Entertainment Highlights in History

Published 12:00 am Monday, December 26, 2005

Entertainment highlights during the week of July 22-28:

1946: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis began their partnership as a nightclub song and comedy act with a performance in Atlantic City, N.J. They split up in 1956.

1952: “High Noon,” starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, opened.

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1963: Motown Records released “Mickey’s Monkey” by The Miracles.

1969: James Brown walked out of Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty’s office when the mayor failed to show up on time to present the singer with a proclamation for “James Brown Day.”

1976: Tina Turner filed for divorce from Ike Turner.

1984: Vanessa L. Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her were published in “Penthouse” magazine.

1987: “La Bamba” opened. It was the movie biography of Richie Valens.

1990: Comedian Roseanne Barr sang the National Anthem in San Diego before a major league baseball game, spit, then scratched herself. The crowd booed, and she later apologized.

1991: Actor Paul Reubens _ also known as Pee-Wee Herman _ was arrested inside a movie theater in Sarasota, Fla., for exposing himself.

1999: Musician Phil Collins married Orianne Cevey in a private civil ceremony in Switzerland. He was 48, she was 27. They have since split up.

2001: Mariah Carey checked herself into a hospital suffering from an emotional and physical breakdown.

2002: Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from her second husband, Cris Judd.

A service of the Associated Press(AP)