Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, July 29, 1993 TAG: 9309070195
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ROBERT HILBURN LOS ANGELES TIMES
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
Lyle Lovett laughs at the opening question in his first interview since ``the big event.''
Lovett, 35, has written wickedly funny - and disarmingly poignant - songs about the nature of love and marriage over the last seven years, yet more probably has been written about him in the last four weeks than during the rest of his career.
Who wasn't intrigued by his surprise June 27 marriage to actress Julia Roberts?
The assumption has been that they met two years ago during the filming of Robert Altman's film ``The Player.'' But Lovett says they met only a few weeks before the wedding at St. James Lutheran Church in Marion, Ind.
No one was more surprised by the news than Lovett's country-pop audience. If you go by his lyrics, the shy, self-effacing Texan seemed unusually wa \ Please see microfilm for the rest of the story.
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