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Nov 19-25, 2003

Nov 19-25, 2003 / Vol. 19 / No. 47

Movie: The Bread, My Sweet

The Bread, My Sweet Studio: Panorama Entertainment Website: http://www.thebreadmysweet.tv/index1.html Release Date: 2003-11-21 Cast: Scott Baio, Kristin Minter, Rosemary Prinz, John Seitz, Schuler Hensley Director: Melissa Martin Screenwriter: Melissa Martin Music Score: Susan Hartford WorkNameSort: The Bread, My Sweet Our Rating: 0.00 In this food-themed romance, Scott (Chachi Arcola) Baio plays an Italian-American biscotti magnate who…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Full of temptation

Imagine a place where food is served on little plates, and just when you think you’ve eaten enough of one exciting gem, another plate appears with an even more enticing item. The land of the endless lilliputian meal may exist only in dreams, but a similar vision, and your appetite, can be fed while you’re…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Autumn Spring

Autumn Spring Studio: First Look Release Date: 2003-11-21 Cast: Vlastimil Brodsky, Petra Spalkova, Ondrej Vetchy, Stella Zazvorkova, Stanislav Zindulka Director: Vladimir Michalek Screenwriter: Jiri Hubac Music Score: Michal Lorelic WorkNameSort: Autumn Spring Our Rating: 0.00 Czech comedy details the thorny relationship betweeen an elderly prankster, his more-practical wife and the son who plans to send…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: The Bread, My Sweet

Our Rating: 0.00 In this food-themed romance, Scott (Chachi Arcola) Baio plays an Italian-American biscotti magnate who quits his job to pursue the daughter of his dying neighbor. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Autumn Spring

Our Rating: 0.00 Czech comedy details the thorny relationship betweeen an elderly prankster, his more-practical wife and the son who plans to send them both to an old-age home. (Not reviewed.)

Orlando Weekly Staff

Involuntary servitude

In October 1998, Congress passed one of the most sweeping revisions to the U.S. Housing Act of 1937, the law that began public housing as we know it today. The Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, as the new law was called, gave the nation’s 3,161 housing agencies the autonomy to perform a wide range…

William Dean Hinton

Gone Shrubbin’

Had I received the media advisory when everyone else did, I might be inside the Englewood Neighborhood Center, instead of on the sidewalk across the street. Let me explain: Today, Nov. 13, is the occasion of President George W. Bush’s four-hour stopover in The City Beautiful, during which time he will attend a $2,000-per-plate fund-raiser…

Jeffrey C. Billman

The Church Street hustle, part two

Is Mayor Buddy Dyer scared of dirtying his hands? It seems that way. Foregoing public hearings, Dyer has told city traffic engineers to make West Church Street a two-way road as of Nov. 24. Though not illegal, the move certainly angered West Church Street business owners, who say they were promised public input almost two…

Jeffrey C. Billman

Chick lit 101

The trouble began, as it always does, with a Helen. I’m referring, of course, to Helen Fielding, author of 1997’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It was only 271 pages long, but the publishing boom it created grossed $71 million dollars in the last year alone, according to a recent report by…

Lizzie Skurnick

Latin derivations explode boredom

The worst thing about having “favorite” foods is getting into a rut. You know, the same old stuff, from the same old haunts, on the same day of the week. It’s best to avoid yawning routines and cuisine by stretching the horizons of cooking experiences. The appeal of new cookbook Viva la Vida by Rafael…

Joseph Hayes

Careless memories

Truth be told, discussions of Duran Duran’s renewed relevance are becoming a bit tiresome. In either the context of their impact on the now-impotent electroclash movement or the reunion shows the band is currently undertaking, every hipster journal in the nation has some allusion to days of backpack buttons gone by. The real story of…

Billy Manes

We do what we like

Hip-hop and Minnesota. Minnesota and hip-hop. Regardless of how you say it, it just sounds strange. The land of a thousand lakes, fly-fishing and tallboys seems like an oddly placid home for a music that was born and raised in the impoverished corners of New York City, nurtured by nihilism and a distinctly urban drive…

Samuel Chennault

One of the girls

On my computer is the black-and-white world of a drunk Paris Hilton in full exhibitionist mode, QuickTiming across the screen in various stages of personal degradation. She’s very busy. Or at least she seems so, as she can’t even get off the cell phone long enough to respond to the ample plow of her pelvic…

Billy Manes

Ask Dr. Love

Learn the common-sense approach to parenting from a recognized pro: the one and only Courtney Love!* Dear Dr. Love: My 9-year-old has just been invited to her first slumber party. As a mother yourself, I’m sure you’ll sympathize when I wonder just where the years go! Anyway, while I’m excited about my Trisha getting to…

Steve Schneider

Slippery little devils

LaFayre Marie Banks, 32, was charged with assault and child abuse in Port Huron, Mich., in May after her 7-month-old baby fell from Banks’ second-story bathroom window, suffering severe head injuries. Banks told a police officer that she was bathing the child when “it reared up and went through the window.” And in Wetumpka, Ala.,…

Chuck Shepherd

Shot down in flames

Thanks to a strong organizational effort, on Nov. 14, city officials got what amounts — in Orlando terms — to a massive display of public concern regarding the USA PATRIOT Act. This humble columnist was not there to witness the event*, but one Jeffrey C. Billman did make it to City Hall in my stead.…

Bob Whitby

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