LIBrides.com Web News Archive

ALBA READS UP ON BRIDES, BABIES AND COOKERY (ContactMusic) - Sexy JESSICA ALBA is determined to make the perfect bride and wife one day - she has been reading baby, bridal and cooking magazines since she was a teenager.

A march to stop domestic violence (El Diario La Prensa) - Next Monday, September 26, women and men who care about women will gather in Washington Heights for the fifth annual Brides March.

'Corpse Bride' (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - Romeo and Victor have a similar dilemma: dead brides. Romeo ends up with one, which is bad enough. But Victor starts out with one, which -- as dilemmas go -- seems rather worse.

SPECIAL SECTIONS ONLINE (Perry County News) - The Perry County News regularly includes special sections in its print edition, and those special sections are posted here, as well. Just look on the left side of this page for the list, which includes sections on seniors, brides, home improvement, Little League players and other topics.

Joel Hirschhorn, Oscar-Winning Songwriter and Two-Time Tony Nominee, Dead at 67 (Playbill) - Joel Hirschhorn, the composer-lyricist-librettist who was Tony Award nominated for his scores for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) and Copperfield (1981), died of a heart attack Sept. 18 in Thousand Oaks, CA, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Brides Magazine 'Hot List' Will Debut in November/December 2005 Issue (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Millie Martini Bratten, editor in chief of Brides magazine, today announced that Brides magazine will publish an annual Hot List of the best of the best of all that is bridal. The first Brides Hot List will appear in the November/December 2005 issue, which is on newsstands September 20th.

Movies get serious: Hollywood's fall offerings shed the flash of summer flicks in favor of actual storytelling (Lansing State Journal) - With a weak summer movie season now mercifully behind us, it's time to get onto more serious things ... like claymation movies with dead brides and goofy British dogs.

So what if the bride-to-be is a stinking, rotting corpse (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Tim Burtons Corpse Bride: Animated feature. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Emily Watson. Directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton. (PG. 75 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)

film review ***1/2 (The MIT Tech) - True to the hype, the highly anticipated “Corpse Bride” is a wonderful mix of technical innovation, wit, and artistry, likely to please the most varied audiences.

Forcing the issue (Law Society Gazette) - Each year, hundreds of Britons are forced into marriages, often by being taken abroad against their will. This month, the Home Office launched a consultation paper on a proposed new criminal offence of forced marriage to tackle the issue.