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Coming Soon to Your TV: Even More Billy Mays!new

Soon you'll find Mays and his business partner Anthony Sullivan gesticulating their way into the world of reality television with an inventing showcase called Pitchmen, due to air next spring. Can Billy Mays get any more in-your-face? You bet he can.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  10-17-2008  |  TV

Orlando Wants to Resurrect 'Hollywood East'new

In its heyday, Hollywood East was supposed to turn our tourist-trap burg into a anchor of the film production world. Today, however, Central Florida suffers the humiliation of straight-to-DVD sequel infamy, reality television and commercials. Orlando is now trying to position itself as a real entertainment Mecca, but not so much as a place where artistic integrity reigns.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  02-19-2008  |  Movies

'Prince of Peace — God of War' Asks Why Christians Support Warnew

While it may seem a distant, simple -- even annoying -- feast of hypothetical subject matter, the underlying question may be an open door into the religious right's base politics. Have they skipped Jesus and leapt straight to the Crusades?
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-27-2007  |  Reviews

'Election Day' Eschews the Conspiratorial for the Obviousnew

Katy Chevigny's enlightening documentary eschews the pretensions of voter-fraud overstatement in favor of a real-time portrait of actual poll-station shenanigans.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-27-2007  |  Reviews

Jesus TVnew

Orlando's new starring role in the gospel of prosperity.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  07-17-2007  |  TV

The Story of James Beveridgenew

Beveridge's The Idealist sets its observational sights on something resonant: the discovery of her own neglectful father by following the trails of film and travel that he left behind.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  09-15-2006  |  Reviews

Openly Insecurenew

This film gives us a pudgy and plain mound of sexual awkwardness in the body a 12-year-old, who is convinced that is he is the cosmic double of a ponytailed, space-hopping TV femme fatale.
Orlando Weekly  |  Billy Manes  |  08-17-2006  |  Reviews

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