Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet, out-of-the-way wedding for Romano Mussolini, 34, jazz pianist son of II Duce, and Maria Scicolone, 23, curvy kid sister of Sophia Loren, turned into a tragicomic Roman holiday. With tumultuous thousands mobbing the tiny church at Predappio (where his father is buried), the bridegroom fainted dead away, but was revived by injection of a stimulant in time to weather the ceremony. The day came to an ill-starred conclusion when the chauffeur-driven Rolls of sister Sophia was involved in a collision that killed a local schoolteacher...
Happily, the show settles down to the real business of a wedding, which is squabbling and confusion. The negotiators, who would do credit to a disarmament conference, are Alfie Nathan (Shelley Berman), the bride's uncle and guardian, and Tilly Siegal (Eileen Heckart), the bridegroom's mother. Alfie innocently proposes a family affair in his living room, with only 40 guests present. Tilly wants the Old Oaks Country Club ("Problem weddings our specialty") and 400 guests. Alfie's defeat is honorable, and most of the time it is funny...
...virgins (Matthew 25: 1-13). Five were wise and five were foolish. The wise virgins had oil for their lamps and went in to the marriage, while the foolish virgins who had no oil were shut out. The wise virgins did not share their oil nor did the bridegroom allow the door to be opened to them...
...would these ministers have had the wise virgins give up their oil and their places with the bridegroom to the foolish ones? Personally, I'm going to let in at least enough people for a table of bridge. Can you imagine two weeks underground with nothing to do but listen to Conelrad...
...bridegroom bring her to a house...