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...club to the Model Russian UN. Bouncing from project to project with an air of confidence and disarming maturity, Max truly defies description--he's the epitome of the teenager who stands out from the crowd and is darn proud to do so. The other great character is Herman Blume (Bill Murray), a burnt-out, self-loathing steel tycoon, who has both succeeded tremendously and failed miserably at life. Hiding behind his fancy suits and well-trimmed mustache, Blume also defies easy categorization, acting like an incorrigible child as often as he acts like a respectable businessman...
Beyond that, you have to thank all concerned for giving that great minimalist, Bill Murray, his first good role since 1993's Groundhog Day. It's oxymoronically difficult to get laughs out of clinical depression, but as Blume, an industrialist driven to despair by his wealth, his wife and his ghastly children, Murray does it brilliantly. He's also the perfect foil for endlessly up-and-doing Max, who is, perhaps, everything Blume once was, all that he can no longer be. Their eccentricities speak to one another--until they both fall in love with pretty, wistful Miss Cross (Olivia...
Expelled from school--you can't expect him to keep his grades up with all those extracurriculars nagging at him--Max goes ballistically obsessive in his passion for the teacher. And his friendship with Blume turns into a nasty, near murderous rivalry. Suddenly Max is no longer quite as adorable as we thought he was. And an often deft, frequently droll little movie turns into an increasingly desperate juggling act, first trying to keep too many dark and weighty emotional objects aloft, then trying to bring them back to hand in a graceful and satisfying way. The goodwill Rushmore...
According to Assistant Senior Tutor and Lowell House Fellowship Adviser Andrew C. Blume, the first committee is made up of fellowship advisers from each house. Based on standards set forth by the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarship committees, the advisers decide whether the applications deserve endorsement...
...harder to counsel their kids on sex. Cathy Wolf, 29, of North Wales, Pa., says she grew up learning about sex largely from her friends and from reading controversial books. Open-minded and proactive, she says she has returned to a book she once sought out for advice, Judy Blume's novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, and is reading it to her two boys, 8 and 11. The novel discusses the awkwardness of adolescence, including sexual stirrings. "That book was forbidden to me as a kid," Wolf says. "I'm hoping to give them a different...