Tonight Bill Murray will appear on David Letterman's show, on the eve of Dave's 30th anniversary as a late night host. Murray's been known to go all out on Letterman's show, and to get warmed up, please to enjoy this vintage video of Bill Murray riffing on the foolishness of all this "high tech stuff" way back in 1982: more ›

According to a National Enquirer source (so take this with a grain of sensationalized salt), Bill Murray received the Ghostbusters III script, which we've been hearing about for years, with Dan Aykroyd recently confirming its existence. more ›

Bill Murray called in to the Howard Stern show this week and talked a little Ghostbusters III with the host, saying, "There's a script somewhere [on my desk], but I haven't read it yet. I feel bad." We'd feel like this might be a tease but if Murray hasn't read it, then Murray hasn't written it, nor was he involved in writing it—so how good can it be? He added, "You know, the studio gets excited every 10 years or so. What they'd really like to do is recreate the franchise. I remember when the new Ghostbusters was going to be Chris Rock, Chris Farley and... someone." more ›

Everyone's favorite Ghostbuster (sorry Aykroyd) Bill Murray has long had a penchent for popping up in unexpected places. And it seems he's done it again. The Chive has a report from a recent karaoke night at Karaoke One 7 when, wouldn't you know it, Bill Murray walked in and hung around for nearly four hours: more ›

As a companion piece to Bill Murray's rare and candid interview with GQ, the deadpan show biz iconoclast surfaced last night on Letterman. Naturally the appearance began with a zany gag: When Dave introduced Murray for the interview, the actor was discovered outside on the edge of one of those dumpster swimming pools which will be installed on Park Avenue during Summer Streets next month. Like Rushmore's Herman Blume on the diving board, Murray made a big spash: more ›

The 15th annual Poets Walk across Brooklyn Bridge to benefit the newly relocated Poets House took place this past Monday. Well over a hundred people gathered outside of One Centre Street in Manhattan in the late afternoon for the event; the crowd then ambled across the Brooklyn Bridge bearing banners and flags, with stops along with way for readings by poets such as Thomas Lux, Anne Carson, Tina Chang (the Brooklyn Poet Laureate), and Galway Kinnell, who read Walt Whitman's masterful "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" at the Fulton Ferry Landing. more ›

Can we get a Facebook group going around this, akin to the one that got Betty White launched into the hosting spotlight on SNL? Because it would be amazing to see Bill Murray in something called "Jurassic Park Slope"—a film which, yes, promises to combine both the Brooklyn neighborhood and dinosaurs. While Miss Heather spotted this flyer at Urban Rustic in Williamsburg, we're hoping the people behind it also hit up Roebling Tea Room (where Murray's son is the chef), and just for good measure, some Brooklyn house parties. more ›

What is it about Bill Murray that makes him so mystically, eternally cool? What other 59-year-old crashes hipster house parties with MGMT? Well here are two more reasons to love him: he likes to walk the streets of Williamsburg late at night, and he's a "frustrated" poet, just like us! He even dropped by Poet's House last year as it was being constructed to read to the construction workers (you can see the video below). The only thing that could match that would be re-imaging Groundhog's Day as an epic poem. more ›

It was around 3:30 a.m. on Halloween when Bill Murray surfaced at Dave Summers's loft party in East Williamsburg. The 58-year-old Garfield star—who had never met the 29-year-old Summers—had been party-hopping with indie darlings MGMT after their show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and wound up staying at the loft until one sanctimonious hipster finally told him, "I think you're making bad life choices." Murray's wife of 11 years divorced him last May, and Page Six Magazine has strung together a number of Bill Murray sightings at random parties and lame bars in NYC, where he sometimes talks to young women! more ›

Every year, we look forward to Groundhog Day for the appearances of Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck, and the inevitable multiple screenings of the movie Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray. But we also love Groundhog Day because it means that WNBC newswoman Sue Simmons is prodded into doing her impression of a groundhog. We love a beautiful woman not afraid to make herself look ridiculous--like when she fell off her chair and recovered somewhat gracefully. The video was recorded yesterday, as Sue has today--Groundhog Day--off from work. more ›

Ghostbusters has been in the form of a videogame ever since it hit the big screen in 1984, and since then it's been through many versions and platforms. Seems it has taken nearly 24 years to perfect it though, as it's just been announced the movie will haunt us til the end up time with a series of top-notch videogames to come.First title in what the publisher hopes will be a series of Ghostbusters games... more ›

