Tuesday, August 30, 2005

One wicked theft: Dorothy's red slippers

The Star-Tribune has sad news.Dorothy's slippers are missing:
Was it the Wicked Witch? Who else this past weekend could have stolen the sequined ruby slippers Dorothy wore in "The Wizard of Oz" -- the most famous pair of shoes in movie history and the toughest shoes to fill in Judy Garland's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minn.?

The size 5½ slippers, which once survived a trip from Oz to Kansas, skipping their way down a yellow brick road and nearly floating over the rainbow, aren't at the Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids anymore. They were reported stolen Sunday.
Is nothing sacred?