Bill Murray

Not by connoiseurs.

Dan OTM, I hadn't thought about him in possibly years, but he made Lost in Translation watchable (and I really enjoyed it, but it had to be him).

xpost, how could I have forgotten Rushmore.

uh

And Scrooged is one of the best Christmas movies I've ever seen.

but tennenbaums and rushmore another sort of peak.

Thank god.

also: he's said that playing HST in WTBR affected his entire career for years because he had a really hard time getting out of the character. I think I'm seeing similar issues with Depp, too, anybody? Funny. Nevermind.

What's that supposed to mean?

Venkman: "Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here."

Mayor: "Is this true?"

Venkman: "Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."

I've watched that movie with the commentary nearly 3 times, which is also way too many.

what does this mean?

"I'm a celebrity IN an emergency"

"I know your face so well I could have done it with my eyes closed"

'Bark like a dog for me Mrs. Anderson.'

'It's the Vietcong - Varmintcong.'

Actually, sod it. I'm off to start it.

Angry Cop: "What kind of clown are you?"
Bill Murray: "The cryin' on the inside kind?"

I brought Rushmore home with me one year when I went to visit my parents and my dad watched it like six times in a row.

"That's the fact Jack."

He plays the best curmudgeons of anyone ever.

"that bill murray is a wiseass."

(watching Groundhog Day at the mo)

you don't have to cross the Ohio to get to the airport tho. I think they chose that location just so New Yorkers could relate, or something.

"And then he says to Ms. Cochran here, he says, 'HEY, BABY! Up your butt with a coconut!!!' A-a-although I saw no coconut. He had no coconut to my knowledge."

bill is like your bestest ever imaginary friend, he appeals to the arrested child in all of us.

magic.

What's funny about this is that while I distinctly remember this, my dad is now claiming he's never seen Rushmore.

really? I've heard nothing but nice things about him, like that he always tips 100% to waiters/waitresses/bartenders.

I couldn't finish watching Quick Change, and I love Bob Elliott even more than BM.

The line I would yell at him is from the very unlikely Razor's Edge he did: "Let's talk SEAL TALK!!!" (not a Maugham line)

Let me start by saying that I love him as an actor.

She said that he was often drunk, late, rude, and prima-donna-ish. In his defense, I don't think he enjoyed making that film much.

"Do you reject Satan and all his works?"

"...sure."

http://www.movietome.com/movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-126479/Sabrina_The_Teenage_Witch_2006/

hahaha!

Trailer

Ebert interviews Jarmusch

What amazes me about the movie is that Murray and Ramis get away with it. They never lose their nerve. Phil undergoes his transformation but never loses his edge. He becomes a better Phil, not a different Phil. The movie doesn't get all soppy at the end.

True. It's a great movie, and Murray is perfection in it.

i like comedies, i watch them, i laugh at them--bill murrary is not one of them i do.

Oh, you mean like Cary Grant? Actors have personalities, you know.

perhaps i have seen the wrong murrary films, but i have seen enough at them, and its a look at me, dont look at me, blatant fake dryness. he puts on for hipsters, hes not funny and i find him grating as a dramatic actor, and movies which i should have liked---have been ruined by his mugging. (for example lost in translation or rushmore.)

i find his hipster reclaiming even more interesting, because i think its interesting that someone who cannot portray anything but deadpan, misantrhopic irony (thick thick thick irony) would be the favourite acting style of motherfuckers who think they are too cool for anything resembeling human feeling or interaction

and i think wes anderson is struggling--he has real talent, but he has to be v, careful not to be too fucking cute.

of the wes anderson movies ive seen--i liked parts of rushmore deeply, and thot it was the begginning of something interesting, i have seen tennenbaums a dozen times and ive cried at least 6, it was sprawling but really well constructed, and found the two or three times ive tried watching zissou, i had to turn it off annoyed.

Yes, surely Groucho is not trying to bilk women out of their money, but is trying to understand their soul.

i think wes anderson is struggling--he has real talent, but he has to be v. careful not to be too fucking cute

This is crazy true. Not pertinant to the argument we're having, though.

and found the two or three times i've tried watching zissou, i had to turn it off annoyed

Bill Murray is a much better actor than Anderson is a director.

Give him another chance, ok?

and comedies can give a human punch.

if i was going to watch it again, i would watch it for owen wilson, who is a better actor then almost anyone working today

No offense, but I will not let Anthony Easton be the final judge of what's funny any sooner than I will let myself be run over by a train.

i haven't seen "zissou," but i get the impression that it is to "tenenbaums" what "seymour an introduction" is to "franny and zooey."

!!!!

seriously kenan, i really do wonder sometimes what the fuck goes through your head.

what i meant by my comment above was that i think people have gotten so used to anderson being mr. high-serious masterstroke that they're not sure what to do with zissou, which is kinda his old college try at a preston sturges madcap-comedy setpiece.

This:

comedies should, i dont know, BE FUNNY.

Seriously, I don't know how this can be misinterpreted.

haha "deeply offensive." Don't be such a drama queen. We're talking about Bill Murray, not your mother.

i hate it when people use my full name as an attempt to play at distance.

HA BLOODY HA YOUR SCREEN NAME IS YOUR FULL NAME YOU LAME TWIT

i hate ad homienem attacks.

I'm shaking. Eat my big white cock. It that ad hominem? What's the latin for that?

i dunno, tho; i think Zissou was Anderson trying to stretch and attempt some other things(to varying levels of success). i think the flick was more an adventure film with plenty of funny bits salted overtop, but essentially an adventure flick.

what the fuck?

I loved Lost In Translation and seriously doubt he'll ever give a better onscreen performance.

xpost

i mean if you go for the arched eyebrow artifice of a wes anderson flik (which can be endearing, yeah) then murray can throw in a nice star turn in it (& the gag of course is that he's generally playing characters that are SUPPOSED to be way emotionally repressed).

i think we've also established that lost in translation is a sure ilx argument starter. it was a nice movie i thought, but it really wasn't a comedy.

Hahaha yes, why do you think I brought it up?

(xpost: Hahahahaha AS YOU SHOULD BE, DUDE! "Surly party, table of one"!)

"I'm sure Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples." - Scrooged

"Never in my wildest imagination did I ever dream I would have sons like these. " - Rushmore

"Can I have another one of these with some booze in it?" - Groundhog Day

"Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance." - Ghostbusters

"Y'know, one day, Tito Puente will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, yes, I've been listening to his work for years." - Stripes

"Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." - Caddyshack

Richard Dreyfuss had most of the really good lines in 'What About Bob?' but Murray was awesome.

Do y'all even know what 'deadpan' means? He's hardly employed it exclusively, and I will take even that overrated Sofia C movie over juvenilia like Ghostbusters, thanx.

I think there's something to Anthony and others' criticism of Murray. Ever since he got 'rediscovered' through Anderson, he's been coasting on the same kind of roles and exact same performance in comedies, and none of them are really that funny or brilliant. Yeah, he stays perfectly still in reaction shots allowing the audience to imprint their feelings onto him - so groundbreaking, eh?

The quality of his performance now depends heavily on the quality of the movie - Rushmore and Tenenbaums good, Zissou and Cigarettes & Coffee terrible, Lost In Translation terribly mediocre.

I will give Murray this: he is the most interesting actor (hell, maybe the ONLY interesting actor) to come out of SNL.

You mean that he has made the most interesting movies, yes?

Yeah, because Eddie Murphy doesn't really exist.

Shrek 3 / Shrek 2 / Shrek 1
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Daddy Day Care
I Spy (2002)
Pluto Nash
Showtime
Dr. Dolittle 2
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
"The PJs"
Bowfinger
Life
Holy Man
Doctor Dolittle
Metro

someone needs to record a rap album called ad homienem, stat.

Eddie Murphy's entire SNL career was during Lorne Michaels' absence as its producer, however.

"What about the twinkie?"

This sounds intruiging.

NOT A POLL, FOLKS

"Back off man, I'm a scientist."

