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booksrlivres
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
Obviously, the paparrazo had bigger dreams of being a serious portrait photographer.

Bonus if at the last minute scheduled wedding photographer can't make it and dashing paparrazo jumps in to save the day by taking 'serious' artsy wedding photos that make the wedding planner do the 'that sly dog' open laughing smile.
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badhatharry
08/22/09

@booksrlivres: And then, the photographer eats a Mento.
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la.donna.pietra
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
I am very grateful once again that only 60 people are coming to my wedding in three weeks (!) and no media whatsoever will be there, unless you count the photographer.
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thesexist
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
So, in the end will all the celebrities get together to surprise the celebrity wedding planner with her own secret wedding? And yes, I would see this movie.
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eidolem
08/21/09

@thesexist: Damn it, so would I. (On TBS or whatnot, but still.) Now I hate myself. I still love YOU, though.
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debbyherbenick
08/21/09

@eidolem: Hate to say it, but I would too. And not just on an airplane. Esp. if Michael Cera joined in the fun.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
I'd like this better if he were the uptight wedding planner and she were the scheming paparazzo.
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casi nadie (loves MCC forever)
08/21/09

@casi nadie (loves MCC forever): Also, in the mandatory seduction is-it-a-mistake?-sex scene, there should be pegging involved.
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lalaland13
08/21/09

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It's not a wedding movie if someone doesn't fall into the cake.
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Ailatan
08/21/09

@lalaland13: Also, the father of the bride is adorable but tight fisted, the mother annoying and upper class.

The bride has some sort of nervous breakdown, but the wedding planner smoothes everything between her and the groom.
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BabyJane
08/21/09

@Ailatan: And the groom's mother is a lush who is always making moves on all the groomsmen.
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Ailatan
08/21/09

@BabyJane: yes! I'm thinking Jill Clayburgh.
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BabyJane
08/21/09

@Ailatan: Perfect.
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cletar
08/22/09

@Ailatan: Wallace Shawn, father, and Sigourney Weaver, mother.
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Ailatan
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
Who would play the big star getting married? I'm going for Catherine Zeta Jones.
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highjump
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
Well Bill and Hillary are supposed to be in Bermuda this weekend, but they may have left due to hurricane Bill. OMG the Clintons control the weather! Awesome.

Hmmm... what if in this movie there is a big storm which ruins the outdoor wedding and shows uptight wedding planner that she can't control everything. While she is running around trying to save the centerpieces or something paparazzi boyfriend rushes to help her because clearly she needs to be saved. Then after they successfully move the wedding inside and it goes off flawlessly- he proposes! All single professional women just want to be married after all!
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la.donna.pietra
08/21/09

@highjump: That's kinda how my cousin's wedding went a few weeks ago, except that the groom had already proposed.
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Hiroine Protagonist
08/21/09

@highjump: A professional would know the storm was coming. So she'd have a professional crisis at the same time and realize she's not that good at her job and should probably just get married and start cranking em out.
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NefariousNewt
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
"It's like The Wedding Planner meets Notting Hill meets some combination of 27 Dresses and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

Throw in A Bridge Too Far to that list. Just don't let Michael Bay direct.
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the.bleach
08/21/09

@NefariousNewt: Meets The West Wing!
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la.donna.pietra
08/21/09

@NefariousNewt: Can we stick Rashomon in there too?
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EdnasEdibles
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
Please tell me that in the trailer for this movie we see the wedding planner trip and fall down quite a bit to show that while she indeed is a beautiful A-list actress type person, she is also daffy and wacky and unlucky in love. The song "Love Song" plays over it all.
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la.donna.pietra
08/21/09

@EdnasEdibles: She should also eat a lot of random stuff. For instance, wedding cake samples and canapes.
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MagsCO
08/21/09

@EdnasEdibles: "Let my love open the door" has got to play during the end credits.
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cletar
08/22/09

@MagsCO: yes, but it should be some sort of awful, extra-twee cover version.
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LadyFabulous
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
I'll watch it Sadie, if you include this twist: the paparazzo is actually gay and runs away with the gay colleague and they get married in Canada and live happily ever after adopting a baby from Uruguay?
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la.donna.pietra
08/21/09

@LadyFabulous: Dammit! You stole my idea!

How about we cast Diego Luna and Ewan MacGregor?
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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
Oh lord. That is so a rom-com, get Katherine Heigl on the phone STAT. Oh, and find my lady friends who will go "SQUEEEE" and drag me there unwillingly. There better be popcorn with butter, girls. There BETTER be popcorn...
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Bgirl_Hamster
08/21/09

@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: Popcorn is so outdated. I now go to only theaters with bars. You can't get drunk on popcorn, only hungover.
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BeSarcastic
08/21/09

In reply to Celebrity Wedding Planners Lead Crazy Lives, Need Their Own Rom-Com Immediately
I know someone who knows someone who assures me that it is indeed taking place at Ted Danson's house. This someone also knows Dr. Katz.

