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May 12-18, 2004

May 12-18, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 19

Movie: Troy

Our Rating: 2.50 Director Wolfgang Petersen’s swords-and-sandals epic expends a lot of energy convincing us that its every plot point is suffused with legendary import, even as it’s busily reconfiguring those same developments as matinee melodrama. Clashing armies call each other out with playground taunts; enemies are felled with flying assaults shown in post-“Matrix” slow…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Troy

Troy Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://troymovie.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2004-05-14 Cast: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Peter O’Toole, Diane Kruger Director: Wolfgang Petersen Screenwriter: David Benioff, Homer WorkNameSort: Troy Our Rating: 2.50 Director Wolfgang Petersen’s swords-and-sandals epic expends a lot of energy convincing us that its every plot point is suffused with legendary import, even…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Comings and goings on the chow front

In Winter Park, the well-worn Greek standby Andros Restaurant is being overhauled into Za Bella Ristorante (1234 Orange Ave.; 407-628-2333), opening this month. Over in the 400 block of Orlando Avenue, Jasmine’s of Winter Park is closer to its long-anticipated June opening in the space vacated by Trastevere Ristorante. The owners closed Jasmine’s on Lake…

Lindy T. Shepherd

Life’s little destruction manual

SING like no one can hear you. DANCE like no one is watching you. LOVE like you’ve never been hurt. And while you’re at it … DRINK like you still have a driver’s license. SMOKE like your ex gets the emphysema. CARBO-LOAD like tempura’s a vegetable. LIE like you work at USA Today. SCREW like…

Steve Schneider

Pay our tab, you hockey pucks!

“It’s all coming down to, ‘How do we make hockey survive in minor-league sports in this city?'” Orlando Seals president David Waronker told a herd of reporters April 21, at a press conference to announce that, for the third time in three years, the Seals would be joining yet another hockey conference. That’s insignificant considering…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Decoding Kathleen Parker

Orlando Sentinel columnist Kathleen Parker is a very important writer. Not only does she speak for the entire South, including all those soccer moms and NASCAR dads, she is also the voice of independents throughout the land. Not since Will Rogers has there been a writer whose words reflected the feelings of so many Americans.…

Steve Schneider, Bob Whitby, and Jeffrey C. Billman

Jamie Levine wants to kick your ass

The scene at the Radisson Twin Towers ballroom Dec. 20 is part boxing match, part “Jerry Springer” show. In the center of the ballroom is an elevated ring (the boxing part) cordoned off with 7-foot chain-link fence (the Springer part). Concentric rows of folding chairs circle the ring (boxing), one of which, to my left,…

Bob Whitby

Dedge wins on appeal

In the April 29 issue, Orlando Weekly printed a story about Wilton Dedge, a man who has spent 22 years in prison for a rape that DNA testing proves he didn’t commit. On April 27, Dedge took a big step toward becoming a free man. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach ruled…

Sally Watt

Supergroup grope

Editor’s note: Due to an editing error, last week’s Blister was fouled up beyond belief and totally unreadable. The responsible parties have been flogged. You can find the unadulterated version online at http://www.orlandoweekly.com/blister/index.asp, or write the whole thing off and start fresh with this week’s offering. Your choice. Ever feel like you’re the last to…

Billy Manes

They could be heroes

When Sir Charles Barkley said in a Nike commercial, “I am not a role model,” few disagreed. In addition to being known as one of the most prolific scorers and rebounders in NBA history, Barkley was infamous for speaking his mind (once telling a white reporter, “That’s why I hate white people”), spitting on a…

Drew Garabo

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