Sexual/revolutionary
Movie: Before Night Falls
Time’s up
Movie: 15 Minutes
Sexual/revolutionary
Movie: Before Night Falls
Time’s up
Movie: 15 Minutes
Wired shut
Exaggerations are not new for Ric Keller. His congressional campaign last fall employed one commercial so filled with distortions that a local TV station yanked it. That spot wrongly implied his opponent, former Orange County Chairman Linda Chapin, used tax dollars to buy pay-cable TV in the county jail. Voters may not have believed the…
Between a rock and a hard place
“Madonna checked into the Portofino this afternoon,” coos a peroxided boy-toy just inside the Hard Rock Live venue. Well, I should hope so. Tonight’s the big christening of the excess-empowered Hard Rock Hotel, and from the looks of things, it’s turning out to be yet another loud, ugly, well-lit nonevent for the West Orlando home-owning…
Pillow talk
I’m in bed with Julian Schnabel. And he’s wearing a skirt. Perhaps some explanation is in order. I entered Schnabel’s Washington, D.C., hotel suite assuming we’d do our interview in a conventional chairs-in-the-living room configuration, but the director/co-writer of Before Night Falls says he’d rather talk in bed. I’m startled for a moment, but hey,…
When ordinary just won’t cut it
Sooner or later there comes a point when the old standby meals you make at home get boring. Always the same — the chicken, the spaghetti, the macaroni and cheese. What you need is an adventure, and it’s as close as the shelves of Saigon Market Walking through the aisles is like a trip to…
Follicle follies: the film that would not dye
Movie: Blow Dry
Follicle follies: the film that would not dye
Movie: Blow Dry
When ordinary just won’t cut it
Sooner or later there comes a point when the old standby meals you make at home get boring. Always the same — the chicken, the spaghetti, the macaroni and cheese. What you need is an adventure, and it’s as close as the shelves of Saigon Market (1232 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando, 898-6899). Walking through the…
Reuse and recycle
Late last month, several senior Walt Disney World officials winged their way from Orlando to Asia. Their mission: make nice at a two-day conference titled “Preparing for Hong Kong Disneyland.” Sponsored by the Tourism Office of the Hong Kong SAR Government, this forum was designed mostly as a cheerleading session for Disney’s next big thing…
All together now
Feb. 21, 2000, was not a good day for Mayor Glenda Hood. On that date, emotions from the most contentious mayoral election in years flooded the Orlando City Council chambers. There were allegations, insinuations and, in the case of Commissioner Daisy Lynum, threats from a constituent who accused her of campaigning against another council member.…
Free at last
Everybody knew that what happened to Donald Clark was a travesty of justice. His family knew it. His friends. His attorneys. The judge who sentenced him to life in prison in 1991. Even the Manatee County sheriff deputies who waded through the swamp to uproot marijuana plants he’d grown on part of his watermelon farm.…
Are you experienced?
Last week, Orlando Weekly reported allegations made in an anonymous letter of poor working conditions inside the new Holy Land Experience theme park. As promised, Holy Land officials have responded. “Ninety percent of that stuff,” says spokesman Ryan Julison, “is completely baseless and false.” In a written statement, Holy Land denied each of the 18…
Housing chief out
Bombarded by umpteen articles from the Sentinel, several visits from television stations and a cover story by Orlando Weekly that lead the charge `A Wayward Shepherd, Jan. 11`, Tim Hudson has decided to resign his post as executive director of the Sanford Housing Authority effective March 15. In typical fashion, the Housing Authority failed to…
The call that broke the camel’s back
In February, according to police in Fayetteville, Ga., after a youth basketball game (7- and 8-year-olds) that featured much bickering by a coach over referee Oliver Lewis Wood’s “bad calls,” the referee pulled out a knife and stabbed the coach. The referee, who by day is a Baptist minister, was arrested; the coach, who by…
More of the same
It’s hard to believe that we who embrace McDonald’s, television spin-offs and The Gap could have a problem with cloning. But this society, which prefers uniformity in everything from its tacos to its tract housing, is scared of clones, so much so that several states already have drafted laws against human cloning. We view the…
O ‘Brothers,’ where art thou?
For two years now, followers of Central Florida filmmaking have awaited the release of The Brothers, director/writer Jonathan Figg’s feature-length version of his funny short about wannabe white rappers. Major developments — like the casting of ‘N Sync vocalist Joey Fatone in a supporting role — have been few and far between as Figg soldiered…
