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Review: 'June Bride' not exactly a wedding album (Newsday) - With all the list-making, caterer-choosing, invitation writing and dress-fitting, a woman can forget that getting married means more than just being a bride. The fear that a lifelong commitment could turn into a life sentence fuels the pre-wedding frenzy. If she can just home in on the details of who will wear what and sit where, a bride can distract herself from the pressure of "till death do us ...

BOOK CLOSES ON BIG BROTHER PAIR (Daily Record) - WHICH author is the customer review on Amazon.co.uk talking about here? "She tells how their love grew away from the glare of the paparazzi, and how this whirlwind romance ended up becoming the wedding of the year. In this honest and open autobiography..."

Movie Review: Evening (Smart-Popcorn) - Combined Rating: 29% (S:33%; P:26%) - The payoff of Evening is a scene that puts two of our greatest actresses together for one scene. As Vanessa Redgrave's Ann lay dying, in walks Meryl Streep as her former best friend Lila. The film has been building to this scene, the director has kept Streep offscreen to this moment so we could have this scene. As we wait and watch as Lila arrives to relieve ...

‘Wild Trees’ supports botany thrills, quirks (The State) - THE WILD TREES: A STORY OF PASSION AND DARING By Richard Preston Random House, 294 pages, $25.95 The bride wore lichen. She and the groom hung from a rope suspended between two tree spires. The wedding rings were cast from redwood sprigs. The minister, also a geologist, stood on a branch in midair. The day before the ceremony, as the betrothed pair climbed the trees and prepared the rigging, ...

Review: Talented cast might make viewers smile, but `Evening' is a downer (Albuquerque Tribune) - Take away the phenomenal cast, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-screenwriter and the acclaimed director and all that's left of "Evening" is a clumsy melodrama about whiny over-privileged people who don't know what real life or real troubles are.

Art Review: Hip shots by Ken Heyman (The Buffalo News) - From Andy Warhol sitting on his silver toilet to the familial rituals of a Rio de Janeiro slum, Ken Heyman

It Happened One Night (New York Review of Books) - An article by Al Alvarez from The New York Review of Books, July 19, 2007

MOVIE REVIEW: Stellar cast but not much else in 'Evening' (The Charlotte Observer) - Take away the phenomenal cast, the Pulitzer Prize-winning co-screenwriter and the acclaimed director and all that's left of "Evening" is a clumsy melodrama about whiny over-privileged people who don't know what real life or real troubles are. Adapted by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham from Minot's novel, "Evening" plays like a second-rate version of Cunningham's "The Hours," with verbiage that ...

PS2 Review: Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Blogcritics.org) - After seeing the movie recently, I took my son to the local Best Buy and picked up a copy of Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer . He was excited about getting to play the characters from the movie. We had purchased the first Fantastic 4 game and he had a good time with that. According to the reviews I read, this game was supposed to be even better. The graphics in the game are really ...

Movie review: 'Evening' (The Record) - There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep. "Evening" creeps through its dolorous paces as prudently as an undertaker. Upstairs, in the big Newport mansion, a woman is dying in a Martha Stewart bedroom.