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Nov 12-18, 2003

Nov 12-18, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 46

Movie: Passionada

Our Rating: 0.00 A Portuguese widow living in New Bedford, Mass. agrees to date a wealthy fishing magnate, not knowing that he’s actually a professional gambler in disguise. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Passionada

Passionada Studio: Samuel Goldwyn Website: http://movies.yahoo.com/www.passionada.com Release Date: 2003-11-14 Cast: Jason Isaacs, Seymour Cassel, Sofia Milos, Lupe Ontiveros, Emmy Rossum Director: Dan Ireland Screenwriter: Jim Jermanok, Stephen Jermanok Music Score: Harry Gregson-Williams WorkNameSort: Passionada Our Rating: 0.00 A Portuguese widow living in New Bedford, Mass. agrees to date a wealthy fishing magnate, not knowing that…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Corrective measures

Even the most carefully researched, meticulously edited paper can make a mistake from time to time. So you can imagine the pickle Orlando Weekly is in. What follows is a blanket apology for some of the more egregious errors that wormed their way into our recent issues. A news story in our Nov. 6 issue…

Steve Schneider

Gunnin’ for love

In October, West Point, Ky., hosted 12,000 visitors for the weekend Knob Creek Gun Range Machine Gun Shoot, billed as the nation’s largest, with a separate competition for flamethrowers. Especially coveted is “The Line,” where 60 people (the waiting list to participate is 10 years long) get to fire their machine guns into a field…

Chuck Shepherd

The Church Street hustle

Nov. 10 was going to be D-Day for Church Street bar owners. Not only had word circulated that Code Enforcement would no longer allow revelers in the street, but rumor had it the city was going to open Church Street to two-way traffic. Bars like Antigua and Chillers, which regularly fill to capacity and spill…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Sex, drugs, Jesus and Saddam

This was all much ado about nothing,” Dr. Phillips High School principal Gene Trochinski said last week on the telephone. No truer words were ever spoken about a homecoming parade. Unfortunately for Trochinski, it was the third-year principal himself who started the controversy by announcing two floats would be prohibited from participating in the Nov.…

William Dean Hinton

Guide of politics

Politics is like baseball: The seasons are long and dull, and only toward the end does it get exciting (if then). So unless you’re a political junkie — definition: watching “Meet the Press,” “The Chris Matthews Show,” “Face the Nation” and “This Week” back-to-back despite a Sunday-morning hangover — you don’t care yet. Soon, however,…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Looking for God in all the wrong places

It’s the end of the world … or at least that’s the overwhelming sentiment these days. In the wake of the Sept. 11 atrocities, the garish war thereafter and the perpetual Palestinian/Israeli conflict, those prone to religious explanations are practically running to the cross. Dan Brown is deciphering “The Da Vinci Code” to (fictitiously) reveal…

Billy Manes

Screw objectivity

A quote from the Orlando Sentinel from a front-page article published Nov. 8 about the helicopter crash that killed six American troops in Tikrit, Iraq, the previous day: “‘No matter how many attacks there may be on a given day, `American soldiers’` morale has not slipped at all,’ said Col. David A. Teeples, commander of…

Bob Whitby

Where have all the flours gone?

Apparently, the scariest thing on the planet right now is a plate of spaghetti. Carbohydrates, my friends, are evil! Forget about low-fat diets, the all-grapefruit plan and the cabbage-soup regimen. Just stop eating pasta and bread, and the pounds will melt away. At least, that’s what we think today. Following the Atkins or South Beach…

Joseph Hayes

Like Mordor, baby

Those longing for something meatier than the garage-rock rave-ups and pop-punk anthems ping-ponging through the underground like lottery balls can find recourse in the emo-core epics of Coheed and Cambria. Drafting an ongoing space-age drama that pits good versus evil in a battle for the soul of the universe, this New York City quartet is…

Chris Parker

The Beaver is itchy

My beaver itches. Well, if I had a beaver, I’m sure it would. Jerry Mathers, the original Beaver, as in “Leave it to Beaver,” is on the phone to talk about … wait, what’s this … psoriasis? I’m flaring up. “How are you, Beav?” “Terrific. Couldn’t be better.” I think you’re lying, on account of…

Billy Manes

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