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Book Review: Hot Tropics and Cold Feet by Diann Hunt (Blogcritics.org) - Lily and her friends are getting away. They head to Florida to try to help Lily calm her pre-wedding fears. While there, they begin to feel young again while doing some crazy stunts like getting henna tattoos and stalking Donny Osmond. As they open up to each other, they find that they each have issues in their lives that they need to confront. But the central plot revolves around Lily and ...

Review: Master and Servant by Carolyn Steedman (Guardian Unlimited) - Carolyn Steedman's Master and Servant puts servants back at the centre of working-class history, says Kathryn Hughes.

Review: 'Hot Rod' hits its target: stupid laughs (The San Francisco Examiner) - "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels has an infamously spotty track record when it comes to the big screen, but perhaps that's to be expected: Stretching five-minute sketches into feature-length productions is never a simple task, given that so many of them feature characters whose defining trait is their willingness to fall down on cue.

REVIEW: Sweet, surreal and stupid — with laughs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - The daredevil comedy "Hot Rod" is the film debut of Andy Samberg, a rubber-faced young cast member on "Saturday Night Live." But don't let the spotty "SNL" track record scare you away.

REVIEW: In tale of salsa pioneer, J. Lo steals the show (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - There's an old joke about a struggling actor who gets a nonspeaking part in a play. When his wife asks him what the play is about, he says it's the story of a servant who watches the prince of Denmark go crazy.

Book Review: 'Diana Chronicles' a glimpse of girl who became princess (San Antonio Express-News) - What Tina Brown does brilliantly in "The Diana Chronicles" is make the Princess of Wales more human, more real and more understandable with each page. She takes "Diana the Image" and both reduces and glorifies it to make the woman so much more and so much less.

Movie Review: Sharp writing delivers in 'The Simpsons Movie' (Kingsport Times-News) - What you get at the theater with “The Simpsons Movie” is the same thing you’ll get at home, only about four times longer — and not free. Considering it’s the funniest thing released so far this year on the big screen — or small screen — you won’t begrudge a single penny.

Review: Hot Rod (Canada.com) - A scene from "Hot Rod." There are many kinds of fools in film: Matthew Perry in Fools Rush In ; Oskar Werner in Ship of Fools ; Halle Berry in Why Do Fools Fall in Love . There are fools of April and fools to pity.

[TS] About New York: Charity Work, ‘American Idol’-Style (New York Times) - A New York-based project is one of five finalists in a contest of good causes, sponsored by American Express.

Felonies dropped against groom who scuffled with police (Telegraph-Forum) - CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of assaulting five police officers after his wedding convinced authorities that his actions resulted from a medical condition, prompting prosecutors to withdraw felony charges.