A photo posted to a Facebook group triggered debate just as furious as that surrounding The Dress is it Murray impersonating a crying baby, or is it Hanks?
Bill Murrays mood swings were so tempestuous during the making of Ghostbusters that Dan Aykroyd nicknamed him The Murricane. The Groundhog Day actor doesnt have an agent and instead uses a 1-800 number for pitches and offers. On his 20th birthday he was arrested trying to smuggle around 10lb of marijuana through Chicagos OHare airport. He has jammed with Eric Clapton, lived and breathed Hunter S Thompson to play him in Where the Buffalo Roam, sung a duet with Clint Eastwood and tended an Austin bar for the night with members of the Wu-Tang Clan, giving everyone tequila shots no matter what they ordered.
There is already well-established folklore around the living legend that is Bill Murray, and now we have another one: when Bill Murray does an impression of a crying baby, he looks exactly like Tom Hanks.
In the biggest optical illusion the internet has encountered since The Dress, a photo posted to the Facebook group Reasons My Son Is Crying has triggered a debate just as furious, with many people convinced its the Forrest Gump actor, despite the original post stating it was Bill Murray.
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The picture was posted to the Facebook group in 2013 by Laura DiMichele-Ross but was taken in October 2012 at St Andrews golf course in Scotland by her husband, Adam Ross. The photo features Laura holding her crying nine-month-old son, Alexander, in front of Murray, who is mimicking the childs expression.
According to DiMichele-Ross, who lives in Perthshire, the photo pops up on Facebook every few months. This week, the photo was widely shared online again and became a trending item across social media and websites including <a href=”https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/59c7dw/bill_murray_or_tom_hanks/” data-link-name=”in” body link” class=”u-underline”>Reddit
.We are finding this very funny. I personally dont see the resemblance to Tom Hanks but weve noticed that people have been mentioning it for years, she told the Guardian.
She said that Murray was friendly and chatted to everyone at the golf course but that their encounter was brief. We are big Ghostbusters fans and have grown up with his movies. Although Im also a huge fan of Tom Hanks, so that would have been awesome as well.
Two years later, DiMichele-Ross met Murray again when he was golfing with Huey Lewis, and she got him to sign the photo. He got a laugh from it, she said.
Does Alexander, who is now four, know that his photo is causing such a stir? Nope. No clue. He barely knows that its him in the photo and doesnt know who Bill is.