Half-Assed Internet Research
Research covers the miniature house explosion, a reported Spielberg Oscar campaign, Murray’s awards history, the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, the Virginia filming location, and Charlie Korsmo’s academic and legal career.
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- The explosion used a three-quarter-scale replica rather than destroying the expensive real house.
- Steven Spielberg is reported to have spent his own money campaigning for a Bill Murray Oscar nomination.
- The panel notes Murray has only one Oscar nomination despite his long importance to movies.
- Sean Penn’s win over Murray’s Lost in Translation performance is criticized; the winning film title is unclear in the machine transcript.
- Murray is reported to have acknowledged that aggravating Dreyfuss helped the movie.
- Dreyfuss is reported to have called the experience unpleasant while still admitting Murray made him laugh.
- A Dreyfuss account says Murray aggressively confronted him and threw a heavy glass ashtray.
- The panel condemns physical harm but treats Murray’s verbal insult as darkly funny.
- The vacation house was filmed at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.
- Charlie Korsmo is reported to have chosen What About Bob? instead of the Terminator 2 child role.
- Korsmo later earned physics and law degrees, practiced law, taught corporate law, and received a federal board nomination.
- The group calls Korsmo a legend in both acting and his later academic career.