Can we implement polls retroactively onto old threads?

- it's described, incidentally, as a "young adults" novel, which means it's for "kids who can read without moving their lips".
Ugh, fuck you, anonymous Empireonline-douchebag.

Murray, huh? Love him. I've seen Groundhog Day an almost ironically large number of times (except it was the same movie each time through, so...)
How is The Razor's Edge? I'm fond of the novel, but the only thing I know about the movie is some trivia about him having deal with the studio that he'd get to do that if he did Ghost Busters.
Haven't seen Ghostbusters since I was in my early teens. For shame. I was shocked recently when I realized that Egon was played by a young, thin Harold Ramis.

I feel a strange urge to admit that I also think Steve Martin is GREAT. I just hate 95% of what he's appeared in. Shame, that.

Oh Bill, you crazy cat.

This shit made it to the front page of the local paper

caddysloshed.

"It was a golf cart. How it ended up in this predicament I don't know. "

He obv seduced it. Bill = smooth operator.

"He refused to blow in the (breath test) instrument, citing American legislation.

He was so drunk he didn't know he was in Sweden. In a golf cart!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/05/29/murray.divorce.ap/index.html

oh good, now he can run around japan with scarlett johanson

what's up with the city of ember?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/cityofember/

so, them having a prenup basically means that all the allegations in the divorce are a big public "fuck you"
and maybe make them more likely to be true?

im not surprised at the drinking weed and women, the spousal abuse accusation was kinda O_O

maybe make them more likely to be true?

dunno about that. if one spouse already knows what they're getting and don't feel it's enough they may go for blood as it's the only other thing they can get.

Is City of Ember a childrens' film? Whatever, I quite like the look of it.

drinking weed and women >>> shot and a beer

Amazing actor. No sarcasm or irony intended. I thought of Bill Murray as a lightweight comedian, like a Chevy Chase, until I saw Lost In Translation. I was stunned by how good he was. Even midway through that film, when he was in the karaoke bar and about to sing, I thought "Okay, now he'll revert to character and be a goof." Instead, he spoke/sang More Than This in a way that sounded -- to me, at least -- sad and half-resigned to his circumstances and half-wondering if he should go forward with Scarlett Johansson's character.

i love this guy & think he is prob the greatest comedian of our generation but theres never been any doubt in my mind that hes deeply, deeply fucked up, good for his wife xp

Amazing actor. No sarcasm or irony intended.

Spot-on. Lost in Translation, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Mad Dog & Glory... and I love stuff like Groundhog Day and Ghostbusters, but had no idea how good an actor he'd turn out to be.

Lost in Translation is pretty bad - he puts the same schtick to better use in Dead Flowers, I think

Mad Dog and Glory is most underrated performance, methinks.

Lost in Translation is pretty bad

No no no no no no no no no. No.

The wife of entertainer Bill Murray has filed for divorce after nearly 11 years of marriage, alleging that he abused her and is addicted to marijuana and alcohol.

is she divorcing bill murray or steve zissou? (or the guy from broken flowers, the guy from lost in translation, etc.)

lol method actor

i like bill murray in some of his roles but the guy gives off major creepy asshole vibes like almost every other SNL guy his age from that generation.

^AGEIST^

I've almost always enjoyed his performances. Anecdotally, a friend worked on a film with him some time ago and he was universally loathed by the crew, according to her.

i dont think ive ever heard that hes no a totally arrogant jackass

kinda sad but hes mostly lol so its ok

I was at a White Sox game in the early 90s where he was sitting about 20 rows ahead of me, and he was hilarious, standing up, telling jokes, getting the crowd really into it. So he may be an arrogant jackass, but he was great that night, without being on the clock. BTW great game, Sox won on a bottom-of-the-9th Robin Ventura grand slam.

you know, everybody has good and bad days, even celebrities.

A friend told me Murray came with his son to a NYC Sons of the Desert (the Laurel & Hardy fan club) banquet about a dozen years ago and he was nice, gave a speech, etc.

I love Bill Murray. I can't really think of anyone who has managed to build an on-screen persona like Bill Murray's: This fatalistic sort of miserable guy, who just sort of drifts through stories he seems distanced from while making well-timed dry quips throughout. Even in the one scene where they show him talking in the trailer for City of Embers he seems to have that trademark humorous distance from his character.

it's hard for me to even imagine real-life Billy Murray being anyone but the sort of grouchy sad clown character he plays.

a friend of my brother's was in NYC once and he saw billy murray on the street, so he goes "hey bill murray!" Bill murray ran up to him, put him in a headlock, gave him a noogie and then ran off yelling "your friends will never believe you!"

wow

mods plz delete anything bad i said about billmurray

lol @ bill murray

Bill murray ran up to him, put him in a headlock, gave him a noogie and then ran off yelling "your friends will never believe you!"

i think this is the greatest thing i've ever read on ilx that didn't come from estella.

er, one l.

that is pretty great

I was at a White Sox game in the early 90s where he was sitting about 20 rows ahead of me, and he was hilarious, standing up, telling jokes, getting the crowd really into it.

friend of mine had about the same experience -- murray and his family were sitting right in from of him at a cubs game. he said murray signed autographs between innings, joked with the people sitting around him, was basically totally cool.

ah, family time

Can't see Murray at a Sox game, though. Was it the Crosstown Classic?

No, it was just an ordinary summer game, as I remember.

public v private

apparently cameron diaz hated him on the set of charlie's angels, i think he is a pretty famous womanizer though, not sure why his wife is airing all this shit

xpost

I think maybe it was the first season of the new Comiskey, for what that's worth.

Ah.

finally bill murray and steve martin can go out cruising for chicks together

murray seems like a total bro

to be fair i would probably be an insufferable prick if i had to work with cameron diaz -- who was pretty nastily satirized in lost in translation, now that i think of it. coincidence?

except for all the wifebeating

http://www.mirrorprintstore.co.uk/image/Andy-Capp_61939.jpg

Am I the only person who sees a resemblance between Bill Murray and Tom Hanks? Clearly I'm not a film buff, but for ages I couldn't tell the difference!

I always thought Hanks borrowed from him liberally, especially during his early movie career.

not sure why his wife is airing all this shit

uh, she is divorcing him, hates him obv so is slandering him? the fuck i'm believing HER.

:/

http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/cityofember.jpg

http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/issues/20081207/Bill%20Murray%20NYCs%20New%20Party%20Boy

ps deej, i think the reporter lifted your story:

Then again, perhaps he's just toying with us all. There's an urban legend that's gone round until no one is sure who it happened to, or if it happened at all. It was late one night, a few years ago, when a young man was walking through Union Square Park. He suddenly felt someone behind him, their hands over his eyes. When he turned in surprise, there was Bill Murray, his creased face leaning in close. Bill whispered, "No one is ever going to believe you," and then just walked away.

Soon the 58-year-old actor—dressed as himself,

lolz

uh, she is divorcing him, hates him obv so is slandering him? the fuck i'm believing HER.

i love bill murray, but when women make allegations like "abuse" i tend to give them the benefit of the doubt.

also i have no trouble believing bill is a creep IRL

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4077485

I was amazed at how much I enjoyed him in "Lost In Translation"!

This. I think Lost In Translation may be my favorite movie of the decade, and I can't think of another actor who could have done as good a job with this role.

Murray's the best thing in it, but see more movies

seymore butts

your friends will never believe you

Murray's the best thing in it, but see more movies

Haha. I've seen more movies. Lost In Translation hit a nerve for me.

keep seeing movies until Dr Morbius says you have seen enough to comment on them

Bill really, really, really hates McG

more than Bronson Pinchot hates Denzel Washington?

Doubtful.

because Denzel Washington was behind the incredibly cowardly bullshit of “This is my character, not me.” He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn’t like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it, and what that led to was the very next big movie that I did. I should have said to the producers, “You get that guy in line, or I’m out of here.” Life’s too short.

