Is it about the candy?
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First, I'm really here for the variety pack of Fruit Roll-Ups and Gushers.
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Is it about the candy?
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Because they’re space-themed. Get it?
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I think we can all agree that Bill Murray is the wisest man in show business. Probably. I mean, yes, definitely. So when he stopped by BuzzFeed to promote his new movie Rock the Kasbah, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity for Bill to dole out some of his wisdom to BuzzFeed staffers. After gathering some snacks from the kitchen, he sat down to offer up whatever advice he had and to answer some burning questions. Here's what happened.
Chelsea: I want to know, do you have a favorite prank to pull? Do you like pulling pranks?
Bill Murray: Well, I’m not much of a prankster because real guys, they never give up, and I’m not that organized, to really lay and wait for years and years on people. I used to call people in the middle of the night, you know: Is your refrigerator running? That kind of thing. You know what’s funny — you’re not hungry at all?
Chelsea: I’m a little hungry but I’m not like — I’ll have some snacks.
BM: I've got baby carrots and I’ve got, they said it was hummus but I’m confused about hummus. I thought hummus was chickpeas. That smells like — [he pranks Chelsea by smushing her face in a tiny package of hummus] — now that kind of thing is what I like to do. And it’s not unbelievable, but it’s what I like to do.
BM: That’s the only thing I really like to do. I like to do that with ice cream and cake.
Chelsea: What about ice cream cake?
BM: I find it the more senior the person you can get into the cake or ice cream, the better it feels. There’s just something about it. I remember getting my agent's wife into some remoulade sauce in Paris once. "Oh my god, we should send this back?" And she was the kind of person who said, "We should?" And I said, "It smells terrible. It's off. This is like two days old." Just reeled right in. Right into the remoulade. She couldn’t believe it! You know, there’s this huge seafood tower, the last thing you think is, My nose is gonna be in that thing in a second.
Chelsea: Well, the key to good prank is a setup, I think.
BM: The key is to proffer it around a little bit first. You've got to fake a couple, and don’t do it to the people you’re not going to do it to. No, no. "You don’t think that’s strange? You don’t think that smells funny?" That’s good.
Chelsea: Have you ever taken a prank too far or known someone who’s taken a prank too far?
BM: Yeah, I’ve made jokes with people, like fake tripping or something like sort of push-and-shove somebody and they have like a wooden leg, I’ve done that.
Chelsea: Oh no!
BM: Well, you know, it’s a long life. You’re gonna make some of those errors, but I find that those are stunning in their beauty. Like, my god, my complete unawareness. I’m always reminded of it. You have to delight at the realization that you're not a perfectly functioning machine.
April: I kind of have a two-part question. So, I wanna know, what was your favorite character on SNL, or any kind of impersonation?
BM: I played?
April: Yes.
BM: Well, it’s not one that most people remember — even I have trouble with it — but once I had to play a movie actor in a scene. And I was — John Belushi was playing the stuntman and I was the actor — and all I had to do was, I didn’t have many lines, and I had to do this scene and they yelled "CUT!" OK, bring in the stuntman, and they said, "Dennis, can you find your way to your trailer?" and I just said, "Yeah." That was all I did. That was all I did. I had so little to do on the show in the early days that was all I had and I had to really make something of that "yeah" moment. That was fun.
April: Now you said "'yeah' moment," — so I wanted to know, as advice asking my boss for a raise, what would be my "yeah" moment? Like, "yeah, raise."
BM: The thing about the "yeah" moment with the raise that I’ve learned is that it’s sort of suggested that you’re easily replaced, and most people aren’t easily replaced. It’s like you’re here and you’re April and you’re probably doing a fine job. And I always tell people that you have to realize that it’s gonna take them, this fella or this woman, time to replace you, and train the person that’s gonna take your job the amount of money you would save in not giving you a raise is not commensurate with what it would take to do that. So you just have to have more confidence going in.
BM: It’s like if you’re going looking for a job, or auditioning for something, you walk in and people feel nervous, like, Oh, am I good enough? That person wants the process to end right now. They want you to walk in and take the job. So if you’re asking for a higher position or more money, you have to have that confidence, you have to be completely unafraid. My friend Gilda, everything she auditioned for, she got. She didn’t want everything, but she got it anyway because she didn’t need the money. There was a difference. Most actors are starving and she was not starving. So, if you walk in there and have great confidence that you don’t need the job, people will go, like, Holy cow, look at this confident chick walking in here.
