2007	The Tennessee state legislature refuses to pass a resolution honoring native son Justin Timberlake.

2002	Alicia Keys is named Entertainer of the Year at the Soul Train Music Awards. The crowd boos when Ronald Isley thanks R. Kelly.

2002	Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears officially deny rumors that they have split up after Us Weekly runs a cover story on the two under the headline “It’s Over.” (The magazine, of course, was right.)

2002	In San Francisco, attorney Marjorie Knoller is found guilty of second degree murder in the death of Diane Whipple, who was mauled to death by Knoller’s two 120-pound Presa Canario dogs.

2000	‘N Sync release No Stings Attached. The C-D goes on to sell a record-breaking two-point-four-million copies in its first week of release.

2000	Phillip Morris and R-J Reynolds are found guilty of misrepresenting the danger of cigarettes. A California jury orders the firms to pay $1.7 million in damages to an ex-smoker dying of cancer and to her husband.

1994	Dudley Moore is arrested for hitting his girlfriend.

1994	Steven Spielberg wins his first Oscars — Best Picture and Best Director for Schindler’s List.

1992	“Save the Best for Last” by Vanessa Williams hits number-one on the Billboard pop chart. It spends five weeks in the top spot.

1991	Whitney Houston gets a gold single for “All the Man That I Need.”

1989	Dick Clark informs the media that his current and 33rd year as host of American Bandstand will be his last.

1988	Michael Jackson‘s Bad album is certified five-times-platinum.

1982	The movie Annie opens.

1980	“J-R Ewing” is shot on T-V’s Dallas.

1980	President Jimmy Carter announces that the U-S Olympic Team will not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

1965	More than three-thousand civil rights demonstrators led by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

1963	Barbra Streisand weds Elliott Gould.

1963	Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentary in San Francisco Bay, CA closes

Deryck Whibley
1980	Sum 41 singer-guitarist. (Age: 32)

Kevin Federline
1978	Britney Spears‘ ex-husband, cleverly referred to in some publications as ‘Fed-Ex’ (Age: 34)

Ananda Lewis
1973	T-V host (The Insider, The Ananda Lewis Show, T-R-L) (Age: 39)

Jonas Berggren
1967	Ace of Base singer (Age: 45)

Rosie O’Donnell
1962	Actress (A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle)-TV host (The View, The Rosie O’Donnell Show) and former magazine editor (Age: 50)

Matthew Broderick
1962	The stage and screen actor (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Election, The Lion King, The Producers) is married to Sarah Jessica Parker. (Age: 50)

Gary Oldman
1958	The British actor began his career playing punk rocker Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy and has since appeared in numerous films, including J-F-K and Dracula. He was nominated for aBest Actor Oscar in 2012 for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy. (Age: 54)

Nick Wheeler
1982	All-American Rejects guitarist (Age: 30)

Chester Bennington
1976	Linkin Park singer (Age: 36)

Michael Rapaport
1970	Actor (T-V’s Prison Break, The War at Home and Boston Public; Small Time Crooks, Mighty Aphrodite, Higher Learning, Zebrahead) (Age: 42)

Holly Hunter
1958	She won a Best Actress Oscar for The Piano and was nominated for Best Actress for Broadcast News and Best Supporting Actress for Thirteen and The Firm. (Age: 54)

Spike Lee
1957	Director (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, School Daze) (Age: 55)

William Hurt
1950	He won a Best Actor Oscar in 1986 for Kiss of the Spider Woman and was also nominated for Broadcast News and Children of a Lesser God. In 2006, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence. His other credits include The Incredible Hulk, The Accidental Tourist, Broadcast News, The Big Chill, Body Heat, Altered States and TV’sDamages. (Age: 62)

Bobby Orr
1948	Hockey Hall of Famer (Age: 64)

Fred Rogers
1928 – 2003	T-V’s “Mr. Rogers” died of cancer February 27th, 2003 at 74.

