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Movie review: Melodramatic 'Wedding' works after all (The Capital Times) - Wow, you could make a bad movie out of "After the Wedding." The melodramatic surprises in Danish filmmaker Susannah Bier's follow-up to the outstanding "Brothers" would be prime ingredients for a Lifetime movie-of-the-week thriller, filled to the brim with bathos and phony sentiment.

Flower Empowered (Washington Post) - "Flowers are happy," says Dexter Fields of Laurel. "They evoke joy-even sympathy flowers. I live for the day I come to the wedding reception and see the bride, who gives me a big hug. I can tell I got it right."

THEATRE REVIEW: "Steel Magnolias" is hard to beat at the Firehouse Theater (Newport This Week) - When we think of the show "Steel Magnolias" we think of the blockbuster hit movie with an all-star cast. However, like many successful films, it was adapted from a play. It is often a challenge to produce a play when audiences are familiar with a film version.

Tony Blair announces his resignation, China prepares for 2008 Olympics (CNN.com) - May 11, 2007

Fish Tips (Coeur d'Alene Press) - As water levels rise and fall and as water temperatures warm unevenly, the bass have been moving into shore and back out again much like wedding guests dancing the nonsensical song first popularized in 1949 in Sun Valley.

Movie review: 'Miss Potter' charms (The Capital Times) - In his biography of children's author Beatrix Potter, director Chris Noonan ("Babe") makes one stylistic leap that could have fallen flat.

ROLL CALL: Britney Gets Some Hair, & 'Idol' Gets A Spin-Off (AccessHollywood) - Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans by Tommy VergasonMay 10, 2007BRITNEY'S PIXIE: It may not be long before Britney Spears takes off the various wigs she's been sporting since the infamous head-shaving incident. THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL spoke with Criscilla Crossland, one of the four dancers that joined Spears...

The Poverty Business (BusinessWeek) - Inside U.S. companies' audacious drive to extract more profits from the nation's working poor

Review: A Wet and Windy Night by Declan Cleary (Lewes Today) - REPUTATIONS took a knocking during the presentation by Plumpton Players of Declan Cleary's A wet and Windy Night, its first ever performance.

Fyke murder trial gets under way (Herald & Review) - DECATUR - Franklin Fyke's defense to three counts of first-degree murder will be that he did not intend to cause the death of his wife, Gloria, 48, when he grabbed her by the neck during an argument on Oct. 24, 2005, in the bedroom of their home.