On Hiatus, Week 4

Beast and The Beauty
I recently laughed my way through "What About Bob?"...again. But it was also an uncomfortable reminder that I once dismissed Bill Murray in a blog post as "our most overrated comic actor". Since Murray appears in three of my all time favorite comedy films...Bob...Groundhog Day and Tootsie, I had to ask myself what prompted me to dismiss him like that. Through deep self analysis, I concluded it must have been residual miffedness about him being paired romantically with Scarlett Johannson in Lost in Translation ...a film I love not because of Bill Murray, but in spite of him. Only in Harvey Weinstein World could they proffer a legitimate attraction of a sex goddess like Scarlett for the pock-marked, pulpy face of an old shoe like Murray...which would be like making a romance between Tracy Ullman and Ryan Gosling if gender bias didn't exist. Anyway, I felt the need to correct that earlier post...and so this week's detour in the Way Back Machine takes us here.