Bill Murray

Suntory Rising: The Rise of Japanese Whiskey

In Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's 2003 cinematic homage to anomie, Bill Murray's character, Bob Harris, travels to Japan and submits to a kind of humiliation by whiskey as the spokesman for Suntory spirits. He endures various slights by pompous art directors, his eyes streaked with mascara and ... More >>

How a USC Film Student Tried to Get Bill Murray to Star in His Film -- By Creating a Bill Murray Holiday

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Bill Murray Appreciation Day Slideshow *Our Report on Bill Murray Appreciation Day Christopher Guerrero, a 27-year-old USC grad student, wrote one of the main roles in his thesis film for actor Bill Murray. The problem is what it always is: Actually ge ... More >>

Bill Murray Appreciation Day

See also: Slideshow -- Bill Murray Appreciation Day The first Los Angeles Bill Murray Appreciation Day, or BMAD, happened this past weekend on a cold, drizzly Saturday evening. (Saturday was also Groundhog Day, of course.) How exactly did Bill Murray get his own day of appreciation, you ask? Credi ... More >>

Drunk and Possibly Crazy: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 1 Alcohol and social media come together for a special screening of Pixelschatten -- a German movie about a blogger, Pixel, who writes a life-changing post when he realizes he's the last of his friends to move on after their local fame fizzles out. Pixel represents all of us who tweet, ... More >>

Top 10 Films of 2012

More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 "best" movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I'd have 25 unnumbered slots. I'd cite another five, formally varied nonfiction films: Tchoupitoulas, Detropia, The Ambassador, Only the Young and How to Survive a Plague. And were ... More >>

Hyde Park on Hudson Review: Bill Murray Is Excellent as Franklin Roosevelt, But Is That Enough?

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/27 - 8/31

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Yes, a paleta is an ice pop, in the same way that a square is a rectangle, which is to say it's frozen and has a stick." 10 Best Paletas in Los Angeles. "We have a notoriously low percentage of passport holders. I don't unde ... More >>

L.A. City Hall's 'Elephant Awareness Day' Apparently Not Enough to Keep Ringling Bros. Out of Staples Center

Surprise, surprise! Not one month after L.A. politicians wasted time and resources designating August 3 as the city's official "Elephant Awareness Day," the poster corporation for alleged elephant abuse is coming to town. This very evening, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (owned by Feld E ... More >>

Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown

Story by Tiffanie Lee K-pop has become a worldwide phenomenon, and one of its great hubs is Los Angeles. Walk into any Koreatown club, dive, noraebang (karaoke bar) or, hell, even a bakery, and you'll hear the genre's famous slick jams and infectious dance beats. Importing elements of American R&B ... More >>

Jackie Kashian: The Dork Forest

Funkiest Dish West of the 405: Moo Moo Thai's Yen Ta Fo

Did your new year's resolution involve sampling strange cuisine from across the city? If you're the type who scours the San Gabriel Valley like a Sichuan-studded Star Map or can quickly rattle off every birrieria in the barrio then probably not. But if you're perpetually stuck in a quaint Westside f ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/19-9/23

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And I suspect I've just offended the ghosts of 50 generations of Basque gourmets." Want Angulas, Spanish Baby Eels? Get the Fake Version. "Everything looks better in The Life Aquatic: wetsuits, s ... More >>

Rum Cannonball: The Life Aquatic's Mythical Drink on Bill Murray's Birthday

Bill Murray as explorer Steve Zissou in The Life Aquatic​1 hour and 26 minutes into Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, as he's about to lead a daring raid on the decrepit Hotel Citroën, Bill Murray pauses and tosses off the line (one of many throwaway lines in the film): "They ... More >>

Top 5 Accidentally Patriotic Things to Do in L.A. July 4 Weekend

Screenshot taken from Ghostbusters​ Everyone knows that L.A. isn't the 'real' America. It's full of communist liberals who have no faith in the great American nation. However, have no fear -- if you're planning on going to that show at the Echo on July 4 and skipping out on the fireworks, you ... More >>

10 Comedy Truths Revealed by Kate Walsh, Adam Scott, Jeffrey Tambor and Others at iO West's Improv Festival

Katie Harker/iO WestKate Walsh reveals at IO West's Improv Comedy Festival that she had back surgery so she can run on the beach naked in slo-mo.​ Over the last nine years, iO West's Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival has become a love-in; a time when neophyte and master improvisers commemo ... More >>

Kobe Bryant Bangs The Drum For Turkish Airlines: Et Tu, Kobe?

