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Nicole's story: 250 wedding guests assemble at the church. The bride arrives in her bridal radiance. The appointed hour. No groom. Hmmm. Buzz, buzz. Time passes. Still no groom. Fidget and buzz. Guests swivel in their pews to scan the back of the church, in mounting alarm. At last, the best man--looking grim, dressed in street clothes, not formal wedding regalia--appears and reports that, Sorry, the groom has decided he cannot go through with it. Shock, tears, consternation--The Philadelphia Story upside down, or turned sideways, anyhow...
Family consults. Traumatized bride digs deep, smiles through her tears at last, and decrees: Party on! Guests decamp to the fancy hotel and hold a defiant non-wedding reception, the non-bride dancing as the band breaks into I Will Survive...
...reactions, on the other hand, tended to run as follows: This guy is a real jerk; why didn't he make the decision earlier, and why didn't he have the manliness to tell the bride about it in person? That was the articulated, official male response. But off in a range of the male psyche audible only to guys and dogs, there vibrated the sneaking thought that the fugitive groom--however big a jerk, nay, slimeball--had made good an escape that men, in the yet undomesticated zones of their hearts, always applaud. Something in every man abhors...
...trying to follow in my father's footsteps," he says, "but that's the way it turned out." He enrolled at Marshall in the fall of '79 as a broadcast-journalism major and covered the football team for the school newspaper. By then, he had already met his future bride. The summer after his senior year in high school, Keith was in Myrtle Beach, S.C., when he ran into Debbie Hagley, a girl from a different Huntington high school. "I knew immediately who she was because the names of the victims are emblazoned in the minds of all the survivors...
Reiner, who directed and/or produced films such as A Few Good Men, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, and When Harry Met Sally, described his "I Am Your Child" campaign during an address which was part of the Harvard Education Forum...