During a press conference at the London Film Festival for the new animated family movie Fantastic Mr. Fox, George Clooney joked about starting a family, The Press Association Reports. “I am going to adopt some of Brad Pitt’s (children), I owe him a few,” George joked. Read more »
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PHOTOS: George Clooney’s a Broody Fox at Film Festival
October 14th, 2009 / Author: Nicole EggenbergerGeorge Clooney & Bill Murray Team Up to Help Quake-Ravaged Town
July 10th, 2009 / Author: Chris Morran
On Thursday, Oscar-winning director and actor George Clooney and screen legend Bill Murray teamed up to pay a visit to a region of Italy that was recently damaged by a devastating earthquake.
The pair visited the ruins and refugees left in the wake of the April 6 quake in and around the town of L’Aquila, where the world’s most powerful political leaders are currently holding the G8 Summit.
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Bill Murray Jokes Around
October 10th, 2008
Bill Murray playfully punches me in the stomach right before this photo is snapped during the City of Ember junket held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC. Yikes!
“Where are you from?” he asks me, and fingers my Press Association pal Shereen Low’s jade necklace (she has the furry microphone in the pic). “Can I have that?” he asks. He’s simply riffing on his shady character and how I asked him about his dark side moments before.
In the family adventure flick, Bill is the corrupt mayor and Tim Robbins plays a father dealing with a crumbling city set in the future. So, Bill, about your dark side…
“I don’t consider it theft when sometimes you encounter an object or a thing that isn’t really being used correctly or properly,” he deadpans. “Occasionally there are things that are just laying there doing nothing. And they’re not being used and they’re not being appreciated.”
He continues, “If there was something that was laying around, then – it was in your garage and it had been there for nine years and it was just covered with dust and it was like ‘are you kidding? This thing’s great. Sometimes I feel the need not to steal it from you, but to liberate that object from its bondage.”
So apparently he thinks Shereen’s jade necklace isn’t being used properly, and offers to pass it along to someone who can better wear it. “Am I going to see you two again?” he asks us.
Back to the flick …
Aside from corruption, the residents of Ember are witnessing their city falling apart. What kind of experience has Tim had with natural disasters? Susan Sarandon’s beau has been through the NYC blackouts and California earthquakes. Scary!
“People started barbecues on the street during the blackouts,” Tim laughs. “It was really fun. I got my camera out and stayed up all night and took pictures. I was in a hotel during an earthquake and it moved. I was way up high and it moved. It moved like that [makes motion]. That was really scary. And then I looked out the window and I saw those flashes of light that happen when there are interruptions of power. That was apocalyptic and crazy.”
Bill moved into NYC’s famed Plaza Hotel during a power failure.
“I was with an entire group of kids and a dog, and they gave us the Presidential Suite, which is kind of funny. The same architect built my house as built the Presidential Suite in the Plaza Hotel. It felt like home. To have sirens and alarms going off nonstop, it drives you nuts.”
Tim chuckles. “I have this view of Northern Manhattan, and during the last blackout there was one light on in the entire city. You know what it was? It was the letters G-E on top of the GE building.”
On the way out, I pick up two City of Ember hoodies. My brother Jeff will love it … he can’t get enough freebies from Sis. ; )
City of Ember is in theaters now.
Bill Murray: “Divorce Was Devastating”
October 7th, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Bill Murray has made a career of playing depressed, offbeat characters (What About Bob, Lost in Translation and Rushmore). And, up until last May, those characters sharply contrasted with his real-life persona as a happy-go-lucky guy.
It was last May that Murray says the bottom dropped out when his wife of nearly 11 years filed for divorce. In the papers filed by Jennifer Butler Murray, she alleged that Murray abused her and was addicted to alcohol and marijuana.
"That was devastating," Murray said. "That was the worst thing that ever happened to me in my entire life."
The actor, 58, is currently helping publicize City of Ember, a film opening Friday in which he co-stars with Tim Robbins and Saoirse Ronan, the young star of Atonement.
The film was shot in Belfast, Ireland, before Murray’s divorce. A judge ruled that Murray’s four children would live with their mother, plummeting the actor into months of depression.
"I was just dead, just broken," he said of the situation. "When you’re really in love with someone and this happens–I never had anything like this happen. It’s like your faith in people is destroyed because the person you trusted the most you can no longer trust at all…The person you know isn’t there anymore."
But Murray says he has started to build himself back up again.
”I’ve had a great deal of success in life — not just money or fame or anything like that — I just feel like I’ve done well in many areas of life,” said Murray. ”I’ve learned how to live and I think I’ve learned things about living. It’s almost like: `OK, you learned that much, now let’s try this. Let’s see how you can do if this happens to you.”’
Bill Murray Talks Ghostbusters Sequel
October 3rd, 2008
As reports and rumors continue to swirl around the currently in-development sequel to the 1984 smash hit Ghostbusters, OK! caught up with the film’s star, Bill Murray, to get the straight story on what’s really going on.
"There’s someone trying to write a script," Bill explained at a press event in NYC for his upcoming movie City of Ember on Friday. "There are two fellas from The Office writing a script, but I have yet to see it. I’m more involved with trying to get the dessert we ordered at lunch today than the Ghostbusters sequel, but it’s possible. It’s a great idea that they hired these two guys to do it because it could be a fresh look at it, and it could be funny."
Bill did admit having some reservations about the project, especially considering his experience on the 1989 follow-up, Ghostbusters 2, which he called "rather unsatisfying."
"The first one, to me, was the real thing," the actor told OK!. "The sequel was a few years later, and there was an idea pitched. They got us all together and we laughed for a couple hours. We were like ‘What if we did another one? Here’s an idea these guys have got.’ But it didn’t turn out to be the idea [we talked about]. When I arrived on the set, they had written a whole different movie than the one. The special effects guys got their hands on it, and it’s just not the same movie. There were a few great scenes in it, but it wasn’t the same movie."
Bill also said he has yet to commit to the third Ghostbusters film, as he’s waiting to see what the writers come up with.
"It’s all about the script. It’s not like I have any obligation to the franchise or anyone," he explained. "If the script were good and I thought we could do it, it would be fun. It’s only now that this has ever been a prospect. No one’s talked about it for a long time because the second one was the way it was."
Meanwhile, in his new film City of Ember, Bill gets the opportunity to finally play a bad guy on the big screen, a chance he tells OK! he relishes.
"It’s so much easier to be a bad guy. It’s a piece of cake," he said. "It’s a joke. I keep saying ‘Why do they give Oscars to guys who play bad guys?’ Because it’s so simple. Play a good guy sometime — that’s hard. Play a really decent, good person. That’s hard."
By Valerie Nome
Bill Murray Getting Divorced!
May 29th, 2008
Bill Murray’s wife, Jennifer Butler, has filed for divorce from the actor after 11 years of marriage.
The costume designer alleges in a court complaint that there was abusive behavior, drug and alcohol abuse and frequent abandonment. The papers were filed by Jennifer in Charleston, South Carolina. She owns a home there.
The couple has four children together. In a statement released by Bill Murray’s attorney, it said, "He is deeply saddened by the breakup and is committed to the best interests of the couple’s four children."
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