Feb 25 – Mar 2, 2004

Feb 25 - Mar 2, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 8

Movie: Broken Lizard’s Club Dread

Broken Lizard’s Club Dread Studio: Fox Searchlight Website: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/clubdread/ Release Date: 2004-02-27 Cast: Bill Paxton, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Erik Stolhanske Director: Jay Chandrasekhar Screenwriter: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme WorkNameSort: Broken Lizard’s Club Dread Our Rating: 0.00 The gang that brought us “Super Troopers” sets a serial killer loose in a…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Twisted

Twisted Studio: Paramount Pictures Website: http://www.twistedmovie.com Release Date: 2004-02-27 Cast: Ashley Judd, Samuel L Jackson, Andy Garcia, D.W. Moffett, Mark Pellegrino Director: Philip Kaufman Screenwriter: Sarah Thorp WorkNameSort: Twisted Our Rating: 0.00 Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia and recurring blackouts … see if you can tell which is which as afflicted detective Jessica…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Twisted

Our Rating: 0.00 Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia and recurring blackouts … see if you can tell which is which as afflicted detective Jessica Sheppard (Judd) becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders. (Not reviewed)

Orlando Weekly Staff

District 2: Wyman fatigue?

District 2: Wyman fatigue? I’m on my second pair of tennis shoes,” says rookie politician Luis Pastrana, speaking of the daily neighborhood-walking tours that he hopes will give him the edge over Orlando city council District 2 incumbent Betty Wyman. He’ll need a lot more than shoes to beat Wyman; 12 years in a job…

Emily Ruff

The Big Freakin’ Election

So here we are less than two weeks away from the municipal elections and you probably couldn’t care less. We don’t blame you. The Democratic presidential primary is all-but over and the four city races will probably yield the exact same city council we have now. The problem is that voters rely heavily on glossy…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Tamper proof

The Florida Department of State eased Florida’s collective mind last week by finally, and authoritatively, putting to rest the specter of botched and/or stolen elections — just like the one that put Little Shrubbie in the White House in 2000 — via electronic voting machines. It’s simple, really. “There are no ballots to count, there…

Bob Whitby

Goodbye, cruel world

Sooner or later, this happens to the best of them: Ziggy Stardust, Carrie Bradshaw, Andrew Ridgeley. All were valid assumed identities in and of themselves, but all sadly walked the plank in the interests of creative differences and tax write-offs. People die. Especially fake ones. So I’m dead. That’s right, ladies, gentlemen and gentlemen who…

Billy Manes

Splendid Omens

“Splendid Omens” By Robley Wilson (Thomas Dunne Books, 274 pages) From a reader’s standpoint, the omen that opens “Splendid Omens” is anything but splendid. In fact, it’s so absurdly sad that it borders on asinine. Try this: Longtime friend Alec shows up for his pal Webb’s fourth wedding after the two haven’t seen each other…

Jason Ferguson

Blame Florida

Tampa, Fla., driver Terry Lee Crouch, 29, accidentally ran over his 6-year-old son in November while, he told police, playing a game in which the boy tries to cling to the rear bumper while Crouch starts and stops the car attempting to dislodge him. And in October, in nearby New Port Richey, Fla., a 400-pound…

Chuck Shepherd

“Passion” for the people

www.bachfestivalflorida.org Johann Sebastian Bach was a composer explicitly within the Christian tradition, a fact ascribed both to personal belief and to the reality of his employment. He spent more than a quarter-century as cantor at St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig, Germany, composing the vast majority of his works there in that role. His connection to…

Jason Ferguson

Buddha, Volume One: Kapilavastu

“Buddha, Volume One: Kapilavastu” By Osama Tezuka (Vertical, 288 pages) Comic books depicting religious stories have been a part of mainstream Eastern cultures for some time. The Mahabharata comic series has provided Indian kids with imagination-testing storylines and spiritual guidance for decades, and the story of the Buddha has been illustrated numerous times as well.…

Jason Ferguson

Seasoned hams

It’s happening everywhere, but not like this. The mimosa brunch has become the new 30-something weekend outing — has been for years, really. There’s little guilt in the quickness of a champagne buzz easily killed by an afternoon nap and likewise absorbed into the hollandaise of extravagantly priced eggs Benedict. But the “Global Brunch,” fronted…

Billy Manes

Push me, poll you

Last week, mayoral candidate Ken Mulvaney sued incumbent Buddy Dyer, charging that phone polling done on behalf of Dyer’s re-election campaign had slandered Mulvaney by mentioning his two arrests for domestic violence. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Mulvaney said the calls constituted an illegal “push poll.” The Dyer campaign defended the calls but refused to…

Steve Schneider

District 6: A split for Page?

Ernest Page is defending his council seat a third time in the District 6 election. This time he’s up against two no-name opponents with good ideas but little chance of winning. Challenger No. 1 is Lawanna Gelzer, 41, who ran unsuccessfully against Daisy Lynum in the 2000 election. A native Floridian who has called Orlando…

Emily Ruff

District 4: Three against one

I’m not going to a runoff. Incumbents don’t go to a runoff.”And that is Orlando city commissioner Patty Sheehan’s campaign strategy. Win, and win big. She’s not polling, she says, because the results might make her overconfident. She’s easily winning the money race — $57,000 as of Dec. 31 — and has the name recognition…

Jeffrey C. Billman

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