• Lisa Dean Ryan (actress, Wanda on TV’s Doogie Howser, MD) (40)
• Kirsten Dunst (actress, the Spiderman movies, The Virgin Suicides) (30)
• Cloris Leachman (actress, Young Frankenstein, Kiss Me Deadly, The Last Picture Show) (86)
• Willie Nelson (Hall Of Fame country singer/songwriter and guitarist) (79)
• Jeff Timmons (pop singer, 98 Degrees) (39)
• Carolyn Dawn Johnson (country singer) (41)
• Paul Taylor (jazz saxophonist) (52)
• Akon (R&B singer) (39)
• Johnny Galecki (actor, Leonard on The Big Bang Theory, Christmas Vacation, David on Roseanne,I Know What You Did Last Summer) (37, disputed)
• Adrian Pasdar (actor, Nathan on Heroes, Judging Amy) (47)
• Bobby Vee (singer, “Rubber Ball”) (69)
• Lloyd Banks (rapper) (30)
• Kunal Nayyar (actor, Raj on The Big Bang Theory) (31)
• Dianna Agron (actress, Glee, I Am Number Four) (26)

FOX RENEWS ‘FRINGE’ FOR FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON: Fox president Kevin Reilly said in a statement, “Fringe is a remarkably creative series that has set the bar as one of television’s most imaginative dramas. Bringing it back for a final 13 allows us to provide the climactic conclusion that its passionate and loyal fans deserve.”

‘FIFTY SHADES OF GREY’ DETHRONES HUNGER GAMES AS BESTSELLER: The erotic series has three out of the six top spots on the USA Today Bestseller list, with the other three slots taken up by the “Hunger Games” series. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is currently #1 with “Catching Fire” taking the second spot.

KRISTEN STEWART LANDS ROLE IN UPCOMING ACTION FLICK: The 22-year-old has reportedly been cast in an action flick called Cali. According to Variety, Kristen will play Mya — a con artist who has “penchant for bad choices and dangerous behavior.” Producer Craig J. Flores said that her role in Cali will be “edgy and sexy.”

‘MAKE IT OR BREAK IT’ CANCELLED: The ABC Family drama about gymnasts has been cancelled. The show is in its third season, but the eighth episode will be its last.

24TH JAMES BOND FILM ANNOUNCED FOR 2014: The studio announced at CinemaCon that 007 will return for a 24th film in 2014. The 23rd film, Skyfall, is still set for an October 2012 release.

LINDSAY LOHAN MISSED FLIGHT TO D.C. AFTER PARTYING ALL NIGHT: On Friday (April 27th),Lindsay Lohan reportedly missed her flight to Washington D.C. after a long night of partying. The 25-year-old, who was headed to the capital for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, ended up on a later flight.

PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE MIDDLETON HAVE ‘LOW-KEY’ ANNIVERSARY: The royals celebrated their first wedding anniversary yesterday, April 29th. A source told E! News that Will and Kate attended a friend’s wedding on Saturday (April 28th), then headed to Anglesey on Sunday to have a “low-key night in their cottage.”

SNOOKI: ‘I DIDN’T DISS JESSICA SIMPSON!’: Contrary to reports claiming the five-months pregnantJersey Shore star dissed Jessica Simpson by saying, “I would die if I were her size,” Snooki posted on Twitter, “I NEVER dissed Jessica Simpson you weird tabloids, get over it with your ‘pregnant war’ articles. I love the girl and her hot a** bump.”

FORMER ‘BIGGEST LOSER’ CONTESTANTS MARRY: According to People, Former Biggest Loser contestants Sam Poueu and Stephanie Anderson, who met on the show in 2009, got married in a private ceremony in San Francisco, California on Saturday (April 28th).

OCTOMOM SAYS NUEVEMOM IS A FRAUD: Nadya Suleman tells TMZ that the Mexico City woman claiming she’s pregnant with nine babies is “a fraud.” She said that the woman “shouldn’t be making jokes about raising a large family… She disgusts me.” Meanwhile, according to Reuters, doctors examined the woman — Karla Perez — and confirmed that she isn’t even pregnant.

FREDDIE PRINZE JR. & SARAH MICHELLE GELLER EXPECTING: Sarah and Freddie are expecting their second child together. A source told Us Magazine, “She and Freddie are thrilled. They’re amazing parents.”

