Actor Richard Thomas, 40, John-Boy (1972-77) on The Waltons, and wife Alma, 45, have separated after 17 years of marriage and four children (Richard Jr., 15, and triplets Barbara, Gwyneth and Pilar, 10). Thomas's rep says, "There is no divorce contemplated. They both expect and hope it is temporary."...
June Pointer, 37, of the Pointer Sisters, has filed for divorce in Los Angeles from her husband of 13 years, entrepreneur William Oliver Whitmore. The couple have no children.
A-Team star George Peppard, 63, had a cancerous tumor removed from his right lung May 4 in L.A. A spokesperson says the operation was successful and that Peppard plans to recuperate at his home in L.A. for four weeks.
Bel Air's prince, Will Smith, 23, has his princess after marrying longtime girlfriend songwriter Sheree Zampino, 23, on May 9 in Santa Barbara. The star of NBC's Fresh Prince of Bel Air and his bride said their vows in front of wedding guests Denzel Washington and the Bel Air cast....
Tee for two: Pro golfer John Daly, 26, the long-driving, surprise winner of the PGA Championship tournament last August, married ex-fiancée Bettye Fulford, 39, a former hotel executive, on May 8 in Arkansas. The marriage took care of Fulford's recent breach-of-promise suit against Daly, which contended that he broke a promise to marry her and support their child, due in June. Fulford's attorney Carl Reynolds, says, "The misunderstandings are now resolved, and they are happily married."
Second-string leading man John Lund, 79, a big, blond Clark Gable look-alike who romanced better-known female stars in movies of the '40s and '50s, was found dead of natural causes in his L.A. home on May 10. His 28 films included To Each His Own (1946) with Olivia de Havilland, No Man of Her Own (1950) with Barbara Stanwyck and High Society (1956) with Grace Kelly. Lund retired in 1963....
Chanteuse Sylvia Syms, 73, called "the world's greatest saloon singer" by pal Frank Sinatra, died May 10 of a heart attack suffered moments after she received a standing ovation following a performance at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel. Although Syms had only one major hit ("I Could Have Danced All Night," in 1956), she recorded some 15 albums during her 50-year career and was considered one of the nation's finest jazz singers. An effusive live performer, Syms often confided to her audiences, "No guy is ever going to make love to you the way an audience does."...
Another Sinatra friend (and bodyguard), restaurateur Jilly Rizzo, 75, was killed in a car crash on May 6 in Palm Desert, Calif. Rizzo once owned Jilly's, a Manhattan hangout for Sinatra and his Rat Pack in the 1960s.
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