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Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2004

Sep 29 - Oct 5, 2004 / Vol. 20 / No. 39

Movie: Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things Length: 1 hour, 45 minutes Studio: ThinkFilm Website: http://www.brightyoungthingsthemovie.co.uk/ Release Date: 2004-10-01 Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Fenella Woolgar, Dan Aykroyd, James McAvoy Director: Stephen Fry Screenwriter: Stephen Fry WorkNameSort: Bright Young Things Our Rating: 3.00 Breezy and inconsistent, this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1930s novel Vile Bodies shows a reporter…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woman, Thou Art Loosed

Woman, Thou Art Loosed Length: 1 hour, 39 minutes Studio: Magnolia Pictures Website: http://www.womanthouartloosedthemovie.com/index.html Release Date: 2004-10-01 Cast: Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan, Michael Boatman, Clifton Powell Director: Michael Schultz Screenwriter: Stan Foster Music Score: T.D. Jakes WorkNameSort: Woman, Thou Art Loosed Our Rating: 2.00 An unabashed commercial for the ministry of evangelical Bishop…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Bright Young Things

Our Rating: 3.00 Breezy and inconsistent, this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1930s novel Vile Bodies shows a reporter (Stephen Campbell Moore) falling in with the young-and-rich set that’s joining the old guard in the social limelight. The symbiosis of news writers and newsmakers (or is it a parasitic relationship?) opens the door to mildly biting…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Ladder 49

Our Rating: 2.50 You have to marvel at the crass exploitation inherent in a movie that exists to show a bunch of firefighters in one life-threatening situation after another. It doesn’t help that, in terms of tone and focus, Ladder 49 plays like a pilot for a Fox drama series (but with bigger-name stars). The…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woman, Thou Art Loosed

Our Rating: 2.00 An unabashed commercial for the ministry of evangelical Bishop T.D. Jakes, this urban melodrama doesn’t miss a chance to interrupt its tragedy-surfeited narrative with scenes of Jakes proselytizing grandly from the pulpit. The rub is that his smooth oration proves at least as interesting as the actual plot, in which a death-row…

Orlando Weekly Staff

REFRESHING FALL BEVERAGE

Tea for kids that adults like, too! Bubble tea at Lollicup. The very thought reminds me of simpler days when I worried about such things as having tea parties with my stuffed animals. What is bubble tea? A drink invented in Taiwan in the early 1980s by pushcart tea vendors who competed for sales outside…

Orlando Weekly Staff

THE PORK SHANK REDEMPTION

From its old location in Altamonte Springs to the east Winter Park address it’s now occupied longer than many restaurants remain in business, Old Germany has been one of the most reliable contributors to greater Orlando’s selection of old-country cuisine. Regulars and Oktoberfest day-trippers alike know to rely on the place for authentic fare that…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Bright Young Things

Our Rating: 3.00 Breezy and inconsistent, this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1930s novel Vile Bodies shows a reporter (Stephen Campbell Moore) falling in with the young-and-rich set that’s joining the old guard in the social limelight. The symbiosis of news writers and newsmakers (or is it a parasitic relationship?) opens the door to mildly biting…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Ladder 49

Our Rating: 2.50 You have to marvel at the crass exploitation inherent in a movie that exists to show a bunch of firefighters in one life-threatening situation after another. It doesn’t help that, in terms of tone and focus, Ladder 49 plays like a pilot for a Fox drama series (but with bigger-name stars). The…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Bright Young Things

Our Rating: 3.00 Breezy and inconsistent, this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s 1930s novel Vile Bodies shows a reporter (Stephen Campbell Moore) falling in with the young-and-rich set that’s joining the old guard in the social limelight. The symbiosis of news writers and newsmakers (or is it a parasitic relationship?) opens the door to mildly biting…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woman, Thou Art Loosed

Our Rating: 2.00 An unabashed commercial for the ministry of evangelical Bishop T.D. Jakes, this urban melodrama doesn’t miss a chance to interrupt its tragedy-surfeited narrative with scenes of Jakes proselytizing grandly from the pulpit. The rub is that his smooth oration proves at least as interesting as the actual plot, in which a death-row…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Ladder 49

Our Rating: 2.50 You have to marvel at the crass exploitation inherent in a movie that exists to show a bunch of firefighters in one life-threatening situation after another. It doesn’t help that, in terms of tone and focus, Ladder 49 plays like a pilot for a Fox drama series (but with bigger-name stars). The…

Orlando Weekly Staff

Movie: Woman, Thou Art Loosed

Our Rating: 2.00 An unabashed commercial for the ministry of evangelical Bishop T.D. Jakes, this urban melodrama doesn’t miss a chance to interrupt its tragedy-surfeited narrative with scenes of Jakes proselytizing grandly from the pulpit. The rub is that his smooth oration proves at least as interesting as the actual plot, in which a death-row…

