Bill Murray: -I was just dead, just broken'

www.mashget.com - 8th Oct 2008

Bill Murray: NEW YORK (AP) -- The deadpan and depressed characters Bill Murray has specialized in portraying as an actor in recent years have always stood in contrast to the life-of-the-party guy he is in real life -- whether on a golf course or shuttling people around downtown Stockholm in a golf cart, as he did last year. Bill Murray brings his own light to a screening of his new movie, "City of Ember." But Murray said he identified anew with those characters -- like the dour Herman Blume in "Rushmore" -- when his wife of nearly 11 years filed for divorce in May. In the papers filed by Jennifer Butler Murray, she alleged that Murray abused her and was addicted to alcohol and marijuana. "That was devastating," Murray said. &qu Read full story at www.mashget.com

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