MOVIES - Dec. 28, 1987

Louis Gossett Jr.--who won the 1982 Academy Award for his supporting role in “An Officer and a Gentleman”--married an American soap opera actress in a small Christmas ceremony in Israel, a Gossett spokeswoman announced Saturday. Publicist Barbara Barkay quoted Gossett, 50, as saying: “You get used to life being just OK, and then suddenly something like this happens and you realize how much you were missing all those years.” Gossett’s bride, Cyndi James Reese, plays Lexy, an undercover police officer, in the television serial “Days of Our Lives.”