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...that's no longer enough. Last year Sarah Jessica Parker had two weddings and modeled at least half a dozen wedding gowns in Sex and the City: The Movie, and while we lost track of how many weddings perennial bridesmaid Katherine Heigl attended, we know she had 27 Dresses. Bride Wars ups the wedding ante by double booking us with two movie stars wearing Cheshire-cat grins atop yards of white tulle and silk...
...wildly, needlessly complicated. The bedtime stories themselves (others are in the Western, Roman-epic and Star Wars genres) display some glimmers of comic imagination. But if Shankman was aiming for The Princess Bride's mix of fantasy, facetiousness and romance, or even the meta-fable sprawl of Stardust, he missed it by a mile. Magic eludes the entire enterprise. Sure, there's potential in the kids-as-sorcerers plot, and game energy in the pan-Anglo cast. (Palmer, from Australia, is a standout as the Paris Hiltonish vixen, much more charming than the original.) And yet the movie doesn...
...next miracle, in other words, may be harder to pull off than the last one. That doesn't mean it won't happen. Consider what, in 1978, constituted a "rich" eligible bachelor in urban China. He had to own a radio; he had to be able to buy his bride a fashionable wristwatch made by a state-owned company no one would ever confuse with Rolex. And he had to commute on the coolest set of wheels available: a bicycle called the Phoenix...
...Miss King's 2008. On stage, she spoke of her ambitions to become a human rights lawyer, made references to the works of Jane Austen and dispelled myths about her Thai background. "Before you ask," Roberts told the judges, "I'm not a ladyboy or a mail-order bride." In that sense, the pageant just might have slayed some stereotypes after...
...defeat the postnuptial blues, doctors say, couples should get adequate rest and exercise; communicate constantly; focus on the benefits of marriage, like having a built-in support system; and start thinking about the future in terms of family or finance. Women should stop thinking of themselves as "the bride" and throw out those wedding magazines, then plan social events for after the honeymoon, so they have other parties to look forward...