The Intersection with Fame: A Personal Encounter with Bill Murray

When I saw someone famous, my brain would stop being able to concentrate on anything else. Having had a little bit of an intersection with fame myself, I know that Bill Murray could tell who in the room was most sort of like him by his presence. He was incredibly generous, and as I came up behind him in line to get some food, he was very sweet and like "How you doing?" shaking my hand and introducing me to my mom, he reached out to my mom and went "Oh, you got a spot on your shirt." She looked down, and it was like again, this is an incredibly generous thing to do. It's not necessarily incredibly creative, but holy, I mean, I'm not criticizing it for that; it's a great thing to do because it's such a funny, sweet, weird familiar thing to do to someone you don't know. At 19 years old, I was just like, "I couldn't believe what I was seeing" – what is just lovely? It was just delightful and lovely.

My Favorite Ghostbusters Film

My favorite Ghostbusters film is GB1; it's an unqualified masterpiece. My new favorite might be Afterlife, but I have not seen it yet. I know a lot about how it plays out and I've seen some of it, but I'm really excited to see the whole thing – I really cannot wait because it could be something great. It could be amazing; it could be incredible. GB1 dude, it's just... it's the film that everyone else should watch as well. Let's see what else we have here.

How Old Was I When I First Saw Ghostbusters?

I was 17 when I first saw Ghostbusters. Oh okay, you're literally watching me read; I'm so sorry, I should have done a little more work here... um, okay, so I sort of answered this but Mark A.B. (1975) says with your skills and model-making effects, props, etc., are you able just to sit down and enjoy a movie like Ghostbusters? Are you always looking at what the people who worked on the film have done? I said I don't have a problem in a good film of suspending my disbelief and just following the action. But he also adds, maybe getting inspiration or thinking about how you might have done something differently. Yeah, I am always... I'm always looking to be inspired by objects – certainly even when I watch a movie that I've seen a hundred times. I might ask myself, as characters in the movie handle and work with objects in the movie, "Would I be happier if I had one of those?" or "Would this experience do something interesting? What would...?"

Inspiration from Film and Prop-Making

Sometimes inspiration comes fast; sometimes it comes after years of watching a movie. When I first walked into the Stanley Kubrick exhibit down at LACMA, a few years ago, I did not expect that prop to capture me. I've watched Dr. Strangelove 20 times in my life – twice on the big screen – and it's an amazing movie; it's an amazing film. Oh my god... you should watch it right now. We should all watch Doctor Strangelove right now, now that I realized how great it is.

