Word: murrayism
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Once Ruutu put Clarkson ahead, 3-2 the Golden Knights asserted control over the game.. Riding high off of its late second-period momentum, winger Murray Kuntz netted Clarkson's fourth goal only 39 seconds in to the third period...
...Maryanne Murray Buechner/Las Vegas and Owen Thomas/San Francisco
...syphilis cells in the lobby of Rockefeller Center, so he orders the mural jackhammered off of the wall in a strikingly literal expression of the casual tyranny of commerce. Yet perhaps the most poignant thread of the film is its only fictional tale, that of an aging ventriloquist (Bill Murray), who, with the help of Joan Cusack's rabble-rousing character, turns against the Federal Theater when he suspects Communist influence. He later comes to regret sacrificing his art when, with sublime irony, his own dummy turns against...
...Ruben Blades, who melts into his small role as Diego Rivera in a perfect impersonation. John Turturro shines brightly as Aldo Silvano, a dedicated member of the "Cradle" cast who parts ways with his family of Italian nationalists. John Cusack is effective as the affably cocky Rockefeller, and Bill Murray and Joan Cusack hit both comic highs and notes of genuine sadness. Less successful are Vanessa Redgrave, who's garishly over the top, and Susan Sarandon, who acts mostly with her eyebrows and strained Italian accent. As Welles, MacFadyen is boorish and obnoxious, and Robbins has already been chastised...
...onto a garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman for fascism (Sarandon)--just about anyone who was alive then, and dabbling in the arts, is in this too-much of a movie...