NEWS LITE : THURMAN MARRIES IN PLUS-SIZE GOWN.Prospective parents Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke got married in a cathedral decorated with lilacs, cherry blossoms
Cherry Blossoms is one of the oldest and largest international marriage agencies still in operation today. and candles lining the bride's walk up the aisle, the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 reported Saturday. The actors exchanged wedding vows Friday night at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a sprawling church in upper Manhattan Upper Manhattan denotes the more northerly region of the New York City Borough of Manhattan. Its southern boundary may be defined anywhere between 59th Street and 155th Street. touted as the world's largest Gothic cathedral. Invited guests included Richard Gere and other celebrities, the newspaper said. Thurman, who's pregnant, wore a plus-size Vera Wang wedding gown. A chapel used for the reception afterward was decorated like the set of ``Casablanca,'' according to an unidentified church worker quoted by the Post. It's the second marriage for Thurman, 28. Her ex-husband is fellow actor Gary Oldman, whom she married in 1990. It's the first marriage for Hawke, 27. Thurman, whose credits include ``Pulp Fiction'' and ``Batman & Robin,'' stars in the current release ``Les Miserables.'' Hawke has appeared in ``Great Expectations,'' ``The Newton Boys'' and ``Reality Bites,'' among other films. The couple co-starred in ``Gattaca.'' Heston takes aim at Streisand movie Barbra Streisand's movie about a widow's campaign against handgun violence drew unfriendly fire from staunch NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting activist Charlton Heston. Streisand countered by saying Heston hasn't even seen it. ``We stand by our film,'' said Streisand, executive producer of the made-for-TV movie, ``The Long Island Incident.'' The film tells the story of Carolyn McCarthy, who lobbied for gun control and became a congresswoman after her husband was killed and her son was seriously wounded by a gunman who opened fire on a crowded New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of commuter train in December 1993. Six people were killed. Heston, a National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. vice president, scheduled a news conference for Monday to challenge the film's alleged deliberate misrepresentation misrepresentation In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation. of the group and elected officials who support it. The NRA claims a request to preview the movie was denied. Spice Girl invites geese to wedding Victoria Adams, one of the Spice Girls, doesn't mind the idea of a little honking at her wedding with a British soccer player. Waddling geese in the garden will be part of the ceremony, the singer known as Posh Spice said on Britain's Channel 4. For her wedding with David Beckham, she wants ``all the fancy stuff, the things you see in films.'' The wandering geese idea wasn't hers. A wedding consultant suggested it. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , they just look good, don't they?'' Adams explained. The couple won't marry until next year because of work commitments. Carter welcomes 800 of his relatives Jimmy Carter swapped family tales Saturday with 800 of his closest relatives - all descendants of his posse-riding, gun-toting great-great-grandfather. ``I've been inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. with stories,'' the former president said after shaking hands and posing for photographs at a family reunion in his hometown of Plains, Ga. The gathering commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of his great-great-grandfather, Wiley Carter. The former president had spent the past year tracking down Wiley Carter's direct descendants. Carter's search for information on his family revealed some hair-raising details. As a member of a posse in northern Georgia, Wiley Carter killed a man over a slave. In the next generation, the former president's great-grandfather was killed in 1873 in a gunfight with a business partner over money from a carousel. And his grandfather died of a shot in the back in 1903 after a fight with a man who stole a table from the family store. ``I'm glad to see that everybody here are good people who don't argue and fight,'' Carter quipped Saturday. Carter said he also was able to piece together a family puzzle about Wiley Carter's youngest daughter. ``We didn't have any information on her children. Now we know why. She didn't have any,'' he said. Most of the people at Saturday's invitation-only gathering had never met Carter but they still called him ``cousin.'' ``I'm sure there were a lot of times during my presidency when they said they weren't related to me. A lot of them were Republicans, unfortunately,'' Carter said. Charles Ernest III told Carter how he had tonsillitis tonsillitis Inflammatory infection of the tonsils, usually with hemolytic streptococci (see streptococcus) or viruses. The symptoms are sore throat, trouble in swallowing, fever, and enlarged lymph nodes on the neck. as a child and was nursed back to health by Carter's mother, Lillian. ``I just wanted him to know how much she helped people,'' said Ernest, of Annapolis, Md. Eula Shannon recalled how her sister - a lifelong Republican - worked on Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. Offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. ; Nail salon robberies clip shops Here's a real nail-biter of a mystery: Where is the man who has robbed 17 New York nail salons of $3,000? Police hope to finger the bandit bandit: see brigandage. before he strikes again. The suspect brazenly clipped four nail salons within 40 minutes on March 2 and has robbed another salon twice. Once, he even got his nails trimmed before fleeing empty-handed. No one has been injured, though the soft-spoken, well-mannered man threatened employees with a knife in one robbery and a pair of scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends in another. In the other holdups, he has intimidated employees to make them turn over money or grabbed it from the register. His biggest take was $800, said Lt. Paul O'Connor, commanding officer of the Manhattan Robbery Squad. The neatly dressed bandit walks into a salon, usually in the afternoon, and apparently decides whether to strike if no other men are around. Why nail salons? ``All but one are on the second floor or in the basement area. They're not seen from the street,'' O'Connor said. ``And it works.'' William Milburn isn't scared by technology - he's a machine repairman re·pair·man n. A man whose occupation is making repairs. Noun 1. repairman - a skilled worker whose job is to repair things maintenance man, service man who likes to program his VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. to catch the ``Drew Carey Show.'' But the 54-year-old Milburn groused that he kept missing the last 80 seconds of the broadcast because the clock on his videocassette recorder wasn't synchronized with ABC's clock. His machine came with an ``auto clock'' function that receives a signal from the local PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, station and automatically sets the VCR's clock. Milburn said ``PBS time'' sometimes ran as much as 1.2 minutes too fast. The station has since established a direct link between its TV signal and the U.S. Atomic Clock, an official keeper of Coordinated Universal Time See UTC. (time, standard) Coordinated Universal Time - (UTC, World Time) The standard time common to every place in the world. UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI) by the addition of a whole number of "leap seconds" to synchronise it with Universal Time 1 - the global standard. Were Milburn's problems solved after his VCR was linked to the most accurate clock on Earth? Not exactly. He said there's still a 4-second gap between his clock and TV time. News Lite is compiled from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Ex-President Carter meets with other descendants of his great-great-grandfather, Wiley Carter. Don Stalvey/Albany Herald (2) THURMAN |
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