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Tarantino and Coppola a pair
NEW YORK (AP) -- At the Cannes Film Festival in May, director Quentin Tarantino announced, "Cinema, mon amour!" It appears he may have another love in his life.
Tarantino and filmmaker Sofia Coppola are "seeing each other," Bumble Ward, publicist for both, confirmed Tuesday.
They "enjoy each other's company," Ward told The Associated Press.
Earlier this year, Coppola, 33, won the Oscar for best original screenplay for "Lost in Translation." Tarantino won the screenplay Oscar in 1995 for "Pulp Fiction."
The couple were recently photographed together in Madrid, Spain, where the 41-year-old Tarantino was promoting the second installment of his bloody revenge series, "Kill Bill."
Tarantino is the third director in Coppola's life. She's the daughter of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola, and was married to director Spike Jonze ("Adaptation" and "Being John Malkovich") for four years. The couple separated a year ago, and Coppola filed for divorce last December.
'Tree' stars getting hitched
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The stars of "One Tree Hill" are going to make it a twosome.
Chad Michael Murray announced Monday that he and his WB co-star Sophia Bush are engaged to be married. Both performers are 22.
The actor, now promoting the romantic comedy "A Cinderella Story," made the revelation on CBS' "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn."
Murray said he popped the question while they were in Australia, where he was finishing work on the movie "House of Wax."
"I had like 500 candles ... and my assistant ... he had to light all the candles while I had to basically take her to a spa and keep her out of the house until the sun went down," Murray said. "I had a bunch of roses and I put lights down on a tennis court that spelled something out for her," he said.
Murray wouldn't specify what the message read.
"Dude, that's for her ... I'd love to tell you, but that's just for my girl."
Bergman retiring
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Ingmar Bergman, one of the great masters of modern film, celebrated his 86th birthday Wednesday with a sour gift for fans -- an announcement that he's retiring from the stage.
Bergman said his 2002 production of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghost" at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre would be his last.
"After 'Ghost' I decided that this must be it. I do not want them to carry me out of the theater. I'm leaving by myself," he said in an interview with the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. "Nobody will need to say, 'Now the old man has to quit.' "
The film icon also said that his heart remains with theater.
"Theater is the beginning and end and actually everything, while cinema belongs to the whoring and slaughterhouse trade," Bergman told the newspaper.
While theater is the backbone of his artistic career, his involvement in films has endeared him to movie lovers. He's won three Oscars in the best foreign film category, the last in 1984 for "Fanny and Alexander."
"We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated," Bergman said. "And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' "
Narnia in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- First it was Middle-earth, now New Zealand is turning into Narnia.
Prime Minister Helen Clark has visited the set of upcoming film "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe," adapted from the second installment of C.S. Lewis' seven-book fantasy series, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported Tuesday.
"Narnia," directed by New Zealander Andrew Adamson, whose previous films include "Shrek" and "Shrek 2," is another boost for the New Zealand movie industry, which is riding high on the box-office success of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
Clark watched the movie's young British stars playing a cricket match on the grounds of a house in the northern city of Auckland.
The newspaper named the actors as Georgie Henley, 9, of London, who plays the lead character, Lucy; Skandar Keynes, 12, who plays Edmund; Anna Popplewell, 15, who plays Susan; and William Moseley, 17, who plays the eldest brother, Peter.
Their names have been kept secret as filming has taken place at locations around Auckland during the past month. The movie is slated for a Christmas 2005 release.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
