Hey, popular actor and comedy icon Bill Murray.

I’ll get straight to the point. When are you moving to New Bedford? Your relationship with the whaling town has always been attractive, but it’s time to commit. By all appearances, you like it here. There’s no point in denying yourself that love.

Do you remember when you saw the guys from Maaco on Potomska Street in 2014 during one of your many notable performances at The Late Show with David Letterman?They painted your old Jeep Wagoneer and you promised them advertising. You have to think the city is special to mention it during a valuable TV interview.

Lately, you’ve become a bit of a New Bedford restaurant fan. In 2019, you talked golf with locals at Cafe Mimo on Acushnet Avenue. The following year, you waited in line for burritos like any other Bill at Mi Antojo Mexican restaurant on Route 18.

Your hunger, not bound by geography, has also led you to some other gems of the south coast:

First there was Patti’s Pierogis in Fall River in 2019 with Rhode Island director Peter Farrelly. Then in 2022 you were the life of the party at Turk’s Seafood in Mattapoisett.

They were co-owners and founders of the Brockton Rox baseball team, located just off Route 24. They have Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom across the border from Massachusetts into Rhode Island.

These are just the phenomena we knowledge around.

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My point, Bill, is that if you don’t find anything you like in New Bedford, there are plenty of other places in our corner of mainland New England that would make you feel at home. You’re a man of the common people, but you’d also be in good celebrity company, with actors Sam Waterston in Mattapoisett, Tea Leoni and Jenny Slate in Dartmouth, James Spader in Marion, and maybe Harrison Ford in Westport (we’ll believe it when we see photos).

There’s still so much for you to do here on the South Coast in true Bill Murray style: crash a wedding at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, storm the field at a UMass Dartmouth football game, complete the Rose Alley Beer Summit in one day, buy everyone a round of Madeira at the Feast of the Blessed Supper, captain a Seastreak ferry to Martha’s Vineyard (your other Massachusetts hangout), and whatever else you want to do.

Sure, winter here can be cold and gray and feel like it will last the rest of our lives, but New Bedford is no Punxsutawney. If your hit 1993 film And every day the groundhog greets you were real, you would not regret spending eternity here on the south coast.

So, Bill, where do we get dinner?