraits.

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