Photos by Gendy Alimurung​ Why is Kobe Bryant banging on this drum? He's the "global brand ambassador" for Turkish Airlines now. He was at the inaugural flight ceremony launch not too long ago. He appeared onstage at the Paramount Studios lot. He shook hands with the chairman of the airlines ... More >>

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The Bill Murray Movie You've Never Heard Of

In today's print edition of the LA Weekly, I wrote a story on Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever, an amazing, never-released and rarely screened 1984 sci-fi comedy starring Zach Galligan from Gremlins, and Bill Murray as the operator of an intergalactic bus line that transports elderly tourists to ... More >>

SXSW Highlight Reel: Top 5 Wasted Musician Moments

Erin BroadleyBottoms up​SXSW is equally known for the amount of alcohol people consume as it is for music. Let's put it this way: we came, we saw, and some of them puked. Here are our "Top 5 Wasted Musician Moments at SXSW," including GZA, Death Set and an honorary nod to Bill Murray.

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/8 - 2/12

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Until we can persuade significant chunks of Extramadura or the Costa Brava to emigrate, we can at least console ourselves with the Valencian paellas and fideos at LA Paella near the Beverly Center." Ask Mr. Gold: Spain ... More >>

Bill Murray on No Reservations: Give This Man A Travel Show

Anthony Bourdain's traveling road show, No Reservations, is a meandering and often exhaustingly self-referential hour of television. Not so for the final 4 minutes of last night's show, when, after wandering up and down the Hudson River, Bourdain ran into and dined with Bill Murray. Bill Murray (Gro ... More >>

N'IceCream on Abbot Kinney Gets Wheels: Your Gelato Golf Cart

Who needs a food truck when you have a golf cart? Golf carts are easier to park, ecofriendly (if they're electric) and inherently cool. Just remember Bill Murray's drunken golf cart joy ride in Stockholm. So when Christian Toxboe and Laura Nielson of N'iceCream, the Abbot Kinney gelato company, deci ... More >>

Burning Question at VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off: Big Lebowski or Kingpin?

Steel Panther destroying the red carpet. All photos by Shannon Cottrell. I usually resist working red carpets but on November 13th I braved the corridor of flashing bulbs, pancake makeup and pouty lips for a great cause -- the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl-Off, hosted by actress Holly Rob ... More >>

Weekend Music: Wolf Eyes, Megapuss, RZA, Bostich Fussible, and More

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>

Poet Billy Collins Charms the Skirball Crowd

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Medium: Shock Therapy

Patricia Arquette's repetitive freshness

Film Reviews

Where the Balls Are

Bowling with L.A.’s alley cats

The Cenozoic Era Passes in Five Seconds Flat

Subversive promotional activities with Jim Jarmusch

The Thrill Is Gone

Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar-wai look for love in all the wrong places

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

Persistence of Vision

Amid so many flickering shadows, the scenes that stuck in our heads

Letters

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

Second Wind

A new generation of filmmakers translates Bill Murray

More Than This

The road unexpectedly taken in Lost in Translation

High Hopes

Wes Anderson’s tragicomedy of the gifted child

Broken Hearts Club

Head Trips

Charlie’s Angels and The World’s Greatest Sinner

When Bobby Met Billy

De Niro, Crystal and Two Smoking Barrels

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

Ella Taylor's Blessings

The Delicate Delinquent

Wes Anderson’s sublime Rushmore