Sentinel columnist: Thank you, Osama bin Laden!
Apparently, for the last 7 years the Orlando Sentinel employed a columnist named Tammy Carter. We say “apparently” because before today we’ve never actually read on of her columns, but judging by her farewell in today’s paper, maybe we were missing out. OK, maybe not. Most of it’s sappy and stupid. But whatever. Two little…
BEYOND THE JOKES
Judd Apatow’s latest is as funny as it is honest
After the Wedding
After the Wedding Studio: IFC Rated: R Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen Director: Susanne Bier WorkNameSort: After the Wedding Our Rating: 4.50 Danish director Susanne Bier will be making her American film debut in September with Things We Lost in the Fire. It will have to be pretty stunning to top After the Wedding,…
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Brooks Studio: MGM Rated: R Cast: Kevin Costner, William Hurt Director: Bruce A. Evans WorkNameSort: Mr. Brooks Our Rating: 1.00 Ever wondered why movies made in Hollywood seem to appeal to increasingly dumber audiences? Buy a ticket to Mr. Brooks to become part of the intellectually diminished population that studio execs lower their standards…
El Topo
El Topo Studio: Anchor Bay WorkNameSort: El Topo So I’ve finally seen El Topo. This Holy Grail of underground cinema is, after a decades-long legal stalemate, available for home viewing, individually and as part of the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky box set. The well-documented backstory of El Topo (The Mole) is almost unbelievable: brought to…
The Third Man
The Third Man Studio: Criterion Collection WorkNameSort: Third Man, The ‘Probably the greatest of the foreign film noirs,â?� is how Peter Bogdanovich describes this suspenseful, witty, dramatically photographed classic. Directed by Carol Reed from Graham Greene’s screenplay, it’s the story of a naive American (Joseph Cotten) in post’World War II Vienna who attempts to discover…
Scarface
Scarface Studio: Universal WorkNameSort: Scarface A half-century before Al Pacino insisted that we ‘say helloâ?� to his ‘little friend,â?� Paul Muni played the title role in the 1932 version of Scarface, directed by Howard Hawks from a snappy Ben Hecht script. The Cuban gangsters of the remake are Italians in this film, which was a…
1976-1982
1976-1982 Label: Rhino/Atlantic Rated: NONE Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: 1976-1982 Being a Genesis fan with music-snob acquaintances means always having to answer the condescending clarifying question, ‘Only the Peter Gabriel years, right?â?� Actually, as this six-disc collection demonstrates, the group evolved gradually, almost glacially, from prog fantasia to polished pop, and the clearest delineation…
Light at the End of the World
Light at the End of the World Label: Mute Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Light at the End of the World With the chains of love ‘ the very same ones that connected them with mass audiences in their late-’80s alt prime ‘ long since broken (blame the country album â?¦ no, the…
Release the Stars
Release the Stars Label: Geffen Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Release the Stars For all of those who worried that that the twisted cathedral-ism of Wainwright’s Want Two was signaling the end of the progression so winningly scorched by its similarly named predecessor, Want One, this should come as a relief. Wisely, Wainwright’s…
FRIENDLY AIR, STANDARD FARE
A pot of classic favorites at the end of this rainbow
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
;ARIES (March 21-April 19) Though one of the closest to our sun, Teegarden’s star was unknown until 2003. Located in the constellation of Aries, it’s a red dwarf with relatively modest heat and luminosity, and moves very fast compared to other stars. Let’s make Teegarden’s star your metaphor for June. I predict that you’ll discover…
HAPPYTOWN
Did you know that the phrase “fuck the police” can land you in jail? It can, and it happened right here in Orlando on May 1. Spencer Young, a 29-year-old black homeless man — one of a few black people in a Hispanic-heavy crowd — was among the hundreds of marchers who circled Lake Eola…
MAIL SACK
;Pathetic crybabies ;I had a problem with Billy Manes’ story on gasification [“A convenient truth,” May 17]. The story comes on the heels of recent revelations that – to the delight of neocons everywhere – the production of the electric motors used in the Toyota Prius is so energy-intensive that it negates whatever carbon/energy savings…
HITTING THE CIRCUIT
Charlie Louvin will turn 80 years old on July 7, 2007. Once one-half of the Louvin Brothers, who landed 12 hits on the Billboard country charts in the 1950s — including “Cash on the Barrelhead,” “When I Stop Dreaming” and “Knoxville Girl” — and a viable solo artist who charted seven solo hits in the…
