Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake marry in Italy

LOS ANGELES Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel tied the knot at a seaside resort in southern Italy.

The Borgo Egnazia resort declined to comment Friday about the superstar nuptials.

The couple released a statement to People magazine saying, Its great to be married, the ceremony was beautiful and it was so special to be surrounded by our family and friends.

Representatives for the couple confirmed the report Friday. The 31-year-old Timberlake and 30-year-old Biel got engaged in December after dating for several years.

Timberlake, who has been acting more than singing lately, stars in the Clint Eastwood baseball film, The Trouble with the Curve. Biel stars in the remake of Total Recall. She will next be seen in Hitchcock.

Sting moves venue of Philippine concert

MANILA, Philippines Sting has moved the location of his Back to Bass Tour concert in the Philippines following a petition by environmentalists who said the original venue is owned by a conglomerate that plans to uproot 182 trees for a parking lot and mall expansion in a northern mountain city.

The SM Mall of Asia Arena said on Saturday that changing the site of the Dec. 9 concert was the decision of the artist himself.

Understandably, the known environment advocate artist was left with no choice in spite of the SM representatives appeal, it said in a statement.

SM Prime Holdings, which operates SM malls and the arena on Manila Bay, is owned by the Philippines richest man, mall mogul Henry Sy.

Environmentalists said in their petition that as a champion of the environment, Sting cant be saving rainforests and enabling SM to rape the environment at the same time!

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler established The Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to protect tropical rainforests and the people who live there.

Rust and Bone named best picture at London fest

LONDON Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiards soaring story of love, loss and killer whales, w! as named best picture at the London Film Festival on Saturday.

The movie is a thriller-cum-melodrama about the unlikely relationship between a bare-knuckle boxer (Matthias Schoenaerts) and a whale trainer, played by Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, who suffers a tragic workplace accident.

The president of the award jury, British playwright David Hare, praised it as a film full of heart, violence and love.

French filmmaker Audiard won the same award at the London festival in 2009 for his prison drama A Prophet.

American director Benh Zeitlin took the best debut feature prize with his atmospheric bayou saga Beasts of the Southern Wild. Juror Hannah McGill praised the daringly vast, richly detailed film, which has won wide praise since its Sundance Film Festival debut earlier this year.

Member of Bling Ring pleads no contest

LOS ANGELES A 22-year-old woman pleaded no contest Friday to a burglary charge for stealing from the home of Lindsay Lohan as part of a group known as the Bling Ring.

Diana Tamayo was sentenced to three years of probation by Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler and also must perform 60 days of road work. She could have faced six years in prison if convicted at a trial.

Authorities said Tamayo was one of six people charged in thefts in which more than $3 million in clothes, jewelry and art was taken from the homes of stars such as Lohan, Paris Hilton, Orlando Bloom and Megan Fox.

Tamayos attorneys previously argued that she acknowledged involvement in breaking into Lohans home because police officers threatened her family with immigration consequences.

Two other suspects Courtney Leigh Ames and Roy Lopez Jr. are scheduled to return to court Nov. 8. Both are charged in the theft at Hiltons home.

Authorities arrested most of the group in October 2009.

Tom Hanks lets obscenity slip on ABCs GMA

NEW YORK ABC and Tom Hanks are apologizing after the actor let slip a swear word during a live appearance! on Good ! Morning America.

Hanks telegraphed his f-bomb during an interview Friday. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas had asked him to speak in his characters British accent in the movie Cloud Atlas. Hanks said that it was mostly swear words, but Vargas told him to go ahead anyway.

He began speaking in a mumble but the obscenity was clearly audible. ABC removed it for subsequent feeds of the show in the Midwest and West.

Vargas quickly said, We are so sorry, Good Morning America. Hanks also apologized and said hed probably have a seven-second delay next time hes on the show.

California freeway closed for Hangover 3 filming

LOS ANGELES Drivers are being warned to avoid sections of a Southern California freeway that will be shut down this weekend for filming of the third installment of the Hangover movie franchise.

Sections of the 73 Freeway in coastal Orange County will see staggered closures until 7 p.m. Sunday.

To the south, the freeway becomes a toll road. The Los Angeles Times reports that the films producer, Warner Bros., will pay for lost toll revenues and other costs.

Lori Olin, a spokeswoman for the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor, tells the newspaper the agency will receive at least $25,000, including location fees.

The 2009 blockbuster The Hangover, about an ill-fated bachelor party trip to Las Vegas, earned over $400 million worldwide. Its 2011 sequel was also a mega hit.

Producers sue over alleged musical scam

NEW YORK The producers of the Broadway musical Rebecca filed a civil lawsuit Friday against a Long Island securities dealer who was charged criminally this week with sinking the show with a bizarre fraud that involved fictitious investors and a faked death.

Mark Hotton, a one-time stock broker for Oppenheimer & Co., was arrested on Monday. Prosecutors accused him of flimflamming Rebecca lead producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza with an elaborate scheme in which he pretended to have raised $4.5 million in inve! stments f! or the musical in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in commission and travel expenses.

But the investors he claimed to have recruited all turned out to be fakes, prosecutors said. The plot fell apart after the producers began urgently pushing for Hotton to deliver the promised millions so the cast could begin rehearsals. Instead, he told them a key Australian investor had suddenly died of malaria in London.

Hit soap opera ends in Brazil, but no blackouts

SAO PAULO Brazilians plopped down in chairs gathered around sidewalk TVs and sat down to meals with sets looming over their tables Friday night as the country settled in for the final chapter of a smash soap opera that enthralled its fans for months.

Avenida Brasil told the story of a young womans vengeance on the nouveau-riche stepmother who abandoned her in a landfill. But Brazil avoided a second vengeance power outages that electricity experts had feared might hit as TV watchers suddenly all went back to normal activities once the episode ended.

Earlier Friday, the national electricity grid warned power distributors to prepare for sudden surges in electricity use from millions of viewers switching on living room lights, raiding refrigerators and turning on microwave ovens after the 100-minute broadcast.

But as the final minutes of the telenovela drew to a close, there werent reports of any significant power outages blamed on the soap opera.