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Stefani's red vinyl dress stolen. Singer wore it on Tragic Kingdom
coverThe cover of No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom album FULLERTON, California- A red vinyl dress worn by pop singer Gwen Stefani of No Doubt for the band's first hit album has been stolen from a museum. The dress, which was on a mannequin behind a plastic glass wall, disappeared Tuesday afternoon from an exhibit dedicated to the history of rock music in Orange County. Stefani, 35, who attended high school and college in the county, wore the sleeveless dress with matching red boots for the cover of the 1995 album, Tragic Kingdom, which included the hits Don't Speak and Just a Girl and sold about 15 million copies worldwide. The exhibit curator, Jim Washburn, said the dress could be worth up to $5,000 US. A police investigation is focusing on two young women seen near the exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center with backpacks around the time of the theft. Police have made no arrests. Stefani's record company, Interscope, said the dress could be returned with no questions asked at a drop box at the museum or at the office of Rebel Waltz Inc., the Laguna Beach company that manages No Doubt. Malcolm Gladwell studies small things, but...
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"I wanted to get
people thinking about how we make decisions," says Gladwell, whose
previous book has been cited by everybody from former president Bill
Clinton to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz. "We think what's on the
surface is all we need to know when, in fact, there's so much going on
under the surface that we don't know about." In the book's
introduction, Gladwell cites a debate from the art world in the 1980s:
The authenticity of a marble statue of a nude male youth, or "kouros,"
that supposedly dated back to ancient Greece. The J. Paul Getty Museum
in Los Angeles had agreed to purchase the kouros after an extensive
investigation concluded that the statue was hundreds if not thousands
of years old. But some experts felt an "intuitive repulsion": museum
trustee Federico Zeri looked at the kouros and immediately sensed
something wrong, something about the statue's fingernails.-Hilel Italy
Brad Pitt returns to Tokyo
TOKYO- It's back to work for Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston -- but no breakup questions, please. In his first public appearance since the couple announced their split last week, Pitt arrived in Tokyo Wednesday to promote his new film, Ocean's Twelve. Hundreds of cheering fans met the 41-year-old actor at the Narita international airport, where Pitt signed autographs. But the international media, hoping for some insight into Pitt's separation from Aniston, were barred from a press conference. Only Japanese media, who were restricted from asking personal questions, were allowed by Warner Bros. to attend. Fans, though, waited up to 10 hours to meet Pitt and his Ocean's Twelve co-star George Clooney. The film is a sequel to 2001's Ocean's Eleven. "He (Pitt) is so cool," one fan told AP Television News. "He was cooler than he was in the movies and truly a gentleman. He must be feeling sensitive now. Yet, I'm glad he came over in spite of such feelings." Meanwhile, Aniston, 35, began filming her next movie, Friends With Money. On Wednesday, she was seen shooting scenes in Santa Monica, Calif., with co-star Frances McDormand. On Jan. 7, Pitt and Aniston issued a statement saying they were separating after 4 1/2 years of marriage. Tabloids have devoted dozens of pages to speculation over why they split. In the statement, the couple said: "For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any speculation reported by the tabloid media. This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration." Aniston is perhaps the most recognizable star of Friends, the NBC ensemble show that concluded a 10-year run last year. She also has starred in films such as Along Came Polly, Bruce Almighty and The Good Girl. Pitt is one of Hollywood's most bankable film stars. His screen credits include Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, Seven Years in Tibet, Sleepers, 12 Monkeys and Legends of the Fall.
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NEW
YORK- Malcolm Gladwell, whose bestseller The Tipping Point
explored how minor events can lead to momentous changes, got the
idea for his next project simply by letting his hair grow long. "I
started getting speeding tickets for the first time in my life and
getting pulled aside for security at airports," recalls the
41-year-old Gladwell, who also cites a time a couple of years ago
when New York police stopped and questioned him because he
supposedly resembled a rape suspect -- a man taller, heavier and
15 years younger than the author. "I decided at that point that I
wanted to write a book about first impressions," says Gladwell, a
staff writer for The New Yorker. His new work, Blink: The Power of
Thinking Without Thinking, has just been published. Like The
Tipping Point, Gladwell's current book is a study of small things
with great consequences, in this case snap decisions that can
prove uncannily correct or tragically wrong. In Blink, which has a
first printing of 250,000, Gladwell details the importance of
instincts in a wide range of professions.
Brad
Pitt in Narita, east of Tokyo.