We’d like to thank Agnes for sharing this story. It was November 2000. I was smoking a cigarette on Mercer Street in NYC with my friend Judy. We were outside of a (now shuttered) toy store named The Enchanted Forrest, waiting for a couple people who were still in the store. I was facing the storefront […]
Tag: New York City
Here are some Bill Murray stories that take place in New York City.
The Rockettes
We’d like to thank Wendy for sharing this story Back in 1977, my friend Lisa and I saw a Linda Ronstadt concert at Radio City Music Hall with my Mother. Then we attended a small after-concert party. We were studying a picture on the wall of the Rockettes, when an ordinary-looking guy, in a down […]
Scrooge-y Bill and the Mysterious Mom
From Scandal: A Manual, the memoir of George Rush and Joanna Molloy, whose syndicated column, Rush & Molloy, ran in the New York Daily News for 15 years. Over the years, we’d heard – usually from paparazzi – that Bill Murray could be a jerk. But we’d also heard he had another side. An old friend […]
Bill Murray Saved My Life
We’d like to thank Andrew Arnett for sharing this story On January 22, 1982, Bill Murray saved my life. I was at Madison Square Garden to see The Police with my friend Pete. We had tickets in the blue section, or “Blue Heaven” as it was referred to, because it was all the way back […]
The Inspiring Mr. Murray
We’d like to thank Andy for sharing this story. Somewhere back around 2006 my special needs son Jayden was constantly in and out of hospitals for brain surgeries after being devastated by the after effects of meningitis. After one such stay at Presbyterian Hospital in NY, my son and I were waiting in front for […]