Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who think Jokl is talking about playing a few rounds of golf might want to drop in on the 1999 Senior Olympics, formally known as the National Senior Games, scheduled this year from Oct. 19 through 29 in Orlando, Fla. Begun a dozen years ago as a competition among 2,500 older athletes and played every other year since, the Senior Olympics has become a growing showcase for mature athletic talent. This year more than 12,000 men and women ages 50 or older--37 of them in their 90s--will compete in 18 sports from archery to volleyball...
...They appreciated getting to know me more personally," says Donna Summer, who detailed her battle with depression. And it doesn't hurt that fans express their appreciation with cash. Sales of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1977 Street Survivors more than doubled the week after its show premiered. In June, Tony Orlando took out a full-page ad in Variety to thank BTM for reviving his career...
Myrick, 35, a native Floridian from Sarasota, and Sanchez, 30, who hails from Maryland and attended Montgomery College there, met in 1990 while film students at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. A few years ago, Myrick says, "we got on the subject of old documentaries like In Search Of... and Chariot of the Gods and a 1972 feature called The Legend of Boggy Creek--all these pseudodocumentary programs that really creeped us out when we were kids. Later on, we came up with the premise of the three filmmakers' getting lost in the woods. Our movie would...
...that's stretching synergy. But everything has worked so far for the good-guy directors, who sounded most excited about a wager they'd just collected on. They'd bet Artisan that if Blair Witch did $10 million, they'd get a new Foosball table. It arrived in Orlando this week...
Thousands of sports fans jammed the streets of Cooperstown, N.Y., a sleepy lakeside village (pop. 2,200) in the foothills of the Catskills, to watch as George Brett, Orlando Cepeda, Nolan Ryan and Robin Yount were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But there was another all-star team playing in Cooperstown that weekend: eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite...