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Bill Murray has that new movie Lost in Translation out. I'm pumped to go see it, but realistically I'll probably just wait until it comes out on video. [insert your own 'you just wait'-kid story here]

He's old school cool because he was in Caddyshack and Stripes and Ghost Busters and he was on SNL back when it was hip and edgy. This means that people who laugh at Nixon jokes and/or grew up in the 80's probably worshipped him at one time or another. I know I did: "That's right boys, it's the Ghostbusters", "Here he is, Cinderella story"... gimmie a break, that stuff rules.

Then he took some time off and kind of laid low and then started taking some lesser-known roles in movies like Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. They were darker and weirder and he had more wrinkles and they were right up my alley. That scene in Rushmore where he's in the hospital elevator smoking two cigarettes at once is classic if you ask me.

Now with this new movie he's getting all crazy popular again. He's all over the tv, magazines, newspapers, you name it. It's currently playing at the Uptown and it's been packed for most every showing. ("Worst theatre in town" - Rivkin; "Good popcorn" - me) I even read some oscar rumors the other day. Neat.

It'll be fun to see how the re-found popularity thing plays out. Figure with all this recent exposure and accolades, he's maybe not as hip and maybe not as dark and it might suddenly become less fashionable to wear a trucker hat like Bill Murray because, hey, if old people like him how cool can he be, right?

I say who cares - he kicks ass. Until they try and make Tenenbaums 2, that is. Then he's just stupid.