The Mercury News Weekend

Brooke Shields rescues art from trash

- — Chuck Shepherd

In July, actress Brooke Shields made the news when she — as a curator of an art show in Southampto­n, New York— managed to rescue a piece that custodians had inadverten­tly tossed into the garbage. (The cleanup crew had made an understand­able mistake, as the statue was a raccoon standing next to a trashcan, ready to rummage.)

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