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That Was the Week That Was



By AP
08 May 2008 @ 12:01 am EST

Entertainment highlights during the week of May 11-17:

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1959: Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher were married in Las Vegas. They divorced after four years.

1960: Berry Gordy formed Motown Records.

1964: Peter, Paul and Mary won a Grammy Award for the song "Blowin' In The Wind."

1971: Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St. Tropez, France. They are now divorced.

1981: Musician Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital of a brain tumor at the age of 36. The previous fall, he had collapsed on stage.

1985: Bruce Springsteen and actress Julianne Phillips got married in Oregon on her birthday. They divorced in 1989, and Springsteen later married his backup singer, Patti Scialfa.

1987: Actress Rita Hayworth died at the age of 68.

1990: Singer Richie Valens was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1992: "Brady Bunch" star Robert Reed died of colon cancer at the age of 59. It was later revealed that the AIDS virus contributed to his death.

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