Events in Film & TV
Film Release
May 2 "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery", starring Mike Myers and Elizabeth Hurley, is released
Film & TV History
May 2 Police arrest transsexual prostitute Atisone Seiuli with Eddie Murphy
- May 5 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
Film Release
May 7 Science fiction film "The Fifth Element" written and directed by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich is released. Then the most expensive European film ever made.
- May 15 ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
- May 16 Brandi Sherwood (Miss Idaho) replaces Brook Lee as Miss USA when Brook is crowned Miss Universe
- May 16 Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of USA crowned 46th Miss Universe
- May 18 50th Cannes Film Festival: "Taste of Cherry" directed by Abbas Kiarostami and "Unagi" directed by Shohei Imamura jointly awarded the Palme d'Or
Film Premiere
May 19 "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore, premieres in the US
Daytime Emmy Awards
May 21 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
- May 23 Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV
Birthdays in Film & TV
Weddings in Film & TV
- May 3 "Port Charles" soap opera actor Jon Lindstrom (39) weds "The Young and The Restless" actress Eileen Davidson (38) in Cambria, California
Dwayne Johnson
May 3 Actor The Rock [Dwayne Johnson] (25) weds producer Dany Garcia (28)
- May 6 "The X-Files" actor David Duchovny (36) weds actress Tea Leoni (31) in the garden of the Grace Church School
Sylvester Stallone
May 17 Actor Sylvester Stallone weds actress Jennifer Flavin in London
Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker
May 19 Film and stage actor Matthew Broderick (35) weds Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker (32) in New York
Divorces in Film & TV
Donald Trump & Marla Maples
May 2 Donald Trump and Marla Maples announce they are separating
Deaths in Film & TV
- May 4 Alvin "Alvy" Moore, American comic actor (Green Acres, Scream, Intruder), dies of heart failure at 75
- May 5 Tolia Nikiprowetzky, French composer, ethno-musicologist and broadcaster of Russian heritage, dies at 80
- May 5 Walter Gotell, German actor (James Bond, From Russia With Love), dies at 73
- May 8 Brian Wenham, British journalist (BBC), and media consultant, dies at 60
- May 9 Marco Ferreri, Italian film director, dies at 68
- May 11 Brenda Carlin, American television producer & wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57
- May 14 Thelma Carpenter, American radio and jazz band singer (Coleman Hawkins; Count Basie), and stage and screen actress (Hello, Dolly!; Barefoot In The Park (TV); The Wiz (film)), dies of cardiac arrest at 76
- May 16 Horace "Bones" McKinney, American basketball forward, coach and broadcaster (Washington Capitols, Wake Forest), dies at 78
- May 18 Bridgette Andersen, American actress, dies at 21
- May 24 Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (Knight Rider), dies of lung cancer at 74
- May 29 George Fenneman, American radio and TV announcer (You Bet Your Life), dies at 77
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