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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor - Robert Schnakenberg</h1>
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2018-06-03
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/robert-schnakenberg/">#robert schnakenberg</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/bill-murray/">#bill murray</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995466-the-big-bad-book-of-bill-murray">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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The man. The movies. The life. The legend. He’s played a deranged
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groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a
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grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest
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national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to
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his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in
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Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the
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twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect
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of his extraordinary life and career.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>There are real biographies and biographies written by fans. This falls in the
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second, which means it's not a good biography.</p>
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<p>Here is the thing: biographies should focus on which kind of person the
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subject really is: Are they a good person or a bad person? Are they nice or
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are they assholes? And there is no exact answer for this, 'cause people can be
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nice sometimes and assholes sometimes. And you have to focus on those two; if
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you don't, you give a half-piece of who the person really is.</p>
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<p>And here is the problem with the book: Because it was written by a Murray fan,
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everything he does is written in a way to give him a good light. He fights on
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the backstage? The other actors had an issue with him, not that he had a
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problem.</p>
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<p>One such example is when the book discusses his divorces. On the second, it's
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not that Murray spent too much time away from home or wasn't lovingly; it was
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his wife asking divorce for "abandonment and physical assault". So the author
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didn't say Murray left his wife and, when together, used to beat her; <em>she
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said</em> he abandoned her and <em>she said</em> he beat her. By removing him, it turned
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a bad pair of actions into a passive description of Murray.</p>
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<p>The same goes with everything "bad" that could be said about him (like the
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cited fights with other actors/actresses). And, in the end, it puts such
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quotes like "I never had a fight with someone that didn't deserve", just to
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clean up his slate.</p>
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<p>Another example of fandom: There is only <em>one</em> movie in which Murray is a bad
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actor -- a movie with a completely disagree with the author of the book,
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"Scrooged". Everything else is cited as "a mess of a movie, but Murray gives a
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much needed appearance" as if Murray appearance was the only redeeming fact of
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every movie he appeared which bombed.</p>
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<p>And this is just my tip for you, new reader: Read it with a gain of salt, as
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this is written by a fan who don't want to see Murray in a bad light.</p>
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<p>Apart from all of this, it's a curious book 'cause, instead of going in
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chronological order, it goes in alphabetical order. Yeah, you read that right:
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Instead of going through the life events of Bill Murray, the book focus on
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things and people and movies in Bill's life: So every person who worked with
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him (maybe a few missing here), every movie made and declined, every sketch
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character, every family member, everything is there, in alphabetical order. </p>
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<p>But even with this nonsensical ordering -- which is a good match for the portrait of Murray the book wants to give -- it is, still, in the very deep, a fan book which tries to make the subject seem much better than they actually are.</p>
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