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Dec 24-30, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 52

Raising the steaks

With more than 20 locations across the country, Fleming’s Steakhouse is another in the “upscale chain” concept of restaurants coming from the popular Outback Steakhouse folks (whose other partnerships include Roy’s and Bonefish Grill). Paul Fleming, founder of the restaurant bearing his name, came into the business by opening a Ruth’s Chris Steak House franchise…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Girl From Paris

Our Rating: 0.00 This French import follows the developing relationship between an older farmer and the 30-year-old Parisienne who purchases his operation. Among her genius innovations: selling goat cheese over the Internet. That’s our favorite clause of the month, so let’s all say it together: “selling goat cheese over the Internet.” Sigh.(Not reviewed)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Girl From Paris

The Girl From Paris Studio: Mars Distribution Website: http://www.filmsphilos.com/girlfromparis.html Release Date: 2003-12-26 Cast: Mathilde Seigner, Michel Serrault, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Frederic Pierrot, Marc Berman Director: Christian Carion WorkNameSort: The Girl From Paris Our Rating: 0.00 This French import follows the developing relationship between an older farmer and the 30-year-old Parisienne who purchases his operation. Among her…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Young Black Stallion (IMAX)

Our Rating: 0.00 Yeah, we think it sounds like interracial porn, too. But it’s really a sequel to the 1979 Disney hit, as crafted for the gargantuan capabilities of large-format theaters. It’s a huge picture, in other words, a swollen, engorged … OK, we’ll stop. (Not reviewed)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Young Black Stallion (IMAX)

The Young Black Stallion (IMAX) Studio: Walt Disney Pictures Release Date: 2003-12-25 Cast: Biama Tamimi, Patrick Elyas, Richard Romanus WorkNameSort: The Young Black Stallion (IMAX) Our Rating: 0.00 Yeah, we think it sounds like interracial porn, too. But it’s really a sequel to the 1979 Disney hit, as crafted for the gargantuan capabilities of large-format…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Make the Yuletide gay

Oh, no. It’s that time of the year again, where I unfairly dust off my mirrored table and try not to look too hard at the jowls glaring back at me. Try to look deeper, maybe, into the soul of this messy-haired, derisive cad pudging beneath me, and hopefully come up with some glamorous, bejeweled…

Billy Manes

Let Tom Feeney be the judge

On the morning of March 27, Tom Feeney rose from his seat in the House of Representatives and with six words began a legal insurrection heard across America. The words were harmless enough: “Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.” It was what was inside the amendment that caused federal judges and legal scholars to lash…

William Dean Hinton

Camp Wellstone

It’s easy to deify your heroes when they’re gone, or even almost gone. Ronald Reagan is nearing sainthood in right-wing circles, with conservatives squashing an ostensibly unfavorable television miniseries, pushing to get his mug on the dime, renaming airports after him and even talking about enshrining him on Mt. Rushmore. St. Reagan will live forever.…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Stuffed tummies serve as reminder

It’s been a tough year on the local economy and many people are cutting back on the extras in favor of the necessaries. For too many people in our community, food is a necessity that’s not always easy to find. The bustling Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida www.foodbankcentralflorida.org) distributes more than 12,000,000 pounds…

Joseph Hayes

Stuffed tummies serve as reminder

It’s been a tough year on the local economy and many people are cutting back on the extras in favor of the necessaries. For too many people in our community, food is a necessity that’s not always easy to find. The bustling Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida www.foodbankcentralflorida.org) distributes more than 12,000,000 pounds…

Joseph Hayes

Stuffed tummies serve as reminder

It’s been a tough year on the local economy and many people are cutting back on the extras in favor of the necessaries. For too many people in our community, food is a necessity that’s not always easy to find. The bustling Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida www.foodbankcentralflorida.org) distributes more than 12,000,000 pounds…

Joseph Hayes

Regard duty

“President Bush sends his regards.” — Unnamed U.S. soldier to Saddam Hussein, as quoted in The New York Times, Dec. 16. (The scene is Saddam’s spider hole, at the moment of his capture. Two American soldiers stand over the hole, training their weapons on the disheveled dictator. He raises his hands in surrender.) Saddam: I…

Steve Schneider

History for sale

Perhaps you were one of the many (OK, dozens) of people who were deeply offended by the callous disregard of Church Street’s “history” by sneaky developers and an uncaring city bureaucracy. Perhaps you wept when the wrought-iron bridge railings came down, or when ornate metal brackets were ripped off the side of the Western-themed attraction.…

Bob Whitby

Super absorbent

Exquisite creatures of pulp addiction It’s a Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps By Adam Parfrey (Feral House, 2003; 287 pages) Sex. Power. War. Publishers of men’s magazines have always striven to appeal to the basest of male instincts, particularly after WW II, as soldiers struggled to adapt to a new society booming…

Staff writers

Space cadets

In 2000, News of the Weird reported that a major plank in the platform of a Montana man running for the U.S. Senate was to encourage the space program to build and use an “elevator” to lift satellites into orbit, rather than the far more expensive rocket ships. An October 2003 Associated Press report disclosed…

Chuck Shepherd

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