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By Times staff writer Gellar, Prinze get marriedFirst came Scooby-Doo, now comes "I do" for Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. The couple, who appeared together this summer in the live-action film version of the cartoon Scooby-Doo, got married Sunday at an undisclosed location in Mexico, their spokeswoman, Leslie Sloane, said Tuesday. The bride wore a Vera Wang gown and the groom wore a custom-made linen suit, she said. Friends and family attended the ceremony, which was kept a closely guarded secret from the public. Gellar, star of the UPN series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, announced the engagement at her 24th birthday party in April 2001. The couple met on the set of the 1997 teen slasher flick, I Know What You Did Last Summer. They dated for nearly a year before getting engaged. Both are signed to star in a sequel to the Scooby-Doo adaptation, in which Prinze, 26, played brawny, mystery-solver Fred and Gellar portrayed sweetheart sleuth Daphne. Minnelli, Gest adopting childLiza Minnelli and David Gest say their first adopted child will join the family in January. It's an American girl, age 3, whose name will be Serena, the couple announced. Their VH-1 musical comedy/reality show is scheduled to air Nov. 3 with guests Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite and Mary J. Blige. After Serena arrives, though, she will not be on the show. "The baby will not be seen anywhere. That's our private world," the couple said. 'Guns of Navarone' director diesJ. Lee Thompson, the British-born film director best known for the World War II action drama The Guns of Navarone, the original Cape Fear and a string of Charles Bronson action thrillers made during a four-decade directing career, has died. He was 88. Mr. Thompson, who also introduced a young Haley Mills to the screen, died of congestive heart failure Friday at his summer home in Sooke, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In a directing career that began in 1950 and spanned 56 films, Mr. Thompson's credits include four films starring Gregory Peck and nine films starring Bronson. Although best known for the action-adventure films he made after moving to Los Angeles in the wake of the 1961 success of his Oscar-nominated The Guns of Navarone, Mr. Thompson earned critical acclaim while forging his career as a director of both commercial and socially relevant films in England in the 1950s. Mr. Thompson is survived by his wife of 40 years, Penny; a daughter, Lesley; and a granddaughter. His son, Peter Lee, is deceased.
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