I just saw Morbius's dismissive comment above. Lost in Translation may very well be my favorite movie of the decade too--probably Spellbound, but it's definitely close. I started watching films in the '60s, have a film degree that dates back to the '70s, and all in all, I've seen, I don't know, at least a couple of thousand films in my life. So I'm not sure what he means.

And even if an eighteen-year-old who'd seen relatively few films were to tell me that Lost in Translation was his favourite film of the decade, the thought that would occur to me would be, "Wow--you've got excellent taste in films."

I just am not all that interested in the Sofia/Scarlett character.

^

otm

hated that fuckin' movie

And if an eighteen-year-old were to tell me that Lost in Translation was his favourite film of the decade, I'd show him The Virgin Suicides.

yeah Sofia's definitely diminishing returns unfortunately

No way! Looooved Marie Antoinette.

Same here.

i liked marie antoinette

anyway, time is running out for Bill Murray to play Bill Veeck.

I like LIT fine – it's underwritten though, even for a film aping Ozu.

lost in translation was great when i was 18 but it seems kind of mean & more than a little racist now

the problem with lost in translation is that there is no story or depth to the characters. at least with virgin suicides sofia had pulitzer worthy source material. never saw marie antoinette.

and as many recent articles suggest, you only have yourself to blame for marrying Spike Jonze

the only worthwhile part of Lost in Translation is Scarlett's ass when she lies on the bed.

I think some of the cinematography is really stunning but, as stated in the "lost in translation" thread ad nauseum, the content is lacking.

the only worthwhile part of Lost in Translation is Scarlett's ass when she lies on the bed.

...and it's the first shot in the movie!

It should have won best picture for that shot if you ask me.

well it did win best ass

Does every Bill Murray thread turn into a LiT bitch session because no one was dumb enough to go see "Garfield"?

I took my junkie nephew to see it. He fell asleep.

And if an eighteen-year-old were to tell me that Lost in Translation was his favourite film of the decade, I'd show him The Virgin Suicides.

And that eighteen-year-old would say that TVS was his favourite movie of the previous decade?

Lost in Translation is a tone poem really, and works well as one. I think that may be why it's one of my favourite movies of the decade. 3-act structure plots tend to bore me.

^^^ This.

Also, as to

I just am not all that interested in the Sofia/Scarlett character.

. . . I don't totally disagree. Her character was fine, but Bill Murray's character was the key element in that movie.

thank god it didn't open with a shot of HIS ass though

do you think it's as pock-marked as his face?

that was mean. <3 me some Bill Murray.

(I'm sure it is)

The idea of a Best Ass academy award is really cracking me up.

it'd make the oscars worth watching

bill murray in Limits Of Control: 3 minutes of bill murray is the perfect amount of bill murray per film

I wish 3-hour Will Ferrell films upon you

lost in translation was great when i was 18 but it seems kind of mean & more than a little racist now

You should've been here back then.

pretty glad i wasnt, tbh

asscars

lost in translation was great when i was 18

It's even better when you're about 40, TBH.

I probably marginally prefer The Virgin Suicides too, so we're in agreement (or, as the Limp Bizkit guy used to say, "agreeance") there.

nasscar

I wish 3-hour Will Ferrell films upon you

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Lost in Translation vies with Garden State for the biggest listening-to-hype mistake I've made in going to a movie.

the only worthwhile part of Lost in Translation is Scarlett's ass when she lies on the bed.

Any movie that begins with a shot of Scarlett's ass can only go downhill from there imo.

Last question. I have to know, because I love this story and want it to be true. There have been stories about you sneaking up behind people in New York City, covering their eyes with your hands, and saying: Guess who. And when they turn around, they see Bill Murray and hear the words "No one will ever believe you."

[long pause] I know. I know, I know, I know. I've heard about that from a lot of people. A lot of people. I don't know what to say. There's probably a really appropriate thing to say. Something exactly and just perfectly right. [long beat, and then he breaks into a huge grin] But by God, it sounds crazy, doesn't it? Just so crazy and unlikely and unusual?

love this guy.

I saw him at the tea house in williamsburg where his son apparently works? he ordered a meal and started banging his silverware on the table REALLY LOUDLY to the music. almost as if he wanted EVERYONE IN THE ROOM TO LOOK AT HIM AND COME TALK TO HIM. which they did. I dunno it was kinda sad?

I dunno why I'm ending every sentence with a question mark?

"At least they had what's-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body's one in a million? What's her name? Help me. You know who I mean..." Murray said before being reminded of her name. "At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie."

ha who/what does that refer to?

Okay. Well, how about Garfield? Can you explain that to me? Did you just do it for the dough?

No! I didn't make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I'd never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, "So-and-so and Joel Coen." And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They're funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I'd like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, "What do they give you to do one of these things?" And they said, "Oh, they give you $50,000." So I said, "Okay, well, I don't even leave the fuckin' driveway for that kind of money."

And it's not like you're helping out an indie director by playing Garfield.

Exactly. He's in 3,000 newspapers every day; he's not hurtin'. Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bullshit, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. And my agents called on Monday and said, "Well, they came back with another offer, and it was nowhere near $50,000." And I said, "That's more befitting of the work I expect to do!" So they went off and shot the movie, and I forgot all about it. Finally, I went out to L.A. to record my lines. And usually when you're looping a movie, if it takes two days, that's a lot. I don't know if I should even tell this story, because it's kind of mean. *beat* What the hell? It's interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, "That's the line? Well, I can't say that." And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, "Okay, you better show me the whole rest of the movie, so we can see what we're dealing with." So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, "Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?" And then they explained it to me: It wasn't written by that Joel Coen.

loooooool

where is this interview it is v important

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview?currentPage=1

holy lol

If I move out to Hollywood, I'm going to rename myself Marin Scorsizzi

I have no idea how to interpret the response on "No one will ever believe you."

xpost -- That's already your drag queen name, dude.

"But by God, it sounds crazy, doesn't it? Just so crazy and unlikely and unusual?"

I imagine him saying this the way he says "how interesting... how BIZARRE!" in Tennenbaums

I wish there was video for that interview...need facial expressions!
Great interview though. <3 Bill for all time.

"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather."

totally accept his explanation for garfield.

. . . . . . . but what about garfield 2??? same "joel cohen" behind this sequel, i assume (i know it isn't the other one).

"Garfield 2" can probably be explained by the loud beeping sound made by a garbage truck full of cash backing up to your garage door

and the garfield 1 story is obv a joke

ok apparently bill murray is leon from curb

"Egon, Ray... you gotta get in that ass."

do your dizzle on her

http://www.joblo.com/bill-murray-shows-up-at-scream-awards-in-ghosbusters-gear

http://i52.tinypic.com/2wlrjwy.jpg

funny.

i can picture someone proposing that to him and going ".............yeah, why not?"

so old u_u

he wears the age well, tho. i like that he isn't always trying to cover it up with makeup.

murray does not give a hoot

it helps when you became a star in your late 20s with bad skin

yeah, but lots of stars look nothing like how they appear on screen. murray shows real courage -- or at least a healthy "doesn't give a hoot" streak -- by avoiding pancake makeup.

SUCH COURAGE

What do you mean "no pancake makeup", he looks orange as fuck!!

check him out in broken flowers, and in most interviews.

What if Bill Murray just showed up in your Karaoke room?

One of our users named Mike (pictured above) is a very lucky man. I was sent these photo after he and his friends went out to have a few drinks at their local Karaoke bar, Karaoke One 7 in NYC. Shortly after their arrival, Mike noticed that a couple women had just walked into the place with a man that looked a lot like… Bill Murray?! The crew went out to confirm that the man, was in fact, Bill Murray himself. Mike's friend even mustered the courage to invite Bill to chill in their room, but they just laughed it off. There's no way that was going to happen.

I'll let Mike take it from here:

"About 15 minutes later we get a knock on the door... IT'S BILL F@#KING MURRAY! We were all shocked of course but at that point we were already pretty trashed so the party just kept going. He was super nice and they all fit right in. His girl was really cute, and as far as i remember, from Amsterdam. She sang a bunch of random French songs!

