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...advice," says Peter Chan, producer of CG2 who also directed Tsang in the actor's two Hong Kong Film Awards-winning performances in Comrade: Almost a Love Story and Alan & Eric. "He is probably the most generous person ever in this business. He has helped groom and grow a whole bunch of talent, including myself...
...millions of Americans, the mention of marriage conjures imagery of an elegant ceremony in which a beautiful bride glides down an aisle, past her family and friends, to take the hand of her new groom. But for millions of other Americans, the mention of marriage serves as another painful reminder of how closed-minded and intolerant our society remains in the face of discrimination against those whose wedding dreams include two soul-mates of the same gender. And now this persistent and pervasive intolerance is not reserved for those small pockets of reactionaries in remote portions of our country...
Wedding planners and consultants are noting a trend, and several online and in-store bridal registries have recorded an uptick in disengagements. At Bloomingdale's, would-be brides and grooms often "postpone" their registry rather than attend to the unpleasant errand of canceling. Such postponements are up 15% in the past two years, according to Morgan Childs, Bloomingdale's bridal consultant in New York City. WeddingChannel.com a popular online registry, counted 5% to 10% of its wedding registries "deactivated" last year. Erin Howlett-Avci, a former assistant registry director at Michael C. Fina in New York City, recalls that...
...often merely a symbolic exchange of vows, with the official ceremony taking place at home. Italy's laws are more accommodating, but dress and behavior codes in Italian churches are strict, and Italian priests have little tolerance for some practices that have become standard elsewhere, like a bride and groom writing their own vows or incorporating a Buddhist blessing into the ceremony. Locals whose towns or villages have become popular destination wedding sites also have mixed feelings about the lucrative traffic. "There's a certain amount of resistance, irritation with the late-night partying," says Sarah DeKlein of Aisleaway...
...roommates continue to battle involuntary muscle twitches, a woman begins snapping pictures of them from every angle. My time as a living statue had come to a close, so with my notebook in hand I approach the woman furiously photographing the bride and groom. Marie-France Studnicki-Gizbert had arrived from Canada two days before to visit her son at MIT, and is walking through the Square after a day-long tour of Harvard’s museums. She drops a dollar in our basket and tells me that we are hardly her first encounter with living statues...