Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year's Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds.

The pair exchanged vows 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.

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," "Beverly Hills Cop," "The Nutty Professor," "Shrek" and "Dr. Doolittle" movies. (Associated Press)

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. "I didn't think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother."

"I wanted to be in a good relationship. Those good relationships that are strong and substantive never happened for me, and that prolonged my indecisiveness. When I fell in love that took over my life for a long time."

She "had years of selfishness," Keaton says, but being a mother is better.

"You can't sit there and go, poor me." Like many mothers, Keaton is capable of embarrassing her children.

"I like to take them to school in my bare feet," she says, giving their reaction: " 'Can't you be normal, lady?' "

Keaton, an Oscar winner for "Annie Hall," co-stars with Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes in the upcoming film "Mad Money," about three Federal Reserve Bank employees who plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed. (AP)

It looks as if San Francisco is about to lose its most eligible bachelor.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, 40, proposed to his girlfriend, actress Jennifer Siebel, 33, while they vacationed over the weekend in Hawaii, and she accepted, said Stanlee Gatti, a friend of the couple who spoke with the mayor after he proposed. A date has not been set, Gatti said.

It would be the first marriage for Siebel, 33, and the second for Newsom, whose four-year marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle ended in divorce in March 2006.

The two were introduced by mutual friends in October 2006. Siebel, who lives in Los Angeles, stood by Newsom after he publicly admitted in February that he had a drinking problem and had had an affair with a former staff member's wife.

Siebel has a recurring guest spot on the NBC police drama "Life." She also appears in the 2007 film "In the Valley of Elah," starring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron. (AP)

Tom Wolfe is working on a new novel and will release it through a new publisher, ending a 40-year run with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and signing with Little, Brown and Co.

One of the original "New Journalists" of the 1960s, the 76-year-old Wolfe is known for such best-selling novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," and for such nonfiction classics as "The Right Stuff" and "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

His new novel, "Back to Blood," will be a "Bonfire"-like tour of Miami, taking on "class, family, wealth, race, crime, sex, corruption and ambition." Among the characters: a Cuban nurse married to a French sex doctor, a Haitian woman "who passes for Anglo" and "a freshman journalist on the trail of a Russian-mob-comes-to-Miami story."

Publication is scheduled for 2009.

Wolfe had been with Farrar, Straus since 1965 and the release of his first book, "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." His work has sold millions of copies, but his most recent novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons," was a critical and commercial disappointment.

According to a publishing official familiar with negotiations, Farrar, Straus and Wolfe could not agree on a new contract. Having lost money on "Charlotte Simmons," the publisher was offering a reduced advance for "Back to Blood."

Writers switch publishers all the time, but Farrar, Straus has a remarkable history of company loyalty, holding on to Wolfe, Susan Sontag, Isaac Bashevis Singer and others for decades.

Wolfe's agent, Lynn Nesbit, said the parting "wasn't at all acrimonious." She also noted that Wolfe's editor at Little, Brown, Pat Strachan, used to edit the author at Farrar, Straus, working on "The Right Stuff" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities" among others. (AP)

• Now that Sacha Baron Cohen has hung up his Borat and Ali G characters, he's heading for the Hollywood A-list. After his recent role in "Sweeney Todd," he has been cast as 1960s Vietnam protester and prankster Abbie Hoffman in Steven Spielberg's "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Spielberg's busy schedule, however, puts the film's due date at 2010. The script is reportedly by Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing," "Charlie Wilson's War").

• "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, 22, will play photographer Dan Eldon in "Journey," Eldon was one of four journalists stoned to death by a mob in Somalia in 1993. Imdb.com reports that Eldon's mother, Kathy, approved the choice. "We resisted a lot of older actors [Heath Ledger and Orlando Bloom among them] because Dan was a boy emerging into manhood." The film is based on Eldon's diaries, which were published in book form in 1997.