Bob: How do I keep my friends and family on their toes a little more? I’m scared they've gotten a little comfortable around me, and I want to make sure they're a little wary.
BM: Wow. You want them on their toes a little bit more. Well, are you on your toes?
Bob: Always.
BM: Really? Well if you're really on your toes and really here — you know, really here — that changes everything.
Bob: OK.
BM: What do you weigh?
Bob: I don’t know, 160 or something like that?
BM: You don’t know? Well, if you're really on your toes you'd kinda have an idea or a ballpark, you'd be all over that.
Bob: That's true.
BM: When you're with them, do you sit with them generally when you're talking to them?
Bob: Yeah, I’m usually sitting down.
BM: Try to feel the 160 pounds in your body — like, feel that weight in your pelvis when you're sitting in the chair.
Bob: I’m feeling it.
BM: All right, because you've gotta quiet down a little bit to really feel the weight a little bit, so you feel little bits in your feet on the stool — 160 pounds when you feel that weight, and you really feel like 160, got it?
Bob: Yeah.
BM: OK, so here we are now. We’re 160. Something’s different. And that’s, you know, they can feel that. They can feel that difference when you are aware of yourself — it changes the dynamic between you and them. So that change, that all of sudden brings a different kind of relationship, a different vibration you’d call it, I guess, and it changes the room. It changes the room just you're doing it now. You feel it?
Bob: I’m feeling it, yeah.
BM: That’s what I would say. And maybe, I mean, when you say, "I want them more on their toes," you probably want yourself more on your toes, more of yourself too, you want them to give more of themselves to you. So if you can do this with them — and it's hard to work with your immediate family — if you can do that with them, then they give it back to you sort of naturally and without reservation and it’s almost sort of a blessing that it comes to you because we're not really aware of what's happening, but you'll be aware of it because you're working on it.
Bob: Yeah, that makes sense. Thank you.
BM: You're welcome, I wish you luck with that.
Loryn: You seem really relaxed. I was wondering if you meditate?
BM: Well, I do. Yeah.
Loryn: Yeah? Like every day?
BM: The only thing I really do every day is scrub my teeth. That’s about it. But I’m not as organized as I look. I know I look incredibly organized, but I’m not that organized. But I find it’s, you know, I think everyone should figure out how to do it one way or another. To sit and just sort of pull yourself together first thing in the morning. Because you're sort of, you're put back together in your sleep. You're sort of reassembled. And the best time to sort of observe yourself is when you're sort of put back together first thing in the morning.
Sarah: So, you’re known for crashing parties, you know that. I was hoping you could give me advice on how to crash a party with style.
Bill Murray: With style? Well, I think it’s all about ease of entry. It’s about getting in. I used to know guys in the old days in Colorado that would find parties, and they’d have no place to stay when we’d go skiing, and they would just buy a gallon jug of wine and find a party, walk in with a gallon jug of wine, which looks like, Hey, you guys are gonna share. And what they would do is drink enough wine to fall asleep in the place and stay there. Now, that’s not what you’re looking for is it? Or is it?
Sarah: That’s a style, I think.
BM: I think the best is to have a burden, or something that’s difficult to carry, like a case of beer, and come to the door and fumble. So people will help you — they will open the door for you and usher you in. And say, “These are cold, where should I put them?” If those are your first words, then you’re already into the kitchen. And if you’re in the kitchen, you are the heartbeat of the party.
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Fans of the totally '80s and truly outrageous fictional cartoon band Jem and the Holograms, rejoice: Jem has been reborn in a live-action feature of the same name. We spent time with costars Aubrey Peeples (Jem/Jerrica) and the iconic Molly Ringwald (Aunt Bailey) to talk about the making of their new movie and, at the same time, put them to the test. Let's see how they did.
What was the first thing Aubrey thought when seeing Molly on set the first day?
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AP: What'd you write? 'Wow! It's that girl from...' [laughs] That too! I mean, there was a lot going through my mind.
MR: [To Aubrey] You write so fast!
What was the first thing Molly thought when seeing Aubrey on set the first day?
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AP: Aw! That's so nice! Thank you!
MR: I like this.
