THEATER REVIEW
`Heiress' full of melodrama
There were moments during "The Heiress" when I expected to hear quavery organ music and an announcer's voice saying, "Tune in tomorrow for another episode of 'The Con Man Comes to Call.' " There's a s |
DVD brings Bilko back for another antic tour
Comic actor Phil Silvers had been kicking around in show business a long time by 1955. He had appeared in burlesque, won a Tony on Broadway in 1952 for "Top Banana," played second bananas in movies an |
THEME PARK RANGERS See history -for free
It's hard to top free, right? This weekend, there will be no admission charge at the Orange County Regional History Center. The "Free Community Weekend" is sponsored by Orlando Health and will run dur |
Special effects school out to become force at Star Wars convention
Fans going to Star Wars: Celebration V , the biggest Star Wars convention of them all, coming to Orlando Aug. 12-15, will have the chance to see and meet actors, such as Carrie "Princess Leia" Fis |
`Plain Jane' goes to extremes for makeovers
The new CW makeover show "Plain Jane" promises more than it could possibly deliver: Before our very eyes, a socially inept and fashion-challenged young woman will be transformed into an intoxi
cating |
THEME PARK RANGERS Spotted: Superheroes
The reality of Disney's acquisition of Marvel superheroes hit home on a weekend visit to a Downtown Disney store: It was the first time I had noticed a prominent display of comic-book characters mixed |
Robbins' `Breakthrough' helps families
Tony Robbins, the multimillionaire "Father of the Coaching Industry," to use his own phrase, has a reality show, "Breakthrough With Tony Robbins," premiering Tuesday on NBC. (The network describes the |
Avenged Sevenfold, `Nightmare'
The major labels may continue to wither, but they won't go out with
out a bang. After all, there's no other way to explain the recent promotional tie-in between the new Avenged Sevenfold track "Welco |
THEME PARK RANGERS Ripley book has local ties
The new book from Ripley Pub lishing includes a handful of Central Florida references. Among the mentions in Enter If You Dare! are: I UCF's drive to administer more than 2,500 flu shots in ei |
Goren on Bridge
This deal, from the 2009 Cavendish Invitational, features spectacular defense by East, Poland's Josef Piekarek. Had West started by leading his partner's suit, it would have required double-dummy play |
Dear Abby
Battle over parking spot
Dear Abby: Please settle something for me. As I was getting into my car, which was parked on the street, my cell phone rang with an important call. I took the call and wanted to finish the conversatio |
Building on ballet school's reputation is new chief's goal
Dierdre Miles Burger, a former principal of Boston Ballet School, takes over as director of the Orlando Ballet School this week with plans to update the wellknown school's curriculum. "The moment |
THEME PARK RANGERS
Garden gets horse haunt
dales' home in Orlando has a new role at SeaWorld. The new Sea Garden has taken over the area, and it will feature animal interaction - just not with the king-sized symbols of Anheuser-Busch, forme |
THEME PARK RANGERS Epcot cooks up pizzeria
Via Napoli, a pizzeria, is scheduled to officially open at Epcot on Aug. 5.
Here are a few things to expect: I The Neapolitan-style pizzas will come in individual, large and "1/2-meter" sizes. P |
`Letters' captures friendship, words of Kerouac, Ginsberg
"Howl" (1956) and "On the Road" (1957), two works that helped define a time, sprang from two wildly fired, independent imaginations. Few would have put Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac together when th |