I swear I'm not an exciting person.
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Gillibeanz
08/21/09

@BeSarcastic: Jonathan Katz is good friends with Ted & Mary. (he's also AWESOME to the Nth degree) so whomever your "friend of a friend" source is might very well be on to something... I LIVE on Martha's Vineyard (year round- paycheck to paycheck) ... the secret service that are crawling all over the island right now are more obvious than narcs at a Dead show. (you'd think they'd try a lil' harder)... Clinton had "Midnight Farm" (Carly Simon's overpriced store) all to himself the other day... well, him and a zillion secret service men. That store has an awful lot of high end wedding appropriate gifts in it... and not much "just for guys" stuff, it's very "boutique-y." ... plus a bunch of friends that work catering gigs are booked solid the next two weekends. Yet NONE of them have been told yet where the "party" is at next weekend that they will be working. It doesn't take much to put 2+2 together. This weekend is the annual fireworks (tonight) as well as the very popular Agricultural Fair (hooray for fried dough!) ... and Obama is expected to arrive on Sunday (this coming Sunday) mid morning... but we are also expecting bad storms here... The general consensus is that it's gonna be NEXT weekend if it takes place.
PS. I am far from exciting myself... I own a shop (till I close forever in a month... thank you economy! (grrrr)) right in the heart of town and manage to pick up more island gossip that you could imagine -whether I want to or not.
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BeSarcastic
08/21/09

@Gillibeanz: OOoOOO... you're more hooked up than I. That's the only bit of celebrity gossip I knew months ahead of the media.

I wish you the best with your shop and your next endeavor. Who knows? Sometimes what seems terrible can be a great second chance at something. Crossing my fingers for you.
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Hiroine Protagonist
08/21/09

@Gillibeanz: You should put up a sign while all the movers and shakers are there - give them a little twinge in their elitist hearts. (I work high-end weddings and have some residual bitterness to work through.)
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Gillibeanz
08/22/09

@BeSarcastic: for whatever it's worth.... Michelle & their daughters are already here on island. Tiger Woods is expected here this week (golf is a big deal on this island among summer peeps... I say "blech!") and rumor is he is here to play Obama. Others have said Oprah is expected... and a few other "celebrities" whose names I have forgotten at this late hour ... but all signs point to one hell of a shindig.
As for my shop, thank you for the well wishes, but I really am happy about closing. I did my very best for three straight years, went up against more bull@hit than most (including a (now former) business partner that ran away with his boyfriend and left me eternally in debt) but, again, I did my absolute best.. so I'm satisfied with that knowledge. Now maybe I can go find a job that I actually get paid at!
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clevernamehere
08/06/09

In reply to Esquire Writer Explains It's Okay To Watch Chick Flicks
I liked Funny People. Not the best movie I've ever seen, but I liked it.
It seems like a lot of guys were really disappointed by it (particularly the amount of time it spends with Leslie Mann) and I've started to wonder if its just a basic disinterest in women that makes the movie so unpalatable to them.
Partly I think that Funny People isn't quite what people expect from Judd Apatow. The second half of the movie isn’t as funny as the first half, but a lot of the first half is just random jokes. You don’t really learn that much about what makes the Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman, and Audrey Plaza characters tick. I’ve heard guys say that they really preferred the Seth Rogan love story to the Leslie Mann love story, but the girl in the Seth Rogan story is just there, she isn’t really a fully drawn character. Which is fine, it isn’t a romcom about Seth Rogan’s character, but its hardly a story that stands out as romantic.
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clevernamehere
08/06/09

In reply to Esquire Writer Explains It's Okay To Watch Chick Flicks
Wow this guy is short sighted and arrogant.
Chick Flicks are cheap to make and often do quite well at the box office. Having guys (the only worthwhile consumers after all) wait with baited breath for a trailer is all well and good, but often those big movies don't have great returns. I have a feeling The Proposal actually made back a greater percentage of its costs than Terminator. And most of those big action flicks aren't exactly groundbreaking plotwise.
This guy thinks his tastes are everyone's tastes, which makes him an arrogant idiot.
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angelina jolie-laide is a gaudy tulip
08/06/09

In reply to Esquire Writer Explains It's Okay To Watch Chick Flicks
I'm kind of confused as to what constitutes a chick flick. Is it a rom-com or is it a female-centric movie? Is 500 Days of Summer a chick flick? Is Fried Green Tomatoes?
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