Backyard Wedding Open Thread II
This seems an appropriate first article to come back to:
The Sunday Times - Bollywood calls in Rambo for strike on US cinema
SYLVESTER STALLONE, the star of the Rocky and Rambo films, is to become the first well-known Hollywood actor to star in a Bollywood movie.
Stallone’s fellow action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger, now governor of California, will also feature in the production.
The two will appear alongside the Bollywood stars Ashkay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in Incredible Love, the story of an Indian stuntman who takes Hollywood by storm but cannot find true love there.
It was a lovely wedding. My cousin looked lovely, her groom was very nice, everything was grand. The connection: they met in India (Bollywood) and he’s Austrian (Ahnuld) and they’re moving back to Austria in July (Graz, in fact, Ahnuld’s hometown).
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 pm
That was fast. This is good because I was wondering how I would be able to wish Rueful Red and his Missus a happy anniversary if you were away for any length of time.
June 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Yeah, this was a tactical insertion, a surgical strike, we went in, we got out, we missed no work. Seriously we got on the plane in our wedding finery (Peter did, I had leggings on and birkenstocks, then changed into the 4-inch Missoni heels in the car) and went straight to the wedding from there. Took a bazillion pictures, had some wedding cake, champagne and streudel (the groom’s a chef, an Austrian chef, well done Emily), went to grandma’s for pizza party, then to the hotel from whence we left this morning.
Forgot my bloody shoes, though. Dad has them now. Mom said she’d mail them to me but yeah, THAT won’t take ANY time at ALL, nooooo.
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 am
Thanks for the best wishes! It rained and rained and rained and rained and then it rained some more, but everyone had a very happy time and ate an awful lot of food. Catriona’s third lemon roulade never even made it to the table, our niece snaffled the whole thing to take home with her. Mrs R’s roulades just pack them in.
Though I say it myself my speech was a great success, without notes, just a quick riff on Kingsley Amis’s observation that “women are so much nicer than men - no wonder we like them” and it got very high praise from the battalion of aunts. So yes, an excellent event.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:35 am
Aww, 25 years and you still know how to work the battalion of aunts. Now that’s a successful marriage.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
Sounds grand.
Not that it has anything to do with the topic at hand, but I had to give a speech at our graduation convocation and the ancient nun from the Physics Dept. (who comprised a whole battalion of aunts in her own venerable person) told me it was the best such speech she’d ever heard. She could have stopped there, but she added “…so nice and short.” Still cracks me up.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Brevity is the soul of wit, RC2!
The funniest thing was of course that, as usual, Mrs Red wasn’t listening, maintaining an expression of ineffable boredom throughout the whole speech. Asked about it later she said that she hadn’t been listening to me, and that she never does. Which is just another one of the reasons why she’s such a star.
We just did a count-up of the wine and beer consumed. Given the number of drivers/non-drinkers, and people like me who drank beer because wine in too great a quantity has unfortunate results, there will have been some pretty sore-headed people on Sunday morning. I don’t think people were drinking out of boredom. I hope not. Didn’t sound like it.