Judd Apatow tries not to think of what became of Sam and Lindsay Weir, Neal Schweiber, Bill Haverchuck, Daniel Desario, Nick Andopolis and the other freaks and geeks Apatow knew back at McKinley High School. Those kids were his family, the children born when Apatow and writer Paul Feig created…
Oscar Wilde, that astute observer of the late Nineteenth Century, said that controversy reveals a favorable condition for change. It’s applicable to the recent debate among artists, critics, and the curious over some negative reviews of the exhibition “Skins,” at the Dorsch Gallery. Because of the very diverse yet interconnected…
Pity the poor classic-film lover. All of the great films have been seen, over and over. The only thrill left is to imagine what it might be like to see Citizen Kane or The Seven Samurai or Children of Paradise for the first time. If that’s your wish, you’re in…
What could be more fashionable than South Beach? Anything, apparently. Despite the tireless efforts of tourism types, the one-time hotspot for the international fabulatti is losing its luster fast. The models, designers, celebrities, paparazzi, and assorted oily hangers-on who at one time descended in droves to the unseemly island are…
A breathless Rick Sanchez flop-sweating into the camera as he delivers another compelling report. A sober Sally Fitz earnestly stumbling over simple words and becoming the, er, butt of local urban legend. The snarky duo of Belkys Nerey and Lynn Martinez smart-alecking their way through another frothy installment of Deco…
Far too often, those who work in the music industry are so concerned with making a living they often forget they’re capable, at their best, of making history as well. They sacrifice art and artists in the name of commerce, then sleep soundly wrapped in bedspreads made of silk and…
This is not a common subject for the stage, screen, or most anyplace else. But Cuillo Centre for the Arts’ current production, Menopause: The Musical, is a cabaret-style musical about what feminist Gail Sheehy termed “the Silent Passage” and what aunts, mothers, and grandmothers for generations have referred to in…
After nearly a decade’s absence from the big screen, Suture auteurs Scott McGehee and David Siegel finally deliver a second feature with The Deep End, an exciting, sharply realized melodramatic film noir, based on Elizabeth Sanxay Holding’s novel The Blank Wall, which also was the source for the 1949 Max…
Ocean Drive’s splendid streamline moderne Cardozo Hotel radiant from the sparkling sandy beach. Tony shopping haven Lincoln Road, its abundant storefronts creating desire in all who stroll by. The spectacular pool area at the fabulous Fifties-style Fontainebleau Hotel, a sunny pit stop where the wealthy bask and splash. All sites…
This Monday night is like most others for several local members of the National Scrabble Association (NSA). Sequestered in the adult-activities room at a Coral Gables youth complex, they huddle around their boards, playing Hasbro’s more than 50-year-old game of letters. They bluff, challenge, manage their racks of tiles, construct…
Chances are the woman sitting next to you has been raped: One out of three women in the United States are sexually assaulted by age eighteen. Of all rape cases that are prosecuted, only two percent result in conviction. The average rapist rapes 29 times. These are all statistics that…
There is something fairly amusing about this title, Apocalypse Now Redux. Think about it: Prophetic Disclosure Presently Shows Up Again Newfangled. Of course in the ten years since the release of the documentary Hearts of Darkness, we’ve been taught to revere the legend of Francis Ford Coppola walking the line…
Astroll along the Miami River one recent Sunday evening didn’t seem particularly promising. The rains had subsided, the river flowed calmly, nothing much disturbed the slumber of a rusting freighter slouched along the north bank. Over at Tobacco Road, the regulars were huddled over beers, largely ignoring a boxing match…
A little boy lolls on a picnic table in Elizabeth Virrick Park in the West Grove. Barely shaded by fluttering oak leaves, he waits patiently to shrug off summer’s high-noon heat, tantalized by the swimming pool’s cool salve of shiny lapping blue liquid. The dusty air is a little sour…
Judging by the plots of Julie Davis’s last two independent films (I Love You, Don’t Touch Me! and Amy’s Orgasm), it’s clear that the Miami-reared movie director/producer/writer/editor/actress believes wholeheartedly in finding that special someone, that perfect person, that ultimate counterpart known commonly as The One. Actor/writer Dan Bucatinsky, her friend…
It’s not every day that a play about death resuscitates the English language. The word wit as a noun has all but vanished from the English language only to be replaced by the shallower derivative, the adjective witty — a witty joke, a witty game show host, a witty comment…
Ten years ago, Robert Harris picked up the phone to find on the other end a relative stranger bearing extraordinary news. This man was at a film exchange in Toronto, where movies are housed and rented out to exhibitors, and he was holding in his hands canisters of film containing…
During this cinematic Summer of Dumb, it would be all too easy to celebrate half-assed cleverness as a virtue, especially when proffered by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, who elevated the gross-out to an art form (or, more likely, fart form) in Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary. Osmosis Jones, one…
They met in the early Sixties quite casually at a guesthouse in Saint Maarten. Both were at the bar by the pool. He had no idea it was her, but he recalls: “First words out of her mouth were: “A round of drinks on me, and don’t bother putting mine…
Lucrece Louisdhon-Louinis is surrounded by stories. They brought her to this country and have taken her around the world. nightstories as if they are past lovers: She knows them intimately but is not blinded by their faults. There’s Ti Malice, whom she describes as the Br’er Rabbit of Haitian folktales:…
Festering somewhere between an Afterschool Special and kiddie porn lies this frank but heinously melodramatic open wound from veteran Canadian director Léa Pool (Emporte-moi). Adapted by screenwriter Judith Thompson from the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan, Lost and Delirious is about girl joy and girl sorrow, girl…
Sharks seem to be constantly in the news, which means dolphin are getting short shrift. Not for long, though. This weekend kicks off the eighth annual Original Florida Keys Ladies Dolphin Tournament, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Key Largo to benefit youth and educational programs. More than 150 women…
