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Theater review: 'Wedding Singer' leaves us at the altar (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - It's not a terrible idea to turn movies into Broadway musicals. You can't argue with the kicky success of "The Producers" and "Hairspray" -- both of which transferred well to the stage because of their wicked sense of self-satire, characters and attitude. "The Wedding Singer" had none of those underlying strengths. It succeeded as a film largely because Adam Sandler's boy-child of a loser ...

Review: 'Ugly Betty' is back (Newsday) - Betty in an eyepatch. Escaped cons hangin' in the Hamptons. Wedding vows and coldcockings. Fabulous nephew Justin crashing Mode magazine as a "little fashion elf."

NATION IN BRIEF (Washington Post) - ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for performing a wedding between a 19-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl.

ASK AMY (Washington Post) - Dear Amy: Have you ever seen the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"? Well, that's the story of my life, except that I have a Persian family.

'Feast of Love' crams in implausible amount of melodramatic nonsense: review (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) - That "Feast of Love" is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.

Review: Tango Buenos Aires (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - We're not exactly naturals at the tango up here in the north, where social dancing is largely limited to vaguely rhythmic gyrations in impossibly loud clubs or arrhythmic shuffling at wedding receptions.

Book World Live (Washington Post) - Toobin guides us through the last 15 years of court history by focusing on individual justices, and his portraits are unspoiled by hagiography. Toobin's Rehnquist has little interest in the reasoning even of his own opinions; the brilliant but pugnacious Antonin Scalia alienates potential allies; Stephen Breyer is an eternal optimist with a sometimes unrealistic belief in his own powers of ...

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Vegas wedding chapels seek tougher rules on handbillers (Las Vegas Sun) - LAS VEGAS (AP) - A group of about 10 wedding chapel owners in downtown Las Vegas is pushing the city to crack down on aggressive pamphleteering that they say is partly to blame for a decrease in weddings.

Woman says she didn't deserve Taser treatment (CNN.com) - Heidi Gill admits she had been drinking at a bar in Warren, Ohio, and gotten into a "disagreement" with a bartender earlier this month. But she said she didn't deserve to have a police officer use a Taser gun on her multiple times.