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Aug 8-14, 2001

Aug 8-14, 2001 / Vol. 17 / No. 32

Movie: Jump Tomorrow

Jump Tomorrow Length: 1 hour, 37minutes Studio: IFC Films Release Date: 2001-08-10 Cast: Tunde Adebimpe, Hippolyte Girardot, Natalia Verbeke Director: Joel Hopkins Screenwriter: Joel Hopkins WorkNameSort: Jump Tomorrow Our Rating: 0.00 “Smile! You’re getting married.” That’s what George (Tunde Adebimpe) keeps being told in Joel Hopkins’ debut feature, “Jump Tomorrow.” But far from smiling, George…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Jump Tomorrow

Our Rating: 0.00 “Smile! You’re getting married.” That’s what George (Tunde Adebimpe) keeps being told in Joel Hopkins’ debut feature, “Jump Tomorrow.” But far from smiling, George is a timid, obedient Nigerian son who is unsure about his upcoming arranged marriage to a woman he barely knows. Looking like a cross between Buddy Holly and…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: American Pie 2

American Pie 2 Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.americanpiemovie.com Release Date: 2001-08-10 Cast: Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Chris Owen Director: J.B. Rogers Screenwriter: David H. Steinberg, Adam Herz WorkNameSort: American Pie 2 Our Rating: 1.00 Does “American Pie 2” have bad taste, or does it simply taste bad? It’s not really that much of a conundrum:…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: American Pie 2

Our Rating: 1.00 Does “American Pie 2” have bad taste, or does it simply taste bad? It’s not really that much of a conundrum: The sequel to the 1999 sex comedy, a box-office hit that was marginally appealing despite (or because) of its crude simplicity and teen-angst prurience, is guilty on both counts. This year’s…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Thrown back to the dog days

There are certain places that people pass by every day of their lives but never really notice. That miniature Statue of Liberty, for example, or the power-line towers shaped like mouse ears near Celebration. Did you ever notice and wonder about the little building on the corner of Magnolia and Marks, the one with all…

Joseph Hayes

Dub and dubber

Doug Scharin’s resume reads like a concise history of post-punk indie-rock experimentation. The Chicago-based drummer has performed with some of the most influential indie bands of the past 10 years, donating his rock-solid skills to jagged math-rockers Rodan and June of ’44 as well as slowcore minimalists Codeine and Rex. And for the past five…

Michael Endelman

A new wrinkle

Eighties reunion tours are a shiny-shiny industry all their own, seemingly devoid of real momentum and aimed directly at the nostalgia nerve that keeps us all spiking our hair long after we ought not to have time to care. In the case of seminal she-poppers The Go-Go’s, the shine even comes with its own militaristic…

Billy Manes

Porn again

A little more than 100 years ago, a New Haven, Conn., dry-goods-store clerk named Anthony Comstock decided, as he wrote in an 1882 article for the North American Review, that “there was a very large and systematic business, of the most nefarious character, carried on to corrupt and destroy the morals of the young.” He…

Loren Glass

Here’s the pitch

Tide. Scope. Pepto-Bismol. Look, a CD for a free trial of America Online! There is a slew of goodies in the purple plastic bags currently being distributed by the Orange County Clerk of the Courts to any couple who pays the fee for a marriage license. That comes out to only $88.50 per gift bag.…

Andrew Ackerman

Lean green fighting machine

For Kermit the frog, it’s still “not easy being green,” especially when his family doesn’t have enough greenery in the bank to prevent him from being devoured by a more aggressive animal — one with big ears and an even larger appetite for new acquisitions. But that hasn’t stopped the Muppeteers from mounting a last-minute…

Jim Hill

Squatters know best

Police arrested a squatter couple who had boldly commandeered an unoccupied (but definitely not abandoned) house in isolated Tunbridge, Vt., and had begun elaborately remodeling it. Their work was in keeping with their professed belief that property should be shared rather than privately owned. Jeremiah Sturk, 38, and Rene Hunt, 26, had torn out walls,…

Chuck Shepherd

Feeding Frenzy

George Burgess is sitting for his sixth interview of the day. He did six interviews yesterday. Actually, that’s down from the 25 to 30 a day he was doing just a couple weeks ago. Burgess’ sudden popularity — in the last month, he’s granted almost 250 interviews, from “Dateline NBC” to Time magazine to “The…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Welcome to Camp Camp

Going into a store recently, I saw people who appeared to be soliciting for some youth organization — a few of them little kids, some wearing T-shirts that said “Young Republicans.” The skill of throwing up on command is underrated, and it would have come in handy then. The idea of kids being indoctrinated so…

Liz Langley

Worms of endearment

You don’t know how lucky you are. Having just spent a week’s vacation in San Francisco, I was all set to start this column with a protracted soap-box speech calling for the reasons why we, too, can’t have a thriving arts sector that’s marked by diversity, targeted toward adults and conjoined by a comprehensive system…

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