Your professional rivalries have evolved from backstage fistfights into toothless carping about the other's acting skills:
Veteran comedian Chevy Chase enjoyed new movie "Lost In Translation," although he wasn't so impressed with his old friend Bill Murray's performance. The "Fletch" actor - who used to regularly appear on TV show "Saturday Night Live" with Murray - was reportedly overheard commenting on Murray's acting in posh New York eaterie the Meeting House. Chase said, "I liked the movie. But I thought Billy's acting was restrained. I thought it was too controlled."
No word on Murray's reaction to Chase's performance in "Snow Day" or "The Karate Dog."
As a pretty huge Bill Murray fan, I admit to a slight tendency to view Chevy Chase as a barely talented windbag who pissed away any shred of marketability he once possessed as an actor. Murray continues to evolve as a performer, while Chase pursues any role that will give him a paycheck. Murray is no Olivier (he's providing the voice of Garfield, for crying out loud), but at least he mixes up his payday movies ("Charlie's Angels," "Osmosis Jones") with more personal roles ("Rushmore," "Cradle Will Rock").
And for the record, Chase never "appeared regularly" with Murray on "SNL." Chase was a cast member for the inaugural season, and was replaced by Murray the following year. Chase's return as a guest host elicited the aforementioned fisticuffs.
Here endeth the pointless trivia exercise.
Justin's right. The one pervading element in SNL throughout the "Live From New York" book is that from Season One through Season Current....Chevy Chase is an arrogant dick.
I'll have to avoid reading this book, even though I'm sure it's entertaining. I've always liked Chevy, mainly because of the "Fletch" movie and his role as Clark Griswold - particularly in "Christmas Vacation". He reminded me an awful lot of my Dad in that movie, and I've turned a blind eye to his lack of anything interesting or funny in the past 15 or so years because of this! Sort of like averting my eyes from a train wreck, although not one nearly on the scale of say Michael Jackson's current fiasco.
Ironically, as I loaded this page, the replay of Chevy Chase's roast from last year is playing on Comedy Central. I notice Jane Curtin is conspicuously absent - guess she hates him?
Actually, I don't care for the Fletch movies. I'm a fan of the Fletch books, and while the character played by Chase is amusing, it's not really the same as Irwin Maurice Fletcher.
Of course both he and Murray were hysterical in Caddyshack, and Vacation was good as well. I also like him in a number of movies that a lot of people can't stand, most notably Modern Problems and Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Finally, okay I admit it, I liked Foul Play. I realize there's a circle of Dante's hell reserved just for people like me.
But his funniest work was on the National Lampoon travelling show 'Lemmings'. I was able to find a video once from a Houston area shop (Audio/Video Plus for those who care) and it was riotously funny.
To paraphrase the Onion: Chevy Chase - Will his star ever stop rising?
At least we'll always have "Fletch" and "Fletch Lives."
Sigh...I actually felt sorry for the Stumbling One after his talk show tanked, but then I read excerpts from the "SNL" tell-all book that came out recently. Mr. Chase comes across as a grade-A dickhead.