At some point he bought us all a round of some weird green drink and wouldn't tell us what it was. I later found out it was Chartreuse some French liqueur made by monks. Apparently you are supposed to sip it ... like an idiot I just shot it down.

The high point was when Bill and I sang a duet of an Elvis song called, "Marie's the Name." Random I know, but so was the night. We were all drinking and dancing and screaming our asses off.

We tried not to make him feel uncomfortable though of course later we all joked about picking the Ghostbusters theme. Amazingly, they stuck around the entire night, about 4 hours. As you can imagine it was all pretty surreal. Something I will never ever forget…Viva Bill Murray!"

Cool! WKIW Bill Murray

But did he sing More Than This is my question

that is the greatest story i have ever heard

that video of Murray crashing a house party at SXSW last year, fixing a girl's amp while she played, grabbing a tambo and joining in from the side of the crowd, then going and talking the cops out of shutting the party down when they turned up beats this, but it's still p great

And there was that story of him turning up at a guy's party in Amsterdam or something? (details are completely escaping me at this point)...But karaoke beats that story hands down.

i saw him a few years back on Marthas Vineyard and gave him a "hey bill murray" he nodded and then seriously dematerialized into the ground.

TBH don't find this guy cool, find him sad as hell.

sad in what sense? rich, universally beloved, seems to enjoy his fame and good fortune without being caught up in or defined by it?

I don't know, just something weird and lonely about his randomly showing up to hang out with much younger people schtick.

social stratification by age is really lame, one of the things I hate most about modern culture

yeah bill murray is probably a lot more fun than most people my age, myself included

I'm not saying it's uncool to be around old people, I'm saying there's something sad and desperate about the way he keeps showing up at random events full of exclusively young people.

The pictures make him look a little sad and disheveled - but every time one of these reports pops up, it sounds like he was having a ball.

it's not his fault everybody else his age is lame

I mean consider who his peers are - most of them probably don't want to go have fun at karaoke bars with non-rich/younger people.

"Hey Billy! Me and Johnny Goodman are going another Blues Revue with Jimmy. Wanna come?"

"Um."

there's something sad and desperate about the way he keeps showing up at random events full of exclusively young people

No more FAPs for me, then

I mean consider who his peers are - most of them probably don't want to go have fun at karaoke bars with non-rich/younger people.

Somehow, I just don't see Steve Martin doing this.

I don't mean to imply that everybody old is lame and everybody young is cool or anything like that - it just bugs me how quickly people are to herd together within their age group, with everyone outside their age group being deemed as inappropriate to spend time with. I'm sure part of it has to do with lacking shared interests, avoiding conflict, but the extreme prevalence of it is something I've become cognizant of as I get older and it just bums me out. Bill seems like one of those rare people who is comfortable moving between age groups - which is, I'm sure, enabled by his celebrity, but it still strikes me as admirable.

xp

hurting to bill murrary: stay outta my world of young ppl

"I'm saying there's something sad and desperate about the way he keeps showing up at random events full of exclusively young people."
more sad and desperate than appearing in TWO garfield movies?

"Bill seems like one of those rare people who is comfortable moving between age groups"
he seems unnervingly comfortable anywhere, like say hanging with RZA, then being in a garfield movie, any of these things which ought to any normal human pretty self-conscious.

sad in what sense? rich, universally beloved, seems to enjoy his fame and good fortune without being caught up in or defined by it?

to me, murray's by no means "sad pathetic." but there is a very sad quality to him. every once in a while a comedian comes along who has that kind of depth, but it's rare, and he has it.

i hadn't paid much attention to murray's plum roles up to lost in translation, so i went into the theatre thinking that -- from what i'd heard of the film -- murray wasn't a good choice for the lead character. i walked out of the film convinced that no other actor could have done the role anywhere near as well. ymmv, obv., but to me, when murray's on, he's a utterly moving, transcendent, breathtaking actor.

I think the sad thing is that he's an alcoholic. This also probably being the reason he likes 'partying' with young strangers.

Bill Murray going out of his way to hang with you is sort of a meme at this point.

It's like he's decided to live every day like it's the day that will get him out of Groundhog Day, which is totes commendable imo.

dude i know worked on some bill murray film back in the way early 90s and told me this story:

one day bill said he was taking the whole crew/cast/everyone out for a party but wouldn't say what it was....that evening a bunch of tour buses he hired showed up and took everyone away....

they arrived at the local arena (it was down south can't remember where or what movie they were shooting)...bill had bought a huge section of floor seats to the MC Hammer concert for everyone...drinks on him, etc etc...

anyway bill ended up getting onstage with MC Hammer and dancing with him and split his pants open...

basically sounded like the greatest night of all time

I've actually thought about this w/r/t Bill Murray before, and as much as there's nothing more depressing than "50 year old guy alone at college house party" types, yeah bill murray is probably a lot more fun than most people my age, myself included is probably more accurate. Who knows why he's doing it, but it seems like he's creating more fun/humour than he is killing it/making things creepy (which is where he departs from your typical alone 50 year old guy at college parties). I mean he seems like he's far more WKIW (at least funnier) than many appropriately wild and crazy 20-somethings. However, he could just be doing it for pathetic reasons, like creepily hitting on 20 year old girls, or alcohol abuse, I obviously can't say myself.

seems like the nicest dude of all-time

it's kinda unfortunate tho that everytime i hear his name by brain automatically replays the pustule scene from osmosis jones. the dude was born for that role (sadly).

yeah fuck this "sad/pathetic oldster" noise. dude straight rolls around making peoples days

However, he could just be doing it for pathetic reasons, like creepily hitting on 20 year old girls, or alcohol abuse, I obviously can't say myself.

But I know some twenty year old dudes who go to college parties for that, too.

there was a new yorker article about ... i can't remember, maybe rob reiner ... that had a story of them in some remote country. bill disappeared and was found in a local Primitive Village hamming it up slapstick-style, since they didn't share a language, in front of a huge circle of villagers all busting a gut. so maybe this is just what he does.

I remember that! It was a Harold Ramis profile, I think.

dude straight rolls around making peoples days

^^^^^x100

yup.

but to me, when murray's on, he's a utterly moving, transcendent, breathtaking actor.

otm. dude is a national treasure, imo

I'm not saying I know for a fact BM has no demons or unhappiness -- dude's twice divorced and his 2nd wife accused him of some pretty ugly stuff -- but it just kind of seems like he's one of the few comedy stars who has the kind of impish sense of fun and absurdity in his real life that you might expect or hope for based on his characters in the movies. Of course lots of young people love him and would like to hang out with him, don't see anything wrong in and of itself with him going along with it and enjoying himself.

i didn't know he was an alocholic. pretty serious charge, is it well-known?

his 2nd ex-wife said in court papers that he wouldn't stop drinking and smoking weed

Yeah but wives... (lol joeks)

She also alleged physical abuse iirc

yeah it was pretty ugly. I kinda take it with a grain of salt - rich divorce proceedings and all that.

I know all about rich man angst: my ex-wife divorced me when she realized all I wanted to do was watch Tootsie repeatedly.

holy s--t, physical abuse?!?

do not want to believe this.

watch Tootsie repeatedly.

I assume this is some kind of euphemism

dude i know worked on some bill murray film back in the way early 90s and told me this story:

one day bill said he was taking the whole crew/cast/everyone out for a party but wouldn't say what it was....that evening a bunch of tour buses he hired showed up and took everyone away....

they arrived at the local arena (it was down south can't remember where or what movie they were shooting)...bill had bought a huge section of floor seats to the MC Hammer concert for everyone...drinks on him, etc etc...

anyway bill ended up getting onstage with MC Hammer and dancing with him and split his pants open...

basically sounded like the greatest night of all time

― lemmy ruxpin (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 6, 2011 11:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

awes

sounds like physical abuse to me

i agree w/Hurting this guy's an old loser he should just play golf with his hwood bros and stop panhandling for attention from nostalgic 20-somethings, and stop making movies too - just fade away you old lame-o

this is my uncle

i agree w/Hurting this guy's an old loser he should just play golf with his hwood bros and stop panhandling for attention from nostalgic 20-somethings, and stop making movies too - just fade away you old lame-o

yeah, f--k you, bill murray. hurry up and die.

abe vigoda, too.

