How was Bill Murray Day for Bill Murray?
September 6, 2014 1:34 PM   Subscribe

After Bill Murray showed up unannounced (as is his wont) for a Ghostbusters screening in Toronto yesterday, he hung around to answer the audience's questions about everything from how he spent Bill Murray Day and his friend director Harold Ramis to his advice on life and his personal philosophy. (previously)
posted by Doktor Zed (26 comments total) 28 users marked this as a favorite
 
Every day is Bill Murray Day for Bill Murray
posted by GallonOfAlan at 2:04 PM on September 6, 2014 [14 favorites]


never enough motherf'kin Bill Murray.

Just gonna slide some Bill re baseball links in here early, as he's pure Chicago as am I and I'm in.

youtube Bill Murray Hall of Fame speech This is the Oscar Speech that Bill Murray has in his head, only its in minor league baseball.


Bill Murray is the Best Boss in Baseball
posted by C.A.S. at 2:22 PM on September 6, 2014 [5 favorites]


From C.A.S.' link (emphasis mine):

I introduced myself, told him I work for an online YouTube television network, and that we make short documentaries. His response: "That sounds insidious."

Pretty sharp, that Bill Murray!
posted by JHarris at 3:20 PM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]


I guess I should point to this earlier post (of mine) where Bill Murray manages to take what might have been an ordinarily great episode of The Graham Norton Show and makes it one of the best things ever.
posted by hippybear at 3:41 PM on September 6, 2014 [1 favorite]


“The more fun I had the better I did.”

Bill Murray has his head screwed on right.
posted by arcticseal at 3:42 PM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]


May he live a thousand years...
posted by sexymofo at 4:21 PM on September 6, 2014 [4 favorites]


Idiot on Caddyshack, four years studying philosophy and history, Rushmore.

I grew up watching him on Saturday Night Live where he was so damn smarmy.

I don't know if he's a genius as is popularly understood but he's a genius at life.
posted by vapidave at 4:58 PM on September 6, 2014 [2 favorites]


There's an SUV in my neighborhood with a big Ghostbusters sticker perfectly placed in the middle of the back tire carrier. Every time I see it—like I did again a few days ago—that sticker just makes me happy. I always wonder whether the driver calls his car Ecto-1.
posted by limeonaire at 5:12 PM on September 6, 2014


The city where I live has an Ecto-1. I've seen it on the road.
posted by hippybear at 5:19 PM on September 6, 2014 [1 favorite]




Just came back from watching Ghostbusters in the theater for the 30th anniversary. Wow that movie really holds up (with the exception of the cheesy special effects)! The amount of quotable lines is insane. And Bill Murray makes that movie. The opening scene ESP testing the female student comes off as pretty creepy to adult me, but the rest of it... Wow, just the right amount of smarmy. He's had a remarkable career, may we continue to enjoy him for ages yet.
posted by gemmy at 9:04 PM on September 6, 2014


“If this is really my day, why do I have to do so much work?”
posted by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 9:46 PM on September 6, 2014


It is good to be Bill Murray.
posted by 724A at 9:50 PM on September 6, 2014


dougzilla: That's a pretty huge spoiler.
posted by I-baLL at 11:26 PM on September 6, 2014


The city where I live has an Ecto-1.

One pretty reliably shows up at DragonCon every year. I have a photo but I'm not sure how to link to it from Google Plus in an acceptable way.
posted by JHarris at 12:51 AM on September 7, 2014


One pretty reliably shows up at DragonCon every year. I have a photo but I'm not sure how to link to it from Google Plus in an acceptable way.

Drag it from your browser to your desktop, then upload to Imgur?
posted by Pope Guilty at 1:59 AM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]


It showed up at Crypticon in MN a few years back and it had Ernie Hudson in it!
posted by ian1977 at 5:23 AM on September 7, 2014


The opening scene ESP testing the female student comes off as pretty creepy to adult me, but the rest of it...

