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...jobs, and years later, with middle-age looming, decided that it was time to get married. So he arranged for a month off from work, called home to let his parents know when he would be arriving in Athens and cleaned up his bachelor apartment in preparation for the bride...
...Rwandan tradition, if a boy meets a girl and decides he loves her, he finds her father, and negotiations begin. It is called an inkwano--the price a prospective bridegroom must pay the bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed...
...When their deceptive schemes of John and Algy collide, a series of crises ensue, crises that threaten to spoil their romantic intentions-Jack for Gwendolen Fairfax and Algernon for his intended bride Cecily Cardew. Of the younger female interpretations, Lauren Waisbren gives the role of Cecily Cardew, Worthing's ward, a more ditzy than shrewd rendering, though her phrasing, timing and diction are all impeccable. As her mirrored comrade (and adversary, depending on the scene) Gwendolen, Jennifer Moxin puts her considerable comic vitality to fine work here in what is sometimes mildly bizarre exaggeration, sometimes farcical explosiveness. These two work...
...delayed P.T.), this pet project of Clooney, a longtime lover of live TV whose father Nick was a newsman and variety-show host, will be CBS's first theatrical production in 39 years and perhaps the most risky recent TV effort not involving a millionaire and a bride. As in war, there's been little time to prepare: camera blocking began only last week. On top of that, Frears and a cast of film stars have had to adapt to the medium, with the help of live-TV producers. But Richard Dreyfuss, who plays the American President, says the risk...
Sources: New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, CNN.com USA Today, Bride's magazine