Murray parties with students

London – Bill Murray created a small sensation in the Scottish town of St. Andrews, joining Scandinavian students at a late-night party and even helping to wash the dishes, a newspaper reported Sunday.

In the movie “Lost in Translation,” Murray plays a lonely middle-aged actor in Japan who befriends a young American woman and goes partying with her.

And in what The Sunday Telegraph said was life imitating art, the 56-year-old Murray joined up with 22-year-old Norwegian student Lykke Stavnef, who took him to a house where a student party was in full swing.

“Nobody could believe it when I arrived at the party with Bill Murray,” Stavnef, a social anthropology student, was quoted as saying. “He was just like the character in ‘Lost in Translation.'”

The newspaper reported that Murray met Stavnef at a bar where he was drinking with fellow golfers after playing in the Oct. 5-8 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews.

To Stavnef’s surprise, Murray accepted her invitation to a party and accompanied her and her friend to a party, the newspaper said.

She said she was first concerned when the apartment had no clean glasses left, but that Murray was happy to drink vodka from a coffee cup and also helped wash dishes in the cramped kitchen.

Catch phrase elusive

New York – Maybe she’ll just say “goodnight.”

Katie Couric says about 50,000 people have sent her suggestions on how she should sign off each night’s broadcast on the “CBS Evening News.” She made the good-natured appeal for help with a new catch-phrase exit line on her first night of the broadcast last month.

She told David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show” Thursday that her favorite was “Here, kitty kitty kitty.”

Another idea alluded to her 15-year stint as NBC’s “Today” show host.

“Thanks for watching,” she said. “I’m Katie Couric, and I’m not just for breakfast anymore.”

Woodstock awards presented

Woodstock, N.Y. – In a role reversal, actors Matt Dillon and Rosie Perez got to be on the giving end of an awards show, handing out Woodstock Film Festival honors.

Dillon, an Academy Award nominee for “Crash,” presented the Trailblazer Award to Independent Film Channel Chairman Jonathan Sehring. Dillon starred in the IFC’s 2005 release “Factotum.”

“When a little indie film becomes a big hit, the producer and distributor never get the attention they deserve,” Dillon said at Saturday’s presentation.

Perez presented the Maverick Award to two-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple, whose subjects have included Woody Allen and boxer Mike Tyson.

“You have two completely different men, and they are both really messed up,” Perez said.

Kopple’s newest documentary, “Shut up and Sing,” is about the backlash against the Dixie Chicks after the country music group publicly criticized President Bush.

Julia Loktev’s “Day Night Day Night” was named Best Feature Film. It tells the story of a 19-year-old girl and the three masked men who strap a bomb to her back and drop her off in Times Square.