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Fri 08 Aug 2007Screen WriterDonald Clarketoasts ye olde Hollywood drunkardHooray for Bill Murray! The famously impassive actor was arrested in Stockholm last week on suspicion of operating a golf cart while under the influence of alcohol. Raise a bigger, boozier cheer for Danny DeVito. Late last year, the spherical polymath turned up on a US chat show in a state of psychedelic drunkenness and began making delightfully inappropriate remarks about George Bush: "He has a head like a stuffed aardvark and sounds like a lobotomised baboon." George Clooney, the world's most beloved human being, jumped quickly to his friend's defence. "He is one of the funny drunks in the world as opposed to the angry, mean ones," the former Dr Ross said.