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MOVIE REVIEW: A gathering of silver linings (Centre Daily Times) - The Danish drama "After the Wedding" is more proof of how tough it was for Oscar voters to choose a winner for Best Foreign-Language Film this year.

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.

Review: Austerity Britain 1945-51 by David Kynaston (Guardian Unlimited) - John Charmley is transported by David Kynaston's detailed survey of British life after the second world war, Austerity Britain 1945-51.

Movie Review: Music and Lyrics (Blogcritics.org) - Hugh Grant may be best known for his shtick of being "charmingly befuddled," as noted in a particularly memorable side gag on Family Guy , but after watching a handful of his movies, you begin to realize something about the Brit: his characters are so often sculpted from the same mold, but his willingness to be a self-deprecating, self-involved jerk keeps the clay from hardening into a ...

Theater Review: 'Philadelphia Story' proves too much for Studio Players (Lexington Herald-Leader) - The last play in Studio Players' exceptionally strong and successful 54th season, The Philadelphia Story, is decidedly not a theatrical version of a film that starred Tom Hanks, as I had to tell a friend. Nor does it refer to a tale of the history of the nation's former capital. Rather, it is a kind of behind-the-scenes glimpse into a potential news story, one with grand implications.

Credit Card Use Probed By U.S., Sources Say (Washington Post) - Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the use by Prince George's officials of county-issued credit cards to charge personal expenses totaling thousands of dollars, according to a law enforcement official and another source with knowledge of the probe.

TV Review: Ugly Betty - "East Side Story" (Blogcritics.org) - Phew! This final episode of Ugly Betty ’s season could easily have been two hours long. And I desperately wish it had been! So much happened that I plan to re-watch it on ABC.com tomorrow, just so I can catch my breath and not miss a thing. Betty finally confesses her feelings for Henry in the Mode copy room, and he tells her he has broken up with Charlie. They express their love for ...

'Clownzilla' speaks to exclusion (Orange County Register) - Review: UCI-based clown troupe brings its silent movie-style show to Rude Guerrilla.

Anniversaries (The Morning News) - Villines 65th Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Villines of Prairie Grove celebrate their 65th wedding s. Villines and Wilma Jean Richardson married April 27, 1942, in Fayetteville. They have three children, seven grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

Movie Review: 'Conversations with Other Women' (The Epoch Times) - On the basis of the film poster, you'd imagine this to be a romantic comedy. However Conversations with Other Women is a surprisingly clever, stylish, and cinematically progressive movie...