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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."

Review: In 'Ira & Abby,' opposites attract a la Woody Allen (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Ira & Abby: Starring Jennifer Westfeldt, Chris Messina, Judith Light, Fred Willard, Robert Klein and Frances Conroy. Directed by Robert Cary. (R. 105 minutes. At the Embarcadero Center Cinema.) Back in the 1960s and early '70s,...

Hands-On With a Nikon D3 (Addict 3D) - "OK, It's after 1am and I'm totally spent after a busy weekend test driving the Nikon D3 and editing some files. I'm proud to say that I'm the only wedding or portrait photographer in the country to have been given this camera to test.

The Essentials | Band of Horses (The State) - The new Band of Horses album, “Cease to Begin,” will be released Oct. 9. The album, already praised by critics in Filter, Spin and Rolling Stone, is short — just 35:14 — but tantalizingly brilliant. Here’s a short song-by-song review. “Is There a Ghost”: Lead singer and Columbia native Ben Bridwell asks repeatedly, “Is there a ghost in my house?” Is he haunted by his voice, too? “Ode to LRC”: ...

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.

'Feast of Love' offers an abundance of stereotypes (Orange County Register) - Review: The film by Robert Benton crams in an implausible amount of melodramatic nonsense.

Movie Review: 'FEAST OF LOVE' (Tucson Citizen) - Rating: R Length: 105 minutes

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.

Opera Theater lovingly stages charming 'Figaro' (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Opera Theater began its new residency in the Cultural District on Tuesday evening with a smartly conceived and energetically performed account of Mozart's comedy "The Marriage of Figaro."