Can't believe anyone would really have enough hate left over for Bill Murray when Jim Belushi is still walking this earth.

still got hate for the dead one tbph

do tell

didn't know omar was brian doyle murray's kid

karaoke one 7 has just been added to my list of regular places to go in nyc

their thin lizzy selection:

BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, THE
JAILBREAK
ROSALIE

BABYLON SISTERS STEELY DAN
DIRTY WORK STEELY DAN
BLACK FRIDAY STEELY DAN
SHOW BIZ KIDS STEELY DAN
TIME OUT OF MIND STEELY DAN
MY OLD SCHOOL STEELY DAN
KID CHARLEMAGNE STEELY DAN
PEG STEELY DAN
JOSIE STEELY DAN
FM (NO STATIC AT ALL) STEELY DAN
FEZ, THE STEELY DAN
BODHISATTVA STEELY DAN
DEACON BLUES STEELY DAN
DO IT AGAIN STEELY DAN
HEY NINETEEN STEELY DAN
REELIN' IN THE YEARS STEELY DAN
RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER STEELY DAN
(V) DO IT AGAIN STEELY DAN
(V) RIKKI DON'T LOSE THAT NUMBER STEELY DAN
(V) DEACON BLUES STEELY DA
(V) REELIN' IN THE YEARS STEELY DAN
(V) JOSIE STEELY DAN

They've got "See Emily Play" - see you all there.

why has the entire world's youth population been sucking Bill Murray's dick for the past 3-4 years?

EVERY HEARTBEAT AMY GRANT

aw, i do an awesome amy grant impression.

i'm there, dudes.

still got hate for the dead one tbph

― all i gotta do is akh nachivly (darraghmac), Friday, 7 January 2011 01:42 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.gifsoup.com/view1/1186977/food-fiiiight-o.gif

dammit

didn't know omar was brian doyle murray's kid

lol

i agree w/Hurting this guy's an old loser he should just play golf with his hwood bros and stop panhandling for attention from nostalgic 20-somethings, and stop making movies too - just fade away you old lame-o

Thanks for ensuring that I never need to take another thing you say seriously, you cold-hearted fun-hater.

i agree w/Hurting this guy's an old loser he should just play golf with his hwood bros and stop panhandling for attention from nostalgic 20-somethings, and stop making movies too - just fade away you old lame-o

― Princess TamTam, Friday, January 7, 2011 1:03 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark

EFFING HIPSTERS, WHEN WILL THEY LEARN?

C'mon, he's a long ways from http://www.theonion.com/articles/comedian-jim-breuer-at-college-party-for-some-reas,2421/

I don't know if he's good or not anymore, but I wish the endless hipster fellating of Bill Murray would stop. Also, stop fucking talking about bacon, you hipster shitheads. You like bacon, you smother yourselves in bacon, you make bacon milkshakes. We fucking get it.

murray deserves the props, imo

all 20-somethings are worthless ne-way, this just shows that bill murray is old and worthless, and it shows the retardedness of 20-somethings who eat this shit up.

xspost think you're underestimating bacon too imo

yeah 20 somethings are the worst. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif

hahahah that is awesome

can't wait to start hating 20-somethings in 9 months.

I have no problem with bacon, per se. I'm tired of people using bacon as a status symbol. STFU, you assholes.

20 fellating hipster somethings

Hipster bacon fetishisation seems to have passed me by entirely, I have no idea what anyone's talking about.

people using bacon as a status symbol.

http://cdn.wn.com/pd/a7/49/e633efde8c30328b81518d79f9cd_grande.jpg

http://www.freestockphotos.biz/web_samples2/7/sample_7592.png

Hipster bacon fetishisation seems to have passed me by entirely, I have no idea what anyone's talking about.

Just scroll down this page, and you'll quickly see what this bullshit is about. Note the plethora of happening scenesters, clothing referring to or made entirely from bacon, the numerous fashionable bacon tattoos, the use of bacon in unlikely foodstuffs like cupcakes and beverages, the prevalence of otherwise unrelated products prominently leveraging the cachet of bacon, the totally self-parodic overuse of it in every imaginable scenario, etc.

never would have thought thinkgeek.com would be on the vanguard of hipsterdom.

being a geek became a hipster hallmark. some shit about how you were awkward in high school and got beat up by dumb jocks, but now you hang around dudes who also got beat up and wear horn-rimmed glasses because some dude in some band wears them too.

ha, so patton oswalt was right!

Patton Oswalt makes references to shit that his audience couldn't possibly understand. I think at one point on one of his CDs he talks about putting a This Mortal Coil album on repeat and crouching in a corner or something. Clearly he was a geek that somehow transitioned to mainsteam, though I'm not sure how. He's a weird looking dude who got a role on the terrible, bland, and uninteresting-- but popular-- King of Queens.

naaaahh... the whole dressing like a geek thing is some weird form of "peacocking" imo. it's like "i can dress like a geography teacher from 1981 and still get laid."

king of queens was a cool show

king of queens got really funny

otm

what? evidence please.

bacon fetishization http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images-7/kevin-bacon.jpg

hahah

bacon and murray very good in wild things, but still awestruck by idea that king of queens is good -- how did it get good?

being a geek became a hipster hallmark.]

ten years ago wouldn't a group like Das Racist have been labeled the nerdiest thing ever, any not, you know, hipster candy?

xpost

Six Degrees of Hipster Bacon Fetishization

Kyra Sedgbacon

Footbacon

Six Degrees of Turkey Bacon

He Bacon, She Bacon

supremely underrated Bill Murray performance:

Mad Dog and Glory

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20090728-snakenbacon.jpg

what? evidence please.

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:58 (Yesterday)

The episode where Doug and Arthur share a bed while Carrie is out of town is pretty great.

The bacon thing seems to me to be an internet nerd meme, not necessarily a hipster thing. I remember a few months last year where every other Boingboing post was about either bacon or Cthulhu.

It is a nerd thing. I browse reddit time to time - great a website as it is, it is a mega-church for conglomeration of every lonely boy-man in the universe. It's variated tho: there's been "cool foods" (O_o) trends... it's gone from a fanaticism for pie, a pseudo-one for cake (a la a game called "Portal" where a catchphrase resulted: "The cake is a lie"), and now bacon has current reign. I'm just gonna take a stab at it and say avocados are next.

There are plenty of LOL banana-related products like banana dog costumes and banana holder and stuff. So don't forget that either.

"You show me an actor doing a shit movie, I'll show you a guy with a bad divorce," - Bill Murray.

I guess we understand Garfield now.

http://ep.imgci.com/PICTURES/CMS/20600/20642.jpg

Finally saw the first half hour of Quick Change, after 20 years of mornings spent watching the last 2/3rds while getting packed and trying to beat check-out time at the hotel.

Like, despite the poster, I had never seen the clown part.

he is good all around in everything especially The life Aquatic

quick change was 1 of my fav movies as a kid. i do wonder if it holds up but i also dont want to ruin my memories of it

I've only seen the first 1/2 hour of QC. Liked the great Bob Elliott.

IMDB says it was supposed to be directed by Jonathan Demme, which I can totally see in a Something Wild vein.

There's a scene where he's standing next to Geena Davis and easily tops her by a few inches in height. I was thinking shenanigans, that he was more like 5'10", but after more fact-checking on IMDB, it says he's 6'2"!

