It’s evident in two films screening at Hot Docs, the documentary film festival currently underway in Toronto: Tommy Avallone’s The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man and Lisa D’Apolito’s Love, Gilda. Gilda Radner, who died from ovarian cancer in 1989 at the age of 42, had a more complicated approach to stardom. She was simultaneously enraptured and repelled by it, as Love, Gilda makes clear. “My main priority is to be a girl,” she writes in her abundant diary notes, revealed in Love, Gilda. “My biggest motivation has always been love,” Radner wrote in another of her diary entries, and this humble statement of purpose applies equally to her and Bill Murray.

Source: thestar May 01, 2018 18:11 UTC