PARIS - "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria and basketball ace Tony Parker married in a civil wedding ceremony on Friday, but well-wishers and photographers got only a fleeting glimpse of the celebrity couple.

Eva Longoria, star of television series "Desperate Housewives", arrives at the 4th district city hall in Paris to marry French basketball player Tony Parker (not pictured) July 6, 2007. [Reuters]

Hundreds of photographers and passersby climbed on to ladders, traffic bollards and parked scooters straining to spot the couple when they arrived to be married by the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, in a Parisian town hall.

The cheering crowd got no more than a quick wave from the diminutive actress as she stepped from white stretch limousine and a brief, rueful smile from Parker while the couple's own photographers followed them into the building.

Boos and catcalls from frustrated cameramen accompanied their departure an hour and a half later when blacked-out limousines whisked away the newlyweds and their entourage.

The marriage of Longoria, one of television's biggest stars after the worldwide success of "Desperate Housewives," and Parker, fresh from his third NBA championship, has been billed as the celebrity wedding of the year.

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