• George Clooney and human-rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin were married Saturday in a private ceremony in Venice, Italy, the actor's representative said. Clooney's longtime representative Stan Rosenfield announced the news in a single sentence. It's expected to be the only communication on the marriage of the actor who long reigned as Hollywood's most-eligible bachelor. Clooney's celebrity pals joined the couple to celebrate the ceremony in the luxury Aman Hotel. Clooney and friends had coolly sipped champagne before gliding up the majestic Grand Canal on Saturday evening, waving to hundreds of well-wishers on shore and a flotilla of photographers. His water taxi was the last of a procession of a dozen that took guests including Cindy Crawford, Bill Murray and Matt Damon from the five-star Cipriani Hotel opposite St. Mark's Square up the Grand Canal to the Aman Hotel. Clooney, 53, and Alamuddin, 36, who were engaged in April, have not publicly divulged details of the weekend-long celebrations. Venice city officials announced the closure of a pedestrian way along the Grand Canal near the 16th century Cavalli Palace, used for civil-marriage ceremonies, for two hours Monday, citing the Clooney nuptials. The Cavalli Palace is just opposite the Aman Hotel. There has been speculation that the couple will have two ceremonies -- one on Saturday followed by a civil ceremony Monday. Clooney had long vowed he would never marry again after his 1989-93 marriage to Talia Balsam. He dated a series of models and actresses that made his love life tabloid fodder. Singer Bono and his wife were among the late arrivals Saturday, joining Clooney's cousin Miguel Ferrer, Ellen Barkin, Anna Wintour and Richard Kind, among those who arrived Friday.
• Sleepy Hollow is going to Sleepy Hollow. Two of the actors from the Fox TV series, Orlando Jones and Lyndie Greenwood, cut a ribbon in the New York village to open the Halloween season. The village administrator said the Headless Horseman also would take part. He said the actors also are visiting the grave of Washington Irving in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Irving's eerie 1819 short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," has helped make the village and surrounding area a tourist destination at Halloween. It also inspired the TV show, in which story hero Ichabod Crane is transported to the modern world. But the TV show is produced in Wilmington, N.C., rather than Sleepy Hollow.
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