Stockholm or bust
A bronze bust of film legend Greta Garbo finally found a home Sunday on the block where she was born.
In the mid-1990s, a local householders' association in Stockholm, Sweden, commissioned a bronze bust from Swedish artist Jan-Erik Bjoerk and put it in the southern part of the capital. But the city's art council ruled that the bust did not look like the Swedish actress and ordered it taken down.
A new bust was done by German artist Julia Eble, but the art council again rejected the likeness and banned it from city property. So the association appealed to the private sector, finally donating the bust to a private realty company that put it on the facade of its building.
"As this is a private building, the art council has no say," association spokesman Rune Sahlstroem said.
Garbo, who fiercely guarded her privacy, died in New York City in 1990 at age 84.
Tiger handler
Warren Buffett was the richest caddie in the world at least for a day. And the golfer he was caddying for isn't too bad off, either.
The billionaire investor was an honorary caddie for Tiger Woods as part of a charity event last week in Florida.
Buffett donned a white caddie jumpsuit with "Woods" on the back as Woods played a round with the highest bidders in an auction, who paid $650,000 for the round.
The 70-year-old Buffett didn't actually lug Woods' clubs around.
"It wasn't the hardest job," Buffett told Sunday's Omaha World-Herald. "I mostly rode in a cart."
Deal goes sour
A Los Angeles interior designer is suing NBC and the writers of the television show "Will & Grace," claiming they based one of the sitcom's characters on him without compensating him for use of his image.
In a suit filed Friday, Jack Deamer alleges writer Max Mutchnick promised to buy him a house and a car in exchange for basing the character "Jack" on him.
An NBC official declined to comment on the lawsuit, saying he had not seen it.
Nebraska honor
The man who as a child provided the voice of Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" received Nebraska's 2001 Buffalo Bill Award for positive influence in the entertainment field, with a focus on western heritage.
Dick Jones' career has spanned 55 years and he has appeared in nearly 100 movies and more than 200 television productions.
Born in 1927, Jones began his career at Texas rodeos when he was 4 years old. Discovered by cowboy movie star Hoot Gibson in 1932, he was invited to Hollywood and earned his first movie paycheck doing stunt work in the Warner Bros. movie "Wonder Bar," starring Al Jolson.
When he was 11 years old, Jones was chosen by Walt Disney to be the voice of Pinocchio in the animated film classic.
Jones was hired by Gene Autry to play the sidekick of Jack O'Mahoney in the television series "Range Rider," then as the star in the 1950s of the Buffalo Bill Junior series.
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