Atticus Pinched!

In broad daylight – broad California daylight, no less – someone or ones stole Gregory Peck's star off the Hollywood Walk of Fame. No mean feat, since it's embedded in the sidewalk and the thief or thieves had to use a concrete saw to cut through terrazzo and cement to dislodge it. Peck's star, which is worth about $5,000, was placed on the Walk of Fame in 1962, the year he starred as the beloved Atticus Finch in the now-classic To Kill a Mockingbird and two years after the Walk was inaugurated with the placement of Joanne Woodward's star. In the photo above, honorary Hollywood mayor Johnny Grant, posing next to Peck's partial replacement star at Hollywood and Gower, appears to be telling the police that the heist was most likely pulled off by perpetrators dressed as city workers.

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