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...film opens with Hopper (Alan Alda), the father of bride-to-be Betsy, in bed beside his wife, played by the hilarious Madeline Kahn. He is having a nightmare, and wakes clutching her in fear. Hopper's frequent flights of fancy are whimsically depicted in the film, and Alda is a master of whimsy. But Alda's comic touch is surest when Hopper's line between fact and fantasy blurs...
...eventually learn that weddings are not for brides and grooms--they are for everybody else. As Betsy's grandmother explains the cermony to the bride, "They give you presents and you give them food." In the end, however, the wedding is not quite the way anyone plans. In the end, of course, it is a happy and blessed event...
...were registered. Countless others went unrecorded because victims fear the police, who are themselves frequently the perpetrators. Often cruelties against Harijans are considered just part of local custom. In parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, an untouchable couple can consummate their marriage only after the landlord has deflowered the bride...
...deterioration of the strong tie between sex and marriage. In the past, young girls were forced into arranged marriages shortly after puberty. Now women are forbidden by law, largely as a means of population control, to marry before the age of 20, and men cannot take a bride until they are at least 22. But relatively few are waiting that long to have sex. Fully 86% of those who answered Liu's survey said they approved of premarital sex. Such liberal attitudes often persist after marriage as well. A surprising 69% of the people surveyed saw nothing wrong with extramarital...
...this month to record-breaking business. In next month's Miami Blues, a mammothly entertaining rogue comedy, he is a psychotic but likable ex-con. This week, off-Broadway, he opens in Craig Lucas' deft and delectable romantic fantasy Prelude to a Kiss, playing a love-struck guy whose bride's personality is stolen on their wedding...