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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Tina Fey's 2011 memoir Bossypants also includes a chapter on her own cruise experience, entitled My Honeymoon: Or, A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Never Do Again Either, in which she jokingly suggests that those who've heard of Wallace's book should consider themselves members of the "cultural elite", who hate their country and flag.

An Evening with Orson Welles

Welles wrote, directed and acted in six 30-minute recitations including Ring Lardner's The Golden Honeymoon, Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince, writings by G. K. Chesterton and P. G. Wodehouse, and speeches by Socrates and Clarence Darrow.

Angie Watts

The climax was a trip to Venice when Angie, convinced that Den had finished with his mistress, was taken there for a second-honeymoon, returning to London on the Orient Express.

Antoni Miralda

From 1986 to 1992 he developed the Honeymoon Project, a multi-site, international art project of the symbolic wedding of New York's Statue of Liberty with the Columbus Monument in Barcelona.

Barbara Arbuthnott

She came to Sunndal, in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway on her honeymoon with her third husband (married 6 December 1865), Hon William Arbuthnott, son of 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott.

Bea Wain

Their honeymoon in Bermuda was cut short when Fred Allen called Baruch asking him to return to New York to substitute for his ailing announcer, Harry von Zell.

Billie Hayes

Hayes portrayed a similar character in other roles, including Episode 8.10 of Bewitched ("Hansel and Gretel in Samantha-Land"), Weenie the Genie in the Sid and Marty Krofft program Lidsville, and Maw Weskitt in Episode 39 of the second season of The Monkees ("Hillbilly Honeymoon").

Busman's Honeymoon

Busman's Honeymoon was preceded by adaptations of Whose Body?, Strong Poison, and Gaudy Night (all adapted by Frances Limoncelli and produced at Lifeline Theatre).

Chateau Theater

The Chateau Theater (not to be confused with Minnesota's more historic Chateau Theatre) opened in 1964 as part of a chain of premium, dollar, and drive-in theaters that stretched across North Texas and Oklahoma, owned and operated by entrepreneur, cameo star of 1980s slasher film Honeymoon Horror and (alleged) former Golden Gloves boxer Jerry Meagher.

Death of Tina Watson

Lifetime produced a made-for-TV movie, Fatal Honeymoon, based on the death of Tina Watson, starring Harvey Keitel, Billy Miller and Amber Clayton.

Den Watts

The climax was a trip to Venice when Angie — convinced that Den had finished with his mistress — was taken there for a second honeymoon, returning to London on the Orient Express.

Epsom Downs Racecourse

On 4 June 2011, in their first public outing since returning from their Seychelles honeymoon, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (along with The Queen, William's brother, Prince Harry, and Catherine's parents, Michael and Carole Middleton) attended the 2011 Epsom Derby at the track.

Eugenia Errázuriz

In the autumn of that year, they met John Singer Sargent while they were visiting Venice, possibly on their honeymoon, and seeing José's brother who had taken a studio with Sargent at the Palazzo Rezzonico.

Feel It Again

Written by the band's keyboardist, Ray Coburn and released in 1986 as a single from Honeymoon Suite's second album, The Big Prize, this tune not only became massively successful in Canada (notching the band its first top 20 hit there), but was also the band's biggest stateside hit, reaching #34 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Fettuccine Alfredo

A long-time customer recounted that di Lelio's restaurant became famous when Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks stopped in and fell in love with the dish while on their honeymoon in 1920.

G. I. Honeymoon

G.I. Honeymoon is a 1945 film directed by Phil Karlson.

George Griffith

Honeymoon in Space saw his newly married adventurers exploring planets in different stages of geological and Darwinian evolution on an educational odyssey which drew heavily on earlier cosmic voyages by Camille Flammarion, W. S. Lach-Szyrma, and Edgar Fawcett.

Harry Cookson

Cookson married Polly Castle at South Shore's Holy Trinity Church on 28 January 1895 and honeymooned later the same day in London.

Honeymoon Hotel

The song Honeymoon Hotel (by Al Dubin and Harry Warren) was originally introduced in the 1933 Warner Bros. film, Footlight Parade.

Housatonic River

Inspired by the river during his honeymoon, the American classical music composer Charles Ives wrote "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" as part of his composition Three Places in New England during the 1910s, drawing his text from a poem of the same name by Robert Underwood Johnson.

Isabella Greenway

Shortly thereafter, while the Roosevelts were on their honeymoon, Isabella married Robert Munro-Ferguson, the younger brother of Ronald Munro-Furguson.

