Bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman is 88
Actor Nigel Davenport is 85
Actress Barbara Barrie is 82
Actress Joan Collins is 80
Actor Charles Kimbrough (“Murphy Brown”) is 77
Actress Lauren Chapin (“Father Knows Best”) is 68
Country singer Judy Rodman is 62
Comedian Drew Carey is 55
Country singer Shelly West is 55
Actor Linden Ashby (“Melrose Place”) is 53
Actress-model Karen Duffy is 52
Drummer Phil Selway of Radiohead is 46
Drummer Matt Flynn of Maroon 5 is 43
Singer Lorenzo is 41
Country singer Brian McComas is 41
Singer Maxwell is 40
Singer Jewel is 39
Game show contestant Ken Jennings is 39
Actor Lane Garrison is 33
Actor Adam Wylie is 29.

On May 23rd, 1954, CBS gave Johnny Carson a summer TV game show called “Earn Your Vacation.”

In 1970, New Musical Express reported that the Beatles’ “Let It Be” album set a new record for initial sales in the U.S., with 3.7 million advance orders.

Also in 1970, The Grateful Dead played its first British concert at the Hollywood Rock Festival. Their opening act was Mungo Jerry.

In 1975, the Beach Boys on tour with Chicago literally got the joint jumping for the second night in a row. The second level at the Oakland Coliseum was noticeably shaking in film footage. And the day before, at the Anaheim Stadium, the mezzanine was seen vibrating as much as 18 inches.

In 1979, Tom Petty filed for bankruptcy in an effort to get out of his contract with MCA Records. He later signed with a new MCA affiliate that issued his successful comeback album, “Damn the Torpedoes.”

In 1987, 12 former members of the Doobie Brothers reunited for a charity concert in Los Angeles. After raising more than $360,000 for Vietnam veterans, the group decided to make more appearances together.

In 1989, K.T. Oslin became the first female country singer to have an album go platinum. Her album “80’s Ladies” had two number-one hits, “I’ll Always Come Back” and “Do Ya.”

In 1990, the IRS auctioned off Willie Nelson’s golf course and country club for the second time to collect $230,000 toward his delinquent tax bill. After the first auction, the government had bought the property back.

Also in 1990, the movie “Pretty Woman” opened.

In 1997, comedian Tim Allen was arrested for speeding and drunk driving in suburban Detroit.

In 2005, Tom Cruise leaped on a couch and pumped his fist to express his love for Katie Holmes during an appearance on “Oprah.”

A Komodo dragon is now on display at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.

Officials say the Komodo dragon is on display at the zoo’s Cat Complex.

The Komodo dragon was hatched at the San Antonio Zoo in 2007. It was raised at the Houston Zoo before being transferred to Omaha in November.

Komodo dragons are native to a handful of small islands in Indonesia. They are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List due to overhunting of red deer, their main source of food.

Singer Charles Aznavour is 89
Actor Michael Constantine (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” ”Room 222″) is 86
Conductor Peter Nero is 79
Actor-director Richard Benjamin is 75
Actor Frank Converse is 75
Actress Barbara Parkins (“Peyton Place,” ”Valley of the Dolls”) is 71
Songwriter Bernie Taupin is 63
Singer Morrissey is 54
Actress Ann Cusack (“Jeff Foxworthy Show,” ”A League of Their Own”) is 52
Bassist Dana Williams of Diamond Rio is 52
Guitarist Jesse Valenzuela of Gin Blossoms is 51
Actor Mark Christopher Lawrence (“Chuck”) is 49
Singer Johnny Gill is 47
Bassist Dan Roberts of Crash Test Dummies is 46
Model Naomi Campbell is 43
Actress Anna Belknap (“CSI: NY”) is 41
Singer Donell Jones is 40
Actor Sean Gunn (“Gilmore Girls”) is 39
Actress Ginnifer Goodwin (“Once Upon A Time”) is 35
Actress Maggie Q is 34.

On May 22nd, 1955, police in Bridgeport, Connecticut, canceled a dance that featured Fats Domino. Authorities were worried that rock and roll music could cause a riot.

In 1958, reporters at a London airport asked Jerry Lee Lewis about his marriage, and he revealed his wife was his 13-year-old cousin. The ensuing controversy forced Lewis to cancel most of his British tour.

In 1966, Bruce Springsteen began his songwriting career by co-writing two songs with The Castiles, Springsteen’s first band.

In 1967, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” made its premiere on PBS.

In 1974, Ten Years After played their last show, in London. They broke up the next year.

In 1992, Johnny Carson hosted his last “Tonight” show. There were no guests. Carson showed favorite clips from past shows.

In 2002, the members of Alien Ant Farm were hospitalized after their tour bus collided with a truck about 120 miles west of Madrid, Spain. Singer Dryden Mitchell fractured a vertebra, and the bus driver was killed.

Also in 2002, Rosie O’Donnell hosted her last talk show. It had run six years.

In 2010, singer Alanis Morissette married rapper Souleye at her home in Los Angeles.

Tornadoes are a part of life in Moore, Okla., something country star Toby Keith was reminded of when a deadly, devastating one leveled parts of his hometown on Monday.

