Actor Patrick Stewart, 59, who played Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in many of the Star Trek movies, and his longtime ladylove, Wendy Neuss, 45, a TV and film producer, will be married this summer.
Deaths
Former Treasury Secretary and energy czar William Simon, who was best known for managing the oil crisis in the 1970s and as a philanthropist who gave away a third of his $350 million fortune to various charities, died on June 3 of complications from pulmonary fibrosis in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 72....
R&B performer Johnnie Taylor, who had the chart-toppers "Who's Making Love" in 1968 and "Disco Lady" in 1976, died of a heart attack in Dallas on May 31. He was 62....
Tyler Williams, one of a set of triplets born on Feb. 1 to Richard and Crystal Williams, the couple whose story of two sets of triplets born within two years was told in PEOPLE's June 5 issue, died on June 1 in Baltimore. At birth, Tyler weighed 3 lbs. 13 oz. The cause of his death is still under investigation....
Saxophonist and singer Tex Beneke, 86, whose dulcet Dixie voice is heard on the Glenn Miller Orchestra hits "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo," died on May 30 in Costa Mesa, Calif....
Swedish neurosurgeon Petter Lindstrom, who was married to Oscar-winning actress Ingrid Bergman for 10 years until she left him—amid scandal—for Italian director Roberto Rossellini in the late '40s, died on May 24 in Sonoma, Calif. He was 93 and the father of TV film critic Pia Lindstrom.
Much Better
On June 3, doctors at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., removed comic Bob Hope, 97, from the critical list as he continued to improve from gastrointestinal bleeding that was diagnosed two days earlier. "His condition naturally repairs itself in 90 percent of cases," said Hope's physician, who predicted a full recovery....
Rock-and-roller Rod Stewart had surgery on his thyroid on May 12 in L.A., after doctors discovered a nodule on the gland. The 55-year-old went home with a clean bill of health.
Wed
Scott Weiland, 32, the lead singer for the Stone Temple Pilots, and model Mary Forsberg, 25, tied the knot on May 21 in L.A. It was his second marriage, her first.
Births
Metallica lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield, 36, and his wife Francesca, 30, a part-time water-aerobics instructor, welcomed son Castor Virgil (9 lbs. 6 oz.) on May 18 in San Francisco. Big sis Cali is 2.
In Trouble
Outside a nightclub in suburban Detroit on June 4, Eminem, 27, was among four people arrested when rowdiness broke out after fans in the parking lot recognized the raunchy rapper. He was later freed.
Demoted
Atlanta Braves management sent John Rocker, 25, to the minor leagues on June 5. Team manager Bobby Cox said the demotion was related to the relief pitcher's lackluster performance on the mound and not his threatening confrontation on June 4 with a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer who last December quoted Rocker spouting offensive views on minorities, immigrants and homosexuals. Rocker, who was also fined for bullying the writer, will now be throwing for a Triple-A farm team in Richmond, Va.
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