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...groom and his future mother-in-law already hate each other, the guests are mostly drunk and obnoxious and all in attendance can’t help but wonder how long this whole farce of a marriage is going to last. The ceremony has, in short, all the pieces of the “nightmare wedding” clich?...
With a cast of characters whose last names are all some variety of pasta, Joey and Maria’s cannot boast subtlety as its strong suit. The various grandmothers are overbearing figures; both bride and groom have ties to the mob; the bridesmaids smoke and wheeze while delivering speeches that tastelessly explore the bride’s purity...
...remainder of the show continues along the same course. After the bride and groom take the floor for their first dance, the audience is invited to join them. Though it’s easy during earlier parts of the show to focus solely on Italian-American jokes and the general inanity of the characters, at some point it becomes evident that there is more going...
...report on the disintegrating corporate relationship between Firestone and Ford [BUSINESS, June 4], we ran a photo of the 1947 wedding of Martha Firestone and William Clay Ford. In the photo, one bridesmaid was identified as Mrs. Walter B. Ford (niece of the groom) and one groomsman was identified as Walter B. Ford (nephew of the groom). Mrs. Walter B. Ford is not the groom's niece but his sister, and Walter B. Ford is not the groom's nephew but his brother...
...reported "the rumor is she's his ex-wife," and on June 15 the New York Times finally got the facts right in a blurb, after buying the falsehood in an earlier article. In the Detroit area press, it's old news that the Whites were once bride and groom. But the myth is still at large: The New Yorker, usually considered fact-checking's vaunted ideal, refers to the White Stripes in its current issue as "two siblings from Detroit...