Tattle: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds wed in secret ceremony

IN A MOVE that surprised even avid celeb-stalkers, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tied the knot in a secret ceremony over the weekend.

Linked publicly for a little more than a year, the "Gossip Girl" actress and her chiseled hubby were wed at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, S.C., right outside of Charleston.

Florence Welch, leader of Florence and the Machine and a good friend of Lively's, provided the soundtrack for the wedding.

The newlyweds have largely been tight-lipped to reporters about their relationship.

This is the first marriage for Lively, 25, and the second for Reynolds, 35, who was married to Scarlett Johansson for two years. They divorced in 2010.

Lively and Reynolds starred in last year's bomb "The Green Lantern." Hope their union will be more successful than that movie.

Political reporters were sent into a tizzy when rapper Nicki Minaj seemed to endorse Mitt Romney while guest-rapping on a Lil' Wayne mixtape. "I'm a Republican voting for Mitt Romney/ You lazy b------ is f------ up the economy," Minaj rapped.

Minaj fans know she is all about her characters, so they took the line with a grain of salt. But others were convinced of Minaj's right-leanings. Count President Obama in the former category.

"Yeah, I'm not sure that's exactly what happened," Obama told Power 95.3 in Orlando, Fla. "She likes to play different characters."

Minaj tweeted her response: "Ha! Thank you for understanding my creative humor & sarcasm Mr. President, the smart ones always do . . . *sends love & support* @BarackObama."

The surprising sci-fi suspenser "Looper" (opening Sept. 28 and previewed at the Toronto International Film Festival) is director Rian Johnson's ("Brick," "The Brothers Bloom") biggest film to date. But no matter how big the budget, Johnson said, you always feel like you need 10 percent more.

His original script for the movie called for scenes to be shot in a futuristic Paris, "but we didn't have the money to fake Paris," Johnson said.

Then Chinese money came in to co-produce the film, with budget to shoot for two weeks over there.

Goodbye, Paris, hello, Shanghai - and a script rewrite to include one of the film's biggest laughs.

* Sure to cause a stir when it opens is Alex Gibney's new documentary, "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God." If you think you know everything about the Catholic Church's coverup of child-molestation cases, think again.

"Mea Maxima" mostly focuses on a series of cases at a Milwaukee school for the deaf in the 1950s and '60s and on Irish priest Tony Walsh, two to three decades later. According to the movie, the number of priests involved in similar cases over the years is sickening, the amount of money the church spent to buy silence staggering, and the coverup at the highest levels of the Vatican, nothing less than unbelievable.

The late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua makes a very brief appearance in the film, in a smiling photograph. He shouldn't be smiling.

Even if you'll want to scrub yourself when it's over, the movie is riveting.

* The last movie we saw during our brief visit to this year's festival, was "Writers," written and directed by Josh Boone and starring Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Nat Wolff, Liana Liberato, Kristen Bell and Logan Lerman.

The ensemble family drama is full of real moments, and these actors have never been better. If you like detailed movies about relationships with heart and humor, search out "Writers" when it opens.

* This year's festival doesn't seem to have produced a surefire hit or Oscar contender (although we haven't met anyone who hasn't loved "The Hunt," starring Mads Mikkelsen), Toronto remains a great city to visit.

With its efficient mass transit, cleanliness, friendliness and continuing construction boom, whatever they're doing here is worth emulating. (Come north, Mayor Nutter, and learn something.) Sure there are problems, and Torontonians complain like everyone else, but downtown seems to be thriving and it's huge.

One issue: Cycling has become popular here, and many bikers have a sense of how to share the streets with cars - and far too of the bikers many don't wear helmets. Tattle suspects that Toronto trauma centers are doing booming business. What's shocking, however, is that most cyclists obey traffic laws, and most drivers actually give pedestrians the right of way.

Civility is a wonderful thing.

- Daily News staff writer

Howard Gensler contributed

to this column.