FEATURES
By Michael Sragow and Michael Sragow,Sun Movie Critic | November 23, 2007
Finding the fresh response in obvious situations has become a specialty for Amy Adams - never more so than in Enchanted, in which she plays a fairy-tale beauty named Giselle who tumbles down a well in the magic kingdom of Andalasia and ends up peering out from a manhole in Times Square. Over the phone from Manhattan, Adams says that when she read the Enchanted script she saw that "it was a different incarnation of the classic fish-out-of-water story, the way it was told." The character of Giselle revved up her comic engine.
NEWS
By Sandy Alexander and Sandy Alexander,SUN STAFF | August 18, 2004
Cinderella's pumpkin coach, which carried children through the now-defunct Enchanted Forest theme park in Ellicott City for 20 years, will soon make a final journey to a new home at a Howard County farm. The bright-orange fiberglass pumpkin on wheels deteriorated for nearly a decade after the storybook-themed park closed for good in 1994. But in May, it was refurbished by volunteers, auctioned for charity and trucked to the garage of its present owners in Middle River. Now business partners Scott Shepherd and Elby Proffitt believe they have found a better home for the coach at Clark's Elioak Farm, which offers a petting farm, pumpkin patch, hayrides and other family activities along Route 108 in Ellicott City.
FEATURES
By Michael Sragow and Michael Sragow,Sun Movie Critic | November 21, 2007
Enchanted will make some enchanted evening for the dating crowd and also be a boisterous Saturday matinee for youngsters. This tale of fairy-tale characters who tumble down a well in the storybook land of Andalasia and come rocketing up a manhole in New York's Times Square has a piquant idea and enough good jokes to overcome its uneven moviemaking and uncertain tone. Best of all, it has Amy Adams as the gorgeous maiden Giselle - and she carries the film gracefully and uproariously on her creamy shoulders.
NEWS
By Frank D. Roylance and Frank D. Roylance,SUN STAFF | April 11, 2005
It wasn't always clear yesterday whether Cinderella's pumpkin coach was a bigger hit with the little kids poking their heads through its windows, or with their parents - flush with their own childhood memories of Howard County's vanished Enchanted Forest amusement park. The orange coach, now installed at Clark's Elioak Farm in Ellicott City, along with Mother Goose and three teams of gigantic white mice, triggered a flood of memories among many grown-up "children" who visited yesterday as the park's artifacts began their new life at the farm.
NEWS
January 14, 2001
LIFE ISN'T always glamorous. Few of us look like Brad Pitt, live in mansions like Bill Gates, dance like Michael Jackson. Instead, we do whatever it takes to get the job done. That's the story of the Baltimore Ravens, too. Hard working. Unheralded. Not the smoothest or the most talented. But this football team wins games. "Winning ugly" is the term. A grind-it-out running attack. Blocked field goals. Punts returned for touchdowns. A smothering run defense. The media glorify teams with high-scoring offenses and marquee quarterbacks.
NEWS
By MARY JOHNSON and MARY JOHNSON,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | November 18, 2005
Anne Arundel Community College's Moonlight Troupers tackle Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific - with some success - in a run that ends Sunday at the Pascal Center for Performing Arts. The 1949 musical originally starred Mary Martin and the Metropolitan Opera's Ezio Pinza. Based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, it is set on a small island during World War II where homesick servicemen wait to enter the battle against the Japanese. South Pacific features parallel love stories, both dealing with racial prejudice.