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...melancholic limbo: The adult Chas (Ben Stiller) is still reeling from the death of his wife, and paranoidly dresses himself and his two sons in nothing but red jumpsuits so that they are always prepared for an emergency. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is unhappily married to the neurologist Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray), who spends most of his time experimenting on Dudley, a boy who could pass as Rushmore’s Max Fischer’s mentally ill cousin. Richie (Luke Wilson), having suffered a mental breakdown on the courts, is now sailing the world in a boat while secretly...
Thibaduet’s “Clair de Lune” was also not remarkable, but his rendering of Debussy’s “Feuz d’Artifice” illustrated all the playfulness, energy and anticipation of a fire-works display. Thibaudet’s virtuosity was readily apparent in this piece; he had no need to race down the scales, as he was already at both ends. If ever there was an operatic score fit for the fight between Captain Hook, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell, surely this...
...Clair argued in 1974 in front of the Supreme Court for Nixon's right to withhold tapes of his Oval Office conversations under the doctrine of executive privilege. The Court unanimously disagreed in St. Clair's argument in the decision in United States v. Nixon...
...Clair also took on many other controversial cases in his decades of practice as a trial lawyer. He represented the Boston School Commission in a suit by black parents over racial segregation and defended the chaplain of Yale when he was accused on helping students evade the draft during the Vietnam...
...After graduating HLS, St. Clair continued to have an association with the school, teaching students on the techniques of trial practice...