Burglar steals jewelry from newswoman’s home

Burglar steals jewelry
from newswoman’s home

NEW YORK — A burglar posing as a construction worker made away with about $100,000 worth of jewelry and electronics in a broad-daylight heist at Leslie Stahl’s apartment, police said Friday. Police wouldn’t provide specifics, but the New York Post reported the burglar posed as a construction worker and stole several diamond watches, a pearl necklace, earrings, gold and silver necklaces and a laptop. The break-in occurred during the morning of Jan. 25 at the “60 Minutes” correspondent’s apartment overlooking Central Park. Stahl, a former White House correspondent who has been on the CBS news magazine since 1991, wasn’t home at the time. The burglar reportedly went onto the roof, gained access by breaking a patio door and then ransacked the apartment Stahl shares with her husband, writer Aaron Latham, and daughter.

Pleshette gets a star
on Walk of Fame

LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, less than two weeks after she died of respiratory failure. On what would have been her 71st birthday, Pleshette received the walk’s 2,355th star. The husky-voiced television, film and theater star died Jan. 19. She underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006. She was best known for her role as Bob Newhart’s wife on “The Bob Newhart Show,” a CBS comedy that ran from 1972-78. Newhart attended the star’s unveiling, which had been planned before Pleshette’s death. “The only thing that exceeds her talent and her beauty was her bravery, because she was one of the greatest women,” Newhart said. “Many people walk through your life and very few people leave footprints on your heart,” said Marcia Wallace, another “Newhart” co-star. “She left footprints on my heart, and now we can all leave our footprints on her star. She’d love it.”

Today’s birthdays

Comedian Tom Smothers is 71. Rock singer-guitarist Graham Nash is 66. Country singer Howard Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) is 62. Actress Farrah Fawcett is 61. Actor Brent Spiner is 59. Rock musician Ross Valory (Journey) is 59. Model Christie Brinkley is 54. Rock musician Robert DeLeo (Army of Anyone and Stone Temple Pilots) is 42. Rock musician Ben Mize (Counting Crows) is 37. Singer Shakira is 31.