Suddenly Single

FRANZ WISNER'S BRIDE-LESS HONEYMOON MEMOIR

Four years ago, in what would turn out to be a stroke of good fortune, Franz Wiener got dumped at the altar. He held the wedding reception anyway-a surreal event, he says, at which he was "embarrassed, piued off, depressed, relieved, and broke." With no reason to stop there, he continued on to hs honeymoon, in Costa Rko, substituting his younger brother, Kurt, for a wife, and twin beds for the bridal suite. By and by, W.sner had on epiphany: "I said, `Kurt, we gotta keep traveling.'" Two years and 53 countries later, Franz wrote a travelogue about fraternal bonding, Honeymoon with My Brother (St. Martin's); out this month, it's set to be made into a Film by Sony. On their travels, the pair learned to soy I want to buy a kiss" in several native tongues (to scqre off street hustlers) and afforded themselves fresh perspectives. "It changed my future andmy post," he says. Now, instead of continuing his career in political P.R., he's researching a follow. up about global dating, and Kurt once again is along for the ride. So would Wiener recommend getting ditched? "Hell, yeahl It's th. best thing that ever happened to met" Ask a silly question, getosilly answer. EDWARD HELMORE

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