COMEDY: This weekend marks the 9th Annual Del Close Marathon. Del Close, if you don't know by now, "was the driving force behind improvisational comedy in Chicago for over 30 years influencing Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Mike Myers, John Belushi, Chris Farley and the Upright Citizens Brigade to name a few." The annual weekend began after Del's passing in 1999. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a partial roof collapse on Union St. in Brooklyn, a person under a train at Coney Island and Brighton Beach Aves. in Brooklyn, and a slashing at Dyckman St. and Broadway in Manhattan.
• Artie Fufkin speaks! Paul Schaffer, who was the musical director of the Blues Brothers, keyboardist for Bill Murray's lounge singer character on SNL, and the bandleader for David Letterman's "The World's Most Dangerous Band" since 1982, is publishing his memoirs. Yeah!
• A local moving company is converting a number of its trucks from diesel to biodiesel fuel in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
• The producer of a Broadway show called "My First Time" is employing a mindreader to determine who gets free tickets to the show. Recipients must affirm via a psychic they are virgins.
• A 17-year-old was shot several times in the head as he lay in bed in the middle of the afternoon while visiting relatives in the Bronx.
• Juana Yolfo is a Spanish-speaking 106-year-old woman who was born in Puerto Rico before moving to Brooklyn and then settling in the Lower East Side more than 40 years ago. She's celebrating her birthday this week after more than 50 years as a NYC resident.
• Al Sharpton as Apollo Creed? The reverend is getting in shape to pummel Giuliani if there's any hope the latter's electoral prospects brighten.
• Carroll Gardens parents are in a huff about youthful neighborhood ruffians, who are disrespectul to adults and unmindful of younger children as they engage in shenanigans and otherwise behave like hooligans.

, don't subject us to this. more ›

There hasn't been much going on to mark the occassion, but The Daily News put together a Top 10 list of their favorite Letterman moments over the years. Their picks include Madonna's 1994 appearance in which she "dropped 13 F-bombs", Britney breaking the news she was pregnant with a 2nd child just last year and of course Drew Barrymore who came on the show and flashed Letterman in 1995. more ›

COMEDY: The Del Close Marathon is happening this weekend, the full schedule is here. more ›

Breakups are hard, but when animals are involved, fuhgeddaboutit. The Post reports that two good friends and roommates are now in the middle of a $4 million squabble that involves "$1 million in monetary damages and $3 million in punitive damages" - and the ownership of a West Highland terrier named Ollie Pablo. After two years of sharing a Tribeca apartment, Alexis Carroll and Michelle Clarity, both 26, went from being BFF to BEFN (Best Enemies For Now), with Carroll had her lawyer filed a "notice in court" against Clarity, charging "extortion, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, and breach of contract" and that the dog be returned to her. Ack! Clarity tells the Post the "funny" thing is that Ollie isn't even a purebreed, but won't say where the dog is while Carroll's lawyer says the dog "certainly doesn't belong to" Clarity. The funny thing to Gothamist is how the Post tries to describe the ex-roomies:

Clarity, who graduated from Pace University in 2002 with a degree in communications, is known in the neighborhood as a quiet, hardworking person. Her Myspace.com profile lists her hero as Rush Limbaugh. more ›

Jim Jarmusch’s latest, Broken Flowers, has been described as his most commercial project yet -- and that just makes the so-indie-he-just-can’t-indulge-the-masses director “cringe,” as reported by Newsday. “I almost feel like if too many people like the film, it might freak me out. I might think I did something wrong,” said Jarmusch. “I don't think too many people will like it because it's too open-ended, it doesn't resolve, there's no pyrotechnics, it's very slow moving...I'm probably safe." So far, critics and moviegoers seem to enjoy the film’s "fairly accessible" storyline and we just might have to throw Jarmusch a full blown pity-party. more ›

A Talk With Wes Anderson more ›

Gothamist has loved Wes Anderson and his films even since we saw Dignan's Five Year Plan in Bottle Rocket, so we're happy to announce that Touchstone Films has given us twenty-five tickets to a screening of Wes Anderson's new film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, starring Bill Murray. And we're holding a contest to give them away!! more ›

Wendy Mitchell, indieWIRE more ›

Listen to Elvis Mitchell's show on KCRW, The Treatment, via Real Player. And low culture on Elvis Mitchell's geek factor. more ›

The Late Show's website Big Show Highlight is also of Murray discussing Lost in Translation back in February; he also got a "Dave" tattoo during the show. more ›

Also, doesn't it feel like Barbara Walters is scraping the bottom of the barrel with this year's special? Matt LeBlanc, Diane Keaton, Billy Crystal? Gothamist can read about Matt, who is the LEAST controversial of all Friends with Lisa Kudrow (where's the Percoset addiction? Pregnancy woes? Marriage to Brad Pitt?), in People and US and In Touch. Diane Keaton, she's cool, but we knows she's walks to the beat of her own drummer with wacky fashion sense. And Billy Crystal...wouldn't it have been more apropos to interview him while he was pimping 61*? more ›

The Post comes up with a few ideas for Oscar drinking games during the ceremony: more ›

One of the best movie courtroom scenes in recent memory: Denise Richards freaking out at Neve Campbell, with Bill Murray as defense attorney, in Wild Things. more ›

Our commenters make it into the Times! In Motoko Rich's article about cliches about Japan and the Japanese coming from Hollywood films, one of Gothamist's posts about Lost in Translation becomes a rich resource of quotes. Debate broke out over whether or not the film is racist or on the nose. There is a murky area between what would be acceptable if it came from an American/white director versus a Japanese/Asian director (the latter possibly having more leeway for satire, though an eagle eye would be afixed on accuracy), as well as the film being critically well received (like Lost in Translation) or a film not as worried about ideas (Rising Sun, Rush Hour, anyone?); for our money, many Japanese men of a certain age are shorter than Bill Murray, so that sight gag worked. Some of our regular posters quoted, but not named, are Frankenstein (whose quotes are even kept in the article) and RIO. So keep your comments coming, dear readers – the Times needs its quotes! more ›