By Jim Stanford on January 24, 2007
“What an incredible Cinderella story! This unknown, comes out of nowhere, to lead the pack … at Corbet’s. He’s ripping from the East Ridge Chair, about 455 yards away, going to take air over a mogul, I think. [Swishes, takes out a rope] Oh, he got all of that. The crowd is standing on its feet here at Corbet’s. The normally mellow crowd is going wild … for this young Chicago wiggler who’s come out of nowhere.
He’s got about 20 yards left, he’s going to drop about 30 feet, it looks like, don’t you think? He’s got a beautiful carve … [Swishes onto goat path] That’s — Oh, he got all of that one! He’s gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is just on its feet here. He’s a Cinderella boy. Tears in his eyes, I guess, as he lines up this last drop. He’s on the edge of the cliff, and he’s got a, looks like he’s got a soft landing.
This crowd has gone deadly silent … Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now, about to style Corbet’s. [Swishes, sticks jump into couloir] It looks like a mirac- He’s in the Hole! He’s in the Hole!”
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Now we know what that smoke was pouring out of the gondola back around Christmas: Kentucky bluegrass. A friend in the Bridger Center snapped this pic of Bill Murray on her cell phone. Must be sponsored by North Face.
Photo was taken as Murray purchased lift tickets. A female companion said to him that she was going to go inside Jackson Hole Sports to buy something to keep her goggles from fogging. “You don’t just spit in them and wipe it?” Murray reportedly asked. No, she told him, they make some kind of stuff in a can.
Murray turned to my friend, who had snapped this photo, and said, “Do you think they have a factory somewhere where people spit in a can?”
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How could I not recognize Bill Murray’s riveting soliloqy from Caddyshack?
Bill Murray? Ryan Leaf? I want some Paris Hilton dammit.