In Barry Levinson’s Rock the Kasbah, Bill Murray plays a cantankerous, on-the-outs record producer who insists he’s still got it. (He doesn’t.) It’s sort of a play on his 1970s SNL character Jerry Aldini. Murray accidentally becomes a talent scout for Afghanistan’s version of American Idol and goes on one of those wacky trips during which he experiences zany antics and eventually an epiphany. The movie also features Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, and Bruce Willis. No word yet if the shareef don’t like it.
Murray also appeared in Darlene Love’s new video for “Forbidden Nights.†The legendary wall-of-sound singer has a new album, Introducing Darlene Love, coming out in September. It features Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Webb, Linda Perry, and Steven Van Zandt. The video also features appearances by Springsteen, Costello, Van Zandt, Joan Jett, David Letterman, and Paul Shaffer. It’s a pretty spectacular video.