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  • Bill Murray Toasts Groom at Bachelor Party

    Bill Murray was enjoying a quick getaway in Charleston, South Carolina over the Memorial Day Weekend when he was pestered by a group of guys–Boston College alumni, to be exact–while having dinner. The guys asked the What About Bob, Groundhog Day, and former SNL star if he would join them at a bachelor party they were attending there in the same restaurant. After he finished his dinner, the actor actually made a brief appearance–flooring everyone (even the original pests) with his presence.

    Murray offered up a toast at the bachelor party, and talked to the groom and his guests about life, world travel, true love, and even his ideas on some bizarre places to tie the knot. Probably the most unusual comment of all came when Bill Murray compared the groom to a dead person.

    Those in attendance at the bachelor party snapped photos with cameras and on their cell phones. Many video taped the quick visit as well. Now the clips from those films have gone viral.

    Some say Bill Murray is known for his impromptu visits and brief encounters with people all around the country.

    A man named Stephen, who attended the bachelor party shared his version of the event via a blog called The Concourse on Deadspin.

    “Over Memorial Day weekend, 20 of my buddies from Boston College got together in Charleston for our friend EJ’s bachelor party. At one point during dinner at a steakhouse, one guy goes to the bathroom downstairs and sees Bill Murray sitting with some people with a fishing vest on. We talked to the waiter to see if we could send him some drinks, to which Bill declined. One of my buddies then went down and asked if he’d come up and say a few words for EJ and got a “No thanks.” My buddy comes back up dejected and tells us it’s not going to happen. Two minutes later, Bill fucking Murray walks into the room and gives this speech,” Stephen shared.

    What a remarkable bachelor party this turned out to be. Way beyond getting drunk and watching a stripper gyrate around the room, these guys got to meet and enjoy a toast given by Bill Murray. Not many grooms can say that of their bachelor party.

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  • Bill Murray Does Peter Pan on ‘Letterman’

    Bill Murray Does Peter Pan on ‘Letterman’

    Bill Murray flew on to the Late Show With David Letterman stage on Friday in full Peter Pan regalia.

    “I’m flying…Look at me way up high, thinking I’m going to die,” Murray sang. “I want to see what a lovely thing I am to see. I’m flying.”

    It was a bit reminiscent of his role in the 1991 comedy What About Bob, where he was attached to the front of a sailboat exclaiming, “I’m sailing!”

    Murray decided that if Carrie Underwood could star as Maria in The Sound of Music, that surely he could star on TV as Peter Pan.

    When David Letterman asked Bill why he was dressed as Peter Pan–once he was safely back on the floor–the actor replied as follows.

    “First – I love to fly. And second, there’s been a big thing, this Carrie Underwood. She did The Sound of Music,” he said. “I feel that this is my moment. They are talking about restaging Peter Pan, and I think I’m the guy.”

    Following Murray’s Peter Pan stint he complained to Letterman about his beard, so the late night host shaved it off for him. The two went on to chat about the Super Bowl with Bill Murray saying he had tickets and mocking those who feared and complained about the cold weather–noting that he is from Illinois.

    “You’re urine freezes in Illinois’. This is nothing,” he quipped.

    One would expect the role of Peter Pan would be filled by someone a bit slighter in stature than Bill Murray. Cathy Rigby played Peter Pan on Broadway. She definitely is significantly smaller than the former SNL funny man.

    NBC is actually planning for a live airing of Peter Pan next December–the way they aired The Sound of Music with Carrie Underwood this past December. The live broadcast is slated for December 4, 2014.

    Do you think Bill Murray has a shot at the lead?

  • Bill Murray Talks Big ‘Garfield’ Mistake

    Bill Murray starred as the voice of Garfield in the 2004 film, Garfield: The Movie, but recently admitted via a Reddit chat his huge mistake in taking the role. Believing the script was created by renown film writer Joel Coen–known for hits like The Big Lebowski and Fargo–he didn’t even completely read through it, assuming he was signing on for a fantastic film. After signing on the dotted line and committing to the role, he realized the writer was instead Joel Cohen–known for flops like Cheaper by the Dozen and Howard Stern’s failed TV talk show.

    It was actually during a recording session, voicing the big orange cat, when Bill Murray realized something was horribly wrong.

    “There was just this long, two-minute silence,” he said. “I probably cursed a little, and I said, ‘I can fix this, but I can’t fix this today. Or this week. Who wrote this stuff?’ ”

    Known for getting his start on SNL, Murray also starred in Caddyshack and Lost in Translation–the second of which he earned an Academy Award nomination for.

    Needless to say, when Bill Murray was approached about voicing Garfield in the next film installment, he answered with an unequivocal and resounding “No!”

    “They sort of shot themselves in the foot, the kidneys, the liver and the pancreas on the second one,” he said.

    Despite Bill Murray’s big film mistake with Garfield, the rest of his career has involved one success after another. Long remembered for his classic lines in the 1991 film What About Bob, fans still love to quote his famous line, “I’m sailing!”

    Bill Murray is 63 years old and still going strong in the world of comedy. Who would have known–back in the mid-1970s–when he performed with other comedy greats like John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd that his career would span four decades? Sadly, he and Aykroyd are all that remain of the famous four, with Belushi dying of a drug overdose and Gilda Radner dying following a hard-fought battle with ovarian cancer. Murray started out as a troubled young man who was once arrested for smuggling almost nine pounds of marijuana through O’Hare Airport in Chicago. And while no one is saying he hasn’t smoked a joint or two since then, he certainly lives a much different life these days.

    Hopefully Murray will look back at his Garfield film experience as a minor blip on the big screen. It doesn’t seem like most people these days even knew it was his voice behind the snarky orange cat–and that’s probably a good thing.

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