Ok Bill Murray, this shit needs to end now.

[Come on, Jason]

ALLEGEDLY   

[Gilly]

Is it just me, or do those girls not look like twentysomethings? Sophomores in college at most.

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Is it just me, or do those girls not look like twentysomethings? Sophomores in college at most.

First sign you're starting to get old Gilly.    

PS. Holy smokes, Williamsburg.

[Gentleman Jim]

A few things I picked up from Wikipedia and IMDB...

Bill Murray was married when he started an adulterous relationship with his second wife, who divorced him this past June.

He married his first wife when he was 30, during the filming of Stripes, in 1981. I don't know how old she was. They had two sons.  They filed for divorce in 1994, because of the affair. The divorce became final some time in 1996.

The second wife had 3 sons with Murray before they were married; the birthdays are January 11, 1993, October 6, 1995, and January 27, 1997.  They were married July 4, 1997.  They had a fourth son, born May 30, 2001.

The second wife's birthday is May 11, 1966.  She's almost 16 years younger than Bill Murray.  Based on the date of birth of their first child together, it's very safe to assume that they started their (adulterous) relationship before her 26th birthday.  She was a costumer on Scrooged (1988), Ghostbusters II (1989), and What About Bob? (1991). For that last film her credit on IMDB is costumer: Mr. Murray.  So they met when she was 21 and he was 37, assuming that the filming for Scrooged happened in 1987.

I'm not saying that these facts paint a flattering picture of the guy, but it's not like his attraction to young women is anything new.  If you backed him any time after Little Shop of Horrors this is the guy you were talking about.  The evidence seems to point to somebody who is a terrible spouse and an absentee father.  On the other hand, did you buy tickets to The Life Aquatic based on the actors' personal integrity?  Is it that hard to believe that someone who has spent decades as an out sized comedic actor might not be as grounded as your uncle, the bank branch manager?

If you ask me, the guy who made the comment to him that he's "making bad life choices" is the dick in that Page Six article.  What does that judgmental 24 year old chump know?  Ever been married?  Ever had a rough patch that you couldn't just walk away from with a call to your parents?  No?  Huh... that's strange.  Drop me a line in 15 years and let me know if any of your self-righteousness has faded.  Life throws you curveballs every once in a while, and as you get older it becomes harder to be right all the time.

And really, who wouldn't want Bill Murray to show up at their party?  Are you kidding me?

[yesno]

Bill Murray's great, but Wes Anderson (after Rushmore) movies suck.  I'm torn.

[cutout]

Bill Murray seems funny and charming and made 4-5 memorable movies in his lifetime and may or may not have beaten his wife and drank himself out of a marriage. The standards in Hollywood for being an authentically nice, funny or interesting guy seem seriously low and Bill Murray is above-average, but he doesn't walk on water.


Now Dan Ackroyd.... that dude's in the Zone.

[Chris L]

Just think... he's the Murray brother they let out in public.

[cutout]

Speaking of...
The Pride of Staten Island was kind enough to post a link to the "Get a Life" archives last week and I've been watching every episode and re-appreciating/re-evaluating Brian Doyle-Murray.
Verdict:awesome.

[KickTheBobo]

I guess that my point was that there are, in my opinion, much more classier ways to ride out a late mid-life crisis.

for ex: just drop everything for a few years and do some long haul trucking.

[Steve of Bloomington]

I guess that my point was that there are, in my opinion, much more classier ways to ride out a late mid-life crisis.

for ex: just drop everything for a few years and do some long haul trucking.

That's weird, I've been thinking about long-haul trucking a lot lately.

[erika]

Bill Murray's great, but Wes Anderson (after Rushmore) movies suck.  I'm torn.

You're dead to me.

[dave from knoxville]

"Give me a break, said Daniel Maurer in New York magazine. The New York Post also “preposterously describes Murray as a ‘ghost’” in the night—“hilarious! A celebrity gets a drink at two places that aren’t the Beatrice and suddenly he’s Frances Farmer.”

This is just Bill Murray being Bill Murray, said John Del Signore in Gothamist. “He's rich, famous, single, perennially hip—and how cool is it that he's wandering among the little people instead of staying sequestered behind the velvet rope like his peers?” Murray can “crash our office party” any time."

[jbissell]

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

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I experienced a whole range of emotions while reading this paragraph.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

im with you, jbissell.  especially, "no one is going to believe you."


yikes.

[Regular Joe]

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

If my face was ever famous enough to make this possible, finding situations where I could do this would be something I lived for every single day! It would bring me joy equivalent to the moments Tom Heaves people Ho that set him up perfectly for it. I'd have to be REALLY famous though. Any less than that, and I'd just look like a total asshole.