The Significance of Film and Prop-Making

When someone pointed out recently that there will be a documentary about COVID-19 in 10 years from now, starting with an anecdote about the release of the television series Chernobyl... Well, thank you so much for watching that video; your viewership keeps the lights on here at Tested. We are grateful if you'd like to support us further by following some of the links below to our merch store, where we have some Christmas specials going on – a limited edition Tested Rickshaw Ornament. We've only got a couple hundred of these, and when they're gone, we're never making any more. We also have the Tested logo ornament, both of which change colors sitting on your tree, if you do get them and you do hang them on your tree... we'd love to see pictures – nothing pleases us more than seeing our merch out in the real world. Happy Christmas; happy holidays; see you in the new year!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: endanielle tilly says do you have a bill murray story i've heard so many fun bill murray stories so i'm hoping you have one too i do have a bill murray story and it's it's it's pretty good um i met bill murray the first time in 1986 i think so i ended up meeting bill murray three three or four times uh on the periphery uh he lives he lived for a while um in a small enclave in uh on the on the west side of the hudson river called sneden's landing which is where my mom grew up and where my grandmother lived uh and so uh every year in students there's there was for many years the famous norman's christmas party uh and uh i i met bill and his brother a couple times at the norman's christmas party um but that was just that was like yeah that was like 86.87 but in in 86 uh my dad uh had some dealings with bill uh for a thing i i i can't even remember what it was oh right it was the yeah sure i could talk about this it's the century association which is a a a club in new york and my father was a member it's a club of artists uh and movers and shakers and i mean the classic new york club kind of thing they didn't let women in until i think the 80s and the first one was jackie onassis like that kind of club right um but in order to become a member you got sponsored by other members and they wrote letters uh to recommend you and my dad was introduced to bill murray by a mutual friend who said you know i think lee savage my dad would write you a letter and my dad did and then bill became a member of the century club and as such new members uh often have a an evening or they they i don't know what the tradition is but bill hosted a reading at the century club for about about 40 people 50 people um he write a short story and he read a poem it was a poem by browning i feel like it was i can't remember who wrote the short story but it was a short story about a dad getting in a fight in front of his kid and realize ghostbusters came out in 84. this is 1986 bill murray is still like he's one of the biggest movie stars in the world so i'm 19 and i cannot believe that my dad somehow knows bill murray even peripherally and when i go to the century club and i see this reading and i see him reading my mind is completely blown um after the reading they set up a buffet and everyone lines up and i can't see anybody in the room but bill mart right this is what happens when you see someone that famous you just your brain stops being able to concentrate on anything else now having had a little bit of an intersection with fame myself i know that bill could tell who in the room was most sort of like by his presence uh and he was incredibly generous so as i came up i was behind him in line to get some food he was very sweet and like hey how you doing uh shook my hand uh and then i introduced him to my mom and he reached out to my mom and he went oh you got a spot on your shirt and she looked down and he did the nose thing too and it was like again i submit this is an incredibly generous thing to do it's not incredibly creative but holy i mean i'm not criticizing it for that it's a great thing to do because it's such a funny sweet weird familiar thing to do to someone you don't know and 19 year old me was just like i couldn't believe what i was seeing what is just lovely it was just delightful and lovely that's that's my bill murray story i didn't expect to tell that um yeah those are the last times i ever saw that i saw bill um let's see which ghostbusters film is my favorite my favorite is gbe one my favorite is gb1 it's an unqualified masterpiece my new favorite might be afterlife but i have not seen it yet i know a lot about how it plays out and i've seen some of it but i cannot wait to see the the whole thing i really cannot wait because it it i'm really excited by by what it could be but gb1 dude it's the it's the film okay let's see what else do we have here um how old was i when i first saw ghostbusters well it's 84 so i was 17. um oh okay you're literally watching me read i'm so sorry i should have done a little more work here um okay so i i sort of answered this but mark ab 1975 says with your skills and model making effects props etc are you able just to sit down and enjoy a movie like ghostbusters are you always looking at what the people who worked on the film have done i said i i don't have a problem in a good film of suspending my disbelief and just following the action um but he also adds maybe getting inspiration or thinking about how you might have done something differently um yeah i am always i'm always looking to be inspired by objects so certainly even when i watch a movie that i've seen a hundred times i might be asking myself a question as characters in the movie handle and work with objects in the movie i might say oh would i be happier if i had one of those would that would that experience do something interesting what would yeah maybe i want an elite theometer man do i want an elite theometer uh sometimes the inspiration comes fast sometimes it comes after years of watching a movie i've been working slowly for years on replicating an edition of major kong's survival pack from dr strangelove and when i first walked into the stanley kubrick exhibit down at lacma a few years ago i did not expect that prop to capture me i've watched that film 20 times in my life twice on the big screen it's an amazing movie it's an amazing movie oh my god you should watch it right now we should all watch doctor strangelove right now now that i realized because it's one of the funniest movies ever made and when you're done watching it you're like because what it has to say about humanity is not pretty and borne out by recent events somebody pointed out recently that they that that any documentary like 10 years from now there'll be a documentary and about this time about covin and it will begin with an anecdote about the release of the television series chernobyl and that there'll be all of these hot takes for people going chernobyl is great but come on humanity would never respond to a big disaster so ridiculously like that right there's no government in the world that would be so irresponsible with their response yeah thank you so much for watching that video your viewership keeps the lights on here at tested and we are grateful if you'd like to support us further well by all means follow some of the links below to our merch