I rewatched Quick Change not that long ago. It was still very good, though not quite the nonstop hilarity my childhood self remembered

i liked Quick Change when i was a kid and liked every movie he was in, but haven't seen it in ages.

really enjoyed Get Low, one of his only recent roles that really recalls that '80s Bill Murray charisma

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq75ivQaN1qf89zjo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1328207970&Signature=wUhzKTffglYEv5uiKZ761%2BNy7ls%3D

man that makes me sad

idgi

that's how my grandad died, 'japanese suffocation' they call it it's a serious problem in the older golfers

that's not a photo it's a medical scan, those ppl wouldn't show on a photo, it's a very serious condition i'd give him maybe a couple months looking at the number of them showing up

thyre korean dont be so racist

oh my bad they were japanese with my grandad but u know there are variations

http://i26.tinypic.com/2udyu5e.jpg

http://www.sbnation.com/2012/6/20/3100983/bill-murray-the-best-boss-in-baseball

this thread has everything!

that was outstanding. lol @ thinking about Patton during the parade

Bill Murray Can Crash Here

How did Bill Murray spend his summer vacation? The actor has been traveling across the country during his self-described “Bill Murray Can Crash Here” tour, hitting up pretty much any place that will have him.

Known to pop up in the unlikeliest karaoke bars and house parties in New York City, he “is looking to take a vacation around the United States,” his rep announced last month. “He’s hoping that if he shows up to your party with a bottle of wine or vegetable tray, you will be able to make the proper accommodations for him. This includes allowing him to sleep on your couch or in a spare bedroom.”

“Any house or location interested must have a sheet or banner of some kind attached to their establishment,” he said.

And while it’s unclear who his host was, Murray was certainly mingling with the locals on posh Martha’s Vineyard this past week. On Friday, he stumbled into the island’s no-frills Portuguese-American club in Oak Bluffs, hopping up on stage at one point to join the band in a rendition of Van Morrison’s “Glo- ria.”

Then on Tuesday, he caught a concert by Danny Kochner at dive bar Dreamland. “He danced all night and talked to anyone who talked to him,” Michelle Conti told Flash. “I talked to him for a minute and he was like any other person.”

Murray explained, “People are like, ‘Oh, I guess I invited him.’ As long as you behave well and you’re willing to dance, people are OK with you being at a party.”

person who has figured out how to live

how can you not love this guy

something tells me people who say he is a dick are either haters or caught him on a really bad day (/shoot/year)

he acted the fuck out of lost in translation. whether or not you liked the film (and my understanding is that most people did) he conveyed all kinds of nuanced emotions and whatnot, often without even speaking a line. the whole story was 90% told on his face/body language

also how good was his cameo in zombieland! rabid fans should check out the outtakes where he improvs 15 different dying lines, all are funny

Heart this guy. He did one of the funniest BAFTA acceptance speeches ever and he wasn't even there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZh4KOT6RMY

Finally saw Moonrise Kingdom tonight (dug it!) and the trailer for Hyde Park On The Hudson was in front of it. Looks kinda light, but Murray's nuanced hamming as FDR is A+.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQaScjiWDyY

This has been makingthe rounds in tumblrwhiteland:

http://migranol.tumblr.com/post/29790335609/thebrittaoftimelines-bill-murray-in-wes

there were a TON of "Bill Murray Can Crash Here" signs in the Mission a couple weeks ago - didn't hear if he actually showed/ended up anywhere tho

man I'm all for more movies which show FDR drinking and being the sly fox he was but Murray's accent is...bleh

I wouldn't have believed a word of that promo had I not seen Crabbit's post the other day on FDR.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/daybyday/resource/january-1934-5/

Ryder Cup:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4E2S6ECMAEXroC.png:large

younger and better than most of the us team imo

Are those Bonobos?

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/38070/bill-murray-at-the-ryder-cup

hahahahaha:

Murray began slowly nodding, his eyes never leaving the fan. "OK, pal," he said. "Throw it here." He caught the ball in the air and took out a green marker. He signed his name. He put the marker away. He looked back at the fan. He gave a short wave.

"Thanks," he said.

Murray put the ball in his pocket and walked away.

bill murray's life would make a good bill murray movie

Lost in Bill Murray: The Bill Murray Story

http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/10/15/bill-murray-kickball-game/

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/59908/bill-murray-likes-to-call-kelly-lynchs-husband-every-time-he-sees-patrick-swayze-having-sex-with-her-in-road-house

and his "idiot brothers"

god, that just kills me

A little bit of the cuteness peels off when you realize these men are in their 60s.

ageist

I find that endearing! immaturity in old age gives me hope :D

Yeah, but Patrick Swayze is DEAD. xxxp

middle-aged man humor is usually the worst, at least they have consistency with their youth

Joel Murray is in his 40s

morbz is jealous of these young whippersnappers whooping it up

he refuses to acknowledge the existence of Joel bcz he's in Mad Men

i admit i had no awareness of Joel

he's v good as the lead in Bobcat Goldthwait's not-entirely-good but interesting God Bless America

Shit, Freddy Rumsen is Bill Murray's brother!

Joel Murray was on "Dharma and Greg" with $cientologist Jenna Elfman, makes u think

Heh, I was thinking Joel Murray was John Murray all day. Here he is channelling his brother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKU85IV0_Bw

It hasn't been nagging me like the meaning of life, but I've had the quick scene at 1:20 in my head forever and tonight, I finally can remember where it came from.

Thank you, Murray Brother.

i admit i had no awareness of Joel

Awareness of Joel should be his memior

i meant that i had no awareness of joel either

but that shouldn't stand in the way of a good title

I like to think Sister Nancy Murray is the biggest prankster in the family.

Billy Joel: Awareness of Joel, Vol. I.

Joel Murray was in One Crazy Summer, which is all-time classic cinema.

http://www.laughspin.com/2012/10/18/ghostbusters-3-will-start-shooting-next-summer-without-bill-murray/

brilliant move!

Why can't they just do a reboot with new actors? Who wants to watch pensioners busting ghosts?

old ppl
ppl who like the original cast

aykroyd and ramis are great in the o.g. movie but let's be real, ppl who like the original cast care about whether murray is involved or not. fuck a reboot, though.

"Who wants to watch pensioners busting ghosts?"

Murray answered this question (no one), but the better one is why the hell anyone liked it to start with.

Boo!

(That was in the Halloween spirit)

Ackroyd seems like a guy who would have a distracting amount of work done to his face for this.

Maybe in this film the Ghostbusters could be looking for some kind of crystal skull.

Ghostbusters 3 should be a found-footage horror-drama. Like, it starts with the mysterious death of Murray's and Weaver's characters. A note left behind leads their grandaughter to a box of old videotapes, each packed with footage of ghostbusting (perfect way to use old cutting room floor stuff/young versions of the actors). She notices, however, a mysterious figure in the periphery of several of the clips. It turns out the Ghostbusters made a deal with the Devil, who has been steadily claiming their souls. So the grandchildren of Murray, Ackroyd, Ramis and Hudson all get together with a Ernie Hudson's aging wife, who is an expert in voodoo (because she's black). Then there's an elaborate ceremony in which all four grandkids are technically killed and their ghosts are sent to Hell to save their tormented relatives.

This could also work as a sequel to Flatliners.

Aykroyd seems to have thoroughly embraced his pudgy 60-year-old elder statesman niche, I can't see him getting nip n' tucked.

Yeah, he's too far gone, unless he plays the Marshmallow Man.

Aykroyd confirmed the sad news last August, saying, “Ghostbusters 3 can be a successful movie without Bill. My preference would be to have him involved but at this point he doesn’t seem to be coming and we have to move on. It’s time to make the third one. Because I need a new house.”

Ghostbusters 2 is the perfect argument against the existence of Ghostbusters 3.

hahaha Akroyd

http://i.imgur.com/cIzgq.jpg

Okay, I may have fudged that Aykroyd quote just a smidge.

"Who wants to watch pensioners busting ghosts?"

Murray answered this question (no one), but the better one is why the hell anyone liked it to start with.

― cancer, kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 19, 2012 6:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

challenging opinions

Will watch if Pac-Man is one of the Ghostbusters.

