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  • Justine's boor-of-a newly-minted husband Alexander Skarsgard, whose boyishness reminded me of Gael Garcia Bernal, ad-company schmear for boss and best-man

    Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012

  • "We always have to do a romantic episode as a tie-in to the return of The Bachelor," explains Seamus, who hints Castle and Esposito may vie for best-man duties.

    Keck's Exclusives: Castle Celebrates the Holidays 2011

  • Anyone who's looked at the first draft of Prince Harry's best-man speech, of course, may already be ruing the day the Windsors were allowed such a free hand.

    This Week: Nick Clegg, Larry the Downing Street cat, Pippa Middleton 2011

  • Only one black character -- the groom's best-friend/best-man -- but he gets to come on to Christine Baranski, and is the subject of her song "Does Your Mother Know" -- about the age difference, with no mention/attention paid to the interracial aspects of the relationship.

    Denver Worldcon Steven Barnes 2008

  • Somewhere in there was a psychologically and climatologically miserable vacation in Paris, fun reacquainting myself after long hiatus with photography (thanks to my best-man Peter for the camera recommendation), baking lots of bread and two birthday cakes and eating about 343 meals at the hot bar at Whole Foods, Raleigh, probably breaking the state record, though we left before we could be officially credited.

    MMV pr��cis 2006

  • The myth is that there is an umpteen month wait for reservations, but I called on a Wednesday afternoon, explained I was Bestfriend's best-man and would be flying into Chicago the following day and that, if we could, we would like to have dinner for two the following night, time of seating not being a concern.

    the best 2006

  • Yeah, I see wedding bells in their future – maybe with Lori as maid-of-honor and Bolo as best-man.

    TV Round-Up « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • The myth is that there is an umpteen month wait for reservations, but I called on a Wednesday afternoon, explained I was Bestfriend's best-man and would be flying into Chicago the following day and that, if we could, we would like to have dinner for two the following night, time of seating not being a concern.

    Alinea 90044 stars 2005

  • Peter was disinvited to the wedding by his mother, and the best-man duties were taken over by another guest.

    In Cold, Blue Blood Dunne, Dominick 1999

  • Haliburton asked him if his grandfather was not _best-man_ when Denis married Agnes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

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