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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 19, 2000
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By Juan H. Heath Special to the Kansan
Summer finals are just around the corner. We should all be studying. But as a seventh-year undergrad, I know how to take procrastination to a whole new level. Here, by popular demand, are some sites that are more exciting than studying for a test or writing a paper.
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Virtual bubble wrap! Need I say more? A java script provides endless hours of fun with bubbles that reappear after a few seconds. www.hamsterdance2.com
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When good TV shows go bad,
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Married with Children who played neighbor Marcy's second husband. His appearance on Sports Night spelled its doom. He had the same
The patron saint of "jumping" is Ted McGinley, the guy on
have "jumped the shark")
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Are you one of those people who watches television for the commercials? My friend Rachel is, and she recommended this site (she also wanted her name in a column). Adcritic.com carries the latest commercials and some classics as well. Enjoy! www.seelinfo.com
Categories range from tame to tacky. If you need a good joke to start off a speech, or need a good bar story, find it here. The jokes
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Art imitates life at Tony and Tina's Wedding
By Jim O'Malley editor@kansan.com Kansan co-editor
The bride and groom's families hate each other. The best man loses the rings. The flowers are late. And Tony's tux didn't come with a tie.
"They didn't send me one!" he keeps telling relatives.
Attending the Lawrence Community Theatre's production of Tony and Tina's Wedding is remarkably like attending a real wedding. And a disastrous one at that.
The audience is invited to become part of the show by interacting with the players at St. Augusto's Church (the Community Theatre Building, 1501 New Hampshire St.) and especially at the reception at the Lawrence Dance Academy, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
Tony Nunzio (Andrew Johnson) and Tina Vitale (Sally Bremenkamp) experience every glitch seen in older wedding comedies, plus a few new ones such as an incompetent photographer and an obnoxious video guy who get in everyone's way.
The result is a slightly enhanced version of reality. One guest at Friday's performance claimed the play was actually a toned-down version of the weddings in his family.
The play runs about three hours. Sometimes it drags, just as a real wedding of, say, distant cousins can, but that's part of the experience.
After the wedding ceremony at St. Augusto's, the wedding party and guests drive to the reception hall. Tony and Tina ride in a van with "Vito's Plumbing" and a Lawrence phone number painted on the side.
Anyone who has attended a big,
traditional, but low-rent wedding will find the setting familiar. The reception hall could be any church basement, American Legion post or Knights of Columbus hall.
But the bullet hole in the window and the chalk outline of the guy who was shot outside the hall are touches unique to this very Italian wedding.
The reception includes lasagna, champagne, a cash bar.
live music and dancing. The food was good, but the presentation wasn't eleg a n t. Servers go around dumping the plastic plates and forks into garbage bags, and serve second helpings with a polite "Tray scrapings?"
The real action happens at the reception. Players sit among the audience at the guest table with them.
ence at the guest tables, while members of
Michael Just (Andy Brown), whose relationship to the Nunzio and Vitale families wasn't entirely clear to us, sat at our table, wearing a mohawk and ripped jeans. He passed out colored paper, colored pencils, glue and dry pasta to the guests so they could make cards for Tony and Tina.
always been into
the wedding party circulate from table to table. Guests at different tables see different plays, depending on which characters sit at their tables.
ticking off her parents. "That's what this wedding is about," he said.
Michael has some issues, which becomes clear as the reception goes on.
(Uta Walter) goes around collecting extra rolls "for tomorrow," and Tina's mother (Annette Cook) gives dirty looks and sighs at Tony's father (John Holzhuter)
When Michael left his seat, the squirrel photographer (Joseph Dodge) sat down. He didn't have much to say, but just frantically stuffed food into his face until Michael returned and threw him out of his seat.
and his girlfriend
(Laura Rhodes).
Father Mark
(Marion
Meanwhile, Grandma Nunzio
Later, he boomed out, "She shouldn't be wearing white."
Constantinescu) gets into the spirit of the occasion, has too much to drink and periodically has to be captured by the groomsmen and steered back to his seat. By the time Father Mark passes out in his chair, several family fights and reconciliations have occurred and Tony and Tina are off to their honeymoon.
Any bets on whether there will be a play about Tony and Tina's divorce?
Edited by Ben Embry
TONY AND TINA'S WEDDING
The Lawrence Community Theatre will perform Tony and Tina's Wedding 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 21 and Saturday, July 22. The Saturday performance is sold out. Tickets are $45, and include dinner, champagne and wedding cake. The play is a fund-raiser for the theatre.
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