[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.