May 21-27, 2003

May 21-27, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 21

Movie: Lost in La Mancha

Our Rating: 0.00 This documentary recounts the collapse of filmmaker Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote project — thus inaugurating the fertile genre of the “unmaking-of” picture. (Not reviewed.)

Movie: The In-Laws

The In-Laws Studio: Warner Bros. Website: http://thein-laws.warnerbros.com/ Release Date: 2003-05-23 Cast: Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Ryan Reynolds, Lindsay Sloane, Chang Tseng Director: Andrew Fleming Screenwriter: Terry Doddand, Andrew Fleming WorkNameSort: The In-Laws Our Rating: 0.00 Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks stand in for Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in this remake of the beloved 1979…

Movie: Lost in La Mancha

Lost in La Mancha Length: 1 hour, 32 minutes Studio: IFC Films Website: http://www.lostinlamancha.com/ Release Date: 2003-05-23 Cast: Bernard Bouix, Tony Grisoni, Rene Cleitman, Benjamin Fernandez, Nicola Pecorini Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe Screenwriter: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe WorkNameSort: Lost in La Mancha Our Rating: 0.00 This documentary recounts the collapse of filmmaker Terry Gilliam’s…

Movie: The In-Laws

Our Rating: 0.00 Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks stand in for Peter Falk and Alan Arkin in this remake of the beloved 1979 buddy comedy about mismatched fathers-in-law on a South American adventure. (Not reviewed.)

Movie: Bruce Almighty

Our Rating: 0.00 Think very carefully: Would you want to live in a world in which Jim Carrey gets to be God? Reteamed with “Ace Ventura” director Tom Shadyac, the rubbery funnyman plays a TV news reporter who receives the gift of absolute power for one week. (Not reviewed.)

Movie: Bruce Almighty

Bruce Almighty Studio: Universal Pictures Website: http://www.brucealmighty.com/ Release Date: 2003-05-23 Cast: Jim Carrey, Jennifer Aniston, Morgan Freeman, Lisa Ann Walter, Nora Dunn Director: Tom Shadyac Screenwriter: Steve Koren, Mark O’Keefe, Steve Oedekerk WorkNameSort: Bruce Almighty Our Rating: 0.00 Think very carefully: Would you want to live in a world in which Jim Carrey gets to…

The Dog Playing Poker CAREER GUIDE

Frankly, we’re tired of hearing down-on-their-luck malcontents complain that there are no jobs in greater Orlando. No good jobs, sure, but no jobs? That’s something else again. In an effort to get the unemployed back into the workforce and racking up the credit-card debt, Dog Playing Poker is launching this helpful new feature, in which…

You don’t need to know

There will be certain immediate financial interests — the great family which owns the paper, the great bank which holds its bonds, the important local trade which furnishes its advertising. Concerning these people you observe no impolite word is ever spoken. — Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check On June 2, the world as we know…

A good law for bad cops

In between trying to gut Everglades restoration, jacking up phone bills via an industry-written law aimed at increasing “competition,” and ignoring the will of the voters on class sizes and statewide rail, the Florida Legislature did find time to protect one group: crooked cops. The law, SB 1856, passed May 1 and awaits the governor’s…

Something stinks in South Apopka

Florence Moss worked all her adult life as a fruit picker, cook and maid until five years ago, when she quickly began fading with a variety of ailments, including diabetes and shortness of breath. She died last June at the age of 83 of respiratory and heart failure. Moss lived in a South Apopka suburb…

Dark shadows

There are a lot of people that just kind of stand there and watch us with this confused look on their face,” ponders Green Goblyn Project founder and songwriter, Xtian, (er, Christian.) “Sometimes I wonder if Green Goblyn is just one of those bands that you have to listen to a couple of times to…

Bruises to prove it

As the outmoded ineffectiveness of the record industry’s business structure becomes more and more obvious, more bands are simply taking matters into their own hands. After a decade or so of toiling in the underground trenches, releasing fine albums on other peoples’ labels, the Supersuckers are finally going for the brass ring. Having established their…

Bruises to prove it

As the outmoded ineffectiveness of the record industry’s business structure becomes more and more obvious, more bands are simply taking matters into their own hands. After a decade or so of toiling in the underground trenches, releasing fine albums on other peoples’ labels, the Supersuckers are finally going for the brass ring. Having established their…

Another kind of chemical warfare

Organic produce is easier to find than in previous years. But it sure would be nice to have someone bring those chemical-free goodies right to your door, wouldn’t it? Orlando Organics (407-522-1502; www.orlandoorganics.com) is ready and waiting. Providing everything from apples to zucchini, fruits and vegetables can be delivered weekly or twice a month, and…

Another kind of chemical warfare

Organic produce is easier to find than in previous years. But it sure would be nice to have someone bring those chemical-free goodies right to your door, wouldn’t it? Orlando Organics (407-522-1502; www.orlandoorganics.com) is ready and waiting. Providing everything from apples to zucchini, fruits and vegetables can be delivered weekly or twice a month, and…

Happy birthday to me

As this issue goes to press, I’m ducking down and dirty from the inevitable burn and hateful glow of turning 31. Comfort is a blanket buried beneath cheap cassettes and irremovable hangovers, and I can’t seem to get to it. It’s time for some retrospective scrutiny for a columnist who wants to get neither higher…

Beam me up, Tony

Tony Alleyne, 50, recently placed his small Leicestershire, England, apartment on the market for the equivalent of $1.7 million, a price he said was realistic because he has spent nearly 10 years crafting the premises as a finely detailed model of the “Star Trek” starship Enterprise. Included, according to an April report in Australia’s Herald…


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