Milestones Nov. 3, 1997

BIRTH REVEALED. To RENNY HARLIN, 38, Cliffhanger director and divorcing husband of actress Geena Davis; and TIFFANY BOWNE, a twentysomething ex-Harlin company assistant; of a son, in August.

SENTENCED. MARV ALBERT, 56, the ex-NBC sportscaster with an X-rated sex life; for biting lover Vanessa Perhach; to a 12-month suspended sentence; in Arlington, Va. Albert, who admitted “I am sorry” in court, could have received up to a year behind bars and a $2,500 fine for his guilty plea last month to assault and battery.

DIED. ANN DEVROY, 49, determined, shrewd, indefatigable Washington Post White House correspondent; of cancer; in Washington. Her dogged professionalism in covering four Presidents won Devroy the admiration of her peers and prompted one subject, George Bush, to write admiringly to the ailing reporter, “I want the same toughness that angered me and frustrated me to a fare-thee-well at times to see you through your fight.”

DIED. HAROLD ROTHWAX, 67, no-nonsense New York judge catapulted to prominence by the libel suit he brought against loose-mouthed radio talkster Don Imus; of complications from a stroke; in New York City. Though the public may have been fascinated by the flap with Imus, jurists were more intrigued by Rothwax’s legal odyssey over the years from civil liberties lawyer to law-and-order judge. In an attention-catching 1996 book, Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice, Rothwax argued that justice would be better served by clipping defendants’ rights and giving police more leeway to seize evidence.

DIED. AUDRA LINDLEY, 79, veteran actress best known as sex-starved, muumuu-clad landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three’s Company; of complications from leukemia; in Los Angeles. A daughter of actors, Lindley played Broadway, big-screen and television roles, most recently as Cybill Shepherd’s mother on Cybill.