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Dec 11-17, 2002

Dec 11-17, 2002 / Vol. 18 / No. 50

Making the List

Ho, ho, hum. Don’t kid yourself. The postnasal drip of holiday congestion is heavily upon us, and — besides donning ironic Santa garb for the cover of this very issue, ill-advisedly — I’m not having it. I’ve been reading The B List and checking it twice, only to find that I have encountered some of…

Billy Manes

Movie: Drumline

Drumline Studio: 20th Century Fox Website: http://www.drumlinemovie.com/ Release Date: 2002-12-13 Cast: Orlando Jones, Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Candace Carey, Jason Weaver Director: Charles Stone III Screenwriter: Tina Chism, Gina Prince-Blythewood, Reginald Blythewood WorkNameSort: Drumline Our Rating: 3.00 Despite all the skill, pep and verve it lavishes on proving that Top 40 marching-band music won’t be…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Drumline

Our Rating: 3.00 Despite all the skill, pep and verve it lavishes on proving that Top 40 marching-band music won’t be the sound we sinners hear in hell, Charles Stone III’s “Drumline” is ultimately a sugar-coated “Rocky” whose valuable messages are forgotten 10 minutes after the last trombone honks. You could simply shrug it off…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Nighttrain wreck

Although “doomed to fail” might have seemed strong words three months ago when referring to the return of the once-mighty Guns ‘ Roses, in retrospect, the idea of Axl Rose with some hired Guns heading out to fill arenas across the U.S. seems kind of silly. And thanks to Axl’s temper tantrums and a lukewarm…

Jason Ferguson

Lonely soul

Denison Witmer isn’t looking to win any popularity contests. He’s not looking to make teen girls bawl their eyes out at his shows, and he doesn’t particularly live up to the hype cast by critics who hail him as being the next Elliott Smith. But the 26-year-old singer/songwriter certainly does not mind the fact that…

Omar Perez

We all scream for ice cream

I heard the oddest question ever while at Lickety Splits Frozen Custard in Altamonte Springs (946 W. State Road 436; 407-786-4174): While ordering a single scoop in a cone, I was asked, “Is that for here or to go?”. The concept that there might be a difference was so mind-boggling I stood there, mute. There…

Joseph Hayes

Pumping iron

Inga Kosak won the first World Extreme Ironing Championship in Munich in September, beating 80 contestants from 10 countries who are judged on the degree of difficulty they can create for themselves in order to iron. One ironed while bouncing on a trampoline, another while surfboarding on a river and another hanging upside down from…

Chuck Shepherd

Booty-litigious

Jennifer Lopez has dropped a prenuptial bomb on her soon-to-be third hubby Ben Affleck, say pals, leaving nothing to chance as they head to the altar. Friends say she wants Ben to agree to live by a set of strict rules … . Her pals say she drew up a whole list of fines, ranging…

Steve Schneider

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