Events in Film & TV
Billboard Music Awards
Dec 8 15th Billboard Music Awards: Usher, Alicia Keys, and Toby Keith win
Film & TV History
Dec 9 Mary-Kate Olsen pledges that woman sewing garments for her company in Bangladesh will be afforded legal maternity leave
Film Release
Dec 15 "Million Dollar Baby", directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman is released (Best Picture 2005)
Weddings in Film & TV
- Dec 23 CBS executive Les Moonves (55) weds CBS' "Early Show" co-host Julie Chen (34) on a private estate in Acapulco
- Dec 26 "Kill Bill" actor David Carradine (67) weds Annie Berman (43) at the seaside in Malibu
- Dec 29 "The X-Files" actress Gillian Anderson (36) weds former journalist and documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne (42) on Shella island in Lamu, Kenya
- Dec 31 English actor Terence Stamp (64) weds Elizabeth O'Rourke (23) in London
Deaths in Film & TV
- Dec 4 Carl Esmond, Austrian actor (Ministry of Fear, Smash-Up), dies of natural causes at 102
- Dec 9 Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
- Dec 14 Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor & politician (2004 presidential candidate), dies at 65
- Dec 28 Jerry Orbach, American actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), dies at 69
- Dec 29 Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress (b. 1947)
- Dec 30 Artie Shaw [Arthur Arshawsky], American bandleader, jazz clarinetist and actor ("Begin the Beguine"), dies at 94
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