KATIE PRICE TO MARRY AGAIN: British tabloid sensation Katie Price is set to marry for the third time. She’s engaged to Argentinean model Leandro Penna. Her rep said, “Leandro proposed to Katie while they were away skiing recently — and she said yes… No wedding arrangements have been made and they are both quite relaxed about that for the time being.”

WEEKEND MOVIE WRAP-UP

The comedy Think Like a Man was the Number One movie for the second weekend in a row while the superhero film The Avengers opened big overseas, taking in $178.4 million in 39 countries ahead of its opening in the U.S. next weekend.

The next four films at the box office, including newcomers The Pirates! Band of Misfits and The Five-Year Engagement, were all so close that their positions could change once the final numbers are released today. But according to the studio estimates out yesterday, the animated family comedy The Pirates! Band of Misfits opened at Number Two, followed by The Lucky One, The Hunger Games, and the romantic comedyThe Five-Year Engagement, debuting in fifth place.

The Pirates! Band of Misfits, about a pirate captain and his crew trying to best their rivals in a quest to win the title of Pirate of the Year, features the voices of Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson, Martin Freeman,David Tennant, Jeremy Piven and Imelda Staunton. The Five-Year Engagement stars Jason Segeland Emily Blunt as a engaged couple who face ups and downs and repeated interruptions on their way to the altar. Co-starring are Alison Brie, Chris Pratt and Rhys Ifans.

Opening in sixth place was the action thriller Safe, starring Jason Statham as a cage fighter who takes on a mission to rescue a kidnapped girl from the Russian Mafia. Catherine Chan, Chris Sarandon and Robert John Burke co-star. Debuting at Number Eight was The Raven, starring John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, who joins forces with a detective after a killer begins committing murders inspired by Poe’s writing.

THIS WEEKEND’S TOP TEN MOVIES — APRIL 27-29

1. Think Like a Man, $18 million
2. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, $11.4 million
3. The Lucky One, $11.3 million
4. The Hunger Games, $11.25 million
5. The Five-Year Engagement, $11.2 million
6. Safe, $7.7 million
7. The Raven, $7.3 million
8. Chimpanzee, $5.5 million
9. The Three Stooges, $5.4 million
10. The Cabin in the Woods, $4.5 million

FRIDAY

• Judy Carne (actress and comedienne, the “Sock-it-to-me” woman from Laugh-In and Burt Reynolds’s ex-wife) (73)
• Casey Kasem (Hall Of Fame disc jockey) (80)
• Jack Klugman (actor, Oscar Madison of The Odd Couple and the star of Quincy) (90)
• Patrick Stump (singer, Fall Out Boy) (28)
• Sheena Easton (singer) (53)
• Kate Pierson (singer, the B-52s) (64)
• William Moseley (actor, Peter in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) (25)
• Allison Iraheta (singer, Finalist on the 2009 season of American Idol) (20)
• Ace Frehley (former singer and lead guitarist, Kiss) (61)
• Ari Graynor (actress, The Sitter, What’s Your Number?, Date Night, Conviction) (29)

SATURDAY

• Jessica Alba (actress, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Good Luck Chuck, Sin City, Into the Blue,Dark Angel) (31)
• Jorge Garcia (actor, plays Hurley on Lost) (39)
• Penelope Cruz (actress, Blow, Vanilla Sky, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Sahara, All the Pretty Horses) (38)
• Ann-Margret (actress, Grumpy Old Men, Grumpier Old Men, Newsies, Carnal Knowledge, Tommy) (71)
• Harper Lee (Author, To Kill A Mockingbird) (86)
• Jay Leno (Tonight Show host) (62)
• Marcia Strassman (actress, Welcome Back Kotter‘s Julie Kotter) (64)
• Chuck Leavell (keyboardist, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers Band, Sea Level) (60)
• Elisabeth Rohm (actress, One Life to Live‘s Dorothy Hayes, Angel, Law & Order, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed And Fabulous) (39)
• Paul Guilfoyle (actor, Jim Brass on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (63)
• Bridget Moynahan (actress, Coyote Ugly, I, Robot, Lord of War, Sex and the City, has a son with Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady) (41)