"Blues Brothers 2000 can be a successful movie without John. My preference would be to have him involved but at this point he doesn’t seem to be coming and we have to move on. It’s time to make the second one."

"Nothing But Trouble 2 can be a successful movie without Digital Underground. My preference would be to have them involved but at this point they don’t seem to be coming and we have to move on. It’s time to make the second one."

(Not to hijack Bill Murray, but a quick look at IMDB shows that Dan A. has a part in Soderbergh's Liberace biopic.)

So many good things about first Ghostbusters -- all other Ghostbusters can gtfo.

http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/media/rgb_cast_slimer.jpg

hah I will cop to watching the cartoon a lot as a kid

(Not to hijack Bill Murray, but a quick look at IMDB shows that Dan A. has a part in Soderbergh's Liberace biopic.)

has Aykroyd done anything at all worthwhile since Grosse Point Blank?

(or for ten years before that?)

http://heintsite.com/img/big_img/11/Crystal.png

http://deadspin.com/5986709/the-sports-fan-what-i-learned-from-three-days-of-watching-baseball-with-bill-murray

love it

Special guest appearance from Mick Fleetwood!

http://i.imgur.com/gqdYogX.jpg

Larry King, friend of Ivan Reitman, says Bill's character in Ghostbusters was originally meant for Belushi, and that Bill's condition for taking the part was that none of the lines would be changed.

Anyone see the Letterman appearance where he dresses as Liberace?

it was great

Reading Wallace Stevens:
http://youtu.be/GaT_2cL33R4

Letterman #1:
http://youtu.be/6Eg8ScAY28Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTiChdWTX_I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1m6qY-YzE

The Harry Carey clip was great

Killing time in the booth, '87:

http://youtu.be/JQNjUcdkbqw

not a bad reading of Stevens.

splendid grave-trampling of Car Alarm Houston

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/bill-murray-crashes-young-couple-engagement-shoot-charleston-article-1.1826233

I feel like I see a new one of these once a week.

I guess it's a pretty hilarious way to live when I step back and think about it, but as a news headline/lol-worthy social media post, it's long since lost its shine.

latest one reminds me of this, which still amuses me

http://cdn.videogum.com/files/2009/12/ferrell_wedding_lg.jpg

like if this happened to me i'd be amused and excited, it's bill fucking murray, but it really does feel like we're getting to the point where we're going to take this thing that's actually great and turn it into this thing that's "great". it's bacon all over again. if bacon was a ghostbuster.

if this happened to me I would scream "GO DO SOME WORK YOU BACON BASTARD" an inch from his face

MAKE A COMEDY. NOT WITH WES ANDERSON. OR JIM DAVIS.

would kind of rather wes anderson do garfield than peanuts which he'd obviously rather do, but i'd rather he not ruin.

boy people online (not here!) have a lot invested in their imaginary friend. express the slightest misgiving about this stuff and you really get walloped

o yeah there's no way in hell i'd voice the slightest eyeroll about this on facebook

I would never complain about being baconbombed

later...

http://the-flack.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/jfk3.jpg

how's your mousse

sassing the first-time director of St. Vincent (which sounds like a sort of Peter O'Toole-ish awards grab):

"It takes a lot of energy to get even the worst motion picture made. I thought he had the kind of energy and enthusiasm to make the worst motion picture possible."

http://www.indiewire.com/article/bill-murray-hazes-his-st-vincent-director-at-films-new-york-premiere-20141007

Bill Murray on Howard Stern this week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5HsgmyJ4t4

Thought St Vincent was pretty dreadful. Murray should have won back-to-back Supporting and Best Actor awards for Rushmore and Lost in Translation. It's almost like he's still angry 15 years later, so he cynically drew up a checklist of every cliché that gets people acting awards: lovable drunk curmudgeon, angelic kid, hooker with a heart etc., a medical crisis that must be overcome, a school bully redeemed, accents, on and on. Because--and only because--I'm having my usual holiday bout of self-pity, the big assembly at the end moved me in spite of itself. And I did like him singing along with Dylan over the end credits--great song choice. (He starts off in his Hunter S. Thompson voice in that sequence.) I wonder if the coda was his idea.

Forgettable, but good to see Bill Murray playing a character instead of having some joking detachment from the movie going on around him, as he does elsewhere.

I know what you mean, but I don't know if you include Rushmore and Lost in Translation in that equation. I wouldn't--I think those two characters are really well drawn.

yea broken flowers was probably better murray than rushmore or translation

i like murray in it, but broken flowers was kind of a thin excuse for a film IMO

oh totally

prefer Mad Dog and Glory Bill

I turned off st Vincent after McCarthy 's first scene

I should just fast forward to the parts when bill is alone and goofy

I should just fast forward to the parts when bill is alone and goofy

― calstars, Friday, December 19, 2014 5:21 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this is bill murray's life creed.

i like murray in it, but broken flowers was kind of a thin excuse for a film IMO

It was written to all be shot within 20 minutes drive of the house Murray was staying in that month, so

i don't blame him. his house had the fireman's pole from ghostbusters. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2018965/Bill-Murrays-New-York-country-home-sale-Ghostbusters-pole-included.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

i don't know how i did it but i watched this movie called St. Vincent last night and i watched the WHOLE thing. it was terrible. like the worst update of Meatballs imaginable. hope bill got paid well. naomi watts doing moose and squirrel russian accent was a hoot though. so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dP5lJnJHXg

Haven't seen (and prob never will) but The Way Way Back is the best possible contempo Meatballs update anyway--albeit with Sam Rockwell as Murray.

meatballs is such a weird movie to watch as an adult. i keep expecting bill to put the moves on wudy the wabbit. hate that kid. also, this is the worst kind of sexual harrassment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85fsxWYG6A

it's a horrendous film.

assault too. as well as harassment. usually in an old murray movie like that or in similar movies the woman would give in and start giggling a la stripes or whatever but as a kid it probably went right by me that she was totally upset the whole time and even when she leaves the room in that scene.

http://www.npr.org/2015/12/03/458303447/netflix-wishes-you-a-murray-christmas-in-a-cheerful-irony-free-holiday-special

This was pretty great.

yeah v enjoyable. a lot of that enjoyment felt predicated on knowing who all the people involved were, but whatever.

i got bored. i liked miley though.

enjoyed more than i thought i would since i generally hate Xmas themed things, but this was solid and at times very good

also why was David Johansen spraypainted orange

This was staggeringly inept. Seemed like it had been improvised with no script.

this was sort of exactly what I expected, and I was basically ambivalent about it.

i just gave my kids a REALLY boring history lesson throughout the whole thing. because i was bored. i think i put them to sleep. now that woman's mother was a very famous R&B singer in the 1970's....and that guy there is the nephew of famous film director francis ford...now that guy's aunt was a hugely popular big band singer...

i bored myself to death.

haha that is exactly what I meant - digging it at all required a history lesson

the old guy in the glasses cowrote "It's Raining Men"

It couldn't be worse than the multiple times I had to endure holiday 'specials' hosted by George Jessel, where every guest star was at least 65 years old and wearing fake hair.

i was gonna say, Perry Como improvising couldn't help but be better

a sofia coppola movie featuring nepotism, whoda thunk

Bill nominated for a SAG award for his performance

It does suffer from pesky pacing problems. I get what they were going for, as the mournful and plodding start is supposed to be vindicated [SPOILER ALERT] by the segue into Clooney/Cyrus fantasy sequence. (Which is actually pretty charming, as such things go. I even re-watched some highlights, fast-forwarding through the boring bits. Good use of goofy Clooney.)

They could have shortened the mournful bits - I think they were going for something like the black-and-white vs. color segments of Wizard of Oz, but those were better balanced IMO.

While watching this was thinking about Murray and his love/loathe of lounge singers, from SNL to this, and how great a stroke it was to have a lounge band in Lost in Translation. With this one, there are moments when he's not making fun of singing but really apparently enjoying himself. In so many movies he comes across as amusing himself (to get through the scene) more than enjoying himself in the scene.

