Reel awareness heads south
Yes, there’s a film festival going on this weekend in Kissimmee. And if the idea seems patently ludicrous to you, please conduct this experiment. Hop the next plane from OIA to Los Angeles. Tell the first person you see when you arrive that you’re from Orlando, “Hollywood East.” Now whip out a pocket watch and…
Top dog
Movie: Best in Show
Well rounded
Movie: CyberWorld
Deviled spam
Movie: Lost Souls
Top dog
Movie: Best in Show
Well rounded
Movie: CyberWorld
Deviled spam
Movie: Lost Souls
Mild medicine
Movie: Dr. T and the Women
Ride a dark horse
Movie: The Contender
House hold
Thai restaurants and restaurants serving Thai food are not an oddity in Orlando, and everyone seems to have their favorite. I must admit that I never counted Thai House on East Colonial as one of mine. But by moving two doors down, they’ve reinvented themselves and given me an excuse to take another look, and…
Semi-tough
Movie: Get Carter
Mild medicine
Movie: Dr. T and the Women
Ride a dark horse
Movie: The Contender
Semi-tough
Movie: Get Carter
Plaintiff as the nose on her face
A New York appeals court ruled in July that a 53-year-old plastic-surgery patient who had undergone 12 operations in seven years could sue her doctor for malpractice — despite having consented to all of the procedures — because she may suffer from the mental disorder that causes a person to think his or her body…
A growing division
Dressed in a white T-shirt and blue pajama pants, Tim Moriarty — licensed massage therapist, natural healer and reiki master — is standing at his 1,200-square-foot wheat-grass garden. “This is how it’s supposed to be done,” he says in a reflective tone. He scoops up a handful of jet-black dirt and thoughtfully explains how the…
Runaway train
Chalk one up for idealism over practicality. To everyone’s surprise, the state Supreme Court this week approved the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment that would force Florida to built a high-speed rail network by 2003. A nice idea, but it lacks necessary specifics. It doesn’t, for instance, detail what type of line will be…
Alleviating Payne
Orlando’s most radical disc jockey, Junior Payne `Rebel without a pause, Aug. 31`, has stepped down as head of pirate radio station 95Live (95.9-FM) after a disagreement with his business partner over control of the three-year-old underground hip-hop station. Payne, whose stage name is NSX, decided to quit the station last Monday and take his…
Better schools? Do the math
Back in his day, George W. Bush’s dad wanted to be the “education president.” In 1989, President Bush, along with the nation’s governors, set forth six educational objectives for the year 2000, correctly recognizing that “fixing” education was our highest domestic priority. The elder Bush’s vision, titled “Goals 2000,” contained the following laudable aims: by…
Letting go of yourself
There’s a scene in the dark suburban ’70s chiller “The Stepford Wives” where the only sentient women in town try to get the title characters interested in starting a women’s group to counter the Men’s Association. One by one they approach their neighbors, who just turn their pretty little heads and blithely insist they have…
Here comes the judge … plus one
Last Monday at the Veranda Bed & Breakfast Inn, trophies were handed out in the Lillie Stoates Awards, the third annual salute to local theatrical excellence. The winners — including Jim Helsinger, named Best Actor in a Play for his lead role in the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde”…
Beach trippin’
Like pop songs and catch phrases, artwork often suffers from overkill. Between posters, greeting cards, screen savers and even bedspreads, too much of a good thing can definitely make it bad. Salvador Dali could very well be one of those artists. You “discover” Dali, a print goes up in your room, you think about surrealism,…