Orlando Weekly Staff

SHELTERED FROM THE STORM

The worst part of a hurricane is not the winds; it’s the waiting. As a Floridian, I’m accustomed to an active outdoor lifestyle; killing bugs, sneezing from pollen and sweating a lot. Instead, I’ve spent almost the entire summer cowering in a safe room. The inactivity has taken its toll; by the time Jeanne roiled…

Liz Randall

POOR, MISUNDERSTOOD MAITLAND

When talk turns to cities outside Orlando, Winter Park gets all the attention. Morse this, Rollins that – enough already. No wonder the city of Maitland has an inferiority complex, even though it was established before Winter Park. Where’s the respect for this seemingly bland suburb in north Orange County that was once called Fumecheliga…

Lindy T. Shepherd

FEAR AND LOATHING IN FLEA WORLD

By most accounts, the term “flea market” stems from the name of an 1860s Paris market, the marché aux puces, where rows of previously valuable wares were peddled with the inclusion of pesky dog biters. American ingenuity added the air of low-culture entertainment that decorates the weekend events, things like livestock, country music, funnel cake…

Billy Manes

GAMBLING, DRINKING, CARRYING ON

Perhaps one day Central Florida will take a page from Vegas’ playbook, ditch the family-friendly schmaltz, and start catering to people who’ve graduated from middle school and are looking for some serious fun that has nothing to do with talking rodentia. Now, you may say we’re dreamers, but we’re not the only ones. Look around…

Jeffrey C. Billman and Bob Whitby

LET THE UNIVERSE DO THE WORRYING

I’m somewhere on the outskirts of the Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, eager to test my thesis that a visit to this 110-year-old psychic conclave is the perfect antidote to a summer of high winds and higher anxiety. The way I see it, there’s no better balm than having one’s prospects divined by trained seers who live…

Steve Schneider

SPOOKY!

St. Augustine is the oldest city in North America, which means there’s a lot of historical crap to learn about there. But the really cool thing about being around so long is all the folks who died horrible, violent deaths there and have consequently decided to stick around and haunt the city. As we all…

Leigh de Armas

“A dream is a wish your mortgage makes”

Walt Disney Co.’s board of directors announced Tuesday it expects to name a successor to chief executive Michael Eisner no later than June, setting in motion a wide-ranging search while raising new questions about Eisner’s future in the company. Tuesday’s announcement laid out a clear timetable for the search, which will be conducted by an…

Steve Schneider

DOWN LIST ATTRACTIONS

Apparently, the Orlando area has a reputation as a top family travel destination, and folks from all over the world come here to spend days and weeks (and lots and lots of money) in pursuit of much-needed diversions. Yet, like New Yorkers who never go to the Statue of Liberty or Seattlites who can’t be…

Jason Ferguson

I ♥ JOHNNY

Even the most hardened barhopping barnacle requires the occasional nagging pull of a conscience to remind him/her why they pass out in the bottom of a bottle. And so I’m slightly chuffed to be assigning myself to an event that won’t involve shooters or sexpots: the Kerry and Edwards rally at the TD Waterhouse. I…

Billy Manes

FRAMING THE DEBATE

Somebody get George W. Bush an agent. Ever since Fahrenheit 9/11 became an overwhelming success at the box office, the president has played a leading (albeit unwilling) role in more movies than the Gipper. And with D.MAC, the Downtown Media Arts Center, launching a monthlong political film festival in October, we’ll be seeing a lot…

Aaron Sagers

REFRESHING FALL BEVERAGE

Tea for kids that adults like, too! Bubble tea at Lollicup. The very thought reminds me of simpler days when I worried about such things as having tea parties with my stuffed animals. What is bubble tea? A drink invented in Taiwan in the early 1980s by pushcart tea vendors who competed for sales outside…

Adrian J.S. Hale

DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

Front-running mediocre bands is as predictable a feature of the indie rock scene as the penchant for drab, colorless fashion. For all the claptrap about preferring esoteric visionaries that are shunned by the mainstream, large chunks of “indie” culture are as prone to being led around like livestock as the fitted-cap crowd at the local…

Chris Parker

COW TIPPING

Anyone who saw Minneapolis retard-rockers Cows in their heyday remembers former frontman Shannon Selberg. He was the guy walking around the bar before the show with mousetraps dangling from his ears, cigarette butts woven into his scraggly goatee and a deflated Little Oral Annie sex doll strapped to his back. Throughout Cows’ 14-year career, Selberg…

Micky Michalec

BUSH BY 45

Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series of poll updates on the Nov. 2 presidential election. As of Sept. 27, George W. Bush holds a 45-electoral vote lead, to go along with his statistically insignificant leads in the popular vote. According to the latest nonpartisan state polls, Democrat John F. Kerry is…

Alan Waldman

GO VOTE, THEN GO AWAY

Yay! It’s fall! That means we can go outside to play again because temperatures have dropped … to the 80s! Give me a break. It’s still too hot to do anything outside. That’s why you’ll find me in my house, like any sane person, cranking up the AC and shuffling through my Netflix queue. Fall…

Jessica Bryce Young

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