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...film opens with Hopper (Alan Alda), the father of bride-to-be Betsy, in bed beside his wife, played by the hilarious Madeline Kahn. He is having a nightmare, and wakes clutching her in fear. Hopper's frequent flights of fancy are whimsically depicted in the film, and Alda is a master of whimsy. But Alda's comic touch is surest when Hopper's line between fact and fantasy blurs...
When Betsy (brat-pack actress Molly Ringwald) announces her marriage plans, Hopper decides he is going to throw the biggest, most amazing wedding the whole damned world has ever seen. His decision is cemented when his pride is wounded by his in-laws-to-be. Betsy's fiance Jake comes from a wealthy family from the East Side of Manhattan. His family is in investment banking--they buy and sell companies, Betsy explains to her chubby Italian aunt--and offer to pay for the whole soiree in high style. ("At the Plaza Hotel, maybe?" they suggest.) Hopper, at the suggestion...
...entirely on the wedding. The most charming subplot centers around Ally Sheedy (another brat-packer), Betsy's little sister Connie. She is a delighually insecure police officer who "likes arresting people." Most men find it hard to snuggle up with a woman with a gun on her shoulder. When Hopper is asked by his wife how they can afford a second wedding for Connie, he responds, "It's okay--no one likes...
Chang's three-set victory in singles and a pair of doubles wins pulled Harvard even, 4-4, and Shyjan teamed up with Zimmerman to ice the victory with another three-set win over Simian and David Hopper at first doubles...
Still, Hollywood remembered him. Married to the Mob (directed by Jonathan Demme) led to Miami Blues (co-produced by Demme). Costner said no to Red October, and Baldwin got the job. Now he has a Woody Allen movie in the hopper. And after Prelude to a Kiss he will vacate his Manhattan apartment (where he lives alone after the breakup of a recent romance) to shoot Neil Simon's Marrying Man in Los Angeles. In the film he plays a satyric bachelor who falls in love with Kim Basinger on the eve of his wedding...