“It’s happened so many times through my life, I’ve been in so many,” Keith said in a phone interview Tuesday. “During my life, probably on average every four or five years, you probably have one that’s devastating. … It affects you, somebody you know, every time.”

This time it affected his sister, Tonni.

Keith flew out of the Moore area at about noon, and said the gathering clouds on the western horizon gave him a bad feeling. After he arrived in his Nashville recording studio Monday afternoon, he watched the storm system on an iPad app. So when he saw the tornado rolling down Fourth Street through his old neighborhood and toward his sister’s house, he picked up the phone to warn her.

“She said, ‘We’re safe. We’re south of it, but we can see it,'” Keith recalled. “She was at my mother’s about a mile away. I said, ‘Well, good.’ Then she got to watch it go right through her neighborhood.”

Keith said he had tornadoes pass a few miles to the north and south of his house on consecutive days.

Sunday’s storm damaged parts of nearby Shawnee, killing two. Monday’s storm killed at least 24 — including nine schoolchildren — in Moore, a suburb of 56,000 southwest of Oklahoma City.

Keith said he didn’t want to downplay the disaster, but that the people of the area are “resilient” and will rebound.

“It’s just devastating but there’s probably nobody better prepared for tornados than Oklahoma, especially the Moore area,” Keith said. “That is known as Tornado Alley, Twister Alley. They’ll rebuild, but it was just awful those kids were in school when it happened.”

During recording breaks, Keith has fielded calls about putting together a benefit for tornado victims and said he’s been in contact with the University of Oklahoma about possibly using the football stadium.

“I know as soon as I start sending out some feelers that I’ll get a lot of people in there,” Keith said. “Hopefully, we can use music to heal some of the money problems right away.”

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Singer Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers is 72
Guitarist Hilton Valentine of The Animals is 70
Actor Richard Hatch (“Battlestar Galactica”) is 68
Keyboardist Bill Champlin (Chicago) is 66
Actress Carol Potter (“Beverly Hills, 90210,” ”Sunset Beach”) is 65
Singer Leo Sayer is 65
Comedian-turned-U.S. Senator Al Franken is 62
Actor Mr. T is 61
Music producer and drummer Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 58
Actor Judge Reinhold is 56
Actor Brent Briscoe (“Mulholland Drive,” ”A Simple Plan”) is 52
Actress Lisa Edelstein (“House”) of 47
Actress Fairuza Balk (“The Waterboy”) is 39
Singer-guitarist Mikel Jollet (mee-KEHL’ joh-LAY’) of Airborne Toxic Event is 39
Rapper Havoc of Mobb Deep is 39
Actress Ashlie Brillault (“Lizzie McGuire”) is 26
Actor Scott Leavenworth is 23
Actress Sarah Ramos (“American Dreams”) is 22.

On May 21, 1945, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married in a three-minute ceremony.

In 1957, Paul Anka recorded his first single, “Diana,” in New York.

In 1959, the musical “Gypsy” opened on Broadway, starring Ethel Merman as Gypsy’s mother, Rose.

In 1963, Stevie Wonder recorded “Fingertips, Part Two” live in Chicago during a “Motown Revue.” It became his first number one hit, at age 13.

In 1969, The Beatles announced that Allen Klein has been hired to straighten out the band’s financial affairs.

In 1979, Elton John began a brief tour of the Soviet Union, the first one the Soviets allowed a Western rock star.

In 1980, Joe Strummer of The Clash was arrested in Hamburg, Germany, after hitting a fan with his guitar. A fight had erupted during the concert.

In 1989, the last episode of “Miami Vice” aired after a five-year run on NBC.

In 1999, actress Susan Lucci finally won a Daytime Emmy for best actress after losing for 18 years straight. She was honored for her portrayal of Erica Kane on “All My Children.”

In 2003, Ruben Studdard barely beat out Clay Aiken to win Fox’s second “American Idol” competition.

Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74.

Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had been stricken by bile duct cancer.

Manzarek founded The Doors after meeting then-poet Jim Morrison in California. The band went on to become one of the most successful rock ‘n’ roll acts to emerge from the 1960s and continues to resonate with fans decades after Morrison’s death brought the band to an end.

Singer Joe Cocker is 69
Singer-actress Cher is 67
Actor Dave Thomas (“Grace Under Fire,” ”SCTV”) is 64
Musician Warren Cann of Ultravox is 61
Actor Dean Butler (“Little House on the Prairie”) is 57
Guitarist Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s is 55
Actor Bronson Pinchot is 54
Singer Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills is 54
Actor John Billingsley (“Enterprise”) is 53
Actor Tony Goldwyn is 53
Singer Nick Heyward of Haircut 100 is 52
TV personality Ted Allen (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) is 48
Actress Mindy Cohn (“Facts of Life”) is 47
Guitarist Tom Gorman of Belly is 47
Rapper Busta Rhymes is 41
Bassist Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne is 38
Actor Matt Czuchry (zoo-KREE’) (“The Good Wife,” ”Gilmore Girls”) is 36
Singer-actress Naturi Naughton (3LW) is 29.