Bill Being Bill
May 23, 2012 4:58 PM   Subscribe

"I don't like to have a situation placed over my head."

A very comfortable interview with Bill Murray in anticipation of Moonrise Kingdom. (Previously)
posted by glaucon (10 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Cue Jersey Shore/Bill Murray Photoshops in 3, 2, 1...
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 5:03 PM on May 23, 2012 [1 favorite]


Also, why is the word "kids" replaced with an em dash several times in that article?
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 5:07 PM on May 23, 2012 [2 favorites]


"Your hand will lead you to fruit"
posted by growabrain at 5:22 PM on May 23, 2012 [3 favorites]


I could read Bill Murray interviews forever. I don't know why.
posted by mykescipark at 5:24 PM on May 23, 2012 [1 favorite]


Also, why is the word "kids" replaced with an em dash several times in that article?

Yeah, both in Murray's lines and in the interviewer's. What is that?
posted by roll truck roll at 5:24 PM on May 23, 2012


I'm going to have to remember that when you offer someone avocados to take home, to always be sure they have enough for guacamole.
posted by cazoo at 5:55 PM on May 23, 2012 [1 favorite]


"I've got some rum in me."
posted by aldurtregi at 8:26 PM on May 23, 2012 [3 favorites]


Five on rye.
posted by chillmost at 11:53 PM on May 23, 2012 [3 favorites]


Murray's turnaround at the start was remarkable. Nobody liked him much when he first showed up on SNL. At one point he even did this embarrassing one-camera apologia to the effect that people should give him a chance because everyone in real life was always telling him he really was funny. Perhaps it was because he was seen as trying to fill Chevy Chase's shoes, and he didn't have Chase's inexplicable charisma. But eventually he found a tone that would work -- a kind of loose-limbed brazenness that would typify his characters for years to come; the obliviously awful lounge singer, his characters in Stripes and Ghostbusters, and somehow he won through, developing some really superb and remarkably sympathetic comedic instincts. But it was touch and go for a while.
posted by George_Spiggott at 1:42 AM on May 24, 2012 [8 favorites]


That was a charming interview. Now, out of all the actors name checked in that piece, why did Scott Rabb feel the need to explain who Frances McDormand is? She's won both a Tony and an Academy Award, FFS.
posted by DarlingBri at 1:18 PM on May 24, 2012


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