What is Molly most likely doing when she’s in between scenes on set?
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AP: I don't know if you're gonna remember doing this.
MR: That's true!
AP: We have so many pictures from when you took pictures of us and we didn't know that you were taking pictures.
MR: Oh yeah! I was all investigative.
AP: I was like, "Molly Ringwald just sent us a selfie."
MR: I was also transcribing that interview I did with Matilda for This American Life forever. It took a long time.
AP: I did not know that.
What is Aubrey most likely doing when she’s on set in between scenes?
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AP: I did watch all of those. They're amazing, by the way. Are her new ones on your Facebook page?
MR: No, she has her own Vimeo channel.
AP: Is it private or can I go see it?
MR: I think it's public, actually, yeah!
AP: She's amazing. A mini-filmmaker.
What’s Molly’s favorite ’80s movie?
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AP: I've read the book — I haven't seen that.
MR: It's really good.
What’s Aubrey’s favorite ’80s movie?
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AP: You were close!
What would Molly say is the craziest thing that happened while making this film?
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AP: It really isn't that crazy...
MR: [To Aubrey] What did you write? Oh yeah!
What would Aubrey say is the craziest thing that happened while making this film?
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AP: Yup!
MR: I'm a quick study.
In the spirit of the original, what is Molly’s favorite cartoon?
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AP: Oh, Adventure Time!
And what’s Aubrey’s favorite cartoon?
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MR: I have no idea.
AP: What did you write?
MR: The Peanuts!
AP: Oh yeah, I'm into the classics. Every Halloween you've gotta watch the island episode [of Scooby Doo].
MR: But which character [is your favorite]?
AP: Oh, Shaggy!
MR: Of course, Shaggy.
And finally: Who’s more likely to utter the phrase “truly outrageous” IRL?
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AP: Stef said it constantly on set.
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Can we make his hotline bling?
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Sarah Jessica Parker's name is synonymous with fashion, glamour, and overall fabulousness. Also the word lovely, because she is just that. But it also happens to be the name of her fragrance which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. We sat down with Sarah Jessica to talk about her scent, her favorite memory from the last 10 years, and everyone's burning question: Is she more of a Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, or Miranda? Here's what she had to say.
This is the 10th anniversary of the perfume, and you designed the bottle —
Sarah Jessica Parker: Well, I had a lot of ideas. And then we had this amazing creative director named Jon Dinapoli, right? So he really just took all of my thoughts, which were many, and very beautifully made sense of them. But this is based on a doorknob, and an old chair. The grosgrain like my shoes, let's do this on the collar. So yeah, I had lots of ideas, but a professional person made sense of them.
What has been your favorite memory in the last 10 years?
SJP: Oh my god. The last 10 years. My son is 13. So I would say probably getting news that my daughters were arriving. And sharing it with my son, as we ran to go meet them, hearing what he had to say about this introduction was pretty incredible.
I actually have a twin and an older brother, so unknowingly went through the same thing. What was your son's reaction?
SJP: He was so excited, and seeing him with them was sincerely the best memory of the last 10 years.
Besides your perfume, what is your favorite scent?
SJP: My husband and my children.
Out of all the people you've worked with, who has been the most influential?
SJP: I couldn't — there are so many people from various disciplines and parts of my life, and I don't even know their name! Maybe I saw them on the subway and I saw them be kind or funny, or look beautiful. There have been a huge amount of people that have been enormously influential in my life.
If you could give advice to your 16-year-old self, what do you think you'd say?
SJP: As much as I would want to be helpful, and try to protect her, I think my help is uninvited. I'm not one of those people who's like, "It's meant to happen," but I think it's necessary. There isn't anything that was really painful, emotionally, or hard or embarrassing or disappointing that I would change. Even the choices that I made that anybody with some maturity would advise against, I just think one has to have those experiences, and as a parent, I'm constantly trying to be certain that I'm stepping in front of every land mine, but that robs my son of a lot of opportunities to sort himself out and have coping mechanisms of his own. So it's a good idea in theory, to be able to go back, but you know what I'm saying? You can learn from it, and laugh about it, and cringe about it, and shut your eyes and try to make it go away. Revel in it, be really proud and really ashamed and really embarrassed.
Last year you were tweeting about how you missed Manhattanhenge and were really upset about it.
