Summer Movie Preview: Warm up the popper
2008 box office returns have been dismal, but five weekends might be able to pump up the receipts
By Roger Moore The Orlando Sentinel
With movies tanking at the box office, the ever-optimistic studios are banking on summer even more than usual. There are five benchmark weekends coming our way, dates with huge movies on them. Everything is riding on them. Will the films be good enough to get people away from their HDTVs? Check out our Summer Movie Guide for details on what's coming our way this season.
'Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse': life lessons and a lot of fun
I've seen a lot of shows about a lot of things, but a show about quality, enchanted handbags owned by mice who like to pretend they are royalty is a new one.
'Speed Racer': Bright, fun, mildly edgy
”Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer. He's a demon on wheels.“ Well, a PG-rated demon, anyway. The Wachowski brothers dived into the Chocolate Factory for this hunk of eye candy. Their homage to the violent, dopey, under-animated yet oh-so-fondly-remembered 1960s Japanese children's cartoon is a loving one, not nearly the 27-car pile-up one might have feared. It just takes too long to get us to the checkered flag.
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In the Drink: Chevy Chase Inn: Unpretentious, generous slice of life
After hanging out at Chevy Chase Inn — or diminutively, CCI — I question the inevitable comparison with the show Cheers because Hollywood rarely captures the unpretentiousness, the spontaneous irony, the unscripted wit, the long history, the warm oddity and utter curiousness of Lexington's beloved, and surprisingly undiscovered, 75-year-old watering hole.
CKYO Mother's Day concert
The Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras are celebrating their 60th anniversary this weekend. For this momentous occasion, CKYO is throwing a gala at Keeneland Race Course, and on Mother's Day, a concert at the University of Kentucky Singletary Center for the Arts.
Social Seen: Headley-Whitney Brunch and Bibelots
The invitation handed to me by my colleague, Beverly Fortune, said Marylou Whitney and the board of directors of the Headley-Whitney Museum was inviting me to Brunch and Bibelots, a benefit for the museum's expansion program. Oh, dahling ... I couldn't wait.
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