morning roundup
Happy hangover Friday, everyone. Let’s get started. Troy Victorino sentenced to death. Who’da thunk it? At the risk of sounding boastful, we totally ran the best story on this guy and this crime to date, written by Elizabeth Randall. Here it is. If the Sentinel’s take of the trial is true (I didn’t make it…
Jet Li’s Fearless
Jet Li’s Fearless Length: Single Studio: Rogue Pictures Rated: PG-13 Website: http://www.jetlisfearless.com/ Release Date: 2006-09-22 Cast: Jet Li, Betty Sun, Dong Yong, Shido Nakamura, Collin Chou Director: Ronnie Yu Screenwriter: Christine To, Chris Chow Music Score: Shigeru Umebayashi WorkNameSort: Jet Li’s Fearless Our Rating: 3.50 Touted as his last foray into martial-arts movies, Fearless finds…
Confetti
Confetti Length: Single Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Rated: R Website: http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/confetti/ Release Date: 2006-09-15 Cast: Martin Freeman, Jessica Stevenson, Jimmy Carr, Alison Steadman, Felicity Montagu Director: Debbie Isitt Screenwriter: Debbie Isitt Music Score: Paul Englishby, Sophie Sheen WorkNameSort: Confetti Our Rating: 3.00 More beholden to The Office than Spinal Tap, British mockumentary…
Haven
Haven Length: Single Studio: Freestyle Releasing , Yari Film Group Rated: R Website: http://www.havenmovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-09-15 Cast: Victor Rasuk, Anthony Mackie, Bill Paxton, Orlando Bloom, Razaaq Adoti Director: Frank Flowers Screenwriter: Frank Flowers Music Score: Heitor Pereira WorkNameSort: Haven Our Rating: 2.00 A tropical thriller set in the Cayman Islands, Haven wants you to…
Flyboys
Flyboys Length: Single Studio: MGM Distribution Company Rated: PG-13 Release Date: 2006-09-22 Cast: James Franco, Jean Reno, David Ellison, Martin Henderson, Jennifer Decker Director: Tony Bill Screenwriter: Blake T. Evans, David S. Ward, Phil Sears Music Score: David Arnold WorkNameSort: Flyboys Our Rating: 1.00 For a while, Flyboys is just mindless, unintentional hilarity. There’s not…
A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box
A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box Label: Rhino Media: CD Format: BoxSet WorkNameSort: Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box, A Knowing that middle- and high-school hallways are filled with ‘goth kidsâ?� far creepier than those who roamed the same halls five, 10 or even 20 years ago, one would hope that a boxed set…
The Singles, Volume 1: The Federal Years 1956-1960
The Singles, Volume 1: The Federal Years 1956-1960 Label: Hip-O Select Media: CD Format: Compilation WorkNameSort: Singles, Volume 1: The Federal Years 1956-1960, The Fifty years after the release of James Brown’s first single ‘ ‘Please, Please, Pleaseâ?� ‘ the archivists at Hip-O Select have released the first in a series of limited edition double-disc…
Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party
Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party Label: Alternative Tentacles Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party Blowfly’s 30-plus year career has focused on many areas (mainly women’s erogenous zones), but not once has the original nasty rapper set his sights on punk music ‘ until now. On Blowfly’s Punk Rock Party, Blowfly (aka…
Dance Away the Terror
Dance Away the Terror Label: Park the Van Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Dance Away the Terror In another serving of lavishly styled ’60s pop and sinister, piano-aided drug rock, the Capitol Years’ Dance Away the Terror doesn’t bark with the frequent volatility that 2005’s Let Them Drink did. Aside from Dance’s occasional…
Forecast: Tomorrow
Forecast: Tomorrow Label: Legacy Length: LP Media: CD Format: Album WorkNameSort: Forecast: Tomorrow Remember fusion, or (its more correct name) jazz-rock? Though typically lambasted by dullard critics as masturbatory music for improvisational blowhards, fusion ‘ when judged against today’s shrunken jazz market ‘ appears a golden moment of unbridled musical radicalism. Bassist Jaco Pastorius called…
NOCTURNAL CONFESSIONS
The lost art of Dick Cavett
LIQUID LOSER
Factotum Length: Single Studio: IFC Films Rated: R Website: http://www.factotummovie.com/ Release Date: 2006-08-18 Cast: Matt Dillon, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Didier Flamand, Karen Young Director: Bent Hamer Screenwriter: Charles Bukowski, Bent Hamer, Jim Stark Music Score: Kristin Asbjornsen WorkNameSort: Factotum Our Rating: 2.00 With Barfly, Barbet Schroeder did the only smart thing anyone could do…
All the King’s Men
All the King’s Men Length: Single Studio: Sony Pictures Rated: PG-13 Release Date: 2006-09-22 Cast: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Hopkins Director: Steven Zaillian Screenwriter: Steven Zaillian, Robert Penn Warren WorkNameSort: All the King’s Men Our Rating: 3.50 For this second adaptation of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winner All the King’s Men,…
I LOVE TELEVISION
;Well … well … WELL. What have we here? Guess who came crawling back — just like I predicted. Just couldn’t stay away, could you? And now here you are, begging for a second chance. Well … go ahead. BEG! Get down on your filthy hands and knees and BEG me to take you back.…
HAPPYTOWN
