01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 25, 2003

The Providence Performing Arts Center has announced the return of Arlene Violet in Nunsense Kaye Ballard (TV's The Mothers-In-Law; The Full Monty) as Sister Mary Regina, Georgia Engel (from Broadway's The Boys from Syracuse; TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show) as Sister Mary Leo, Mimi Hines (Broadway's Funny Girl; TV's Frasier) as Sister Mary Amnesia, Darlene Love (recording artist; Broadway's Leader of the Pack) as Sister Mary Hubert, and Lee Meriwether (former Miss America; TV's Barnaby Jones) as Sister Robert Anne.

Nunsense will play at PPAC from Feb. 17-22.

Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra and soccer star Mia Hamm were married Saturday in a private ceremony.

"It was a really nice wedding, on a hill with an ocean view," said Garciaparra's aunt, Lulu Garciaparra, of Fontana, Calif. "It was a very beautiful day."

She said a few hundred guests attended the wedding in this coastal California community.

The wedding came a year after Garciaparra, a two-time American League batting champion, proposed to Hamm, the top scorer in the history of the U.S. women's national team.

The two met at a charity event in 1998 and started dating last Thanksgiving, shortly after Hamm divorced her husband of six years.

Michael Jackson has a Web site proclaiming his innocence. The site, www.mjnews.us, came online yesterday. On it, Jackson writes that the child-molestation charges lodged against him are "predicated on a big lie," and that it will "be shown in court."

Last week, Stuart Backerman, the oddball pop star's spokesman, said Jackson was putting the site together so he could communicate with the news media and fans. Jackson surrendered to Santa Barbara County authorities Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued alleging that he committed lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14. He was released on $3 million bail. Authorities said they expect to file formal charges sometime after Thanksgiving.

Compiled by Lifebeat editor

Alexis Magner Miller from wire reports.