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THE WEDDING SINGER: TOTALLY AWESOME EDITION DVD REVIEW (UGO - UnderGroundOnline) - You better deliver if you're going to call your DVD edition "totally awesome." "Kinda rad" is one thing and "sorta cool" is another but few DVDs are "totally awesome."

Planning Your Wedding while Planning for the Future (Harrisburg Daily Register) - (ARA) - Your wedding day should be special, with family and friends gathered to help you celebrate, the ceremony reflecting your love and the reception providing a perfect finale.

Vegas wedding: Casino to team with MGM Grand (Boston Herald) - The Las Vegas Strip is coming to the Connecticut countryside. MGM Mirage yesterday teamed up with Foxwoods on a major partnership that will put the venerable MGM Grand name on a $700 million Foxwoods...

REVIEW ‘Tristan and Isolde’ a tale as old as time (INQ7.net) - DESPITE discarding the magical elements integral to the myths of the forbidden lovers Tristan and Isolde (or Iseult), the film translation works quite well in presenting the timeless tale that very likely inspired the classic love angles of the Arthurian legends and “Romeo and Juliet.”

The skin-friendly tan (Detroit Free Press) - With spring break, prom and wedding seasons under way, young people especially may long to get a head start on a tan as they strive for a sun-kissed look. Bad idea, dermatologists warn. Limiting sun exposure and forgoing indoor tanning altogether are more important than ever as cases of melanoma, a potentially deadly skin cancer, rise.

NFL Suspends Ricky Williams for 2006 (AP via Yahoo! News) - Ricky Williams will sit out another season. The NFL suspended the troubled Miami Dolphins running back for one year Tuesday after he violated the league's substance abuse policy for the fourth time.

Gift of life: Sister's kidney donation frees Stamford man from dialysis (Stamford Advocate) - Annie Vismara, of Nantes, France, has visited the United States three times. The first was 15 years ago, to attend the wedding of her brother, Alain Cormier. Two years later, she returned for the birth of Alain and Rita Cormier's daughter, Gabrielle. Recently, she came here to donate a kidney to her brother.

"Sweeney Todd," Stephen Schwartz and the Mailbag (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Here's an odd conjunction. Tuesday I published my very admiring review of John Doyle's spare and electric Broadway revival of Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," where the cast of 10 is also its own orchestra.

Review: Some Ellington, some Ella: A nice night of jazz but nothing remarkable (Bonita Daily News) - So what in the world was wrong Sunday night, when Patti Austin and the Duke Ellington Orchestra performed in the last concert of the Phil's regular season?

The Party's Over (New York Times) - While authors are still feted with cheese cubes and merlot, publishing people agree book parties aren't what they used to be.