Triumph of tragic proportions
Movie: Titanic
Triumph of tragic proportions
Movie: Titanic
Triumph of tragic proportions
Movie: Titanic
An ill wind in the willows
It’s a wonderful day for a protest. The air is smartly cool, even cold, and the sunshine seems to have been buffed to an extra high gloss for the occasion. An orgasm of flowers is spilling over the grounds around Cinderella’s castle in the Magic Kingdom, but there is no time to wallow in this…
Christmas for the filthy rich
Well Ho, Ho, Ho and Jingle All the Way — I’ve gotten my holiday shopping done, thanks to the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog. Wondering how to find something for your mom that’s a step above another gadget for the kitchen. Well, right up front in the catalog is a dazzling diamond necklace that’ll make her…
Dusting off the Cornell’s image
If nothing else, the new curator of exhibitions at Cornell Fine Arts Museum is out to banish any visions of blue hair and brown paintings that might hang on the esteemed Rollins College institution. Certainly in the years to come, the public presentation of the untold treasures in Cornell’s collection — Central Florida’s largest, with…
Selected material: this year’s best
If you had a hard time finding decent tunes in 1997 you were not alone. You have to do your homework in the homogenized post-rave/post-grunge/post-indie era. The fact that Puffy-samples and 3rd generation alternarock dominate the airwaves shouldn’t discourage anyone from hitting the stores, because there is always good music to be found and there…
Kram records: These are the funky breaks
The Zen Festival was either a total disaster or the latest best time you ever had, depending on who you were and what you may have ingested on that particular night. I was stuck in traffic at 11 p.m. after receiving a last-minute request from a friend vending the show. Feeling spontaneous I agreed to…
Teaching an audience to embrace the Bard
Give it more time and space, and the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival is confident that it can draw even more people into the universal bond of the Bard. Once exposed, there’s no resisting, says artistic director Jim Helsinger. “If we can get them one time for one show, they’ll come back. … And it only helps…
Draw Garabo’s idiot-savant success
We’re one hour into the Drew Garabo show on a Tuesday evening, and producer Mandy (last name withheld upon request) has found a fax posted on the wall of the control room at Real Radio 104.1. Apparently a resident of the Wilhelm House for the Mentally Challenged recently called in and was cut off. The…
Board with Orlando?
A remade Monopoly misses its mark. But if you want to know how things really work, play on Compiled by Steve Schneider, Edward Erikson Jr. and Liz Langley You know your community has arrived when it’s immortalized in its own edition of the classic board game “Monopoly.” But the just-released “Orlando Edition” of the Parker…
Dubious distinctions
How others saw it: a selective sample of 1997 press clippings;;Hair’s to you;Jan. 5;The (Auckland, New Zealand) Sunday Star-Times;;Kiwi men who fear going bald may soon be able to ensure they keep their locks for life. Hairdressers here are monitoring the success of a hair bank which has just been established in Orlando, Florida. Clients…
1997 Year in Review
Mayor Glenda Hood stared sternly down from her elevated place at the center of the Orlando City Council. Her eyes seemed to flash. One of the roomful of young late-night supporters had shouted out of turn, and the 45-year-old mayor was having none of such raucous shows of dissent. The next “disrespectful” one, she warned,…
