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Wedding Bells On `Housewives' (Hartford Courant) - For the third-season finale of "Desperate Housewives" Sunday, they've planned a big lavish wedding with details and gowns to put you in the mind of the days when shows like "Dynasty" and "Falcon Crest" ruled prime time.

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.

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare Review (antiMUSIC) - .Do you suppose global warming has gotten to Arctic Monkeys? Or are the chilly simians just dreaming about warmer climes? There must be some reason that they start off Favourite Worst Nightmare with a blast of surf music.

Review: Austerity Britain 1945-51 by David Kynaston (Guardian Unlimited) - David Kynaston's Austerity Britain brilliantly captures a postwar nation looking forward to better times, says Brian Thompson.

In Memoriam . . . (Washington Post) - Here are some of the 2006-07 season's shows that will no longer be with us in the fall, may they rest in peace and, in some cases, reruns.

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.

Marriage license fee may go up 5 (Herald & Review) - SPRINGFIELD - For the couple in a financial pinch, an elaborate cake, professional photographer and matching champagne flutes are parts of a wedding that could be considered optional.

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.

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 ...