Bill on Harold Ramis at the Academy Awards

Wooly Billy

Remember those "Wooly Willy" magnetic games you played with as a kid? Well the folks over at Vulture have decided to make a Bill Murray version called "Wooly Billy"; check out the blank board below and print it out to draw your own!

Bill on the passing of Harold Ramis

“Harold Ramis and I together did the National Lampoon Show off Broadway, Meatballs, Stripes, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day. He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.”

Short, but sweet. RIP Harold Ramis.

Bill Murray and Matt Damon on Graham Norton

Charlie Rose interviews Bill (for an hour!)

Bill kissing a tattoo of his name

I don't really think that the context of this situation will help much, but here it is:

So you get the Bill Murray tattoo and then the next day, you meet him. What was his reaction?Tom Kelly: We were at the top of the balcony at Letterman watching him do his rehearsals because he flew in as Peter Pan on a fucking zip line and shit. One of the Letterman people came up to him and he went, “Who’s playing tonight?” And she went, “Eagulls” and he went, “The Eagles?!” And she went, “No.” And he goes, “Oh, that sucks.” And then she said, “One of them’s actually got a tattoo with your name on it” and he said, “I hope it’s temporary.” I was shitting myself after that. I thought, “What happens if I show him it and he tells me to fuck off?”So you then you showed him the tattoo…Tom: He was talking to someone and it was getting towards the end of the night and I didn’t think I had much time left to do it so I was running quickly and I was like, “Bill, look at this!”Yeah, that’s what every celebrity wants, for some guy to run up and be like, “Look at this! It’s not a gun or anything!”Tom: Yeah, I start undoing my pants, “Bill, look at this!”So what was his reaction?Mark: He shook his head, laughed, and kissed it.(Via)

Bill as Peter Pan on Letterman

Bill Being Bill

Bill Murray's Reddit AMA

Last night, Bill Murray pleasantly surprised us with a Reddit AMA in an effort to promote The Monuments Men. View the whole AMA here, and read below for a few highlights:

On Wes Anderson:

“I really love the way Wes writes with his collaborators, I like the way he shoots, and I like HIM,” Murray said. “I've become so fond of him. I love the way that he has made his art his life. And you know, it's a lesson to all of us, to take what you love and make it the way you live your life, and that way you bring love into the world.”

At the time it came out, Groundhog Day was underrated:

“The script is one of the greatest conceptual scripts I've ever seen,” he wrote. “It's a script that was so unique, so original, and yet it got no acclaim. To me it was no question that it was the greatest script of the year. To this day people are talking about it, but they forget no one paid any attention to it at the time. The execution of the script, there were great people in it.”

Interesting thoughts on marijuana:

When asked what he thought about the recreational use of marijuana, Murray didn't exactly answer the question—instead, he discussed the American penal system and the failure of the war on drugs. "Now that we have crack and crystal and whatnot, people don't even think about marijuana anymore, it's like someone watching too many videogames in comparison," he said. "The fact that states are passing laws allowing it means that its threat has been over-exaggerated. Psychologists recommend smoking marijuana rather than drinking if you are in a stressful situation. These are ancient remedies, alcohol and smoking, and they only started passing laws against them 100 years ago."

Pickles and peanut butter:

"I'm big on pickles, but I've never had them with peanut butter," he says. "I really like peanut butter though. I'm kind of surprised because I like them both so much that I haven't combined them.”

Awesomeness:

When one user asked Murray what it was like to be so awesome, Murray replied, “Nothing prepared me for being this awesome. It's kind of a shock. It's kind of a shock to wake up every morning and be bathed in this purple light.”

Highlights via Mental Floss

Bill to act on HBO miniseries "Olive Kitteridge"

From Vulture:

According to Deadline, [Bill Murray] just signed on for the miniseries Olive Kitteridge, based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. Frances McDormand will play the title character while Murray is “Jack Kennison, a local widower whom Kitteridge befriends.” The pair previously appeared together in Moonrise Kingdom as the parents of a girl smitten with a Khaki Scout.