REALLY SAYING NOTHING
;It wasn’t always this way: 45-year-old Sarah Dallin draped prostrate over a similarly lifeless 46-year-old Keren Woodward in a position that suggests either a MILF-ish post-party exhaustion or a pre-menopausal lesbian nightclub couch affair, either one presumably soundtracked by the deep, filtered house of mechanical pop hubris. ;;These are the long faces of Bananarama now…
QUEER AS A $3 BILL
No one could fairly accuse us of ignoring our brethren and sistren of the homosexual persuasion; we do employ Billy Manes, after all. But our critics might point out that we’ve yet to devote a significant chunk of our newsprint real estate in a single issue to gay and lesbian issues. And they’d be correct.…
GLENDA THE GOOD WITCH
It took only two votes, on the same subject, for Glenda Hood to become the bane of Orlando’s gay community. In November 2002, and again in December of the same year, the Republican former mayor voted with the city council’s biddy block — former commissioner Vicki Vargo and soon-to-be-former commissioner Betty Wyman — against an…
TIME TO GO
It’s unfashionable to say this, but it’s time for Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan to go. It’s unfashionable because Sheehan, as everybody knows by now, is Orlando’s first openly gay public official, and as such has helped this city grow up, something it desperately needs to do. She demonstrated that a candidate who wasn’t part…
CHAIRMAN OF THE BROADS
Sue Hannah was no slacker. Hannah spent nearly 50 years quietly carving out a name for herself as the owner of Faces, the city’s only lesbian bar; as a leader in the gay community (though she shied away from publicity); and as a devout supporter of the down and out. Her favorite cause was aiding…
WHERE THE GIRLS ARE
It used to be all about the men. Gay Days was marketed toward them, and attended almost exclusively by them; in the 1990s, about 90 percent of the Gay Days crowd was male. It wasn’t hard to figure out why. Advertisements, especially in magazines geared toward men, such as Instinct, sold sweaty circuit parties and…
DYKES WITH TYKES
A decade ago children were rarely seen at Gay Days. It was a time of circuit parties and meat-market pool bashes that were decidedly not kid-friendly. There were always the days at Disney World, and later outings to Universal Studios and SeaWorld. But that usually wasn’t enough to tempt gay couples to bring the kids.…
WHAT’S HATE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
There was sadness and anger in the air in Winter Haven’s historical Central Park April 14. Nearly 200 people — adults and children, gay and straight — came out for a white-balloon vigil to remember the brutal murder March 15 of 25-year-old Ryan Skipper, a young gay man found stabbed to death in nearby Wahneta.…
ONE MIGHTY WEEKEND
All events can be found at www.gaydays.com. For information by phone, call (407) 896-8431. Amy Steinberg Tongue-twisted she- syncopations from Orlando’s legendary bawdy broad. Expect big-hearted emotion with some folky garnish on the side. 7 p.m. June 3 at Hotel Royal Plaza, 1905 Hotel Plaza Blvd., Lake Buena Vista; $25-$50. Beach Ball Moisture reigns at…
POLICE BEAT
MAY 15, 5:03 P.M.: Let’s get back to what Orlando ne’er-do-wells do best: sneaker swiping! A 12-year-old lad trotted home from middle school this afternoon in the area of West Grove Way and Mallard Pond Court. What he didn’t realize is that three or four hooligans were keenly following behind. When the time was right,…
STILL OPENING DOORS
University of Central Florida film professor Barry Sandler’s phone lines were buzzing in 2005, when Brokeback Mountain was poised to score an Oscar victory before inexplicably losing to Crash. The calls made sense. Sandler, openly gay since the early ’80s, is one of the pioneering figures in advancing the image of gay people on and…
BLISTER
;‘R we going out tonight,” I thumb text into my pocket life leash, “or r we going to be lame?” As if those two things are mutually exclusive. ;”We’re going,” comes Savannah’s finger-fuck reply. “What are you wearing?”; ;”Your pussy!” ; ;Why? Because I’m straight. Straight, straight, straight, straight, straight! On the occasion of the…
NO-BRAINER
;While the town of Kissimmee does not automatically conjure images of theater, this is the new Central Florida, where stage talent can mushroom even in a place better known for cow patties and theme parks.; ;The Osceola Center for the Arts long has been an outpost for visual and performing arts in Kissimmee, growing along…
SAVAGE LOVE
This formerly frustrated wife, separated after eight years of marriage, is acting on the stuff I fantasized about while I was with my straitlaced husband, but I have yet to do the one thing I’m most interested in: a threesome with two men. I have ads up on two websites, and I want your opinion…
