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Moreover, the days when a girl lived with Mom and Dad before marrying the boy next door are long gone, and with them the ease of gathering guests for a local wedding. Many young people live far from their hometown, and their parents may also have moved. For a bride who grew up in Nebraska, attended college in Chicago and has lived in California, New York and Arizona, her current residence may seem less than a home base. Chances are, no matter where a couple holds a wedding these days, people will have to travel to attend, so it makes...
...LESLIE CHEUNG, 46, smoldering, pansexual icon of Chinese films and music; a suicide, having jumped from a hotel terrace; in Hong Kong. Though best known to American audiences as the tragic artist in Farewell My Concubine, he also played the soft naif (A Better Tomorrow), the wily warrior (The Bride with White Hair) and the demon romancer (Happy Together). Early death has assured his standing as the great tragic male diva of the late 20th century...
...soft and smooth, with lips that expertly puckered or pouted?had the impact of a struck match. The screen flared to life; suddenly there was heat, and the incense of sulfur. To see him as the hurtful teddy boy in Days of Being Wild, the proud warrior in The Bride with White Hair and the dominant demon romancer in Phantom Lover is to realize there's nothing more exhilarating than a trip to hell with him at the wheel...
Elizabeth was so close she could even hear rescuers, including her uncle, calling out her name. Chief Dinse said last week Elizabeth had suffered a "strong psychological impact" that may have overwhelmed any impulse to escape. Having secured his first new bride, Mitchell made a move for another. Police suspect that on the evening of July 24, he climbed atop a chair and carved a hole in the screen of the bedroom window of Jessica Wright, Elizabeth's 18-year-old cousin...
...embassy. When a group of them are finally given safe passage to Thailand, one American journalist fills his only bag with silver plate stolen from the embassy dining room. At the final checkpoint, within sight of freedom, a French radio announcer, hysterical with fear, renounces his Khmer bride and allows her and her child to be dragged away...