Eddie Murphy marries

Eddie Murphy marries

LOS ANGELES — Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year’s Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds. The pair exchanged vows Tuesday on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia in front of a small group of family and friends, their representatives told People magazine. A call to Murphy’s publicist, Arnold Robinson, wasn’t immediately returned early Wednesday. Murphy and Edmonds began dating last fall and were engaged in July. Murphy, 46, has five children from his marriage to Nicole Mitchell Murphy, who filed for divorce in 2005. He also has a daughter with Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown. Edmonds, 40, has two sons from her 13-year marriage to singer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. As head of Edmonds Entertainment Group Inc., she has produced the film and television series “Soul Food.” Murphy’s film credits include “Dreamgirls,” and the “Beverly Hills Cop,” “The Nutty Professor,” “Shrek” and “Dr. Doolittle” movies.

Keaton on motherhood

NEW YORK — Diane Keaton says she planned to wait until she was in a “strong and substantive” relationship before becoming a mother — but that never happened for her. “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist, it was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time,” says Keaton, who celebrates her 62nd birthday Saturday. “So I plunged in.” The Oscar-winning actress, whose past romantic partners include Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, adopted daughter Dexter, now 12, and son Duke, 7. “I’ve had such an unusual life. Obviously career-oriented. I was happy to be a daughter well into my 40s. That was something that meant a lot to me,” Keaton tells Ladies’ Home Journal in its February issue, on newsstands next Tuesday. “I didn’t think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother.”

Bosley in Hallmark movie

LOS ANGELES — Tom Bosley wants to show he still has it at 80.

Last year, the actor best known for playing Richie Cunningham’s father on “Happy Days” co-starred with Michael Learned in a seven-month national tour of “On Golden Pond.” Now he’s starting off the new year with a starring role in the TV movie “Charlie & Me,” airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel. Bosley plays a charismatic grandfather who, despite suffering a near-fatal heart attack, is determined to mend the relationship between his workaholic, widowed son and his feisty 12-year-old granddaughter before he dies. “Although I love my home, my family and everything about my nonwork life, I also want to keep acting as long as God will let me,” said Bosley, who played Father Frank Dowling on “Father Dowling Mysteries.” “It’s what still drives me,” he said in a statement issued to the cable channel. “I want to prove to myself that I can still do it.”

Today’s birthdays

Actor Robert Loggia is 78. Actor Dabney Coleman is 76. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Hull is 69. Musician Stephen Stills is 63. Rock musician John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) is 62. Actress Victoria Principal is 58. Actor-director Mel Gibson is 52. Contemporary Christian singer Nichole Nordeman is 36. Actor Jason Marsden is 33. Actor Nicholas Gonzalez is 32. Singer Kimberley Locke (“American Idol”) is 30. Rhythm-and-blues singer Lloyd is 22. Actor Alex D. Linz is 19.