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...Certainly, the tourists on Patong beach are smiling. A little over a month since the waters retreated and then advanced with such deadly effect, Herman M?ller, 41, a truck driver from Germany, is sitting on Patong beach and having, he says, "a very nice holiday." He's not alone. Hundreds of plastic deck chairs line the sand in two neat rows. Local hawkers do a steady trade supplying beer and tanning lotion to the crowd, while, behind them, kneeling on bamboo mats, masseuses cheerily press their palms into the backs of heavyset men for $8 an hour. On the beachfront...
...sins of his Patch Adams period, Murray has not only remained funny but has transcended funny. The man who taught a generation how to rebel with a smirk in Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters has forsaken easy laughs and giant paychecks to play a series of sad, complicated characters like Herman Blume, the lonely industrialist in Anderson's Rushmore; Bob Harris, the fading movie star in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation; and now Steve Zissou, the dreamy, arrogant, incompetent but good-hearted oceanographer in The Life Aquatic. "Before," says Hoffman, "he was masking his depth--or at least shrouding...
...Wild Things, a film he succeeded in hijacking despite the heavily marketed presence of a lesbian schoolgirl love scene. The movies were O.K., but Murray was better, and in Rushmore he finally found something worthy of his skill. Anderson conceived the role of the pitiable, contemptible but redeemable Herman Blume specifically for Murray (in part because he loved him in The Razor's Edge). Murray was a revelation as a man fighting off soul death...
...planned to relocate after resigning,” Herman said, adding that the school had not heard from...
Sultan is still listed as an instructor for courses this semester and next spring in the school’s course catalog. Herman said HSPH is still in the process of removing his name from school-related material...