Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors, 60, and Faith Noelle, 25, a homemaker, announced their engagement on Feb. 1. They plan to wed in 2001. Majors split from his second wife, actress Farrah Fawcett, in 1982....
Miss America and former Miss Kentucky Heather French, 25, and the Bluegrass state's Lt. Gov. Stephen Henry, 46, an orthopedic surgeon by profession, plan to tie the knot on Oct. 27, shortly after the beauty queen's reign runs out. This will be the first marriage for both.
Deaths
Oklahoma Rep. Carl Albert, 91, who rose from a humble background in the Sooner state hamlet of Bug Tussle to become Speaker of the House from 1971 to 1976, died on Feb. 4 in McAlester, Okla....
Following a cardiorespiratory arrest on Feb. 8, the Kansas City Chiefs' Derrick Thomas, 33, a nine-time Pro Bowl linebacker, died at the Miami hospital where he was recovering from a Jan. 23 car crash that had left him paralyzed from the chest down....
Actor Todd Karns, who played Harry Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (and memorably delivered the toast at its end: "To my big brother George, the richest man in town!"), died Feb. 5 of lung cancer in Ajijic, Mexico. He was 79....
Songbird Doris Coley Kenner Jackson, who sang with the girl group the Shirelles (and also sang the lead on their 1959 hit "Dedicated to the One I Love"), died on Feb. 4 of breast cancer in Sacramento. She was 58....
Rock and roller Dave Peverett, lead singer of the 1970s group Foghat ("Slow Ride"), died of complications from kidney cancer on Feb. 7 in Orlando. He was 56....
Gorilla Willie B., whose isolation for 27 years in Zoo Atlanta drew public outrage in the '80s, died there on Feb. 2 of heart failure. He was 41.
Exit
Mattel CEO Jill Barad, 48, who said, "Hello, dolly," to the down-at-the-heels Barbie brand in 1983 and helped raise sales to almost $2 billion yearly, resigned on Feb. 3 in El Segundo, Calif. Known as the Babe in Toyland, Barad told shareholders that her $3.5 billion acquisition of the Learning Company, a software outfit, had been financially devastating for Mattel.
All Better
Ally McBeal actress Lisa Nicole Carson, 30, recently spent two weeks in a New York City hospital after reportedly smoking a marijuana cigarette laced with PCP.
Recuperating
On Feb. 2 doctors removed a portion of the lung of Monaco's 76-year-old Prince Rainier to examine a small nodular growth, which is being diagnosed....
Sen. Edward Kennedy, who turns 68 on Feb. 22, entered a Washington, D.C., hospital on Feb. 6 with a viral illness from hich he is expected to recover fully....
Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 64, accidentally cut his hand on Feb. 1 while playing with a knife at his Mississippi home and suffered an allergic reaction to a local anesthetic. He is expected to recover fully.
Money Matters
New York State claims that Martha Stewart has been lax in her housekeeping—at least concerning taxes. The state's Division of Tax Appeals recently rejected arguments contesting a $221,677 tab imposed because the domestic goddess had lived in East Hampton, N.Y., for more than half of 1991 and '92 but claimed residency in Connecticut. A spokeswoman says that Stewart, 58, "believes she was unfairly taxed" and plans another appeal.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
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