TV mogul, wife, have a girl

TV mogul, wife, have a girl

LOS ANGELES — It’s a girl for television mogul Dick Wolf and his wife, Noelle.

Their daughter Zoe Amelia was born Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Wolf spokeswoman Pam Golum said in a statement.

“Mother, father and daughter are all doing well,” Golum said.

It’s the couple’s first child together, and the fourth for Wolf, who has three children from a previous marriage.

Wolf, 60, is the creator and executive producer of “Law & Order” and its spinoffs “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

He won an Emmy Sept. 16 for the made-for-TV movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” During his acceptance speech, Wolf thanked his wife for not going into labor during the awards ceremony.

Minute of silence on set

BERLIN — Tom Cruise and the crew of his new film, “Valkyrie,” held a minute of silence for German anti-Nazi heroes as the team prepared to film at the site where they were executed, a fellow cast member said in comments published Sunday.

In the movie, Cruise plays Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, the aristocratic army officer who was among those executed after a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944.

The German government initially declined permission to film at the so-called Bendlerblock — part of the Defense Ministry grounds and now a memorial to the anti-Nazi resistance — citing concerns over “the dignity of the place.” However, it reversed course this month.

On Friday night, the movie makers gathered at the site to start filming scenes, German media reported.

Today’s birthdays

Actor-singer Herb Jeffries is 96. ABC sportscaster Jim McKay is 86. Actress Sheila MacRae is 83. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 68. Singer Barbara Allbut (The Angels) is 67. Singer Phyllis “Jiggs” Allbut (The Angels) is 65. Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) is 65. Actor Gordon Clapp is 59. Former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II, D-Mass., is 55. Actor Kevin Sorbo is 49. Rhythm-and-blues singer Cedric Dent (Take 6) is 45. Actress-writer Nia Vardalos is 45. Country musician Marty Mitchell is 38. Actress Megan Ward is 38. Singer-musician Marty Cintron (No Mercy) is 36. Contemporary Christian musician Juan DeVevo (Casting Crowns) is 32. Actor Kyle Sullivan is 19.