How the altercation of Bill Murray the "Groundhog Day" caused a 20 -year -old quarrel with the director

He did not make peace with Harold Ramis until the director is on his deathbed.


The comic partnership between Bill Murray and writer, director and actor Harold Ramis presented a series of successful comedies at the end of the 1970s and 80s, including Caddyhack And ghost hunters . But despite their success, the public has never seen them together after 1993 marmot day , an existential comedy on a grumpy meteorologist (Murray) reviving the same day again and again. Although many have speculated on the split, it was only on the death of Romis in 2014 that her daughter shared what led to the fall. Read the continuation for more details on the reasons why the two have stopped talking for more than 20 years and Murray's last visit to "Broken hearts" rowing.

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Ramis met Murray when he was a teenager.

Harold Ramis in 1985
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According to Weekly entertainment ,, Ramis met a Murray teenager While working with Murray's brother, Brian Doyle-Murray , in the second city of Chicago in the late 1960s. The three then collaborated in the years to come, starting as comrades in the theater before moving on to Lampoon Radio National Hour Show in the early 1970s. However, it was the collaborations on the big screen of Ramis and Murray that had the greatest cultural impact, starting with the 1979 Meatballs and continue with Caddyhack (Director of Director of Ramis), Grooves , And two ghost hunters movies.

In addition to being collaborators and creative co-stars, the two were so close friends that Murray was even appointed godfather of the first child in Ramis, Ramis Violet Stiel . But friendship collapsed when she was a teenager, while Ramis and Murray joined their final film.

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Filming marmot day was tense.

Murray was impressed by the 1993 concept marmot day , which he called "one of the biggest conceptual scripts that I have ever seen" in a 2014 AMA Reddit ( by mental thread ). This excitement has died when time came to play in his sixth film with Ramis, which made. According to a 2012 Weekly entertainment article, Murray's first marriage (has Margaret Kelly ) Tandoned himself at the time, and the actor would have been grumpy and difficult to work.

"Bill had all these obvious resentments towards production, so it was very difficult for a while to communicate with him," said Ramis. "The calls would not have stayed."

The director then shared how this suggestion led to a resolutely creative anger crisis. "And he said:" Okay. "He therefore hired a personal assistant who was deeply deaf, had no oral speech, only spoke of the American sign language, which Bill did not speak, nor anyone else in production," said Ramis. "It's anti-commissioning, you know? Let's not talk."

A physical altercation ended his relationship for 20 years.

Bill Murray in 1993
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Throughout the shooting, relationships got worse while the two actors argued in creative differences. In its 2018 memories Ghostbuster's daughter: life with my father , Stiel recalled how these tensions led to the end of friendship after Ramis was physical with Murray. "They had a few Arguments on the set , including one in which my father unusually lost his composure, caught Bill by the pass and pushed him against a wall, "she wrote, as quoted in the Daily mail . "Finally, Bill completely closed my father ... for the next twenty years." AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

When Stiel took the disappearance of his godfather, Ramis told him that he had tried to reach out, but Murray had refused his branch of Olivier. She wrote that the branches "The broken and confused heart" never understood exactly why he had been cut. "Some people have hypothesized that Bill may have resentful of my father's influence on his career or wondered if my father had offended or betrayed Bill in one way or another, but Really, the root of her decision remains a mystery to date, "said the daughter of Ramis explained.

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They reconciled shortly before the death of the row.

Harold Ramis in 2010
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During these two decades of silence, the row was diagnosed with autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare autoimmune disorder that led to his death in 2014. At the end of his life, he and Murray were able to resolve Their differences, according to Stiel, who described the unexpected visit of the star.

"In Bill's classic fashion, he presented himself at home, unexpectedly, at 7 am, with a police escort and a dozen donuts," she recalls in her book. At this point, the Ramis could not speak a lot, "but they spent a few hours together, laughed a little and made their peace."

When Ramis died on February 24 of the same year at 69, Murray offered this In short tribute to Time : "He won his guard on this planet. May God bless him." According to her, her relationship with Stiel was also common. "I contacted Bill a few times since my father's death but, apart from a brief text message, I have no answer," said the daughter of Ramis.

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