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Article: Winona Ryder tries laughter to defuse theft scandal situation
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2002
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Actress Winona Ryder arrives with her attorney, Mark Geragos, at the Beverly Hills Criminal Court House. She was arrested in December at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills for allegedly possessing painkillers without a prescription and stealing nearly $6,000 worth of designer merchandise. As Ryder's felony shoplifting case heads to trial and she promotes her new comedy, "Mr. Deeds," her jokes about the incident have only rankled prosecutors while failing to create a groundswell of public sympathy.(PHOTO) (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO)
Winona Ryder has poked fun at her shoplifting arrest on "Saturday Night Live," the MTV Movie ...