Singer renews wedding vows

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Singer Marc Anthony and former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres renewed their wedding vows, five months after announcing their separation.

The couple emerged Saturday from the grand Cathedral of San Juan holding hands and kissing as bridesmaids in scarlet showered them with white rose petals.

Hundreds of well-wishers lined the narrow cobblestone streets outside the cathedral. The couple responded with one more kiss before being whisked away in a black limousine.

Although they announced a split in July, the couple never legally filed for separation. Torres has described the church wedding as “a new beginning.”

Former ‘first cat’ leads parade

Little Rock, Ark. – Socks has put on a few pounds since his days as the first pet, but he’s no less adventurous.

The mischievous cat seemed more interested in climbing a tree than riding in former President Clinton’s 1967 Mustang in his first trip back to Little Rock since 1992.

Socks, who now belongs to Clinton’s former personal secretary Betty Currie, returned to Little Rock on Saturday as the grand marshal of the 2002 Little Rock Big Jingle Jubilee Holiday Parade.

Before taking a ride in Clinton’s Mustang, Currie let the thick black and white cat take a walk on his leash, and he headed straight for a tree on the side of the road.

Director taps into vineyard

Napa, Calif. – Film director Francis Ford Coppola has agreed to pay $31.5 million – a wine industry record – for the Cohn Vineyard in Napa Valley.

The deal brings an end to a bidding war between Coppola and Robert Mondavi. The maker of “Apocalypse Now” and the “The Godfather” series will pay an estimated $350,000 per acre for the prized vineyard, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Coppola is a veteran vintner with more than 30 years experience in Napa Valley.

The Cohn Vineyard is renowned as one of the best locations to grow cabernet in Napa Valley, if not the world, said Mike Fisher, a vineyard expert with the St. Helena consulting firm of Motto Kryla & Fisher.

Nicholson’s affairs of the heart

New York – Jack Nicholson has a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most notorious rakes. But his friends think he’s just the opposite – a fool for love.

“This is the one thing my close friends never come to me for advice about. They think I’m too goofy about women. In love with love. Too easily injured. Idealistic. They think I’m not really as sharp there as I am in other areas,” Nicholson told Newsweek in its Dec. 16 issues.

“I do not agree with them, incidentally.”

Nicholson plays the quintessential everyman, a retired actuary who goes on a journey of self-discovery, in his latest movie, “About Schmidt.”