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St. Vincent: too much lovability and not enough roguishness from Bill Murray

But you can imagine Murray’s eyes lighting up when he first saw the script - drinking! Smoking! Whoring! Betting!

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

6 December 2014

9:00 AM

St. Vincent

12A, Nationwide

Is Bill Murray fit for sainthood? Certainly his fans have him figure as some sort of lesser divinity, maybe one of the more saturnalian Greeks or pagans, with a taste for crashing karaoke parties with a pretty Dutch girl on their arm. How else to explain his mysterious deus-ex-machina drop-ins at random points around the globe — driving golf carts around Stockholm, reading poetry to construction workers in New York, acting as roadie at a rock festival in Texas? Where else does Murray’s power of deadpan derive if not the omniscience of a melancholic and slightly bored God, trying his...

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