Comments on: It’s Groundhog Day – again!

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:42:38 +0000

I have to be more careful about what we sites I visit

By: Steve57

Steve57 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:37:20 +0000

Who knew? I’m getting flooded with adverts for young mothers who want to ***””. All this time living in Plano, TX, and I never knew!

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:48:42 +0000

i would contact hercule poirot just in case,

ot I can’t think of a role that andie mcdowell has been wrong in, I’m going back to st elmo’s fire where she had a small role,

there does seem to be a meta theme where policies that have been tried before and found wanting, have been taken uo again with gusto, the clean energy mirage, the hudna with the revolutionary guard and their proxies, the wonderful milieu that gave us deathwish and escape from new york extrapolated nationwide, as if everyone in public life, sans a scarce few are the townspeople in knobblers gulch,

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:41:04 +0000

And a major tragedy…in Kentucky…

Yes, I guess the stress must have been just too intense…
“Kentucky groundhog dies on Groundhog Day after making prediction of an early spring”—
https://nypost.com/2024/02/03/news/major-the-kentucky-groundhog-dies-on-groundhog-day/

(That and trying all these years to compete with Phil…)
But he gave it his all.
RIP Major…

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:18:58 +0000

Like a knight on a quest for a Holy Grail, to love others as much as he loves himself.

Tom Grey:

Pity Joseph Campbell wasn’t around to provide sage comment on Groundhog Day.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:02:02 +0000

Great movie, fine post. Again. The erotic Eros thrill of the chase, and strong feeling of achievement after a successful seduction, like he feels at some point with the blonde “from high school”, is without commitment and sort of with less meaning.
Phil changes. And, in becoming the kind of person who knows others and loves others, becomes more love-worthy himself. Like a knight on a quest for a Holy Grail, to love others as much as he loves himself. To be the best, most lovable person, to one you love who won’t settle for second best. He had to show his “real” self to Rita, AND that real self had to very attractive. To her.

Happy marriages probably include a good bit of loving the other as they are while also helping them aspire to becoming a better version of himself. Phil’s desire and willingness to become a better person is admirable. And lovable.

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 05:22:31 +0000

Razor’s Edge. I think Murray was stepping out of his clown shoes for a change.

I also think Murray is, in his way, a spiritual person. In fact still Catholic after all these years.
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You don’t need to ask if [Bill Murray’s] faith is important to him. He talks about how 19th-century candidates risk not getting canonized because the church is keen to push ahead with the likes of John Paul II and Mother Teresa. “I think they’re just trying to get current and hot,” he smiles.

One new saint he does approve of is Pope John XXIII (who died in 1963). “I’ll buy that one, he’s my guy; an extraordinary joyous Florentine who changed the order. I’m not sure all those changes were right. I tend to disagree with what they call the new mass. I think we lost something by losing the Latin. Now if you go to a Catholic mass even just in Harlem it can be in Spanish, it can be in Ethiopian, it can be in any number of languages. The shape of it, the pictures, are the same but the words aren’t the same.”

When asked if he thought hearing the Mass said in one’s own language is a good thing, he remarked “I guess,” and continued:

“But there’s a vibration to those words. If you’ve been in the business long enough you know what they mean anyway. And I really miss the music – the power of it, y’know? Yikes! Sacred music has an affect on your brain.” Instead, he says, we get “folk songs … top 40 stuff … oh, brother…”

–“Does Bill Murray do what he does because of his Catholic faith?”
https://aleteia.org/2019/01/28/does-bill-murray-do-what-he-does-because-of-his-catholic-faith/
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Who knew?

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:16:53 +0000

I cant stand that last one

Razor edge was him trying to step into tyrone powers shoes (checks notes)

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:07:21 +0000

Bill Murray is all about the redemption … with a large slice of humorous cynicism on the side. There’s more than a funny man under that hood.

“The Razor’s Edge”
“Scrooged”
“Groundhog Day”
“What About Bob?” (sort of)

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:27:41 +0000

Bill murray has a redemption arc

Hes a cynic sort of a con artist