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Father Jack White?
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jack White of the White Stripes nearly traded his signature red-and-white outfits for a priest's robe and collar.
As a young teen, the 29-year-old rocker was nearly on the road to divinity school when an amplifier changed his mind.
"I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin and I was going to become a priest, but at the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school,' " White said in an interview on the CBS news program "60 Minutes Wednesday." "I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me."
In the interview, White also discussed how his unlikely partnership with country great Loretta Lynn started with a dedication to her on the White Stripes' disc "White Blood Cells" and culminated with White producing Lynn's Grammy-nominated album "Van Lear Rose."
"I think that Loretta Lynn is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century," White said.
Mandy Moore's T-shirts
NEW YORK (AP) -- T-shirts. Everyone's got them, but no one has enough.
Pop star Mandy Moore created her own line and label, Mblem, so that she could have an unlimited supply of "functional, casual and sexy" T's.
"It all evolved from the fact that I'm totally the jeans and T-shirt girl. If I can get away with wearing jeans and a T-shirt somewhere, I'll do it," Moore told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
"Getting dressed up is fun but I'm really just a lazy bum and that's the extent of the wardrobe in my mind," she said.
For Moore, whose screen credits include "The Princess Diaries" and "Chasing Liberty," fit comes first.
"I'm a tall girl (5-foot-10), so I'm always searching for the perfect jeans and T-shirt," the 20-year-old singer-actress said. "I'm a huge fan of shopping -- I am a girl, after all -- but I find that a lot of the popular T-shirts are too short. I mainly just wanted something that I could kick around in."
She added: "I'm a pretty modest girl so I'm not into anything too risque."
Her Mblem shirts, which are priced at about $50, are available in some of her favorite color combinations, including orange and brown and pink and brown, printed with lyrics of some of her favorite classic rock songs.
"I kind of just did the line selfishly," she said. "I'm lucky to be in the position to do that."
David Caruso, wife split
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "CSI: Miami" star David Caruso and his wife are splitting after eight years of marriage.
Margaret Caruso filed for divorce from Caruso, 49, citing irreconcilable differences, according to a petition filed February 2 in Superior Court. The couple, who married May 4, 1996, have no children.
Caruso, who came to public attention on "NYPD Blue" and now plays police Lt. Horatio Caine on CBS' "CSI: Miami," has a daughter from a previous marriage to actress Rachel Ticotin.
His screen credits include "Proof of Life."
Steve Martin's $1M donation
SAN MARINO, California (AP) -- Entertainer Steve Martin donated $1 million to the American art collection at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.
The gift is seen as a boon for a department traditionally overshadowed by the museum's European collections. Additionally, a new gallery opening this spring will eventually double the exhibition space for American art.
Three-fourths of the gift, which will be made over five years, will be used to put on American art exhibitions, and the remaining $250,000 will likely be used for acquisitions or exhibitions.
"It's extremely rewarding to have someone outside of the core group of supporters understand what we're doing and see how they can help and really make a difference," said Jessica Todd Smith, The Huntington's curator of American art.
Martin is a serious art collector whose acquisitions have included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper and Georges Seurat. In 2002, he was filming a movie nearby and stopped at The Huntington.
"I think he was surprised and impressed by the quality of the American collection and has been supporting us enthusiastically ever since," Smith said.
Martin sponsored last summer's exhibition of the "maple sugar" paintings of 19th-century American artist Eastman Johnson.
"We need more of this type of exhibition in Southern California and The Huntington is clearly interested in doing just that -- bringing significant works of American art to light, contextualizing them, and helping visitors become better acquainted with the artists, the techniques and the significance of the pieces," Martin said in a statement.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
