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Weddings Actress Bernadette Peters, 48, married investment adviser Michael Wittenberg, 34, July 20. The bride wore a strapless Bob Mackie gown in the ceremony at the Millbrook, N.Y., home of bridesmaid Mary Tyler Moore. (Moore and Peters met making 1990's The Last Best Year.) This is the first marriage for both.
Births A new sensation: INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence, 36,
and girlfriend Paula Yates, 36, welcomed a 6-pound 14-ounce baby
girl, Heavenly Hiraani Tigerlily, July 22, in London. This is
his first child; Yates has three from her 10-year
marriage — which ended in May — to Band Aid founder Bob Geldof,
who swapped London homes with Hutchence as part of the unusual
divorce settlement....
An 8-pound 10-ounce baby girl, Allie
Colleen, to Garth Brooks, 34, and wife Sandy, 31, July 28, in
Nashville. Allie joins sisters Taylor, 4, and August, 2.
Deaths Screen legend Claudette Colbert, 90, of undisclosed
causes, July 30, in Barbados....
Actress Virginia
Christine, 76, of heart disease, July 24, in L.A. Although
Christine appeared in such classic films as High Noon and Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner, she is best remembered as the maternal
Mrs. Olson in the Folgers coffee commercials from 1964 to
1984....
Herbert Edelman, 62, of emphysema, July 21, in Woodland
Hills, Calif. Edelman got his break playing a confused telephone
installer in the 1963 Broadway production of Barefoot in the
Park, a role he reprised in the 1967 film. Edelman, a TV
regular, had a recurring role as Melanie Mayron's father on
thirtysomething. ''I couldn't believe we got an actor of his
caliber to play my father,'' says Mayron. He was nominated for an
Emmy in 1987 for his role as Bea Arthur's ex-husband in The
Golden Girls....
Director Paul Lammers, 74, of cancer, July 16,
in Washington, Conn. Lammers had been a regular director on the
CBS soap As the World Turns for the past 40 years....
Actress
Dana Hill, 32, of complications from diabetes, July 15, in
Burbank, Calif. Hill, who had suffered from diabetes all her
life, was best known for playing Diane Keaton and Albert
Finney's eldest daughter in 1982's Shoot the Moon and for
costarring in National Lampoon's European Vacation. In recent
years, as her health deteriorated, she specialized in
voice-overs for cartoons, including Duckman.
