1. Why is Bill Murray in Zombieland?
2. Why does Bill Murray play himself playing a zombie in Zombieland?
3. Why do so few film critics mention Bill Murray's self-aware performance—a performance upon which Zombieland's status as self-aware, semi-cool, awesome/shitty horror-comedy depends—in Zombieland (or at least not this one, this one, or this one?
4. Is Bill Murray's self-aware performance in Zombieland an answer to his serious—but unrewarded, Academy Award-wise—turns in the overrated Lost in Translation and the underrated Broken Flowers?

5. Does Bill Murray want to be a capital-A Actor (Brando, DeNiro, Penn)?
6. If Bill Murray wants to be a capital-A Actor, does his self-aware performance in Zombieland undermine that aspiration?
7. Does Bill Murray have the chops to be a capital-A Actor?
8. Is Bill Murray capital-A Acting in The Razor's Edge, or just mugging for the camera?
9. Is Bill Murray capital-A Acting in Hamlet, or just mugging?
10. Is Bill Murray capital-A Acting in Lost in Translation, or just mugging?
11. Why is the one film in which Bill Murray doesn't mug, but capital-A Acts (and Acts well), so obscure?
12. What is capital-A Acting?
13. What is lowercase-m mugging?
14. Is capital-A Acting categorically superior to lowercase-m mugging?
15. Is capital-A Acting categorically different than lowercase-m mugging?
16. Does the author have a coherent theory of the differences between capital-A Acting and lowercase-m mugging, or does he just have vague feelings?
17. Who is Bill Murray?
18. What does Bill Murray want?
19. Who is the author?
20. What does he want?

The Virgin Mobile Fest is not today’s only big event. The Reggae Summerfest is taking place in downtown DC today.  The lineup includes speedy dancehall reggae toasters Beenie Man and Capleton plus more rootsy, slower-tempoed performers such as Marcia Griffiths, Cocoa Tea, the Itals and I-Wayne.

 One of the most interesting acts on the bill is not a reggae artist. Mahmoud Ahmed is an age 60-something singer from Ethiopia, who has gained attention from non-Ethiopians since the 1990s thanks to his cuts on the widely heralded Ethiopiques compilations and director Jim Jarmusch’s usage of fellow Ethiopian Mulatu Astatke's songs in the 2005 movie Broken Flowers.  Here is some 2006 and 2008 footage of Ahmed that shows he is still vital. 

Reggae Summerfest Sunday August 30 at 12 noon with Beenie Man, Capleton, Marcia Griffiths, Cocoa Tea, I-Wayne, Mahmoud Ahmed from Ethiopia, The Itals, Jovi Rockwell, Fire Star, Kunzo & Tonestar from Nigeria, Lionize, Image Band, The Iternals, S.T.O.R.M., and more at  City Center DC, 900 9th Street NW, Washington DC 
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