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"Bill Murray crashed my karaoke session." "Bill Murray walked into my friend's house party and washed all the dishes." "Bill Murray photobombed our engagement pictures." Reports of the comedy icon spontaneously interacting with complete strangers in unexpected situations are legion, inspiring dozens of websites, hashtags and memes. Beyond the hilarity of the stories themselves, filmmaker Tommy Avallone is fascinated by their contrast to the enigmatic celebrity. Why would someone so famously averse to publicity create scores of moments guaranteed to be instantly and wildly public? So begins this laugh-out-loud quest to discover which "Bill Murray stories" are true and, more to the point, what's in it for the mythical man himself. An imaginative investigation turns up an inspiring lesson for everyone, whether famous or perfectly average: all we have is the fantastically strange and fleeting now. Myrocia Watamaniuk