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...case of Winona Ryder, convicted last week of grand theft and vandalism for walking out of a Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., with $5,560 of swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...
...behavior like this is never simple, and even Ryder may not know why she stole--repeatedly, according to prosecutors, and so flagrantly that Saks decided it had to put a stop...
...Ryder, who pleaded innocent, donned a FREE WINONA T shirt for the cover of W magazine last June. She also spoofed her predicament on Saturday Night Live. In any case, she fits the profile of a kleptomaniac. In 1990 she checked herself in to a psychiatric ward because she was having anxiety attacks. Transcripts released after the trial suggest she is a habitual offender. And she hardly needed the items she took. "If you look at what Ryder was doing to those clothes--cutting holes in them to get the tags off--do you think she was going to wear...
...Ryder obviously needs help, and there are plenty of therapies that work. "For most shoplifters, getting something for nothing is like giving themselves a reward that they feel they deserve," says Peter Berlin, who runs Shoplifters Alternative, a New York--based rehabilitation program. Psychotherapy may help break the habit, as may drugs such as naltrexone, used to treat alcoholics, or antidepressants like Prozac. But the best therapy may be what Ryder got. When 112 repeat shoplifters were asked in a telephone survey what would deter them, their top choice was "prosecution." --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...CONVICTED. WINONA RYDER, 31, doe-eyed star of The Age of Innocence and The Crucible; for vandalism and shoplifting more than $5,000 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue; in Beverly Hills. Ryder pleaded not guilty, claiming she was under instruction from a director to research a role in an upcoming movie, although which director and film remains unclear. Prosecutors said they would not ask for a jail sentence...