Jimmy Stewart museum to honor Ben Gazzara

Jimmy Stewart museum to honor Ben Gazzara

INDIANA, Pa. — Ben Gazzara will be honored with the 2009 Harvey Award by the museum dedicated to Jimmy Stewart.

The 78-year-old actor will receive the award from the James M. Stewart Museum Foundation on April 25. The museum is in Stewart’s hometown of Indiana, Pa., about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The Harvey Award is named for the 1950 film in which Stewart befriends an invisible rabbit.

Police recover stolen masterpieces of art

ROME — Italian police have recovered 10 masterpieces, including a painting attributed to an artist who worked on the Sistine Chapel, that were stolen in 2004 from an ancient religious complex in Rome, officials said Tuesday.

Officers located the paintings in December. The works were hidden in the trailer of a suspected art smuggler, police said.

Investigators believe the man was about to take the works abroad to sell them, Carabinieri paramilitary police art squad chief Gen. Giovanni Nistri said. The suspect is under investigation for receiving stolen goods, but is not believed to be behind the theft.

Today’s birthdays

“60 Minutes” commentator Andy Rooney is 90. Blues singer Clarence Carter is 73. Actress Faye Dunaway is 68. Actor Carl Weathers is 61. Rapper Slick Rick is 44. Rapper LL Cool J is 41. Actor Jason Bateman is 40. Musician Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters (and Nirvana) is 40.