SUNDAY

• Andre Agassi (tennis player) (42)
• Daniel Day-Lewis (Academy-award winning actor, My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood) (55)
• Kate Mulgrew (actress, Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager) (57)
• Michelle Pfeiffer (actress, Fabulous Baker Boys, Dangerous Liaisons, Scarface, Frankie And Johnny) (54)
• Eve Plumb (actress, The Brady Bunch‘s Jan) (54)
• Jerry Seinfeld (comedian) (58)
• Uma Thurman (actress, Pulp Fiction, the Kill Bill movies, The Accidental Husband) (42)
• Carnie Wilson (singer from Wilson Phillips, who’s also famous for weight-loss surgery that led her to lose a large amount of weight) (44)
• Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys) (69)
• Master P (rapper and music mogul) (45)
• Federico Castelluccio (actor, The Sopranos‘ Furio) (48)
• Klaus Voormann (bassist, played with the Beatles, Peter Frampton, and Lou Reed, Manfred Mann, among others) (74)
• Tommy James (singer, “I Think We’re Alone Now”) (65)
• April Stevens (singer, “Deep Purple” with brother Nino Tempo) (76)

FRIDAY

1810, Ludwig Van Beethoven gave the world a romantic piece for piano, with the dedication “For Therese, as a remembrance.” But today nobody remembers Therese. The publisher couldn’t read Beethoven’s handwriting and to this day the piece is known as “Fur Elise.”
1865, Just days after the end of the Civil War, the steamer ship Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, killing over 1,500 freed Union prisoners of war who were returning home. Estimates of the dead in this, America’s worst maritime disaster, range as high as 2,000.
1880, Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.
1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson died in Concord, Massachusetts, one month before his 70th birthday, and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery beside Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1897, Grant’s Tomb is dedicated.
1927, Civil rights and political activist Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born. She died in January 2006.
1932, American poet Hart Crane, returning from Mexico where he had gone on a Guggenheim Fellowship, drowned after jumping from a steamer while en route to New York. He was 32.
1937, the nation’s first Social Security checks were distributed.
1938, Geraldine Apponyi was the first American woman to become a queen, when she married King Zogof Albania on this day.
1946, The first commercial carrier ship to be equipped with radar, the SS African Star, was placed in service.
1947, It was “Babe Ruth Day” as baseball fans across the country honored the ailing star.
1950, The Boston Celtics hired Arnold “Red” Auerbach to coach their losing team. In 16 seasons, he led them to nine NBA championships.
1956, Rocky Marciano retired from boxing, joining Gene Tunney as the only heavyweight champ to leave undefeated. Marciano finished his career at 49-0, with all but six of those wins by knockout.
1965, R. C. Duncan patented Pampers brand disposable diapers.
1968, Simon & Garfunkel released their hit song “Mrs. Robinson,” from the film The Graduate.
1994, an outdoor funeral service was held for former President Richard M. Nixon at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. The service was attended by all five of his presidential successors.
2000, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani disclosed that he had prostate cancer. Soon after that disclosure, and the revelation that he had a mistress, Giuliani bowed out of the U.S. Senate race againstHillary Rodham Clinton.

SATURDAY

1789, the crew of the British ship HMS Bounty mutinied, led by first mate Fletcher Christian. They set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a small boat in the South Pacific. Bligh and his followers survived, as did the mutineers, who settled on uninhabited Pitcairn Island, after picking up some Tahitian men and women. Their descendants live on the island to this day.
1937, Saddam Hussein was born. He is executed in 2006.
1945, Ending the 23-year-long Fascist rule of Italy, Italian partisans shot Benito Mussolini near the lakeside village of Dongo. Leaders of the Fascist Party, several of his friends, and his mistress Clara Petacci were also executed.
1949, Actor Bruno Kirby (The Godfather: Part II, This Is Spinal Tap, Good Morning, Vietnam, When Harry Met Sally…, City Slickers) was born. He died in August 2006.
1965, Barbra Streisand‘s first TV special, My Name is Barbra airs on CBS.
1966, the Boston Celtics beat the L.A. Lakers in the seventh game of the NBA Finals, giving the Celtics and head coach Red Auerbach their eighth consecutive championship.
1967, during the Vietnam War, heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army. Ali’s WBA and WBC crowns were taken away from him as a result of his action, which he said was based on religious grounds.
1967, Cass Elliot gives bith to baby girl, Owen Vanessa.
1980, President Jimmy Carter accepted the resignation of Secretary Of State Cyrus Vance, who’d opposed the failed rescue mission aimed at freeing the hostages in Iran.
1985, The largest sand castle in the world was completed near St. Petersburg, Florida. The castle was an amazing four stories tall and contained hidden treasure for kids who came in and demolished the work of art — with permission — a week later.
1985, The little town of Parker, Texas, not far from Dallas, reported a 2-to-1 edge in the ratio of tourists to residents. Some of the good citizens of the town of just over 1,000 residents were not pleased, either. Some 2,100 tourists each day converged on the town to visit Southfork Ranch, the home of the Ewing family on the TV hit Dallas.
1987, For the first time, a compact disc of an album was released before its vinyl counterpart when The Art of Excellence by Tony Bennett, his first recorded work in a decade, went on sale.
1988, a flight attendant was killed and 61 people injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 peeled off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu. The pilot managed to land the plane safely.
1990, Don Everly’s daughter marries Gun N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose. The marriage dissolves after nine months.
1994, former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who had betrayed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union, and then Russia, pled guilty to espionage and tax evasion charges, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
2004, The Recording Industry sues 477 people for copyright infringement, accusing them of illegally exchanging MP3 files.