It's Such a Small World

The song was accompanied by a music video, directed by Edd Griles, which featured a few seconds of film taken on Cash and Crowell's actual honeymoon.

Jackie Dobbs

Jackie perked up when she learned the newlyweds had received train tickets to Paris as a honeymoon gift.

Jolanta Szczypińska

Following rumours that she was in relationship with Poland's prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński, the airline Ryanair launched an advertising campaign which pictured the two politicians under the headline Are they planning a honeymoon trip? Szczypińska took legal action to prevent publication.

Keawaiki Bay

Swimmer Duke Kahanamoku spent his honeymoon in a guest house and helped design swimming pools on the property.

Kipling, Saskatchewan

In 1889, whilst crossing North America en route from India, he paid a visit to Vancouver; he travelled by train through Winnipeg during his honeymoon in 1892; and he crossed the whole country in a private Pullman in 1907.

Kutno railway station

Songs about Kutno were also performed by:Grzegorz Turnau "O Kutno" and Andrzej Rosiewicz "Podróz poślubna do Kutna" (Honeymoon to Kutno).

Laguna Gloria

They completed their villa two years later, inspired by a honeymoon visit to Lake Como in Italy.

Letters to Juliet

She goes on her pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor, (Gael García Bernal) to Verona, Italy.

Lifeline Theatre

Lifeline also produced world premiere adaptations of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the Ring) and four installments of the Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (Whose Body?, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon).

Maria Rebecca Davison

On 31 January 1805, she ‘created’ the rôle of Juliana in the ‘Honeymoon,’ a character with which her name is indissolubly connected.

Marjorie Weaver

She began receiving credited roles in larger productions, and starred opposite Ricardo Cortez in the 1937 film The Californian, and that same year she starred opposite Tyrone Power in Second Honeymoon.

Mike McGuirk

They went to Hawaii for their honeymoon in 1979 while Brian worked for the Ed Francis promotion.

Morris West

Another of West's sons, Mike, is a musician who fronted the UK independent popular music band the Man from Delmonte during the late 1980s and early 1990s and has released several solo albums of New Orleans country music, especially being well known with the international touring act Truckstop Honeymoon.

My Wife's Best Friend

Virginia Mason (Anne Baxter) and George (Macdonald Carey), husband and wife from Mellford, Illinois, are passengers on an airliner for a second honeymoon in Hawaii.

Nicky Wire

He missed the band's appearance on Top of the Pops to promote Roses in the Hospital because of the honeymoon and was replaced on the day by a Manics roadie wearing a Minnie Mouse mask.

Renato Carosone

He made an album called Honeymoon in Rome with Capitol Records T-10031.

Richard Bock

After returning from their honeymoon, Bock won a competition to help create the Illinois monument at the Shiloh Civil War battlefield.

Roberta Murgo

In November 2010 she worked as Kristen Stewart's stunt/body double while filming honeymoon scenes for Breaking Dawn.

Seychelles Coast Guard

In May 2011, the SCG helped to protect the privacy of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their honeymoon on the North Island.

Smedley's Hydro

While on honeymoon in Switzerland John Smedley had become seriously ill and returned to England to recuperate at the hydropathic establishment at Ben Rhydding, in Yorkshire, and later to take the waters at Cheltenham.

Stephen Lovatt

His other acting roles include Savage Honeymoon, the car-yard owner in 2008 Anthony McCarten feature Show of Hands, and 2012 conspiracy thriller The Cure.

Stephen T. Owens

In another publicized case, Owens represented Internet Entertainment Group against Pamela Anderson's unsuccessful attempt to prevent the company from posting the so-called "honeymoon video" made by her and then-husband Tommy Lee on the internet.

The Case of the Velvet Claws

Mason finally marries his longtime secretary Della Street, but has to cut their honeymoon short in order to defend a woman accused of murder.

The Girl in a Swing

In the event, their marriage and honeymoon end up taking place near Gainesville, Florida in the United States, thanks to the intervention of an American acquaintance.

The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr..

Toy soldier

Anne Seddon Kinsolving Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, USA, began collecting miniature toy soldiers on her honeymoon to Europe in 1930, eventually amassing a collection of over 6,000 figures; these are on display at the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University Library in Providence.

White House Press Secretary

The growing number of reporters and the increasing aggressiveness of their style of coverage led to frustrations when the President and his new bride were unable to rid themselves of reporters who followed them to their honeymoon in Deer Park, Maryland.

Wool, Dorset

Woolbridge Manor House, a 14th-century building, is a prominent feature just outside the village and the location of Tess's honeymoon in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.


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