Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Very Murray Movie Star...
...Bill Murray the actor were to be paid tribute by "Bill Murray," the unctuously impolite bon vivant familiar from Saturday Night Live and a dozen film comedies, the evening might go something like this...
What, ladies and gentlemen, is stardom? Stardom is, you replace the most famous performer on a hot TV show -- as Bill Murray did in 1977 when Chevy Chase left Saturday Night Live -- and you effortlessly out-fame him. Stardom is, you top-line in the most popular comedy of its time, Ghostbusters. Stardom is, you seem to be yourself on screen and people love you. Stardom is, you've got two movies out at once -- your hit comedy Groundhog Day and the new crime drama Mad Dog and Glory -- so you are your very own multiplex festival...
Stardom -- are you gettin' where I'm goin', folks? -- stardom is Bill Murray...
Thank you, Harold. But I'd add that the old Bill Murray was pretty revelatory too. Who said, "The work of any pioneering artist first looks like excess, then reveals itself as precision"? Well, I guess I did, just now. But / as Nick the Lounge Singer on SNL and in a lot of his movies, Bill taught us that there was a magical, very American bliss to be achieved by failing in public and not realizing it. He was the soul of the showman in every CPA who's just had that third Scotch on the rocks...