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Apr 9-15, 2003

Apr 9-15, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 15

Movie: Anger Management

Our Rating: 2.00 Unbridled rage is always funny, right? Not in this meandering comedy, which sentences a falsely accused batterer (Adam Sandler) to 30 days of supervision by a manipulative counselor (Jack Nicholson). A riff on post-Sept. 11 paranoia hints at a misanthropic bonanza, but the movie quickly becomes bogged down in off-message penis gags…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Anger Management

Anger Management Studio: Sony Pictures Website: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/angermanagement/ Release Date: 2003-04-11 Cast: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Krista Allen, Marisa Tomei, Allen Covert Director: Peter Segal Screenwriter: Dave Dorfman WorkNameSort: Anger Management Our Rating: 2.00 Unbridled rage is always funny, right? Not in this meandering comedy, which sentences a falsely accused batterer (Adam Sandler) to 30 days…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Ghosts of the Abyss

Ghosts of the Abyss Length: 45 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Website: http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/ghosts/index.html Release Date: 2003-04-11 Cast: James Cameron, Bill Paxton, Lewis Abernathy, Dr. Lori Johnston, Don Lynch Director: James Cameron Screenwriter: James Cameron WorkNameSort: Ghosts of the Abyss Our Rating: 0.00 James Cameron continues his Titanic fixation with a 3D documentary that probes the…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Bollywood/Hollywood

Our Rating: 3.50 Director Deepa Mehta has always been willing to tackle explosive and emotional subjects in her films. When her “Fire” was released in India in 1998, the lesbian relationship at its center so incensed religious conservatives that they were moved to riot, vandalizing and burning theaters that dared to show the picture. Yet…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Bollywood/Hollywood

Bollywood/Hollywood Length: 1 hour, 43 minutes Studio: Magnolia Pictures Release Date: 2003-04-11 Cast: Jessica Pare, Ranjit Chowdhry, Rishma Malik, Jazz Mann, Rahul Khanna Director: Deepa Mehta Screenwriter: Deepa Mehta WorkNameSort: Bollywood/Hollywood Our Rating: 3.50 Director Deepa Mehta has always been willing to tackle explosive and emotional subjects in her films. When her “Fire” was released…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Blame it on Islam

Come on now, what’s so bad about Shannon Burke? Yes, his radio show (5:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays, WFLA-AM, 540) is lowbrow cud for way-right-wingers who want to reassure themselves that they’re not alone in this often non-white, often non-Christian world. And sure, he’s a down-market version of Rush, Dr. Laura, Bill O’Reilly, Sean…

Bob Whitby

The loyalty oath

At the next meeting of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee, set for April 21, chairman Lew Oliver will ask his fellow Republicans to purge Ax the Tax leader and political consultant Doug Guetzloe from their ranks. The official reason: Guetzloe violated his party loyalty oath by supporting Democrat Buddy Dyer instead of Republican Pete…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Apocalypse now

The Rev. John Butler Book’s two-story Cracker house in Maitland, built in 1876, is one of the oldest homes in Orange County. Inside, it feels like a museum — look but don’t touch. Blankets cover the chairs, and old-fashioned clocks hang on the walls. I’m sitting in the dining room listening to Book, and the…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Who stole the soul?

A few years ago, a guy who was writing a book called me up and asked a loaded question. “What killed R&B?” he asked, as if it was foregone that the genre was dead. Without hesitation, I immediately answered, “Prince.” This answer was surprising, even to me. After all, not only do I actually like…

Jason Ferguson

Priority males

There are few things more heartbreaking than watching an artist you once cherished make a blatant bid to sell out. As he sits across a table from me, Ben Gibbard still looks like the young man I met five years ago. The same bespectacled, round-faced, convivial songwriter whose indie-rock quartet, Death Cab for Cutie, would…

Kurt B. Reighley

Flipping over your own hot cakes

Head due north and follow your pancake cravings to DeLeon Springs State Recreational Area and The Old Spanish Sugar Mill restaurant (386-985-5644; 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and holidays). It’s one of those places that people might joke about, but it’s worth the 45-mile trip. There’s the gorgeous park, 600 acres…

Joseph Hayes

Scrambling the eggs in his basket

I’m hungry. No, scratch that, I’m just hungover. Regardless, I’m on nourishment duty, involving a hot guy who likes to cook while I watch. No news there, to be sure, except this hot guy is something of a celebrity, hosting his own two shows on the Food Network (which I do not get) and eliciting…

Billy Manes

Have a cigar

On March 31, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer named his chief of staff: Democratic political consultant David Dix. Let’s just get this out of the way now, shall we? Orlando Weekly is proud to announce that we heartily support the hiring of Dix. It is our position — as it has always been — that the…

Steve Schneider

The truth about spiders

Several factors compelled director David Cronenberg to lens the screen adaptation of author Patrick McGrath’s gritty psycho study Spider. It meant an opportunity to work with star Ralph Fiennes, who was connected to the project. But there was also the potential to tell a tale of full-on Freudian high dudgeon, unapologetically presented sans po-mo nods…

Ian Grey

Memory upgrade

Scientists at the University of Southern California will soon begin testing an artificial brain prosthesis (a silicon chip that mimics the hippocampus), which, if successful, can help people who cannot store future and recent memories of their experiences. One problem with the project, according to a March story in New Scientist: Subjects might not remember…

Chuck Shepherd

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