My wife and I watched Ghostbusters this week at our favorite movie theater (Somerville Theater, 30th anniversary restored print, good times). After that scene I leaned over and whispered "Yikes. The only reason Murray gets away with that is his charisma" to which my wife replied "And Venkman doesn't get away with it."
posted by Spatch at 5:39 AM on September 7, 2014 [1 favorite]


Here's the photo of fan-made Ecto-1.
posted by JHarris at 10:25 AM on September 7, 2014


(Although I notice now, the original was a Hearse.)
posted by JHarris at 12:40 PM on September 7, 2014


My wife and I watched Ghostbusters this week at our favorite movie theater (Somerville Theater, 30th anniversary restored print, good times). After that scene I leaned over and whispered "Yikes. The only reason Murray gets away with that is his charisma" to which my wife replied "And Venkman doesn't get away with it."

Yeah, the whole point of that scene is to establish that

a) Venkman is a sleazy creep and

b) Dean Yeager is absolutely right about him.
posted by Pope Guilty at 2:33 PM on September 7, 2014 [2 favorites]


The creepiest thing about Venkman is that he brings Thorazine to his date with Dana.
posted by neckro23 at 4:15 PM on September 7, 2014 [3 favorites]


Note also in that scene the haggard looking make subject accurately predicts the next card every time, just not his own. It establishes that Venkman is a fraud, true, but also oblivious to "real" paranormal activity
posted by abulafa at 7:33 PM on September 7, 2014 [4 favorites]


An obscure joke in that scene is that Venkman's using a Zener deck, a deck with a set of five symbols (cross, star, square, wavy lines, circle) used in the kind of experiment he's doing. The female student's last guess, a figure eight, not only isn't right, it isn't possible, as the Zener deck does not contain a figure eight!
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:37 PM on September 7, 2014 [5 favorites]


BILL MURRAY DIDN'T PAID
posted by unliteral at 11:55 PM on September 7, 2014


Vulture's rundown of Bill Murray in Toronto - 7 Steps to Living a Bill Murray Life, by Bill Murray - includes his complete response to a fan's question "What's it like being you?", which is too good not to quote in full:
I think if I’m gonna answer that question, because it is a hard question, I’d like to suggest that we all answer that question right now, while I’m talking. I’ll continue. Believe me, I won’t shut up. I have a microphone. But let’s all ask ourselves that question right now. What does it feel like to be you? What does it feel like to be you? Yeah. It feels good to be you, doesn’t it? It feels good, because there’s one thing that you are — you’re the only one that’s you, right?. So you’re the only one that’s you, and we get confused sometimes — or I do, I think everyone does — you try to compete. You think, Dammit, someone else is trying to be me. Someone else is trying to be me. But I don’t have to armor myself against those people; I don’t have to armor myself against that idea if I can really just relax and feel content in this way and this regard. If I can just feel, just think now: How much do you weigh? This is a thing I like to do with myself when I get lost and I get feeling funny. How much do you weigh? Think about how much each person here weighs and try to feel that weight in your seat right now, in your bottom right now. Parts in your feet and parts in your bum. Just try to feel your own weight, in your own seat, in your own feet. Okay? So if you can feel that weight in your body, if you can come back into the most personal identification, a very personal identification, which is: I am. This is me now. Here I am, right now. This is me now. Then you don’t feel like you have to leave, and be over there, or look over there. You don’t feel like you have to rush off and be somewhere. There’s just a wonderful sense of well-being that begins to circulate up and down, from your top to your bottom. Up and down from your top to your spine. And you feel something that makes you almost want to smile, that makes you want to feel good, that makes you want to feel like you could embrace yourself.

So what’s it like to be me? You can ask yourself, What’s it like to be me? You know, the only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
"I am. This is me now. Here I am, right now. This is me now."

That's the guy who agreed to co-star in Ghostbusters if the studio would greenlight his adaptation of Somerset Maughma's novel of Lost Generation spiritual questing, The Razor's Edge.
posted by Doktor Zed at 8:01 AM on September 8, 2014 [4 favorites]


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