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Exhibit A--The Rushmore Debacle: Bill Murray's performance in Rushmore is not only uproarious but finally an example of Murray's (usually latent) virtuosity. He combines his characteristic bitterness with a tinge of both pathetic sentimentality and self-awareness. The result is comic perfection. Despite numerous critics' awards, the Oscars passed him over. Which is fine--only if the Academy truly believed he was undeserving. But Rushmore didn't receive a single nominations. (I mean, for goodness sakes, it lost out on a Best Screenplay nomination to Saving Private Ryan)--proof that the Academy just didn...
Starring Bill Murray, Jason...
...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...
...expected in a movie such as this, the acting is first--rate. Bill Murray, a truly gifted comedic actor, gets one of his best roles in years, one that it perfectly tailored to his abilities. Murray has always excelled at playing the man-child--an accomplished individual who nonetheless has rampant immaturity in his genes (think Ghostbusters)--and he plays Blume with a smart mix of wisdom and adolescence. Over the last several years, Murray has carved a nice niche for himself with meaty supporting roles (Kingpin, Wild Things), and he continues the tradition with Rushmore. Whether stuffing a little...
...columnist Murray Kempton invented the term "the Family" to describe the New York intellectuals--a half-forgotten confraternity of writers and thinkers--clustered roughly around Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early...