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Compiled from Times wires Make your bid to be on TVIf you're not a celebrity, but would still like to make a cameo on Will & Grace, now's your chance. Bidding is hot for walk-on roles on Will & Grace, Scrubs, and eight other NBC series up for sale on eBay, along with autographed scripts and props. There's even an invitation to the Friends wedding of Monica and Chandler. The auction continues through Sunday. Last year's NBC auction raised $60,000 for charity. Memorabilia on the auction blockThe Beatles may top the charts again on Tuesday at Christie's London auction of '60s pop memorabilia. Centerpieces of the auction are a manuscript of Paul McCartney's ballad Hey Jude, which is expected to fetch up to $116,200, and two unreleased recordings by John Lennon. The lineup will include stars' stuff from Andy Warhol to Carlos Santana and Bob Dylan, including a 1967 Gibson J-160E guitar and its battered carrying case owned by Noel Redding, bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. A suit and gaudy pink shirt owned by Elton John will compete with a tan sweater owned by Eric Clapton and a red sweater worn by Elvis Presley in the film "Viva Las Vegas." The mullet turns trendyUrban hipsters have picked up shaggy chic from NHL bruisers with the mullet. That short-on-top, long-in-the-back haircut favored by hockey players and Billy Ray Cyrus is cropping up on guys wearing Prada. "It's the antithesis of the uptown-bond-trader-I-have-my-hair-trimmed-every-two-weeks look," Kenneth Tepper of New York's Stephen Knoll salon told USA Today. Tepper calls the new 'do the "contemporary" or "millennium" mullet. Griffin: Radner's story amazingMerv Griffin jumped at the chance to bring the late comedian Gilda Radner's story into America's living rooms. "She had the brashness of her comedy, but in her personal life there was such a sweetness. Sweetness, that's what I remember about her," Griffin said Thursday in recalling the Saturday Night Live star he called a friend. Griffin is executive producer of tonight's ABC-TV movie Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, a dramatization of her best-selling autobiography that stars Jami Gertz in the title role. "It's an amazing story. I looked at her on the screen and said, 'My God! It's Gilda,' " Griffin said. Griffin said his friend Gene Wilder, who was married to Radner and co-starred with her in 1982's Hanky Panky, approved the project. "They were very private people," Griffin said. "Gene approved the idea (for the television movie), but he didn't want to be involved. He said it would be too difficult for him." Radner was 42 when she died of ovarian cancer in 1989.
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