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TIL that Bill Murray had no scripted lines in the movie Caddyshack. He improvised everything. “With the Dalai Lama scene, they just sort of tossed me in there – there wasn’t much of anything. I just took it and ran away with it…Improvising about golf was easy for me.”

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