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Entertainment

Highlights from this week in entertainment history

12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, May 11, 2008

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

1960: Berry Gordy forms Motown Records.

1964: Peter, Paul and Mary win a Grammy Award for the song "Blowin' in the Wind."

1971: Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St. Tropez, France. They later divorce.

1985: Bruce Springsteen and actress Julianne Phillips get married in Oregon on her birthday. They divorce four years later. Mr. Springsteen later marries backup singer Patti Scialfa.

1990: Singer Ritchie Valens is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1996: Actress Melanie Griffith marries actor Antonio Banderas in London.

2004: The final episode of Frasier airs on NBC.

Birthdays

Eric Burdon (the Animals, War), 67 ... Shohreh Aghdashloo (24), 56 ... Coby Bell (Third Watch), 33 ... Jonathan Jackson (Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Tuck Everlasting), 26CONTRIBUTORS: News services

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