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...sometimes scary to watch. Murray was known to go into the audience and rough up customers he felt were not paying proper respect to his fellow actors. "At Second City we were taught that the audience were these wild electrons out there," says Murray. "It was important to please them, but we also had to control them. I mean, when you're actors on a stage, it's you against the world. It's not the audience's show. It's yours...
Throughout the '90s, Murray popped up in small parts in movies as distinct as the raunchy Farrelly brothers' bowling comedy Kingpin, the quirky Tim Burton--directed bio-pic Ed Wood, and 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...
...connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Give me winter, give me dogs and you can keep the rest." So said Knut Rasmussen, the Dane who explored Greenland in the early 20th century. If you, like Rasmussen, feel the call of the wild, consider driving your own canine crew on holiday: one afternoon managing the tangle of tugging harnesses and sled brakes as the huskies yelp and yowl, and you may never get back in your car. The dogs can run up to 5,000 km in a season, often through snow crystals...
...allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal, at constant risk of being killed and eaten...
...play soundly and develop good results from a good position,” he says. “I used to be more wild and try to force the pace, but now I’m more patient. In the early days emotions were more a part of my game...