GOOD AND BAD HAIR DAYS

GOOD: A lock of Elvis Presley's hair auctioned for $18,600 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago this week. It was cut in 1958 when he went into the Army. Presley's hair has been auctioned before. In 2002 a large bottle of his hair sold for $115,120. In 2003 a smaller bottle sold for $33,657. In 2008 a quarter of the contents of the small bottle sold for $16,800. Anyone know what is happening with other auctioned clumps of hair? We have written about sales of hair that belonged to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Napoleon, Marilyn Monroe, and others. One collector says he has hair from over 200 famous figures.

BAD: Perhaps because of the publicity surrounding the Amelia Earhart movie coming out on Friday, the International Women's Air and Space Museum in Cleveland tested a clump of Earhart's hair that the Smithsonian Institution gave to the museum 20 years ago. A White House maid is said to have retrieved the clump of hair from a wastebasket when Earhart visited the president right before her fatal flight in 1937. The test results came back. Oops. The clump wasn't even hair at all. It was strands of thread. The "hair" thread will stay on display at the museum with a new description and history.

ROMAN STATUE LOOKS LIKE ELVIS

Roman Statue Looks Like Elvis

Does everyone have a doppelganger? Is this carved marble head that was the corner of a sarcophagus in Roman times proof that Elvis had a previous life? Some think Elvis is still alive today. The puzzling carving will sell at Bonhams in London on October 15, part of a $2 million sale of antiquities. Next thing you know, they may find the Latin words and music to his Roman hit songs, "Sandallium Caeruleum Alutum" (Blue Suede Shoes) and "Atroci No Existiti" (Don't Be Cruel).