[devilsavocado]

I've always loved how Bill Murray toys with, and flat out ignores the media. It's funny how the reporter seems to feel entitled to be able to speak with Bill Murray. He makes it out to be a big deal, almost a personal insult and disservice, when he doesn't get to. It's simply foreign to him why someone who doesn't know him doesn't want to speak to him. The only reason he can come up with is that Bill Murray must be mad at him!

To hear these stories is refreshing, and it really flips the common narrative of movie stars looking for all the attention they can get on it's head.

[whack]

The reporter was right though. Bill Murray had actively avoided the reporter because someone else had warned him to.

But what she didn’t tell me, until confirming weeks later in a follow-up call, was that she had been uneasy enough about our interview to send Murray a warning.

Newman pulled up the exchange and read part of it to me over the phone.

Murray was already “horrified,” though we couldn’t determine if that was embarrassment about being singled out for the Twain.

Then he responded to her concerns about me.

“I’ll try to kill this,” he wrote.

The interview? The story? My career?

[devilsavocado]

Yeah, you're correct there. I'm not sure if that makes it much better though. He was even warned by the interviewee that Bill would not like what he was doing.

[matwood]

The other thing is that he is super friendly to random people on the street. I know quite a few people who have bumped into him and he always has some sort of quick joke to tell.