 

Zach Lind
1975	Jimmy Eat World drummer (Age: 37)

Bruce Willis
1955	The T-V-turned-movie star and onetime husband of Demi Moore has Emmys for Friends and Moonlighting. His films include the Die Hard series, Cop Out, Sin City, Armageddon,Grindhouse, Pulp Fiction and The Sixth Sense. (Age: 57)

Billy Sheehan
1953	Mr. Big/ex-David Lee Roth bassist (Age: 59)

Ricky Wilson
1953 – 1985	The guitarist, who joined his sister Cindy in The B-52’s, died of AIDS on October 12th, 1985.

Glenn Close
1947	She currently stars in T-V’s Damages, for which she’s won Best Actress awards at the Emmys and Golden Globes. She’s also had six Oscar nominations — Best Actress for Albert Nobbs, Dangerous Liasons and Fatal Attraction and Best Supporting Actress for The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp. (Age: 65)

Ryan MacMillan
1975	Matchbox Twenty/Elvis Monroe/Push Stars drummer (Age: 37)

Todd McFarlane
1961	Movie producer-comic book mogul (Age: 51)

Flavor Flav (William Drayton)
1959	Public Enemy rapper; reality show star (Age: 53)

Bob Ley
1955	He’s been with ESPN since the cable sports channel began in 1979. He now anchors the investigative reporting series Outside the Lines. (Age: 57)

Erik Estrada
1949	CHiPs star (Age: 63)

Chuck Woolery
1941	Game show host (Original daytime Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection, Scrabble, The Dating Game, Greed and Lingo) (Age: 71)

Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
1926	The comic actor, who has long been idolized in France and is probably best known in the U-S nowadays for his annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon, starred in a number of films with his longtime comedy partner Dean Martin before branching out on his own. He received the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award from the Motion Picture Academy in 2009. (Age: 86)

Pat Nixon
1912 – 1993	The wife of the only president to resign his office died of lung cancer on June 22, 1993 at 81.

Kellan Lutz
1985	Actor (the Twilight movies) (Age: 27)

Ethan Mentzer
1983	Click Five bassist (Age: 29)

Joe Hahn
1977	Linkin Park DJ (Age: 35)

Eva Longoria
1975	She plays “Gabrielle Solis” on T-V’s Desperate Housewives. Her movies include Over Her Dead Body and The Heartbreak Kid. (Age: 37)

Will.I.Am (William Adams)
1975	Black Eyed Peas (Age: 37)

Mark Hoppus
1972	Blink 182/Plus 44 (+44) singer-bassist (Age: 40)

Mark McGrath
1968	Sugar Ray singer; Extra anchor; The Celebrity Apprentice 4 contestant (Age: 44)

Bret Michaels (Bret Michael Sychak)
1963	Poison/solo singer-reality T-V star (Rock of Love, winner of The Celebrity Apprentice 3) (Age: 49)

Fabio
1959	Romance-novel cover model/pitchman (Age: 53)

Bobby Bonds
1946 – 2003	The baseball great was the father of Barry Bonds. He died August 23rd, 2003 of complications from lung cancer and a brain tumor. He was 57.

Judd Hirsch
1935	He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1981 for Ordinary People and won Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmys for Taxi in 1981 and ’83. He’s also been a regular on the T-V’s NUM3ERS, Dear John and Delvecchio. (Age: 77)

Jimmy Lee Swaggart
1935	The disgraced televangelist is a first cousin of rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis. (Age: 77)

Arif Mardin

1932 – 2006

The Turkish-born and British-educated producer arrived at Atlantic Records in the early ’60s as a studio manager and arranger. His first production was The Rascals‘ chart-topping “Good Lovin’.” He followed that with hits for Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Ray Charles, A-W-B and helped steer The Bee Gees toward R-&-B, which led to the hugely successfulMain Course album that revived their career in ’75. In the 21st century, he produced Norah Jones‘s first two chart-topping albums, before succumbing to pancreatic cancer on June 25th, 2006 at 74.

From “Nashville’s New Country”

Not long after Trace joined Twitter, some of his fans were treated with a pic of Trace’s naked butt in his hospital gown. Now, Trace’s wife has tweeted the fans a pic of the country stars “sausage.”

