Movie: Barbershop
Barbershop Studio: MGM Website: http://www.mgm.com/barbershop/ Release Date: 2002-09-13 Cast: Ice Cube, Eve, Anthony Anderson,, Cedric the Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas Director: Tim Story Screenwriter: Mark Brown, Marshall Todd, Don D. Scott WorkNameSort: Barbershop Our Rating: 3.50 For a guy who has been accused of propagating every antisocial attitude in the book, Ice Cube’s film career…
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Movie: One Hour Photo
Movie: Barbershop
Our Rating: 3.50 For a guy who has been accused of propagating every antisocial attitude in the book, Ice Cube’s film career has included moments of remarkable humanism. Take his directorial debut, “The Players Club,” which depicted with great sympathy one woman’s struggle for economic emancipation. The ice man’s heart is at its warmest in…
Indecent exposures
Movie: One Hour Photo
Thicker Than Water
Blood is thicker than water … unless you are part of the Williams country-music lineage. A celebrated history of inebriated tears in beers and rowdy friends comin’ over has instilled a shaky-handed ethic of rebellion in the “Family Tradition.” It’s one ethic not lost on its latest spawn, Hank Williams III, who, on the phone…
Wondrous waffle is no pretender
Orlando is known for innovation and discovery. A center of theme park technology, we are now blessed with another ground-breaking advance: a previously unknown Belgian waffle. National Geographic may be nipping at the heels of Jacky’s Belgian Waffles up in the food court at Orlando Fashion Square Mall (3201 E. Colonial Drive, Orlando; 407-898-4711), but…
3AE singer dies in car crash
Christopher Rice, the 29-year-old vocalist for the recently formed rock band 3AE, died Sept. 6 in an early-morning, single-car accident on Old Cheney Road. According to a traffic report, Rice’s 1993 Honda was speeding eastbound when the car spun out of control and struck a utility pole, throwing him through the windshield. Emergency technicians declared…
Artistic cash grab
Art groups will learn Sept. 26 who will land $475,000 worth of cultural tourism grants, the first-ever art subsidies handed out by Orange County government. Twenty-four groups put in for $1.65 million from the county’s Arts and Cultural Affairs office, meaning there will be more than a few disappointed faces when the awards are announced.…
Forty years in a dress
I can’t do this forever. Seriously. Bitch-lipped mockery of the seldom seen isn’t the sort of fare that screams “shelf life,” after all. But maybe I’m wrong. Barry Humphries, a straight dad — and Australian landscape artist — has been pulling his Dame Edna Everage schtick since 1955, gracefully offending everybody, and traveling the world…
Pounding the pavement
During the last four months, an unidentified motorist in a maroon Volvo has been reported by construction workers in the California cities of Fremont, Hayward, Brentwood and Dublin to have approached them and requested that they fill his car with concrete or hot asphalt. An employee of Independent Construction in Concord, Calif., honored the request…
We gotta get out of this place
APPLICATION FOR SCHOOL VOUCHER Name: John Henry Hahn Age: 13 Current school: Jubilation T. Cornpone Middle School, Orlando, FL Request transfer to: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Reason(s) for request: Um, my school has like, totally failed to keep pace with my educational needs, or something. At least that’s what the state says, because they hit…
Frustration and loathing on the campaign trail
It’s wet-neck, soaked-shirt hot inside the Cocoa Beach Pier Restaurant. Either the air conditioner isn’t up to snuff or there are just too many bodies crammed into the dining room. Of course, 200 Republicans in full flag-waving, patriotic frenzy can heat up a place quickly. Make that 200 Republicans, one unreconstructed Vermont liberal accompanying his…