SUNDAY

1429, Joan Of Arc entered the besieged French city of Orleans to lead a victory over the English.
1899, Duke Ellington, one of the most influential jazz musicians in history, was born. Responsible for more than 1,000 musical pieces, he died in 1974 in New York City.
1945, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
1945, Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in his Berlin bunker, one day before they both killed themselves.
1946, Twenty-eight former Japanese World War II leaders were indicted as war criminals.
1952, One of NASCAR’s most popular personalities, stock car racer Dale Earnhardt, was born. He was killed while racing in the Daytona 500 on February 18th, 2001.
1974, President Richard Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of some of the secret White House audiotapes related to the Watergate scandal.
1985, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner fired manager Yogi Berra only 16 games into the season.
1986, Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox set a major league baseball record by striking out 20 Seattle Mariner batters. He now shares the record with Kerry Wood, who struck out 20 in May 1998, and with himself, repeating his feat 10 years later in September 1996.
1992, rioting broke out in Los Angeles after a Simi Valley, California, jury acquitted four white police officers of nearly all charges in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King.
1996, Former CIA Director William Colby was missing after an apparent boating accident, and was presumed by authorities in Maryland to have drowned. His body was later recovered.
1997, Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and dishonorably discharged.
1997, A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons went into effect.
1997, Astronaut Jerry Linenger and cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev went on the first U.S.-Russian space walk.
1998, The United States, Canada, and Mexico agreed to eliminate tariffs on items accounting for $1 billion in trade at a meeting in Paris of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1999, Yugoslavia filed World Court cases against 10 countries, including the United States, claiming their bombing campaign breached international law.
1999, The Reverend Jesse Jackson arrived in Belgrade on a mission to win freedom for three American prisoners of war held by Yugoslavia.
2000, Tens of thousands of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents removed six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
2000, Lennox Lewis knocked out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New York City to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.

LANE GARRISON FACING CHARGES FOR ALTERCATION: Lane Garrison has been charged with misdemeanor domestic violence. TMZ reported that the District Attorney decided to go forward with charges based on a surveillance video that appears to show Lane slapping his ex-girlfriend Ashley Mattingly. Garrison’s rep has said that the actor wasn’t slapping her in the footage — yet merely reaching for his cell phone. Garrison is being held without bail because he’s on a parole hold. Garrison was convicted of vehicular manslaughter back in 2007 and was just shy of completing parole when the incident occurred.

PAULY D GETS MORE BUFF: Pauly D is putting the emphasis on the G in GTL. The Jersey Shore star stepped out with an even more muscular physique recently, which insiders say is the result of intense workouts. A source told Us Weekly, “He’s gained 20 pounds of muscle. He is [exercising] nonstop . . .three times a day sometimes.” Check him out: http://bit.ly/JJj4un

JENNIFER ANISTON ‘HATES’ HEARING ABOUT BRANGELINA: Us Weekly claims to have the inside scoop on Jennifer Aniston’s reaction to the Brad-Angelina engagement news. A source told the magazine, “She hates it being brought up because she doesn’t really care. She feels Angelina can have him. She just wants to move on.” The insider said that Jen is enjoying her current relationship with Justin Theroux, saying, “Jen’s totally happy with Justin. That’s all in the past.”

