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A friend owns a restaurant in Chicago. One night, Bill Murray walks in. My memory is a little fuzzy, this was 10 years ago.Anyway, Murray sits down alone, orders a meal and eats. My friend chats him up a little and asks to get a photo for behind the bar.Murray obliges but says “We should act like we’ve been hanging out drinking. It’ll make for a better story.” So, the bartender pours some shots and places a bottle on the table for the photo along with a random bowling pin.Murray says “Drunk people are always pointing, so I’ll point my finger at you in the photo.”They took about six photos together. In each, Murray is pointing his fingers and appears to be slurring his words. But it was all an act. They wrapped up the photos, Murray paid for his meal and was on his way.

Ramis and Murray had major disagreements during the making of “Groundhog Day.” Murray was starting to drift away from comedy toward more serious films, and he wanted “Groundhog Day" to be more somber and philosophical, while Ramis was trying to keep it lighter and funnier.As a result, Murray started showing up late and throwing tantrums on set. Or, at least, that's how Ramis saw it. So, Ramis started cracking the whip, which only led to more bad blood. Ramis tried to reach out to Murray a few times, but was rebuffed.They never patched things up, but Murray seemed sincerely saddened by Ramis' death.

Hey Norman! Very nice meeting you…I have an answer for you.The reason why Murray Energy has filed for bankruptcy is simple. They have a staggering, mind-boggling $2.7 billion in debt, declining sales, and no real prospect of any improvements in the future. However, do not think for a second that this means that Murray’s done. Oh no, the top publicly traded coal companies in the U.S. have all passed through Chapter 11 over the last few years, and all but a handful have come back leaner, not-cleaner, and both free from major obligations to miners and shorn of debts to both suppliers and states. Murray has already reached a deal on a $350 million bridge loan to take his company through restructuring.Robert Murray and Donald Trump are great pals. Murray supplied Trump with coal miners to use in his ads and rallies and he has literally and repeatedly forced his employees to appear in “Trump Digs Coal” spots and provided hard-hat-wearing miners to stand by as Trump makes claims that he “ended the war on coal.”See? Murray’s also the guy whose unauthorized mining practices In August 2007, led to nine miners’ deaths at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, Utah—six in an initial collapse, and three more working as rescuers 10 days later. You can find the details of that story here; Mine Owner Has History of Run-Ins on Work Issues.And now their bond is even closer since both of them are losers who have managed to drive their firms into bankruptcy…Not that Trump didn’t go all in to help his pal out as much as he could! Trump’s vaunted “deregulation” of the coal industry—which included allowing coal companies to dump more waste into streams and rivers used for water supplies; relaxing the rules on toxic coal slurry containment; eliminating regulations on greenhouse gases; and chopping in half the contributions coal companies make to supporting miners afflicted with black lung, despite a record increase in the worst form of the disease—and despite Trump making changes specifically targeted to help Murray, it still wasn’t enough. Because, as Bloomberg reports, Murray Energy has gone down.Yet it was to no avail. Coal’s too expensive, and obsolete. Natural gas and renewable energy are way less expensive, more profitable, and better for the environment. That’s why electricity providers are retiring their aging coal plants at an accelerating rate. And there’s nothing Trump can do to reverse this trend, quite the opposite…Trump also hasn’t done a thing to secure miners’ jobs, safety, or health, or to protect the funds that are supposed to be used to reclaim the land when mining is complete. But his deregulations are allowing guys like Murray to skim every last penny from a failing industry. The biggest private coal company in U.S.Expect Murray to continue propping up the myth of Donald Trump, coal and con man—while both Trump and Murray laugh at ordinary people who aren’t protected from their own actions behind the sweet wall of corporate fronts…