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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 ...

REVIEW | Shrill Life: Cherie Nowlan's "Introducing the Dwights" (indieWIRE) - A first impression of the titular family in Cherie Nowlan 's " Introducing the Dwights " (formerly known as " Clubland ") has one imagining the film will be a sunny, Aussie-style quirkfest in the vanilla vein of many a Sundance flick.

Our critics recommend... (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - License to Wed A pushy minister (Robin Williams) runs a young couple (Mandy Moore and The Office 's John Krasinski) ragged in preparation for their wedding.

NOT JUST A LOVE STORY (The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star) - Review of Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach"

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..."

Pacific-10, SEC had nice year (Orlando Sentinel) - The college athletic year is over, so it's time for our annual review of conference performance. There are a couple of ways of looking at this:

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, ...

Oh, no! 'Jim' renewed (Deseret Morning News) - What did we ever do to ABC?

Rising from the ashes / Tahoe homeowners take first steps in long process of rebuilding (San Francisco Chronicle) - Thursday morning Edward Schlinger watched as his grown son and daughter picked through the charred wallboard and melted picture frames that were all that was left of his home on Zuni Street in South Lake Tahoe. The retired telephone lineman had been...