Wow, what a sad segue into a diatribe revolving around the specific tenets of an organized religion. What if you don't believe in the whole philosophy of personal sin, guilt, and hell? That instead of believing one must go around with the stooped shoulders and hung head of self-inflicted anguish (at the prompting of others) one believes in happiness, freedom, prosperity and love - of ones self and others. Not the false "brother love" brought on by said guilt as ordained by others, but real, flowing, effervescent thrill of life? That to serve ones self is as noble and good as serving others? That it is not evil - but good and noble - to thrive and prosper and excel.

Kinda throws a wrench into the whole philosophy of guilt and coercion implicated by that comment, doesn't it? :-)

I remember one night Williams was on the Johnny Carson Show. He started ad-libbing and got on a roll. Carson just let him go on and the audience was howling and I was laughing so hard I was crying and I'm surprised I didn't piiss my pants. Two or three other guests were scheduled, but Carson preempted them with Williams and let him go the entire show. I've never seen anything like it. His synapses must have fired at 100 times the rate of most human beings, because he was dazzling in the way he went from one thing to the next in his stream of extremely funny consciousness.

Unfortunately, behind every laugh is some truth and some pain, and like many funny people, Williams had more than his share of pain. I'd pay a lot of money for a DVD of that Carson routine. This world has far too few laughs and 100-times-too-fast synapses, and now we have one less. RIP.

Huh?

The genie was the best. Disney actually re-wrote much of the film to accommodate William's antics.

Far better than his namesake from later in the century...

Unfortunately, Teddy was an early progressive... so, not so good after all.

I hated to learn that Robin Williams died yesterday. I also leaned he was 5 years younger than me. The Mork and Mindy TV show was a favorite of mine back in the 70s. Later took my kids to see some of his movies.

I have 2 movies that really made me realize what a brilliant actor he was... One was, of course, his portrayal of President Roosevelt (the good one, not FDR) in Night at the Museum... the other one, from the late 90's, was Armand Goldman in Birdcage.

Memories...

Decades ago I worked for a Toys R Us up in Santa Rosa, CA. Here's this guy - kinda short, infectious grin, with some family members in tow, and he's looking for a birthday present for his nieces. Cute kids. I knew he looked familiar, but I couldn't place it, so I asked him had he ever been to... graduated HS way before me, so that wasn't it, he lived in Marin, but not where my family lived, Never lived on the east coast but worked there for a while, but in NY, not DC... we went back and forth like that for probably 5 minutes... anyway, told him if he needed anything I'd be a couple aisles over, He told me if I figured it out to keep it quiet (which just added to the mystery... ) so I went about my business, still tying to figure out how I knew this guy...

Then one of the putzes that worked there gets on the intercom and makes a BFD about how Robin Williams was in the store, etc... They were mobbed, and I just felt... bad for them. guess I missed that silly "starstruck" gene... thank God!

Hope the hurt is finally gone, dude. Sorry you checked out, but ya know, sometimes, shit just happens. Yer gonna be missed.

Btw, has anybody else ever noticed the contradiction in a religion that has taught that suicide is a sin yet was founded by a guy who, if we believed the mythology, essentially committed what today would be called "suicide by cop".

It is truly sad that someone who had so much could be so lost that they would take their own life. What a loss to us all.
I guess God needed a great comedian.
RIP

Why? So he could go to Hell?

Snarky. She had one today also though. Lol.

That was a fantastic movie! A fave in this household.

I blame my kindle for a lot too. My favorite Robinson Williams movie is Jumanji.

Damn Mrs. JohnRobert2. I keep counting on my iPad to catch those mistakes.

Mork went back to Ork. Very sad.

Have been watching the reporting... Untimely...Sad... so many laughs... The world has lost some of what it needs most.

NAH-NU NAH-NU.

Food will hunting

I feel the same way NMA. I was so impressed with the way he transformed from comedian to actor. Dead Poets Society, The World According to Garp, Food Will Hunting. He had a minor role in one of my favorite films Dead Again. Tragic.