Over the weekend, obnoxious D-list comedian Kathy Griffin performed a real, live, no-foolin’ wedding ceremony for a clearly unstable couple in New York. According to this article, the “10-minute service … ranged from telling raunchy jokes to having the bride recite the reception menu.” All I can say is that if your marriage is built on Kathy Griffin, you’re in serious trouble.
While I’m at it, what is it with people and ill-conceived weddings? Over the weekend, I was at a hockey game, and during the first intermission, a bright light on the other side of the ice caught my eye. In front of the bright light was a woman in a white dress and a man in black pants and a white hockey jersey (which, I noticed, wasn’t even the home team’s jersey). I successfully concluded that a couple was getting married there, just off the ice, during the intermission of a hockey game, with rock music and some kind of crazy givewaway going on in the background. Classy. Later, the woman (in white dress and a black sash to match her new husband’s jersey) and the man (in the opposing team’s jersey — apparently, they couldn’t afford to fly out to Edmonton to get married just outside *his* team’s ice) appeared on the arena’s screens to participate in a contest to win a T-shirt and a Chipotle burrito. She didn’t win — but they gave her the burrito anyway as a wedding gift. Now there’s a touching wedding day, don’t you think?
In other wedding news, Sienna Miller and Hugh Grant’s hygenically-challenged flatmate from Notting Hill are planning a low-key wedding sometime later this year. Hopefully, the groom will wear pants.
Finally, in today’s pregnancy watch, congratulations to Matt Damon and wife, Luciana, who have announced that they’ll add another little one to their family later this year. And I think congratulations are in order for Lisa Marie Presley, who begrudgingly announced her pregnancy over the weekend — just to make people stop calling her “fat.”
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin,
I agree re: ‘Kathy Griffin-blessed nuptials’ (D’OH!). Welcome to the ‘blogosphere’!
It truly is a sad day for matrimony, Tim.
Thanks for the welcome — and for posting our very first comment! -k