store where we've got some christmas specials going on a limited edition tested rickshaw ornament we've only got a couple hundred of these and when they're gone we're never making any more we also have the tested logo ornament both of these change colors sitting on your tree and if you do get them and you do hang them on your tree why we'd love to see pictures nothing pleases us more than seeing our merch out in the real world happy christmas happy holidays and see you in the new yeardanielle tilly says do you have a bill murray story i've heard so many fun bill murray stories so i'm hoping you have one too i do have a bill murray story and it's it's it's pretty good um i met bill murray the first time in 1986 i think so i ended up meeting bill murray three three or four times uh on the periphery uh he lives he lived for a while um in a small enclave in uh on the on the west side of the hudson river called sneden's landing which is where my mom grew up and where my grandmother lived uh and so uh every year in students there's there was for many years the famous norman's christmas party uh and uh i i met bill and his brother a couple times at the norman's christmas party um but that was just that was like yeah that was like 86.87 but in in 86 uh my dad uh had some dealings with bill uh for a thing i i i can't even remember what it was oh right it was the yeah sure i could talk about this it's the century association which is a a a club in new york and my father was a member it's a club of artists uh and movers and shakers and i mean the classic new york club kind of thing they didn't let women in until i think the 80s and the first one was jackie onassis like that kind of club right um but in order to become a member you got sponsored by other members and they wrote letters uh to recommend you and my dad was introduced to bill murray by a mutual friend who said you know i think lee savage my dad would write you a letter and my dad did and then bill became a member of the century club and as such new members uh often have a an evening or they they i don't know what the tradition is but bill hosted a reading at the century club for about about 40 people 50 people um he write a short story and he read a poem it was a poem by browning i feel like it was i can't remember who wrote the short story but it was a short story about a dad getting in a fight in front of his kid and realize ghostbusters came out in 84. this is 1986 bill murray is still like he's one of the biggest movie stars in the world so i'm 19 and i cannot believe that my dad somehow knows bill murray even peripherally and when i go to the century club and i see this reading and i see him reading my mind is completely blown um after the reading they set up a buffet and everyone lines up and i can't see anybody in the room but bill mart right this is what happens when you see someone that famous you just your brain stops being able to concentrate on anything else now having had a little bit of an intersection with fame myself i know that bill could tell who in the room was most sort of like by his presence uh and he was incredibly generous so as i came up i was behind him in line to get some food he was very sweet and like hey how you doing uh shook my hand uh and then i introduced him to my mom and he reached out to my mom and he went oh you got a spot on your shirt and she looked down and he did the nose thing too and it was like again i submit this is an incredibly generous thing to do it's not incredibly creative but holy i mean i'm not criticizing it for that it's a great thing to do because it's such a funny sweet weird familiar thing to do to someone you don't know and 19 year old me was just like i couldn't believe what i was seeing what is just lovely it was just delightful and lovely that's that's my bill murray story i didn't expect to tell that um yeah those are the last times i ever saw that i saw bill um let's see which ghostbusters film is my favorite my favorite is gbe one my favorite is gb1 it's an unqualified masterpiece my new favorite might be afterlife but i have not seen it yet i know a lot about how it plays out and i've seen some of it but i cannot wait to see the the whole thing i really cannot wait because it it i'm really excited by by what it could be but gb1 dude it's the it's the film okay let's see what else do we have here um how old was i when i first saw ghostbusters well it's 84 so i was 17. um oh okay you're literally watching me read i'm so sorry i should have done a little more work here um okay so i i sort of answered this but mark ab 1975 says with your skills and model making effects props etc are you able just to sit down and enjoy a movie like ghostbusters are you always looking at what the people who worked on the film have done i said i i don't have a problem in a good film of suspending my disbelief and just following the action um but he also adds maybe getting inspiration or thinking about how you might have done something differently um yeah i am always i'm always looking to be inspired by objects so certainly even when i watch a movie that i've seen a hundred times i might be asking myself a question as characters in the movie handle and work with objects in the movie i might say oh would i be happier if i had one of those would that would that experience do something interesting what would yeah maybe i want an elite theometer man do i want an elite theometer uh sometimes the inspiration comes fast sometimes it comes after years of watching a movie i've been working slowly for years on replicating an edition of major kong's survival pack from dr strangelove and when i first walked into the stanley kubrick exhibit down at lacma a few years ago i did not expect that prop to capture me i've watched that film 20 times in my life twice on the big screen it's an amazing movie it's an amazing movie oh my god you should watch it right now we should all watch doctor strangelove right now now that i realized because it's one of the funniest movies ever made and when you're done watching it you're like because what it has to say about humanity is not pretty and borne out by recent events somebody pointed out recently that they that that any documentary like 10 years from now there'll be a documentary and about this time about covin and it will begin with an anecdote about the release of the television series chernobyl and that there'll be all of these hot takes for people going chernobyl is great but come on humanity would never respond to a big disaster so ridiculously like that right there's no government in the world that would be so irresponsible with their response yeah thank you so much for watching that video your viewership keeps the lights on here at tested and we are grateful if you'd like to support us further well by all means follow some of the links below to our merch store where we've got some christmas specials going on a limited edition tested rickshaw ornament we've only got a couple hundred of these and when they're gone we're never making any more we also have the tested logo ornament both of these change colors sitting on your tree and if you do get them and you do hang them on your tree why we'd love to see pictures nothing pleases us more than seeing our merch out in the real world happy christmas happy holidays and see you in the new year\n"