Word: bachelors
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...wave during “The Sabbath Prayer” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” and bubbles to blow during the wedding scene. During “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” a song Tevye’s daughters sing pining for an eligible bachelor, audience members received promotional material for “J-Connection,” a Jewish dating service...
...longer rooting for the poor mother for whom Oprah’s bottle of hair dye and tube of mascara worked wonders. Instead I am given my choice of viewing the scarring, bloody details of multiple invasive and severe plastic surgeries, the life manicure of some beer-bellied bachelor who can’t leave his La-Z-Boy long enough to regularly shower (let alone exfoliate), or the hopeless couple who could not decently decorate a simple living room if their lives depended...
...parade of lonely hearts, including a high-powered woman who treats it like a job interview: "I have extra helpings of everything the Scarecrow and the Tin Man were missing!" Miss Match could have been half as smart and still had a shot at its piece of the Bachelor-era zeitgeist...
...throwing "broken-engagement" showers in lieu of bridal showers, in which guests offer the ex-bride gift certificates for spa treatments and celebrate her independence and courage. When his fiance opted out five weeks before their March 2003 wedding, Michael Manning, 32, a Denver-based marketer, nonetheless held a bachelor party. Friends and family with nonreturnable plane tickets came to a "She Loves Me Not" bowling bash. "What else was I going to do on my wedding night?" he asks. Six months later, Manning considers the entire situation a blessing. "I was pretty bitter at the time, but I know...
DIED. JOHN RITTER, 54, Emmy Award-winning actor who energized the racy (for the 1970s) hit ABC sitcom Three's Company as the goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway...