Rooney Mara is our ‘Girl.’ IMDB says she’s way over.
And not a moment too soon. With shooting on the David Fincher American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo set to begin next month, Fincher has finally found his titular girl in 25-year-old Rooney Mara. And just to prove that Internet analytics mean absolutely jack when it comes to anything vaguely real-time, here’s…
The sound of one hand slapping
The first time I can remember feeling that the media had been divided into “old” and “new” was when Paul Reubens came out on stage as Pee-Wee Herman at the start of the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. There was something about now-forgotten VJ Adam Curry’s description of Reubens/Pee-Wee as somebody who had been “a…
Late notice: Voci dance class this weekend
Not only do the members of Voci Dance have class, they are offering a master class this weekend, taught by the troupe’s alumna Tara Lee Burns, and they want to spread the word. Here’s the invitation from Lisa Mie of Voci: Come take part in the deliciousness that is Tara Lee Burns! Tara has returned to…
Poster! Children!
Before we start this off, I’m going to need you to click here and check out the new poster for Yogi Bear, due in theaters this Christmas. Okay, you back? Did you take it in? More importantly, did you make it down to that tagline? Good, because that’s our topic of discussion. “Great things come…
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Never say die
It was a far cry from the bombastic barnstorming that characterized last summer’s heated health-care debate, but when incoming Florida Senate president, Mike Haridopolos, R-Melbourne, rolled his bus into town on Aug. 5 for the second stop on his three-day Health Care Solutions Tour, vestiges of Republican resentment to impending federal health-care reform were glaringly…
This Little Underground
When a huge God-Fart of thunder woke me up on Sunday, I was already worried for the Indie Summer Fest (Aug. 8, Audubon Park). You people sure love courting weatherly disaster with your outdoor summer festivals. Memo to organizers: The only way you’re not taking a crazy gamble with these ventures is if it involves…
Where is love?
Arcade Fire; The Suburbs; (Merge) “I dreamt that I drove home to Houston/ on a highway underground/ There was no light that we could see/ as we listened to the sound of the engine failing.” So sings Arcade Fire’s Win Butler on the band’s new record, The Suburbs, dream-state translating the old cliché, “You can’t…
Performing Arts: Macbeth
Macbeth Through Aug. 29 at Mad Cow Theatre Company 105 S. Magnolia Ave. 407-297-8788 www.madcowtheatre.com $22 It is an accepted superstition among theater folk that Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an unlucky and cursed play. Generations of thespians have come to refer to it in hushed tones only as “the Scottish play” in hopes of keeping the…
Performing Arts: Fuddy Meers
Fuddy Meers; Through Aug. 23 at the Footlight Theatre, Parliament House Resort; 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail; www.wanzie.com; $14 Among the things proved during the opening-night performance of Fuddy Meers is that Michael Wanzie should step in the director’s role more often. During his casual stage welcome at the Footlight Theatre, drink in hand, Wanzie…
Performing Arts: Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot Through Sunday, Aug. 15, at Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins St. www.redchairproject.com $18 At the beginning of playwright Samuel Beckett’s drama Waiting for Godot, the stage is set with two shabbily dressed men inhabiting a bleak and empty landscape. They appear to be having great difficulty remembering why they are there,…
Happytown
“It’s not easy being green,” lamented a fisted frog named Kermit, and this week – amidst the hot drip of the still-melting economy – the viridian glow of several years’ worth of economic marketing savvy proved that playful proverb to none other than Gov. Charlie Crist. Everybody’s favorite man-with-a-tan took a couple of blisters from…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I studied method acting with David Mamet, he taught us to develop such a vivid imagination that we could taste the pretend coffee that we drank out of an imaginary cup. We’d feel the heft of the cup in our hand and the steamy heat rising. We’d hallucinate the bitterly…
Savage Love
A long while ago, you wrote an incredible piece of general advice for teenage boys. The advice was so excellent that I clipped it out to keep in case I ever had a son. Well, years later, I have a son. But I have since moved a gazillion times and across several continents, and I…
DVDs Nuts!
Date Night How this warm, classically executed comedy from director Shawn Levy managed to make far less at the box office than Levy’s previous crimes against comedy like Cheaper by the Dozen and Night at the Museum is beyond me. Featuring gut-busting turns from Steve Carell, Tina Fey and Mark Wahlberg, this action-comedy, taking place…
Police Beat
July 30 ; (2010-357143) 8:30 a.m. — Miscreants spray-painted “a ninja holding a rat” on a wall on Ferncreek Avenue with a caption reading, “Think! WANNA BLAB Tested,” along with a pair of eyes. Yeah, we don’t get it either. They struck again on Hillcrest Street with the inscription “Skool Sux and sex” on a…
Live Active Cultures
High culture, low culture, pop culture: When it comes to arts and amusements, I like to think I’ve seen and done it all. But last weekend I was indoctrinated into a genre that was almost entirely foreign to me. There’s a weird world where music, dance, rhythmic gymnastics, cheer-leading, visual design, mime and military drill…
Two Boba Fetts on the wall …
Mother Falcon Strikes Back 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, at Mother Falcon 817 E. Washington St. 407-423-3060 www.motherfalconclothing.com Free The original version of this story incorrectly indicated that there was only one female artist exhibiting in this show. The story has been revised to correct the error. This year Orlando is the host city for…
It’s my party
Four days after his 39th birthday, Marco Rubio flashes a toothy grin in a sunlit conference hall. Crow’s-feet wrinkle around his eyes as 60 supporters, mostly gray-haired and clad in pastel polos, stand and clap. More than one hand reaches for a hearing aid before the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate speaks to the group…
Don’t F*ck with a Boner
You might remember our extensive coverage of the ATV-riding gay-rage nightmare that led to the death of 30-year-old Joel Boner (pictured above, in the center) at the hands of party-boy-cum-Ocoee-redneck John Hawthorne last year. Boner, a generally well-liked homeless man from a large family, suffered the generational indignity of two high brats attacking him at…
