the groundhog day project

 bill murray, the problematic actor; his personal life and allegations of abuse; his erratic behavior on, but mostly off, set

a blog entry about the marriages of harold ramis and bill murray, drifting into thoughts about permanence and grief, and getting sidetracked by a story idea i had years ago

a blog entry about the feud between bill murray and harold ramis and whether or not it ever ended. plus, a surprise time loop of the week: the endless

from reviews of murray's performance to my own critique of him as an actor, this blog entry reading gets interrupted by a long ramble about my favorite films, letterboxd, and my cock & bull movie talk podcast 

phil seeing rita for the first time, casting by howard feuer, the pittsburgh skyline, and time loop of the week: game changer - "deja vu"

melatonin, hibernation, the pineal gland, and the groundhog

imbolc, candlemas, the immortal punxsutawney phil, and some science behind the holiday.

continuing the cataloging of sexist details in groundhog day, touching on the topics of masculinity and femininity, empowerment and oppression, and phil's improvement as a person.

this entry was the start of a several-day attempt to catalog the specific instances of sexism in groundhog day. 

patriarchy, simulational reality, sexism, nancy, chivalry, how phil identifies others, slasher films and feminism, and i get sidetracked by siskel and ebert.