Robert Schnakenberg. (2015). The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor. Quirk Books.

Robert Schnakenberg. 2015. The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor. Quirk Books.

Robert Schnakenberg, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor. Quirk Books, 2015.

Robert Schnakenberg. The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor. Quirk Books, 2015.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/FA8/788/FF/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/FA8/788/FF/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
     3. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00RKQ64J8
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781594748011

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Robert Schnakenberg

title

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

dateAdded

2015-09-29T18:33:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2156795
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Big Bad Book of Bill Murray A Critical Appreciation of the Worlds Finest Actor

crossRefId

2156795

subtitle

A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor

id

FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB

starRating

3.1

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: TheBigBadBookofBillM_9781594748226_2156795
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 64680006
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 9/15/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fa8788ff-5651-4e77-9012-1b86e3cbd2eb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: TheBigBadBookofBillM_9781594748226_2156795
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
     3. • type: ASIN
        • value: B00RKQ64J8
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 9/15/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fa8788ff-5651-4e77-9012-1b86e3cbd2eb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: TheBigBadBookofBillM_9781594748226_2156795
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 64680013
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781594748226
     2. • type: PublisherCatalogNumber
        • value: 250659
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 9/15/2015
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fa8788ff-5651-4e77-9012-1b86e3cbd2eb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: Biography
2. • value: Comedian
3. • value: Bill Murray
4. • value: Caddyshack
5. • value: Film criticism
6. • value: Movies
7. • value: ghostbusters
8. • value: autobiographies
9. • value: stripes
10. • value: Film
11. • value: Cinema
12. • value: Comedy
13. • value: meatballs
14. • value: Wes Anderson
15. • value: SNL
16. • value: Saturday night live
17. • value: biographies
18. • value: Hollywood
19. • value: Pop Culture
20. • value: Chicago
21. • value: Groundhog Day
22. • value: gifts for dad
23. • value: lost in translation
24. • value: movie history
25. • value: rushmore
26. • value: books for dad
27. • value: moonrise kingdom
28. • value: funny books for adults
29. • value: life aquatic
30. • value: scrooged
31. • value: geek gifts
32. • value: comedy movies
33. • value: gifts for movie lovers
34. • value: gifts for movie buffs
35. • value: bill murray gifts
36. • value: funny movies
37. • value: bill murray movies

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Schnakenberg, Robert
   • bioText: Robert Schnakenberg has written more than a dozen books about American history and pop culture. His three favorite Bill Murray movies are Rushmore, Lost in Translation, and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, but his favorite Bill Murray character is the host of Saturday Night Live’s ¿Quién Es Más Macho? For the record, he believes Ricardo Montalbán es más macho. He lives in New York City.
   • name: Robert Schnakenberg

publishDate

2015-09-15T00:00:00-04:00

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

fullDescription

New York Times bestseller!

This fun-loving celebration of Bill Murray offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the actor’s life and career—from films like Groundhog Day to his serial “photobombing”—with over 75 photos.

Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter—and all fun—this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary “Murray stories,” and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer.
He’s played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career.
He’s the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. He’s famous for crashing house parties all over New York City—and if he keeps photobombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet.

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: Geeks of Doom
   • content: "...sprawling, unconventional, hilarious, and wonderful."
2. • premium: False
   • source: Pop Matters
   • content: "The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray is unquestionably as definitive as it gets. Read it to your friends at a party or read it by yourself in the bathroom. No matter how you approach Schnakenberg's work, you will be both edified and regaled."
3. • premium: False
   • source: The Freelance-Star
   • content: "...as multi-faceted as Bill Murray."
4. • premium: False
   • source: Alive
   • content: "Bill Murray is an American Treasure. With The Big Bad Book Of Bill Murray fans of all ages are treated to an encyclopedic examination of the actor, his roles, his co-stars and his odd antics."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Bucks County Courier Times
   • content: "For Murray fans, this appears to be the ultimate resource on the eccentric comic/actor."
6. • premium: False
   • source: Erie Times-News
   • content: "Fans of actor and comedian Bill Murray can revel in The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray by Robert Schnakenberg."
7. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from July 1, 2015
     

     Schnakenberg (Encyclopedia Shatnerica) gives Bill Murray the A-to-Zombieland treatment in this alphabetically arranged presentation of the 64-year-old actor's life. While a chronological biography would have been conventional, this method better fits Murray's mercurial personality. Each of his films (through 2014) are given an individual entry, but while readers can flip to Lost in Translation, something like "Sabbatical," referencing Murray's six-month retreat to Paris in 1984, lends greater insight to the Hollywood star who relies on a secret 800 number and dead drops to obtain prospective scripts. Speaking of the toll-free number, the author wasn't able to contact Murray about this book; however, meticulous research fills the volume with quotes from Murray as well as his friends, family, costars, and directors. Schnakenberg masterfully captures Murray the brilliant, difficult-to-work-with performer as well as Murray the trickster who plays kickball with college students, hands a blank check to an ichthyologist, and reads poetry to construction workers. VERDICT This resoundingly successful work offers a unique approach to an unapproachable figure. Highly recommended for libraries serving pop culture buffs and a must-read for Murray aficionados.--Terry Bosky, Madison, WI

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

popularity

272

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/fa8788ff-5651-4e77-9012-1b86e3cbd2eb/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

fa8788ff-5651-4e77-9012-1b86e3cbd2eb

starRating

3.2

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/FA8/788/FF/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0111-1/FA8/788/FF/{FA8788FF-5651-4E77-9012-1B86E3CBD2EB}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Biography & Autobiography
2. • value: Performing Arts
3. • value: Nonfiction
4. • value: Humor (Nonfiction)

publishDateText

09/15/2015

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9781594748011

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

New York Times bestseller!

This fun-loving celebration of Bill Murray offers a behind-the-scenes peek into the actor’s life and career—from films like Groundhog Day to his serial “photobombing”—with over 75 photos.

Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter—and all fun—this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary “Murray stories,” and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer.
He’s played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on...

sortTitle

Big Bad Book of Bill Murray A Critical Appreciation of the Worlds Finest Actor

crossRefId

2156795

subtitle

A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor

publisher

Quirk Books

bisacCodes

1. • code: BIO005000
   • description: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
2. • code: HUM020000
   • description: Humor / Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture
3. • code: PER004090
   • description: Performing Arts / Film / Genres / Comedy