| WEDDING REVIVED WITHOUT A HITCH
NEW York City Ballet's su persized Jerome Robbins Celebration offers 33 Rob bins ballets, from his first, 1944's "Fancy Free," to his last, "West Side Story Suite" in 1995. But the most important is the restoration of a masterpiece once thought lost, "Les Noces," which came somewhere in between, and was based on Stravinsky's cantata of a Russian peasant wedding. Robbins had wanted to stage the 1925 Stravinsky score for years before creating it for American Ballet Theater in 1965. But it was expensive to stage, as it demands a large choir, four singers and four onstage pianists. When, two months before he died, he finally got it into the repertory of his home company City Ballet, he mounted it to recorded music by a Russian folklorist group - minus choir, soloists, pianos and staging.
Charlize Theron: Kids, Yes; Wedding, No!
No need trying to figure out when Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend will tie the knot. "I always knew that I didn’t want to get married," Theron, 32, says in the new issue of W magazine. But she adds, "I’ve always known that I’d be a mom from the time I was a little girl." As for their seven-year-romance, Theron, no surprise, won’t reveal too much. When asked to describe the relationship, the Oscar winner adopts a "cavewoman grunt," according to writer Gabriel Snyder, and says: "Man, woman. Like to touch each other." Theron doesn’t have such sweet words for critics who slam her for taking on so many "ugly" roles in order to hide her beauty. "Look, I get it," she says. "Monster was a transformation...[But] North Country was dirt.
Record Money: Wedding Bills
EVERYONE wants the day they marry to be memorable - but, if you're not careful, you could end up remembering it for the wrong reason. The typical wedding now costs about £18,000, making it one of the most expensive single events most people are likely to face - apart from buying a house. Few couples have that kind of cash to spare, so the vast majority must save or borrow - and the credit crunch is making both things more difficult. That doesn't mean you can't still have a great day without decades in debt, but it does mean putting extra thought into what you spend and how you fund it. Carrie Herron, a financial adviser at investment firm Bell Lawrie, says: "The best advice is to save or invest - whichever is the most relevant to you - rather than borrow.
McGreevey: Dina paid for wedding, honeymoon
The nation's first openly gay governor testified today that his estranged wife paid for their 2000 wedding but he doesn't know who paid for their honeymoon to Rome or how much it cost.
"Dina handled the wedding arrangements, and the wedding trip and to a large extent she handled the honeymoon," former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey testified on cross-examination, during his second day on the witness stand in his high-profile divorce.
John Post, a lawyer for Dina Matos McGreevey, peppered the former governor with questions on his income and assets today, as he tried to convince a judge to award his client alimony.
Matos McGreevey is asking the judge to base the payments, at least in part, on McGreevey's "marital conduct," including his alleged adulterous gay relationship.
Food, singing at 16th century wedding
The quaint winding roads of Żurrieq will, tomorrow at six, take on the joyful ambience of a traditional 16th century Maltese wedding. Following last year's success of the revival of this rite of passage, the culture committee at St Catherine's Musical Society will again he holding a re-enactment of the wedding. Annalisa Schembri, from the musical society, said this year there will be certain changes in comparison to the highly-patronised re-enactment last year. "While last year the wedding was celebrated in the morning, this time round it will be an evening do. Also this year, the actors - all 100 of them - hail from Żurrieq," Ms Schembri said. The activity will start from Republic Square where members of the public will be able to accompany the bride and groom, their well wishers, relatives and in-laws through Carmel Street.
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