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...Hermosa Beach, California. The first female staff writer at Life, Alexander, a liberal, became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point-Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied on Saturday Night Live, with Dan Aykroyd's snarly retort to Jane Curtin, "Jane, you ignorant slut...
Other friends of Murray's speak in similar tones, like jilted lovers angling for the chance to be jilted again. "Getting him to read the script for the [as yet unmade] second sequel to Ghostbusters--I don't think he's ever read it, actually," says Dan Aykroyd, one of Murray's fellow Ghostbusters and oldest friends. "He makes business so difficult that I just relate to him as a friend now. I have...
...knows Murray doubts his essential goodness. ("He'll do anything for anyone when the chips are down," says Aykroyd.) But the cost of his artistic and personal freedom is a kind of eternal vigilance. He is clearly one of the most willful people on earth, but he is also talented enough to make that seem like a trivial flaw. "As a moviegoer, when you see him, you know you're in the hands of someone who has a set of values that he won't veer away from," says Michaels. "It inspires a lot of trust. Plus...
...Razor's Edge, Murray basically took four years off. He studied French at the Sorbonne, traveled extensively and turned down lots of easy money. He was very happy. "A lot of us work in whatever we can and let the locusts come in and clean our bones," says Aykroyd. "Billy's different. He's off on another kind of journey that people, including me, don't always understand...
...intensity that made me love her long before I liked to cook. As so many cowardly loves do, mine started under the pretense of camp--that I was at least half mocking her, as Dan Aykroyd did on Saturday Night Live. The first time I saw her, the TV must have been on PBS when my dad left the room. There she was, a 6-ft. 2-in. matronly woman with a warbling New England--inflected accent that Katharine Hepburn would have found snobby. And yet, even to my teenage brain, she was clearly a badass. She explained sides...