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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home to the lovable groundhog-cum-weather prophet Punxsutawney Phil (popularized in the 1993 Bill Murray film Groundhog Day), got a boost last week when residents learned they had found favor in the traditional year-end Congressional appropriations bill. Thanks to some last minute wrangling by Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., the federal government will be allocating $100,000 for the creation of a weather museum there. According to a website maintained by the local chamber of commerce, the “discovery center” will “educate a variety of groups, individuals, ages...
...contact with extraterrestrials, was conceived by its original screenwriter, Paul Schrader, as Saul's transforming journey to become the Apostle Paul. The Matrix (the first one, not the sequels) was manna to hermeneuticians. In a recent Museum of Modern Art film series called "The Hidden God: Film and Faith," Groundhog Day, the Bill Murray comedy about a man who relives the same day over and over, was cited as a profound statement of faith, either Buddhist (rebirth), Jewish (acceptance) or Christian (redemption...
...game parks have sometimes been overrun by animals. In 1989, to manage the problem without culling, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi park launched this auction - South Africa's biggest - which attracts game-preserve owners, hunters and conservationists, who come to buy animals as big as giraffes or as small as the groundhog-like rock hyraxes known as dassies. "Game farming is the way ahead," says Horsley, who runs a 3,000-hectare game farm nearby. Like many South African farmers, he's moving into raising game after a career spent farming more traditional animals; in his case, cattle. Game animals are much...
...really scared of dying." Dewaere as Gondry was in a car, with "this beautiful woman who was a mixture of three or four girls who broke my heart," and the car crashed. The scene repeated itself over and over like a film loop, Gondry's very own Groundhog Day, without Bill Murray for comic relief. "There was nothing I could do to change it," he laments. "I woke up in a sad mood, a depression." He couldn't have stayed glum for very long, because Gondry, awake, is living an altogether happier kind of dream...
...he’s one of those rare actors incapable of giving a bad performance—but my money’s still on Sean and his loyal following. Bill Murray is a comic genius, and he should’ve won ten years ago for Groundhog Day, or 21 years ago for Tootsie, but the fact that he couldn’t even get nominated until now is due to his notoriously bad reputation in awards circles; the pundits all talked about this when Murray missed the cut for his Rushmore role a few years...