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A California woman plans to list the crypt now occupied by her husband on eBay with a unique selling point: It is just above the one where Marilyn Monroe rests. Elsie Poncher told the Los Angeles Times the minimum bid will be $500,000 for the crypt at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park.

By Check It Out CHECK IT OUT! 1 SHAKESPEARE UNBOUND: DECODING A HIDDEN LIFE, by Rene Weis. Using clues in Shakespeare's plays and overlooked sources at Stratford, the author claims to solve mysteries about the writer's life.

Take it from someone who has to choose just one young-adult book to review every other week: There's an incredible amount of interesting stuff being published for younger readers these days.

Maybe it should be called the Resurrection Party of the Century. In a bid to raise money for writers and poets displaced by Hurricane Katrina, a fledgling group of writers ladled up some haute couture in the Crescent City by staging a re-enactment of Truman Capote's 1966 extravaganza, the Black and White Ball.