Agreed.

I am not sure it was well-paced for Netflix. As many have noted (here and elsewhere), the viewer can get bored fast and either wander off or switch to something else. They feel it's not going anywhere, so if it's not grabbing them immediately, why stick with it to see if it gets better? I have heard a lot of people saying they found it dreary and switched away early. So they never experienced the redemptive jump into brightness and (comparative) fun.

May have worked better as live broadcast, or in a theater, where the viewer has committed more intentionally and may therefore be more likely to stick with it until it gets going.

And, just asking here because I can't think of where else to ask, when did the formula "A Very (X) (Y)" start? I see this all the time nowadays.

Was it the Brady Bunch? Or were they copying something else?

I associate it with jiminy cricket & the disney christmas special that's on every year here in Scandinavia.
"From all of us, to all of you, a very merry christmas."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWiCpnt9WE
(apparently from 1958)

the modern IRONIC (?) use of it was probly pioneered by Brady Bunch

"very merry" was standard midcentury US usage

Yeah, I don't mean like "very merry Christmas," I mean like A Very Brady Christmas, A Very Vegimals Christmas, A Very Kardashian New Year's, A Very Murray Christmas, A Very Buffy Special, etc.

I hope achy breaky heart made it into scott's history lesson

in hindsight this was awful

Cloon's backup though

won't lie, Fairytale of NY made me well up

Me too. And Maya Rudolph was awesome in this, I knew she was Minnie Riperton's daughter, but I didn't know she could sing so well. They should've given her character a backstory though... They could've even applied the story of "Fairytale" to her and the guy with glasses and greaser hair. Who was that guy, anyway?

I knew she was Minnie Riperton's daughter, but I didn't know she could sing so well

did you never watch SNL while she was on

guy with glasses and greaser hair. Who was that guy, anyway?

also: never change, Tuomas

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F90%2Fa9%2Fe8%2F90a9e87c2cb369877a85d3cef90efc76.jpg&f=1

no one outside America watches SNL

that's not the real tuomas, is it?

Gaz coombes iirc

in hindsight this was awful

Seriously, Jesus Christ

Well not so much with the hindsight but fucking hell at this interminable circlejerk

I sort of half watched it while doing chores while really relaxed and after having a couple of beers, so I was really amenable to it and didn't subject it to too much scrutiny.

Then I was thinking about it the other day, my wife hadn't seen it and was asking if I thought it was worthwhile watching, and then I realized that no, it is absolutely not worthwhile watching and should in fact be avoided like the plague/shunned/deplored for being deeply shit and ponderous and cringe-inducing and puzzling.

puzzling as in 'who thought this was a good idea?' could say this about most elements of it.

http://mlb.mlb.com/assets/images/8/7/0/164443870/cuts/murraypants_wezf5o8o_i2r334of.jpg

http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2016/02/13/164443874/photo-bill-murray-golfs-in-cubs-themed-pants

i really hope he had those custom made

66 today!

golf clothing line!

http://www.golfdigest.com/story/bill-murrays-new-golf-clothing-line-is-what-youd-expect-from-a-bill-murray-golf-clothing-line

everything about that article is contemptible

"Bill is not going to be out there doing commercials for us," Resig said. "But he is going to sneak up to you as the lifebomber he is, pat you on the shoulder and say, 'Nice shirt.'"

Enjoying Gavin Edwards' The Tao of Bill Murray. Didn't know The Squid and the Whale was written with him in mind--as much as like him, hard for me to imagine Murray instead of Jeff Daniels.

I'm having the opposite reaction to the book. Boring and mostly consists of the same "bill crashed my party" story over and over.

Why would you read that book of all books?

in hindsight a very Murray Christmas is p great, v low-key charm throughout.

Initially, rapper Rick Ross was scheduled to sing "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'" with Murray, but when Ross became unavailable, George Clooney filled in.

We rewatched the special tonight, IMO it holds up very well on a second viewing (except for one dated Pitt/Jolie joke). Maya Rudolph especially is amazing in this, so sympathetically world-weary (and she complements Murray's similar sensibility nicely). I don't know much of her roles besides Bridesmaids, has she done anything as good elsewhere?

i tried watching it last year and shut it off during the part where he made Chris Rock sing "Do you hear what i hear?". felt like they were dangerously tip-toeing the line between ironic lo-keyness and completely not giving a sh*t and the energy just wasn't there to steady that balance. found the performances not very charming and 100% reliant on "oh this person's famous/who else famous will show up?"

i may give this another chance. the least i can do is sit through the whole thing.

it does get better
but you just barely avoided the date rape song

I tried to compile all the nepotism in AVMC.

Sofia Coppola has her more famous and talented father, Francis Ford Coppola.

Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars is Sofia's husband.

Jason Schwartzman's mother is Talia Shire, who is Francis Ford Coppola's sister. He is a first cousin to Sofia.

George Clooney is the nephew of Rosemary Clooney. His father Nick Clooney was also a TV newsman of some note.

Rashida Jones is the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton.

Maya Rudolph is the daughter of Minnie Riperton and songwriter Richard Rudolph.

Miley Cyrus owes her chance and her abominable career to her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

Murray, David Johansen, Jenny Lewis, Michael Cera, Paul Shaffer, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, and Julie White are all commoners.

Did I miss dynasties?

Maya Rudolph is also married to Paul Thomas Anderson.

There is a difference, surely, between nepotism and having famous parents? Maya Rudolph certainly didn't coast to stardom on the name of her long-passed mother.

No, this 2015 online comedy special definitely only got made due to the influence of TV newsman Nick Clooney

Did I miss dynasties?

I don't know why you'd overlook Joel Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, and That Bloke Out Of Moving Violations

found the performances not very charming and 100% reliant on "oh this person's famous/who else famous will show up?"

Chris Rock is pretty much the only actor in the special who's used that way... All the other famous people are playing characters (and aren't super famous to begin with), except for Miley Cyrus and George Clooney; and the former's appearance is totally justified, since a show like this should obviously have a famous singer do Christmas tunes (and she handles that duty really well), while the latter's cameo is actually quite funny. I agree that Chris Rock is kinda cringey in this, but like Abanana says, it gets much better after his bit.

yeah it did get better but the middle really sags. i enjoyed the final 10 minutes or so when they just went Hollywood and ditched the storyline. Jenny Lewis was great and Maya Rudolph was really great, i had heard things and she did a really great job. the part where Jason Swartzman sings the really hip Todd Rundgren song just felt like a waste of time. ditto Phoenix. ditto Michael Cera. felt like half the special was either self-depreciating jokes about how bad the special is or yeah here's a famous guy/girl singing a song that is maybe Christmas related.

the ending was great. Miley did good even if she over sings, everything she does kind of has this fake Disney sheen to it for me, but at least by then the set actually looked like a Christmas show. Clooney was pretty funny, peeping out from behind the trees. Amy Poehler and especially Paul Shaffer are the MVPs on this one.

pretty decent thing to have on in the background while wrapping presents.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/entertainment/bill-murray-p-f-changs/index.html

Two things about this

1) I'm sick of Bill Murray and his cutsey little excursions into the pop culture
2) I ate at PF chang's the other day and it fucking sucked

Being interviewed on a subscription-only streaming-only audio talk show is a “cutesy intrusion into pop culture”?

(excursion, apols, on zing)

so sick of ppl intruding into the pop culture

A Very Murray Christmas is the only Netflix-produced content that bears repeated viewing (The Irishman possibly its only competition tbh)

Bill has made an enemy.

Bill Murray receives a legal demand from the Doobie Brothers. And it’s everything you’d want it to be... pic.twitter.com/R1L99yZSBj

— Eriq Gardner (@eriqgardner) September 24, 2020

Good Long interview on Rogan

unlikely

no one will ever believe you

lol

must be some fucking shit pubs you go to

Well, yeah

This bit was good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDK2EgmW4iQ