Is Charlie Crist gay? No, of course not. He’s a Republican candidate for governor. In Florida. Republicans don’t elect Marys in this state. They won’t even elect those suspected of Maryhood; go ask U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, whose 2004 United States Senate campaign was derailed by a report that he was a flamer. Sure, Charlie’s…
WHY THE OIA SCREENERS HATE THEIR JOBS
;Editor’s note: Back in the misty recesses of time, this paper featured a news/;media/current events column called “Slug.” It was erudite, critically acclaimed and penned by brilliant writers who embodied the best hope of their respective generations. It was all things to all people, and its passing was mourned by at least one person that…
POLICE BEAT
Sept. 8, 8:50 P.M.: Officer Little was dispatched to the 3200 block of East Colonial Drive in reference to a stolen vehicle. The officer met with our 41-year-old victim, who stated that just after 8 p.m. he walked to the back of the Circuit City where he’d parked his black 2003 Kawasaki Ninja. It was…
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
;Carrying on ;; Just after the Aug. 10 restrictions were imposed, British Airways refused to allow disabled New Zealand runner Kate Horan (on her way to the Paralympics world championships in the Netherlands) to carry on her prosthetic leg, as she had long been allowed to do. Her checked-baggage leg was then lost in the…
LETTERS
Atheists are people too Two words: Thank you `”Atheists among us,” Sept. 14`. As an atheist, I’m tired of the never-ending assessment of the person I must be due to my lack of belief in a Biblical entity. We are not without ethics, morals and many of the other oh-so-“vital” attributes required by Christians to…
SELECTIONS
;Thursday•21 ;Symbiotic Relationships Tucked away on the first floor of Orlando City Hall in what’s called the Terrace Gallery is a new show of seven notable local artists/professors who aren’t native to this country: Hadi Abbas and Jagdish Chavda (UCF); Abraham Gebremichael and Rima Jabbur (VCC); and Peter Schreyer, Rigoberto Torres and Camilo Velásquez (Crealdé…
THE GALL OF THE GAULS
;When the Dead Kennedys railed on drunken idiocy 25 years ago, it’s doubtful that guitarist East Bay Ray thought his surf-ridden punk licks would someday resurface in the cool, comforting shade of bossa nova. In 2004, a couple of French producers calling themselves Nouvelle Vague accomplished just that. On their self-titled debut, Nouvelle Vague transferred…
NASTY GIRLS
There’s little lost in translation when it comes to São Paulo exports Cansei de Ser Sexy. Less a band than an itchy flare-up, the Brazilian sextet (five girls for every guy!) has somehow in the past three years gone from an art-basement fashion diversion all the way to a full-on hip-list infection. Their self-titled U.S.…
DIGGIN’ THE DEMON
The origins of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, are shrouded in mystery and legend. It is unlikely that the famous murderer was ever a real person, as his supposed historical roots have been traced variously to 18th-century London, 17th-century Scotland and even 14th-century France. What is known for certain is that his…
NOT SO HAPPY ENDINGS
Orlando-UCF Shakespeare opens its new season with a spectacular, complex and challenging production of Stephen Sondheim’s symbolic pseudo-fairy tale, Into the Woods. The woods are wild, but that’s where we must venture to grow and find answers. The story begins with the stereotypical quests that fill Mother Goose and Le Morte D’Arthur. A curse dooms…
IF WE BUILD IT, WILL ANYONE CARE?
;For the second time in five years, Amway billionaire Rich DeVos has his hand out. As in 2000-2001, the Orlando Magic owner is demanding that we build his team a new arena. If we don’t, he’ll bolt for friendlier terrain; perhaps Kansas City, Mo., which is building a new arena without a team to play…
PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
Amidst the bustling bodies, droning overhead announcements and hurried goodbyes at a Chicago airport, Alexandra Sarton could only hear her own voice repeating itself: “They can’t leave.” Amidst the bustling bodies, droning overhead announcements and hurried goodbyes at a Chicago airport, Alexandra Sarton could only hear her own voice repeating itself: “They can’t leave.” It…
BLISTER
I’m bringing sexy back, or at least dragging my be-suited sexy backside across a limousine wet bar, (thereby desanitizing it) to the bumping bleat of Justin Timberlake, and for a moment I’m taken with just how expensively ridiculous my situation has become. Somehow, in a fit of drunken political reverie at the Peacock Room last…
SAVAGE LOVE
;I’d love to hear you weigh in on the case of Jason Fortuny, the person who posted an ad on Craigslist posing as a woman looking for a dom male, and then posted all of the responses, including the pictures some men sent him. As a person who receives voluminous amounts of damaging and embarrassing…
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
ARIES Go against the flow. Buck the system. Entertain the possibility that everything you know is at least half-wrong. Do you catch my drift? What I’m trying to tell you is, champion the underdog. Ignore the obvious. Disprove the conventional wisdom. Bet on the dark horse. Be a devil’s advocate. Shall I continue my rant…