HULK HOGAN RESPONDS TO NUDE PHOTOS: Hulk Hogan wants naked pictures of himself taken off the internet. After black and photos — rumored to be taken from a sex tape — surfaced on TheDirty.com,Hulk’s lawyers issued a cease and desist letter demanding they be taken down. The lawyer wrote, “As you know, should a sex tape or photographs of Mr. Bollea exist, they were taken without his consent and therefore the same would constitute a felony in the State of Florida.”

JUDE LAW TO STAR WITH ANGELINA? Jude Law is in talks to join Angelina Jolie in the upcoming movie Maleficent — which will explore the origins of the evil fairy Maleficent and what led her to curse Princess Aurora in Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty. Life & Style magazine reported that Elle Fanning is in talks to star as Princess Aurora.

JENNIFER MORRISON BACK FOR ‘HOUSE’ FINALE: Jennifer Morrison is returning for the series finale of House. Although details about the spot are being kept secret, sources told E! that the cameo ” will be a brief but meaningful appearance, and that the finale was shot last week.” The final episode will air on May 21st.

DAVID HASSELHOFF QUITS AUSTRALIAN REALITY SHOW: David Hasselhoff quit the Australian version of Celebrity Apprentice to fly back to the U.S. and deal with a “personal commitment.” Hasselhoff was a contestant on the series, but walked off the show this week saying, “I have to leave. It’s not business related, it is a personal commitment that I made to my family and it involves honor. . . it only came up last night. I feel awful about leaving but I am very proud to be a part of Celebrity Apprentice.” The network released a statement saying, “We were aware that there was a possibility he might get called away as he had flagged this other personal obligation which could emerge during our schedule. Then midway through the series David revealed… he had made a promise of a personal nature and had been called on to honor it.”

BETTY WHITE MAKING CAMEO ON ‘THE CLIENT LIST’ Betty White is joining forces with Jennifer Love Hewitt. The 90-year-old TV legend will make a cameo appearance on the season finale of Hewitt’s new Lifetime show, The Client List. People magazine reports that White will play the wife of one of Hewitt’s character’s spa clients who gives her advice about how to make a marriage last.

• Carol Burnett (comedienne, actress, and variety show hostess) (79)
• Donna DeVarona (Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer and sportscaster) (65)
• Kevin James (actor, The King Of Queens) (47)
• Jet Li (action movie actor) (49)
• Bobby Rydell (Former teen idol and pop singer) (70)
• Michael Damian (Actor, The Young & The Restless) (50)
• Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins (singer, TLC) (42)
• Jordana Brewster (actress, The Fast And The Furious, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Fast & Furious) (32)
• Jay DeMarcus (country star, of Rascal Flatts) (41)
• Gary Wright (singer, “Dream Weaver,” “My Love Is Alive”) (69)
• Giancarlo Esposito (actor, Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, The Usual Suspects, Ali) (54)
• Channing Tatum (actor, Fighting, Public Enemies, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Coach Carter, Step Up, She’s the Man) (32)
• Tom Welling (actor, Smallville, Cheaper by the Dozen movies, The Fog) (35)
• Melania Trump (model, wife of Donald Trump) (42)

1607, an expedition of English colonists, including Captain John Smith, landed at Cape Henry, Virginia, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
1904, Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of 17, homered and doubled for Augusta in the South Atlantic League.
1921, Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio when WEW in St. Louis aired weather news.
1964, the Rolling Stones released their self-titled debut album.
1964, the Boston Celtics won an unprecedented sixth consecutive NBA championship. The Celtics went on to win two more titles before the string came to an end.
1977, The infamous Studio 54 opened in New York City.
1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion at the plant caused a fire that burned for days, sending radioactivity spreading through the atmosphere over parts of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and later, Western Europe. Thirty-one people died within three months, and thousands more were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
1987, Tennis star Chris Evert won her 150th career tennis tournament when she beat Martina Navratilovain Houston.
1989, Actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 77.
1992, The final episode of Growing Pains aired on ABC.
1993, Conan O’Brien was named to succeed David Letterman as host of NBC’s Late Night program.
1994, voting began in South Africa’s first all-race elections. South African blacks voted for the first time and gave the power of government to the African National Congress and President Nelson Mandela.
2000, Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.