Friends in Deeds
Movie: Mr. Deeds
Friends in Deeds
Movie: Mr. Deeds
So young, so bad, so long
A noble experiment in broadcast bird-flipping ends at 12:30 a.m. this Sunday, June 30, when WRDQ-TV Action 27 airs the final installment of the locally produced comedy/variety series “Guerilla TV” [The Green Room, Sept. 19, 2000]. The show bows out with a retrospective episode; and its title, “The True Hollywood East Story,” tells you all…
Hack Attack
If you have a fast computer and a fast Internet connection, you make Hollywood nervous. Movie studios and TV networks are worried not because of what you’re doing now, but because of what you might do in the near future: Grab digital content with your computer and rebroadcast it online. Which is why the studios,…
Webcasting takes another hit
Just last month, webcasters thought they had won their 3-year-old war with the recording industry over royalties. After three months of protests and an energetic PR campaign, webcasters claimed victory when the Librarian of Congress rejected the arbitration board’s proposed royalty rates. [See Web radio wins round, May 23]. Those fees, they complained, would have…
Sexual orientation gets the nod
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 294 of the Fortune 500 companies, 1,083 other major corporations, 336 colleges and universities, 250 state and local governments, and 38 federal agencies have included sexual orientation in their anti-discrimination policies. Another 11 states and 122 cities and counties ban discrimination in the private sector. Now, the city of…
Back to the future
In his last public appearance as mayor, Carl Langford stood on the steps of City Hall on Halloween night, 1980, surrounded by a tombstone and jack-o’-lantern, playing taps on a World War II-era bugle. It was an appropriate eulogy for a mayor unrivaled in eccentricity or longevity, at least in Orlando. Langford had the good…
Bank of reality bites
Police in Norfolk, Neb., are still trying to find Curtis Boyd, 23, who skipped out on bail after allegedly trying to pass a check for $22 million at a Bank of Norfolk drive-through window in May. Boyd had purchased a computer-software check-writing program and apparently figured all he had to do to get the bank…
Nordic breeze
In a perfect world — one where Mary Kate and Ashley operate as pink and purple yin and yang, ruling over all that is well and good — teen magazines would replace Time and Newsweek as the periodicals of choice; global leadership would be decided by a pageant, and I would be queen. Friendship bracelets…
Eisner on the edge?
The news that “Lilo & Stitch” earned over $35 million its first weekend, the biggest opening gross for a Disney feature-length animated film since “The Lion King” in 1994, brought some welcome relief to Walt Disney Co. Chairman Michael Eisner. But, will the little blue alien’s enormous earnings potential be enough to repair Eisner’s tattered…
Stuffing your self-esteem
Bill Cosby may be famous for a few other minor things, but I think what truly made him a star was a bit he did in a comedy routine about cocaine. As I remember the line, people who liked to partake of the drug would tell him it intensifies their personality. “Yes,” he would say,…
Eminem’s bust on Moby in …
Eminem’s bust on Moby in “Without Me,” “The Eminem Show’s” lead single, is the silliest tiff pop music has seen in some time. The “beef” (Moby was one of many to accuse the rapper of homophobia) dates from 2000; guess it takes Slim Shady a while to come up with a witty retort. And now…
Here in the glow of emo’s…
Here in the glow of emo’s finest hour, Blake Schwarzenbach, one of the movement’s founding fathers, sits comfortably below the radar with his current band, Jets to Brazil. A third album, “Perfecting Loneliness,” is due out on Jade Tree in October, but the band is already on tour, all business as usual, playing primarily to…
Russia folded into Euro fare
If the spirit is upon you to dive into authentic Russian cooking, a trip to Boris Fods Inc. in Maitland (9230 S. U.S. Highway 17-92; 407-260-9511) could solve your ingredients problems. The sign out front reads, “European Foods,” but the small storefront is owned by the same Ukrainian family that cooks its native dishes at…
