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Movie: The Country Bears
Movie: Pumpkin
Pumpkin Length: 2 hours, 1 minute Studio: United Artists/ MGM Website: http://www.mgm.com/ua/pumpkin/ Release Date: 2002-08-16 Cast: Christina Ricci, Hank Harris, Marisa Coughlan, Sam Ball, Dominique Swain Director: Adam Larson Broder, Tony Abrams Screenwriter: Adam Larson Broder WorkNameSort: Pumpkin Our Rating: 1.00 This is the story of a movie that can’t decide what it wants to…
Westside harvest
Shopping near the West Oaks Mall a few weeks ago — on my 27th trip to the hardware store for a home renovation project — I spotted an unusual sign: “October Rice,” it said, “a Chinese Cuisinery.” Open since last September, the “cuisinery” is nestled in a strip mall between a uniform store and a…
Movie: The Emperor’s New Clothes
Our Rating: 3.50 Some men are born great, others achieve greatness, and others have their siginifcance only partially explained in pleasant period pieces. Fresh from his supporting turn in Disney’s remake of “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the irrepressible Napoleon moves center stage in “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a German/ Italian/British co-production that makes the…
Slight reprieve for shag hags
Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember
Honey talks
Movie: The Country Bears
Movie: Pumpkin
Our Rating: 1.00 This is the story of a movie that can’t decide what it wants to be. In trying to be daring and original, it comes off as only occasionally satirical and never fresh. And instead of simply delivering its messages (accept people for what they are; not all disabilities are visible to the…
Movie: The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Emperor’s New Clothes Length: 1 hour, 47 minutes Studio: Paramount Classics Website: http://www.paramountclassics.com/emperor/ Release Date: 2002-07-26 Cast: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson, Hugh Bonneville Director: Alan Taylor Screenwriter: Kevin Molony, Alan Taylor, Herbie Wave Music Score: Rachel Portman WorkNameSort: The Emperor’s New Clothes Our Rating: 3.50 Some men are born great,…
Slight reprieve for shag hags
Movie: Austin Powers in Goldmember
They’re plotting to re-or…
They’re plotting to re-organize Orlando, but they’re not advocating methodical crime. Actually, the few but mighty members of the Writes of Passage collective are after quite the contrary. They’re seriously ready for change– in themselves, in their music, in their city– and are ready to do so within this peaceful group of social rebellion. What…
It’s not uncommon for ban…
It’s not uncommon for bands to tour beyond their prime. Eighties hair bands like Poison and Warrant routinely hit the road in summer, playing 2,000-person venues full of mullets and 30-somethings reliving their teen-age years. Classic rock icons like the Rolling Stones, the Who and KISS are still on the road — in the latter’s…
Supply’s stock in solid demand
When you find a treasure, there’s always the temptation to keep it to yourself. Fortunately, there’s enough to go around at Affordable Restaurant Equipment & Supply (5744 E Colonial Drive; 407-273-1117). Whether the aim is to outfit a kitchen in professional style or look for cute dishes, this is a gold mine of new and…
Island in the slum
In late May, Orlando’s Community Redevelopment Agency sent out a proposal for a small piece of property located across West Church Street from the massive Hughes Supply headquarters, a $53 million retail, office and apartment complex that broke ground in December. Many city leaders are encouraged that the Hughes development will convert the blighted west-side…
Holding his own
Flashback some 20 years to a rougher, dirtier time of Charlie Daniels and BB guns, welfare lunches and a snot nose, and you’ll find a rather scrubby version of yours truly. Despite obvious signs of oncoming feyness (Blair Warner obsession, wide-hipped girlfriend), I, like so many other impoverished Florida rednecks, was holding tight to the…
Time to go all the way
President Bush finally stopped searching little old ladies’ sneakers for terrorist bombs long enough to begin declaring war on the other “evildoers” of society — the crooked corporate executives, boards of directors, regulators, auditors, investment bankers, stock analysts and rating agencies who have lied, cheated, stolen and bilked millions of American workers and investors out…
Too close for comfort
There are a lot of things that China and I do not have in common. I have never been visited by a U.S. President, did not acquire Hong Kong recently and none of my walls are that great, nor can they be seen from space. I do have some things in common with that country,…
Falling all over again
When your neighbors start wearing capes again, it either means that the superhero boom has hit Central Florida or Stevie Nicks is coming to House of Blues. Relax, everybody: We’re safe for the moment from the beshawled, Peruvian-snarfing white-winged dove. The costumed karma right now belongs to “Shadow Raven: Fading Thoughts,” a digital-video sci-fi/adventure that’s…
