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Some people have been sleeping on the sidewalks of London determined to be at the front of the crowd outside Westminster Abbey to see William and Kate get married there tomorrow. NPR's Philip Reeves has been traveling Britain, finding out what this wedding actually means to people. Today he's reached the abbey.

While preparing for your royal viewing party, you might want to set aside time to watch "The Office." Thursday night is Steve Carell's final episode as the buffoonish, narcissistic and lovable boss Michael Scott.

Ferocious storms ravaged the South — pounding several states from Mississippi to Georgia Wednesday. The worst hit state was Alabama, where a massive tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa.

If you're planning to watch the royal wedding live on Friday, be prepared to wake up early. Thanks the time difference, the televised ceremony will start at 6:00 a.m. on the East Coast and 3:00 a.m. on the West Coast. If you have a hard time thinking about food at such an uncivilized hour, food writer Nigella Lawson is here to offer some wedding-worthy breakfast suggestions.

Growing up in the Midwest during the 1960s, Howard Bragman was fairly convinced he was an alien.

"I was fat and Jewish and gay in Flint, Mich.," he says, "and that makes you a bit of a Martian because there's not a lot of peers, there's not a lot of role models to really look to."

Today, Bragman has made a name for himself in Hollywood as the go-to publicist for helping celebrities come out of the closet — they call him the "gay guru."

Bragman says he sees his work as a way to create the role models he never had growing up.