Despite the media attention going to Seinfeld's final episode, other American TV series have also been trying to pump up their audience figures during the sweep period. Most are using the tried-and-trusted formula of a cast wedding to attract viewers. 

May weddings include Friends' Ross (David Schwimmer) and Emily (Helen Baxendale), who tied the knot in London with guest stars that included the Duchess of York, Richard Branson, Jennifer Saunders, Tom Conti, Hugh Laurie and Elliot Gould. 

Other May weddings include Fran and Maxwell on The Nanny; Vicki and her rabbi boyfriend on Suddenly Susan; Richard Kind and Faith Prince on Spin City; Kate and Oswald on The Drew Carey Show; and Kelly and Brandon on Beverly Hills 90210.
In Cannes, Ann Boehlke, the producer and star of The Scottish Tale, got in the mood by slipping on her wedding dress, which she also wore in the film. The dress boasts the world's longest wedding train, which the film's publicist, Leonard Morpurgo, points out, is actually longer than Godzilla's tail.

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Most-requested songs at weddings. The film industry would appear to be responsible for quite a number of them.

1 Endless Love, Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie (1981)
2 Your Song, Elton John (1971)
3 Everything I Do (I Do It For You), Bryan Adams (1991)
4 Simply The Best, Tina Turner (1989)
5 Crazy For You, Madonna (1985)
6 (Where Do I Begin) Love Story, Andy Williams (1971)
7 I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston (1992)
8 Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley (1956)
9 I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Michael Jackson (1987)
10 Unchained Melody, Righteous Brothers (1965)

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Sipe's shady dealings 

Every astute journalist in Cannes this Festival knows by now that a visit to the Ray-Ban-sponsored Media Lounge in the American Pavilion yields a free pair of some of the classiest sunglasses. Not everyone, however, receives the royal treatment that has been afforded Moving Pictures.

Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, Moving Pictures' New York-based East Coast editor Jeff Sipe was personally fitted for a new pair of shades by Dwain Hahas, president of Global Ray-Ban, and vice president Bob Moore, while the company's PR director, Noreena Barbella, held a mirror for Sipe's admittedly admiring self-perusal.
Sipe's book, Bespectacled: The Fashion, Passion and Art of Eyeglasses, is to be published in France by Hazzan and in the UK by Batsford this autumn. An analysis of the iconic value of Ray-Ban's classic Aviator sunglasses appears in the chapter headed 'Shade's. 

Put Sipe in a pair of Aviators and he bears a distinct resemblance to that other famous American, General Douglas MacArthur.

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They said...  allegedly
* I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S Thompson 

* I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
John Waters 

* I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Martin Scorsese 
(this year's Cannes jury president)

*Mickey and Minnie Mouse are getting a divorce, and the judge says to him, "Mickey, you can't divorce your wife on the grounds that she's silly." Mickey says, "I didn't say she was silly, I said she was fucking Goofy." I like cute, clean jokes.
Minnie Driver 

*I started out to be a sex fiend, but I couldn't pass the physical.
Robert Mitchum 

*I never eat when I can dine.
Maurice Chevalier 

*I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron 

*My own mum wouldn't call me pretty.
Bob Hoskins