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...Avalon--(formerly CITI). Call 931-2000. On Saturday at 7 p.m.: Hoodoo Gurus. 19 and over. Tickets are $15.50 in advance and $16.50 at the door. On Wednesday at 8 p.m.: L.A. Guns. 19 and over. Tickets are $15.50 in advance and $17.50 at the door...
...imagination can play more freely with a toy. Besides, people like to think their world is somehow more grown up than Papa's was." Now architect Andres Duany wants to bring a residential equivalent of Main Street to eastern Orange County. His proposal is named Avalon Park, a 9,400-acre community made up of compact neighborhoods with convivial squares. Like Disney World, Avalon would be strollable and full of shops and parks, and like Disney World, it would be built in the middle of nowhere. In nearby Osceola County, Disney is getting into the business of residential utopias, harking...
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...obscurity, to make something grand, even epic out of their lives. Barry Levinson, whose most recent films have been notable commercial successes (Good Morning, Vietnam; Rain Man), has been widely praised by reviewers for attempting a movie that tries to make something instructive out of his family's past. Avalon, which Levinson directed and wrote, is a handsome and conscientiously made film, tracing the modest fortunes and misfortunes of the Krichinskys, an extended family of Jewish immigrants in Baltimore, over some 50 years...
...AVALON. If gemutlichkeit were a Yiddish word, it would describe the tone that writer-director Barry Levinson aims for in this bustling memoir of his immigrant grandparents in Baltimore. But the family portrait is too soft- focus, and the residue is schmaltz...