Francis Ford Coppola says little would change if he were given a chance to do his life over, like the central character in his new movie, “Youth Without Youth.”

“It would be the same life,” the Oscar-winning director says in an interview in yesterday's The New York Times Magazine. “When I die, I am not going to be there saying, 'Oh, I wish I had done this, and I wish I had done that.' Because I did it.”

The director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” says that goes for his movies, too.

“Moviewise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time. I don't know of anyone who has done it. I guess (Japanese director Akira) Kurosawa has come the closest.”

REPS. BONO, MACK WED

Mary Bono, who was married to late singer-turned-politician Sonny Bono and replaced him in Congress after his death, has married U.S. Rep. Connie Mack.

Bono's sister, Katherine Whitaker, said the couple were married Saturday in a private ceremony attended by 35 family members.

“It was fantastic,” Whitaker said. “It was a very quiet ceremony.” A spokeswoman for Mack had said in November that Asheville, N.C., was selected because it is Whitaker's home.

Mack, a Republican representative from Florida, and Bono, a Republican representing California's Inland Empire, had been dating for two years. Bono's chief of staff, Frank Cullen Jr., said Mack proposed in late August while the couple were on a camping trip in Arches National Park in Utah.

The 45-year-old Bono replaced Sonny Bono in Congress in a special election in 1998. The 40-year-old Mack, who is divorced, is the son of the Florida senator of the same name.

'DOG' MAKES AMENDS

Television bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman appeared Saturday at a holiday toy giveaway sponsored by a black advocacy group, weeks after publicly apologizing for using a racial slur.

Chapman handed out toys to dozens of children and signed copies of his book “You Can Run But You Can't Hide,” said Ermias Alemayehu of the conservative Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.

“We don't condone racial slurs, but upon hearing Dog's apology and after meeting with him and his family, we don't believe he's a racist. We also believe that Duane 'Dog' Chapman sincerely wants to make amends to the black community and deserves a second chance,” BOND founder the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said in a statement.

Chapman, 54, apologized in November for repeatedly using the N-word during a March phone call to his son, Tucker, urging him to break up with a black girlfriend.

TREBEK HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

“Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek is out of the hospital and plans to spend the holidays at home with his family as he recovers from a heart attack.

“I'm truly overwhelmed by the great show of support and compassion expressed in the past few days to me, my family and my co-workers,” Trebek said this weekend after his release from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in a statement relayed by “Jeopardy” publicist Jeff Ritter.

Trebek, 67, was hospitalized Dec. 10 after being stricken with what Ritter said was a minor heart attack.

– COMPILED FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS