Aug 22-28, 2001

Aug 22-28, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 34

Movie: The Road Home

The Road Home Length: 1 hour, 40 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Classic Website: http://www.spe.sony.com/classics/buyitonvideo/2000/theroadhome.html Release Date: 2001-08-24 Cast: Zhang Ziyi, Sun Honglei, Zheng Hao, Zhao Yuelin, Li Bin Director: Zhang Yimo Screenwriter: Bao Shi, Shi Bao Music Score: San Bao WorkNameSort: The Road Home Our Rating: 0.00 There may be better films at this year’s…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Road Home

Our Rating: 0.00 There may be better films at this year’s festival, but none as beautiful as “The Road Home.” The beauty of this Chinese love story lies not so much in its landscapes or the beauty of Zhang Ziyi – the star of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” in her film debut – but in…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: With a Friend Like Harry

With a Friend Like Harry Length: 1 hour, 57 minutes Studio: Miramax Website: http://www.miramax.com Release Date: 2001-08-24 Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigne Director: Dominik Moll, Dominik Moll Screenwriter: Gilles Marchand WorkNameSort: With a Friend Like Harry Our Rating: 3.50 When all votes are tallied, 2001 will go down in film history as the…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: With a Friend Like Harry

Our Rating: 3.50 When all votes are tallied, 2001 will go down in film history as the year of the Houseguest from Hell. Ben Kingsley showed up on Ray Winstone’s doorstep in “Sexy Beast,” carrying the gift of never-ending abuse the way some people bring aromatherapy candles. His closest competitor for the bad-company crown is…

Orlando Weekly Staff

State of the Arts

Karen Berneman is a little breathless, having lugged two huge paintings to her shared studio three flights above the Orlando Visual Artists’ League gallery and studios on Orange Avenue. It wasn’t the stairs that got to her; an elevator takes her directly to the loft. But Berneman and her creations had to plow through rush-hour…

William A. Sievert

Making a list and checking it thrice

I’ve talked in this column before about how I know a lot of people who take brain medication. From some of the mail I’ve received, I can tell some readers think brain meds might be a good move for me, perhaps even surgery involving a shoe horn and a handful of Crisco to dislodge the…

Liz Langley

There goes the neighborhood

If you find yourself spending more time in front of the TV set this autumn, remember to thank Sak Comedy Lab. Not only is the improv theater/school’s alumnus Wayne Brady bringing home the bacon for ABC with his eponymous revue, but a more recent class of Sak-sters is about to hit the weekly airwaves. “The…

Steve Schneider

Closing the public eye

Orlando commissioners have allowed their voices to be diminished in the city’s real-estate buying process. A new policy, approved by city council, allows Chief Administrative Officer Richard Levey to authorize the sale, lease or purchase of property up to $500,000. Why this is bad: With fewer checks and balances, there’s more potential for corruption. Former…

Orlando Weekly Staff

A broadcast oversight?

Conventional wisdom holds that Mayor Glenda Hood has done everything short of sabotage to keep Orlando City Council meetings from appearing on government-access cable television. She’s too manipulative, some say. All along she has appeared to be receptive to the idea, though vaguely put off by it. Now comes news of a couple of E-mails…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Great white hype

The environmental minister of Cape Jervis (near Adelaide), Australia, has been waging a campaign to stop a tour-boat operator from ferrying visitors to the remains of a dead whale. Officials got wind of the trips from a participant’s home video. The tourists have been allowed to stand on the whale and watch great white sharks…

Chuck Shepherd

No news is good news

I don’t know where Chandra Levy is. And even if I did, I’d be of little help trying to track her down, since I’m several weeks behind the news cycle. Any tip I’d be privy to would be colder than a spring-fed mountain lake in June before it reached me. In fact, for the entire…

Al Krulick

The poop on the big scoop

They’ll drop your scoop of ice cream right in front of you — and make you pay for it — at Cold Stone and Marble Slab, two new “creameries” in Winter Park. With more than 300 locations between them, such sloppiness is big business, drawing crowds of the lactose-tolerant who snap it up when servers…

Joseph Hayes

Stop, ‘Look’ and listen

David Byrne inspires an inordinate amount of journalistic psychotherapy. A recent New York Times profile nearly tripped over itself trying to pour words over his shy reserve, even descending into talk about his winding speech patterns and his quick goodbyes. “Sometimes it’s really amusing,” says Byrne, on the phone from his hotel room in Santa…

Billy Manes

I write the song

“Sorry, the PR’s a mess,” Prrrs some late-night sunglass incident named Jack. That’s OK. It’s all a mess tonight. Personally, I’ve been swimming through the pathos of my potential ex-boyfriend and his beer-breathed, Pickett’s Charge mortality issue, waxing all Scarlett O’Hara over unneeded liquor shots at my own Parliament House last stand. It’s over! No…

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