Movie star turned politician George Murphy, 89, who represented California in the U.S. Senate from 1965 to 1971, died May 3 of leukemia at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. A song-and-dance man. Murphy appeared on Broadway and in more than 50 films, including Little Miss Broadway (1938), with Shirley Temple, and This Is the Army (1943), with Ronald Reagan....
Actress Mae Clarke, 81, who gained movie immortality when James Cagney shoved a grapefruit in her lace in the gangster classic The Public Enemy (1931), died of Cancer in Woodland Hills, Calif., on April 29. Although Clarke rarely landed starring roles during her 40-year career, she was in 85 films, including Frankenstein (1931). In her later years, she taught drama....
Child psychologist Lee Salk, 65, who in his 20 years as a McCall's columnist and frequent TV guest expert instructed generations of parents and children on how to get along, died May 2 in Manhattan of cardiac arrest. He had been suffering from cancel. The author of 10 hooks about bringing up kids. Salk was also the younger brother of Jonas Salk, 77, who developed the first polio vaccine....
Ex-Congressman Wilbur Mills, 82, forced to give up his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in 1974 when his dalliance with stripper Fanne Foxe became public, died of an apparent heart attack in Searcy, Ark., on May 2. Mills's affair with Foxe made news after he was slopped one night for drying while intoxicated and she ran (roil) his car and jumped into the capital's Tidal Basin. Mills retired from the House in 1977 after 38 years representing his Arkansas district.
Richard Moll, 49, the hulking Bull on NBC's Night Court, went to day court in Los Angeles to file for a divorce from Laura Class, 29. on April 27. The three-year marriage was the first for both.
Country singer Doug Stone, 35, underwent quadruple-bypass surgery in Nashville on April 29. Stone, ironically, scored his first hit with a song tilled "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)." His rep reports that he is doing well, but will spend the next six to eight weeks recuperating at home in Springfield. Tenn....
Perry Mason star Raymond Burr, 71, recently completed radiation treatments for cancer and is now busy filming another Mason TV movie in Denver.
Susan Sarandon, 45, and Tim Robbins, 33, had their second child, a 7-lb. 8-oz. son, Miles Guthrie Tomalin, born May 4 in Manhattan. The couple, who met while filming Bull Durham in 1988, also have a son. Jack Henry, 3, and Sarandon has a daughter, Eva, 7, from her romance with Italian director Franco Amurri....
Singer Belinda Carlisle, 33, and her husband, agent Morgan Mason, 36, had their first child. James Duke (3 lbs., 13 ozs.), on April 27 in L.A. He's named after his paternal grandfather, actor James Mason.
Who's the Boss?'s Tony Danza, 41, and Wife Tracy, 31, are expecting their second child in November. They have a daughter. Katie, 5, and Danza has a son. Marc, 21, from an earlier marriage.
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