Posted on 02/25/2026 10:17:58 AM PST by Beowulf9
n a career spanning 45 years and 90 feature films, Bill Murray has managed to age like a fine wine, though he prefers vodka. He loves it so much, in fact, that in 2010, the Oscar nominee (for Lost in Translation) and part-time bartender (at his son Homer‘s Brooklyn restaurant, 21 Greenpoint) invested an undisclosed sum in his own brand. Called Slovenia, the buckwheat-derived vodka carried at Mondrian Hotel Sky Bar and Chez Jay in Santa Monica (and recently added to the offerings at Upstairs at the Ace Hotel), has “this viscosity that stays on your tongue — it makes it slightly different,” Murray tells THR.
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Needs more Sonny and Cher at 6:00 a.m.
"They say alcohol is a slow death.
"I say that's okay, I can wait."
-- WC Fields
There are a multitude of stories about Bill Murray randomly interacting with complete strangers. Most of them are true. Apparently he’s making a hobby of giving normal people a story to tell their friends he’ll never believe.
In fact, he snuck up behind a young man using the pee trough in a public restroom, put his hands over the strangers eyes and whispered in his ear, “No one will ever believe you.”
The startled young man turned just un time to see Bill Murray ducking out the door.
He photobombed a couple’s wedding shoot in Savannah on the steps of a historic church often used fot that purpose.
He went to the construction site in NYC where they were building the National Peotry Library and when the construction crew stopped for a coffee break, Bill read poetry to them.
He was at St Andrews for a golf tourney and he invited himself to a ‘kegger’ house party in the town. He went in, went into the kitchen, put on an apron, and started doing the dishes.
A young man who came in later tells the story of standing in line to get a beer but when he got to the keg, they were out of solo cups. He went into the kitchen to look for more and saw Murray standing at the sink, “doing the washing-up.”
There’s a dcoumentary film of these and more (which still is only a few of the stories in circulation) and all were confirmed either by someone actually there or Murray himself.
The name of the movie is “The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man” and there are copies on those scurrilous websites I shouldn’t mention.
In moderation, lol. I like an occasional adult beverage. But it is heartbreaking to see a genius like Beethoven, and some friends and family members whose lives have been destroyed by alcohol abuse.
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