Apparently, Trace is now in the sausage business. I’ve looked for some more information and can’t find anything at all about his new line of spicy meat, but Trace’s wife Rhonda tweeted the above picture along with a couple of pictures of Trace shooting a commercial for his “new line of sausage.”

Trace is definitely one brave soul because you just know he’s going to get all kinds of guff about his putting his meat on the market from his country pals.

MARC CHERRY IN THE CLEAR IN DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES COURT BATTLE

Nicollette Sheridan‘s wrongful termination suit took a big hit yesterday. The judge threw out her battery claim against Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. The actress claimed Marc walloped her on the head during a rehearsal in 2008, but the judge said her allegations did not meet the standard of proof for battery.

Nicollette’s wrongful termination claim against ABC will still move forward.

 

 

 

JENNIE GARTH, PETER FACINELLI DIVORCING

Beverly Hills 90210 star Jennie Garth and Twilight actor Peter Facinelli are getting divorced after 11 years of marriage.

The couple tells Us Weekly, “While we have decided to end our marriage, we both share the same deep love and devotion to our children. We remain dedicated to raising our beautiful daughters together. We ask for privacy and respect during this time.”

 

BEAR GRYLLS RETURNS TO THE WILD UNEMPLOYED

The Discovery Channel has fired Man vs. Wild star Bear Grylls.

The British survivalist reportedly got axed because of an apparent feud over whether he’d do two other projects. A network spokesperson says, “Due to a continuing contractual dispute with Bear Grylls, Discovery has terminated all current productions with him.”

Bear came under fire a few years back after it was revealed that some of his stunts were staged and that he sometimes spent nights in local motels instead of in the wild.

 

PAULY D TO DJ SNOOKI’S BABY SHOWER

While Snooki‘s delivering her baby, she wants Pauly D dropping beats.

Pauly tells People magazine, “She told me she wants me to deejay the delivery room. I told her I’ll just deejay her baby shower.”

He also offered some ideas for her baby shower. “I would have spray tan booths in the corner, because she loves to tan, and a lot of loud music. I’d have pickles everywhere, too.”

Jamie Bell
1986	Actor (Defiance, Jumper, King Kong, Billy Elliot) (Age: 26)

Taylor Hanson
1983	Hanson keyboardist (Age: 29)

Chris Klein
1979	Actor (American Pie, Election) (Age: 33)

Merlin Santana
1975 – 2002	The actor (The Steve Harvey Show) and rapper was shot to death while sitting in his car on November 9th, 2002. He was 27.

Kirby Puckett
1960 – 2006	The Baseball Hall of Famer died of a stroke on March 6th, 2006 at age 45.

Prince Albert of Monaco
1958	(Age: 54)

Billy Crystal
1948	The stage and screen actor-comedian-director has carved out a hefty side career hosting the Oscars, for which he has won four Emmys. He’s starred in such films as When Harry Met Sally, Analyze This and City Slickers. (Age: 64)

Sir Michael Caine
1933	The British actor has a pair of Best Supporting Actor Oscars (for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters). He’s been nominated four times for Best Actor (for Alfie,Sleuth, Educating Rita and The Quiet American), but has never won. (Age: 79)

Quincy Jones

1933

From Lesley Gore to Michael Jackson, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra, he’s produced and arranged for some of the top stars of the last half-century. Jones has also scored such movies as Walk Don’t Run, In the Heat of the Night and The Pawnbroker; penned themes for T-V’s Ironside, Sanford and Son and Roots; started a record company (Qwest) and produced Will Smith‘s Fresh Prince of Bel-Air T-V series. (Age: 79)

March Madness has spread to the U.K. — or more accurately, British Prime Minister David Cameron took in some March Madness action last night as President Obama’s guest.

The two heads of state sat courtside for the Western Kentucky-Mississippi Valley State game in Dayton, Ohio last night and were interviewed during halftime by CBS Sports analyst Clark Kellogg, who asked Obama to break down the action and Cameron what he thought about basketball.

The British PM said he was enjoying himself and Obama was giving him some insights into the action. Obama then added that Cameron would help him understand cricket, because he doesn’t understand “that cricket thing.”