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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."

TV REVIEW: Back up to speed on Wisteria Lane (Miami Herald) - So many months have passed since the season finale of ABC's "Desperate Housewives," it may be worth a reminder that May's cliff-hanger ended with an actual hanging: Nicollette Sheridan's Edie, seemingly despondent that Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) didn't love her, hanged herself in the second-floor bedroom.

TV REVIEW: Back up to speed on Wisteria Lane (The Charlotte Observer) - So many months have passed since the season finale of ABC's "Desperate Housewives," it may be worth a reminder that May's cliff-hanger ended with an actual hanging: Nicollette Sheridan's Edie, seemingly despondent that Carlos (Ricardo Chavira) didn't love her, hanged herself in the second-floor bedroom. Other major plot points you may or may not recall, as "Housewives" begins its fourth season ...

Movie review: The Valley of Elah ** (The Toledo Blade) - Oh, Lord, where to start...

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,...

Movie Review | Feast of Love: Indigestible story, stereotypes spoil pot (The Columbus Dispatch) - That Feast of Love is an overstuffed melodrama, better-suited as a TV movie than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.

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”: ...

Judge orders county to issue license to Bloomfield couple (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - A federal judge orders Allegheny County to issue a marriage license to a couple who don't want an officiant at their wedding.