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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 26 November 2019

This image released by CBS shows Peter Begman, who portrays
Jack Abbott with co-star Melissa Ordwat, who portrays his niece
Abby Newman on the long-running daytime drama "The Young
and the Restless."
Associated Press

A caution tape is fixed at the entrance to catacombs under the August Bridge, where a fire de-
stroyed the power supply for the State Art Collection with the Green Vault in Dresden, Germany, 'Young and the
Monday, Nov. 25, 2019.
Associated Press Restless' marks Peter
Thieves steal 'priceless' jewel Bergman's milestone

sets from Dresden museum By LYNN ELBER Braeden). Bergman, who

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Five starred for a decade on
Associated Press whether all the 100-or-so can't understand the his- years ago, "The Young and "All My Children," has col-
BERLIN (AP) — Thieves broke pieces were missing, but tory of Saxony without the the Restless" celebrated Pe- lected a total of 21 Emmy
into Dresden's Green Vault, that the sets included intri- Green Vault." ter Bergman's quarter-cen- Award nominations for best
one of the world's oldest cate and dazzling brooch- Investigators are currently tury on the daytime serial lead actor and won three
museums, early Monday es, buttons, buckles and looking into whether a fire with a cake and speeches. trophies for "The Young and
morning, making off with other items. at an electrical junction The actor says he didn't ex- the Restless."
three "priceless" sets of 18th Green Vault director Dirk box near the museum, pect any fuss over his 30th His character's growth has
century jewelry that Ger- Syndram stressed that the which took out the street- year playing Jack Abbott, kept the work interesting,
man officials said would collections in the museum lights at the time of the but producers devised a he said.
be impossible to sell on the have "invaluable cultural robbery was linked to the plot twist worthy of a soap "My earliest memories of
open market. value" — particularly their crime, said Volker Lange, opera. Jack are of this kind of rak-
The treasury of Augustus completeness. the police officer leading To publicly honor the anni- ish cad of a fellow, pretty
the Strong of Saxony was "Nowhere in any other col- the probe. versary, Monday's episode weak sense of moral grav-
established in 1723 and to- lection in Europe have jew- He said the outage af- was all about Jack and ity and out for himself," he
day contains around 4,000 els or sets of jewels been fected lights in front of a those close to him. As he said. "And one by one,
objects of gold, precious preserved in this form and window through which the reads his sister Traci's (Beth these relationships Jack
stones and other materi- quantity," he said. "The val- thieves gained entrance, Maitland) family memoir, has have forced a kind of
als on display in Dresden's ue is really in the ensemble." somehow getting through his past is revisited with clips empathy on the character.
Royal Palace. Police said they were alert- bars and safety glass. from previous seasons and He starts to see the world
Authorities said it appeared ed shortly before 5 a.m. by Lange said they were also appearances by other Ab- through other people's
the thieves had broken unarmed museum secu- trying to determine whether botts, including Eileen Da- eyes," with credit to the
open only one glass case rity guards who had spot- an unregistered car, found vidson as Ashley. women he's known.
containing three sets of Ba- ted two burglars inside the on fire nearby with all four "As flattered as I was, I Bergman is aware that ac-
roque jewelry made up of downtown museum on vid- doors open and smelling of didn't know how interest- tors rarely have job secu-
dozens of gems each. eo surveillance cameras. gasoline, may have been ing this was going to be, rity, including in the day-
"This is a bitter day for the The first officers arrived the getaway car. or how much fun," Berg- time serial realm where the
cultural heritage of Sax- on the scene within min- Dresden's State Art Collec- man said of the retrospec- number of shows has been
ony," the state's interior utes but the thieves had tions director, Marion Ack- tive. "Well, I was so moved diminished by changed
minister, Roland Woeller, already fled in a waiting ermann, said it was impos- by the whole thing. It was viewing habits.
told reporters. getaway car, which man- sible to estimate the value retracing three decades "A lot of our friends are ac-
He said the thieves "stole aged to elude immediate of the items. of my life and, obviously, tors with remarkable re-
cultural treasures of immea- attempts to find it in the sur- "We cannot give a value three decades of Jack's sumes, who have struggled
surable worth — that is not rounding area and on the because it is impossible to life." and been unemployed for
only the material worth but nearby highway, Dresden sell," she said, appealing to He said he hopes it's enjoy- long periods of time," he
also the intangible worth to police chief Joerg Kubiessa the thieves not to break the able for viewers as well, in- said. "So to look at this as
the state of Saxony, which told reporters. ensembles into pieces. "The cluding seeing the succes- 30 years of solid work, 30
is impossible to estimate." "It's not just the State Art Col- material value doesn't re- sion of hairstyles and fash- years where I didn't have
Police are still carrying out lections that was robbed, flect the historic meaning." ions over the decades. to look for work as an ac-
forensic exams of the crime but us Saxons," Michael A special team of inves- Bergman stepped in as tor, is a pretty extraordinary
scene and museum offi- Kretschmer, the governor tigators has been estab- Jack on Nov. 27, 1989, re- thing. And if I didn't know
cials said they have not yet of Saxony, where Dresden lished to pursue the case, placing Terry Lester as the that on my own, I have lots
been able to determine is located, tweeted. "One Woeller said.q rival to Victor Newman (Eric of friends to remind me."q