Depeche Mode lead singer Dave Gahan, 33, was released from an L.A. hospital after an apparent suicide attempt on Aug. 17, when police found him in his home with a two-inch gash in his wrist.
Former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger, 61, pleaded guilty Aug. 22 to five misdemeanor counts of accepting improper federal expenses while in office. The Minnesota Republican, who was denounced by the Senate in 1990 and chose to retire in 1994 rather than seek reelection, was accused of collecting $3,825 in reimbursements for stays at a condo he owned in Minneapolis. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 30.
Singer Bobby Brown, 126, was issued a citation for misdemeanor battery after an Aug. 18 incident in which he allegedly kicked a security guard at Le Montrose Suite Hotel in L.A. The guard had asked him to keep down the noise at a late-night party in his room. No court date has been set. In April, Brown, who is married to singer Whitney Houston, was charged with aggravated battery and disorderly conduct after allegedly beating up a patron at a Disney-owned nightclub near Orlando.
Former Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill, 39, and her husband, sports physician Kenneth Forsythe, 51, announced Aug. 21 that they are separating after eight years of marriage; they have one child, Alexandra, 6. Retired from competition, Hamill bought the financially ailing Ice Capades in 1993 but sold it last February.
Today coanchor Katie Couric, 38, and her husband of six years, attorney Jay Monahan, 39, are expecting their second child in early January. Their daughter Ellie is 4.
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Howard Koch, 93, who coauthored Casablanca, died of pneumonia in Kingston, N.Y., on Aug. 17. Originally a lawyer, Koch began writing radio scripts—including Orson Welles's infamous 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds—before moving to film. He shared a 1941 Oscar nomination for Sergeant York before winning in 1944 with Casablanca. Blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer in 1950, when he refused to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Koch went to London, where he wrote films under pseudonyms. He returned to the U.S. in 1956 and continued screenwriting....
Danny Arnold, an Emmy-winning TV writer-producer who created the hit series Barney Miller (1975-1982), died of heart failure at his Los Angeles home on Aug. 19; he was 70....
Nobel laureate and University of Chicago astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose research into the evolution of stars helped lead to the discovery of black holes, died of a heart attack in Chicago on Aug. 21; he was 84.
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