SJP: I was just thinking about that yesterday because the light was coming down one of those West Village streets from the river, as it does in fall, so beautifully and in such a unique way. And I was like, "Oh, it's teasing us! Manhattanhenge wants to flirt with us! I'm not falling for that this year!"
Well, I was wondering if you ever did get the chance to see it?
SJP: I've seen it for years, but I've not captured it. And it's kind of nice, because that was like my weird courtship and very short dating life with Twitter.
You have to come back!
SJP: No. No, never. I don't think I have the constitution for it. I don't think it really made my life richer, more informed or happier. I think there's a culture of cruelty that I really have a hard time understanding. And I'm trying to explain that to my son, who has to have a phone for traveling, because he now travels by himself. I feel like I wasn't suited for it. It's like a fellow, he just wasn't suited for me. But there are lots of fish in the ocean.
Would you ever consider more music roles, on Broadway or on film?
Sure. I would have to work really hard at being ready and capable and deserving. But, yes, I mean my husband and I did a little show last month in Provincetown. Which wasn't supposed to be a show, it was supposed to be a Q&A with Seth Rudetsky to benefit an organization, and we ended up having to sing. He sort of sprung it on us, which was terrifying and amusing, but I love it. It's a lot of work to do it well, but we'll see.
Speaking of singers... Bette Midler said that she'd do Hocus Pocus 2 — would you?
SJP: Yeah, I said I would! And I got in so much trouble on Twitter for it.
When's the last time you watched that movie?
SJP: Never! Or maybe when it came out.
Well, you are about to be able to see it all you want because Halloween season is upon us and it will be on TV constantly.
SJP: My girls might want to watch it. They are 6, but I'm not sure they are old enough.
Do you think you are a Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, or Miranda?
SJP: It's funny, I think my son was recently taking a quiz online that asked this question, and I don't think I got Carrie. I think in many ways I'm like Carrie because I would much prefer to be interviewing you, for instance. I'm very curious about other people, and that's why I like the subway. Because I can just watch people. That's why I like stoops — so I can just watch people. And that's why I like cities. And I love this city, and I have a fondness that is kind of hard to explain to people, so I can relate to that. I think there's not a lot about Carrie that is actually similar to my life. Our choices have been so radically different. There are certain kinds of pillars that fundamentally are different. I like clothing, but I don't have anywhere near a fevered relationship that she does.
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But would you ever give up dinner for Vogue?
SJP: No. No, I would never give up food. Ever.
Do you consider yourself a feminist, and how has your experience been being a woman in Hollywood?
SJP: Well, I live in New York. I'm from New York, so I haven't spent a lot of time in Hollywood, ever. Millions of years ago I did a bunch of plays with Wendy Wasserstein, who you may know is a great writer, and wrote not only some of the most important plays in American theater, but also was a great writer in periodicals. And she always talked about being a humanist. And I think being a child of somebody who was in the generation of the women that really fought for all the things, basically I've been saying I reaped the benefit of my mother and her friends' really hard work. And because of that, I always kind of thought of myself as a humanist, rather than a feminist. But I think in many ways it's this bundle. Because I am born a feminist in some ways — the thing that became important to me was humankind also outside of my gender. I don't know if that makes sense, and I know people have had trouble with that, and found it was like I was denying my gender, but to be honest I feel like I was born a feminist and I acquired a larger understanding of other people who are being marginalized and who I feel I have an opportunity to give voice to, along with many other people in the world. Not alone, but in concert with other people in the world.
Calling all The Wire fans.
And, as always, she slays it in every sense of the word.
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Slay, mama!
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Too soon?
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The actress, musician, comic creator, and activist turns 17 today!
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Too damn real.
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We've already crowned Shay Mitchell the Most Flawless Person on Instagram and learned that she's the queen of GIFs, so when the Pretty Little Liars star recently stopped by BuzzFeed New York to chat about her debut novel Bliss, we had her show off her stellar reaction GIF skills once again — this time helping us relate to all those terrible-slash-hilarious moments every twentysomething experiences. Here's what went down.
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Slayy Mama!
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The Kate Wave® is real.
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Wow. WOW.
Look at Jada serving it!!!!!!
You voted — here are the results.
With 527 "Fab" votes.
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With 541 "Fab" votes.
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You’ve been doing it wrong.
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It’s a walk-off!