NEWS LITE : CAN'T FIND THE CHURCH? JUST FOLLOW THE BRIDAL TRAIL.

Here comes the bride. And there goes her veil - down the aisle and out the door.

Claudia Armillei paraded through Ascoli Piceno, Italy, and into the church Sunday trailing a 1,320-foot creation of lace, ribbon and mesh fabric.

The mayor presided over the procession through the mountain town about 150 miles northeast of Rome. A team of assistants - and some passers-by - helped tote the mammoth veil.

The 23-year-old bride said she believed it was the longest bridal veil ever made. No one wanted to ruin her wedding day with the news that the Guinness Book of Records has no such listing.

PC lovers planning last fling

A giant catapult that tossed a 450-pound piano on the TV show ``Northern Exposure'' will hurl away old personal computers at a summer festival.

Organizers of da Vinci Days, which celebrates the future in arts, science and technology, paid $2,000 for the big prop, which can hurl items as far as 100 yards.

Why old computers? No one seems to want to get rid of them, said Steve Remington, festival director. The event is scheduled for July 19-21 in Corvallis, Ore., home to a Hewlett-Packard complex.

``You have such a connection to the memories - the first computer you learned on. . . . People won't get rid of it; they won't give it up.''

He said it would be ``kind of symbolic of our triumph over technology'' to fling old computers away.

``We refuse to be shackled by them. We want to continue to evolve upward,'' Remington said.

CBS had the catapult built just for ``Northern Exposure,'' the quirky show set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska. The show was canceled last year after a five-year run.

The catapult is 30 feet tall and has a 40-foot beam. The base is made of a dozen 1 foot-diameter fir logs that are bolted and strapped together with steel.

In one episode, it hurled an upright piano.

Seinfeld becoming program chair-man

Jerry Seinfeld says it's time to sit down.

Come next season, the comedian will drop the standup bits that have opened NBC's long-running hit ``Seinfeld.''

He says there's too much work to do because co-creator Larry David is leaving the show.

``I have more responsibility with Larry gone, more writing to do,'' Seinfeld says in the June 1 issue of TV Guide. ``So we're going to have to come up with a different opening for the show. It's a one-parent family now.''

It's a close-knit family, from what Seinfeld says. The cast of Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Seinfeld get along so well, there is talk of continuing the series past next season.

Planet Hollywood orbits to Australia

Thousands lined Sydney's main street Sunday to catch a glimpse of Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Jean-Claude Van Damme at the opening of Australia's first Planet Hollywood.

The crowd - estimated by police to be between 5,000 and 10,000 - screamed as the celebrities made their way down the red carpet to a stage set up in the middle of the street.

Etiquette outlined for proper gunfight

For those difficult occasions when nuclear weapons seem, well, just a tad too strong, the latest issue of Civilization, the magazine of the Library of Congress, provides some guidelines for a duel with old-fashioned firearms.

If you want to duel correctly, it's just not as simple as ``Care to step outside?'' From start to finish:

Make sure there's a proper offense over which to fight. If nothing is looming, one gentleman might try spitting into the hat of another.

After agreeing to the duel, gentlemen should exchange cards and let their seconds arrange everything else. The proper duel should be held at dawn within 48 hours of the challenge, so as not to encourage unfair practicing or the intervention of family members.

Eliminate easy targets by wearing a coat with no shiny buttons and with lapels that can be buttoned up to hide a white collar. Pace off a distance ``anywhere from 10 to 50 paces.''

For the actual shooting, stand sideways, ``to offer as narrow a target as possible,'' and fire on a cue such as the dropping of a handkerchief. If you hit your adversary, ``an expression of regret should also precede quitting the field,'' says the 1836 book quoted in the magazine.

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Photo: (1) A ghost of helper follow behind bride Claudia Armillei, carrying her 1,320-foot veil on the way to her wedding in Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

Associated Press

(2) Seinfeld: To write more

(3) The Fonz returns

Actor, director and producer Henry Winkler waves to the crowd Sunday before delivering a speech at Yale University, where he got a degree in 1970.