There goes the buffet
Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
There goes the buffet
Movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
‘A little over a year ago…
‘A little over a year ago, a friend of mine gave me a tape; people are always giving me tapes to work into movies,” remembers Gil Holland, a film producer (Bobby G. Can’t Swim) and regular participant in the Florida Film Festival. “She said, ‘Mark Geary, you might like him, he’s Irish.’ That’s all I…
Edible Puerto Rican primer
Don’t be put off by the location of Pioco’s Chicken on West Colonial (2107 W. Colonial Drive; 407-481-0806). In front of the Magic Mall and just past several giant car dealerships, it’s an easy place to overlook as you zip out toward Pine Hills, but you’d be overlooking a treat. The menu over the counter…
A digitally dynamic city?
Hollywood East is dead. There, we’ve said it. Now let’s move on and not bring it up again. The pie-in-the-sky dream of big-budget, star-powered flicks never materialized; and regional leaders have been scrambling to find the next big thing to combat a low-end economy forced on them by overreliance on Disney. And now they think…
Propaganda and bubble gum
Want to make a deal? I’ll trade you my Mayor Giuliani Gives the “Thumbs Up” for your Condoleeza Rice. Or how about my Tom Ridge for your John Ashcroft. Or — the mother lode — my Osama bin Laden for your President Bush Addresses Congress. With Pokemon in the toilet, trading-card giant and Bazooka gum…
Speak of the devil
Have you ever been around people who don’t know when to quit? You like them, but they never know when to let a thing die. You say, “Have you watched ‘The Osbournes’?” and they do their Ozzy impression, and it’s funny. Then they do Ozzy stealing your fries. By the time they’re doing Ozzy as…
Media Folk
I’m here. I’m queer. I’m used to it. So it comes as no surprise that, when faced with a trade show (ahem) homosexuality extravaganza, I don’t pop out of my Hunter S. Thompson skivvies in a rash of swollen excitement. Gay Days 2002 has taken over the convention room of the Hotel Royal Plaza, literally…
