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...goal came with 1:20 left in the sudden death period, as a pair of sophomore defenseman connected to sink Maine (5-4-3, 2-1-1 Hockey East). Pete Summerfelt took a blue line pass from Trevor Byrne, and then stepped up to rip a 35-foot game winner past Maine junior Mike Morrison for the victory...
First he's robbed of his writing instruments (the quills that give this movie its title). Undaunted, he uses his blood for ink, his clothing as paper. Stripped, he manages to write a story in his excrement on his cell walls. Finally, his tormentors rip out his tongue. Quills is not, obviously, your standard biopic...
...even 7:30 and I want to rip my hair out," Lavalle exclaimed...
Like this year's presidential campaign, this movie invites smart people to feel superior to it, while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...
...Despite getting in trouble with MasterCard this summer, Nader rips off another Madison Avenue standard - the Monster.com ad with all the little kids (itself a rip-off of those sanctimonious International Paper spots). "I want to vote for the lesser of two evils... I want to be disillusioned... I want the government to ignore me." Funny stuff from a man who if you turn him off after five minutes can leave a very deep impression...