Red scare
“I tell all my friends that this is my favorite job since ‘Taxi,'” glibs one pinched Marilu Henner, bragging on her next second-tier moment while standing at the front of Church Street Station’s ornate Cheyenne Saloon. Cast in the touring production of “Annie Get Your Gun,” Marilu is here at a loosely Western-themed cocktail-and-weenie hour…
Have her home by midnight, you punk
Movie: Meet the Parents
Creepy crush sufferer is a friend for life
Movie: Chuck & Buck
Have her home by midnight, you punk
Movie: Meet the Parents
Creepy crush sufferer is a friend for life
Movie: Chuck & Buck
Finishing outside the medals
There it sat, disconsolate and unheralded, all at sea at the end of a Sydney wharf. The Florida World Pavilion, grandiosely named, and even more grandiosely sited on the harbor foreshore, has, alas, proved something of an also ran in the great Olympic contest of Making an Impression. Set up to promote the tourist and…
Paying no respect
Shame on you! Shame on you!” Though 80 or so farmworker advocates had been marching and chanting for almost an hour, their voices rose in intensity at the sight of their enemy — the dozen people who had wandered out of an agribusiness-sponsored labor-relations forum Sept. 28 at the Holiday Inn on International Drive. Being…
The outsider
Vicki Vargo is quickly making a name for herself as an independent voice on the Orlando City Council, a governing body that has traditionally had a toe-the-line mentality. In the past, commissioners often spoke against an issue but still voted in favor of it. Not Vargo. At the Sept. 25 council meeting, she cast two…
A most-wanted attorney
As the afternoon sun wanes, F. Lee Bailey squints his light-blue eyes and peers from his back yard onto the dazzling Intracoastal Waterway. Seeing him there in his trademark cowboy boots, you understand why he is often described as a legal lion. A short, potbellied man with a large, gray, Irish head, he is a…
Eye of the beholder
Many people might think this has been a dramatic TV season. It’s true that world-class athleticism and campaigns for someone to run the country are dramatic, but really, anybody can make a mountain out of a mountain. What I really miss are high-drama, made-for-TV movies based on a disorder, syndrome or complex recently discovered by…
The lessons of history
Questions are bound to surround the $35 million Orange County Regional History Center, whose arrival last weekend in the old Orange County Courthouse building was the latest attempt to bring culture downtown. Is it worth the cost? Will the predicted 75,000 first-year visitors show up? Is it more educational than, say, happy hour at Scruffy…
