It was a boo boo, Mz. Spidey.
RIP Robin Williams
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After the accident that left him paralyzed, Christopher Reeve was in the hospital facing a surgery that he had a 50% chance of making it through. He was in a dark place, contemplating his own mortality.
"Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. He announced that he was my proctologist, told me to turn over and said that he had to examine me immediately...it was Robin Williams... for the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay."
~Christopher Reeve
Thanks for posting that. I'm watching and seem to be experiencing both simultaneously.
I remember seeing Robin Williams on tv with his idol Jonathan Winters. It was brilliant stuff!!
Yeah, I heard she quit Twitter. It's a shame that because of a few trolls, the rest of the world can't let her know how much love and support flow forth for her and the whole family.
He wasn't just a great actor, comedian, performer. He was such a wonderful person too.
When he quit alcohol and drugs I. Hoped he had beat his demons. Unfortunately, as is often the case, the demons were still there.
He had recently signed in to rehab, though he apparently had not started using....a meeting just wasn't enough.
This has been very difficult for some people I know who have family members dealing with depression, drug/alcohol abuse, etc.
When he quit alcohol and drugs I. Hoped he had beat his demons. Unfortunately, as is often the case, the demons were still there.
He had recently signed in to rehab, though he apparently had not started using....a meeting just wasn't enough.
This has been very difficult for some people I know who have family members dealing with depression, drug/alcohol abuse, etc.
Wife says Robin Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
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Well, and he obviously had some arthritis going on. That pain and advancing disability, and a diagnosis of Parkinson's, certainly wouldn't have helped him much if locked into a terrible depressive episode.
Not everyday do you see Jonathan Winters coming nude out of an egg.
Well, this I hadn't been aware of.
I don't think they announced it before. Nobody knew. Poor guy.
She also asserts that his sobriety was intact.
Unscripted. You can see the shadows , and they kept it in.
Saw this on Facebook today on a friends page and just had to share it:
"Robin Williams didn't die from suicide. I only just heard the sad, sad news of Robin Williams’s death. My wife sent me a message to tell me he had died, and, when I asked her what he died from, she told me something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about.
When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things – seizure, stroke, pneumonia – and when someone dies after battling cancer, and people ask “How did they die?”, you never hear anyone say “pulmonary embolism”, the answer is always “cancer”. A Pulmonary Embolism can be the final cause of death with some cancers, but when a friend of mine died from cancer, he died from cancer. That was it. And when I asked my wife what Robin Williams died from, she, very wisely, replied “Depression”.
The word “suicide” gives many people the impression that “it was his own decision,” or “he chose to die, whereas most people with cancer fight to live.” And, because Depression is still such a misunderstood condition, you can hardly blame people for not really understanding. Just a quick search on Twitter will show how many people have little sympathy for those who commit suicide…
But, just as a Pulmonary Embolism is a fatal symptom of cancer, suicide is a fatal symptom of Depression. Depression is an illness, not a choice of lifestyle. You can’t just “cheer up” with depression, just as you can’t choose not to have cancer. When someone commits suicide as a result of Depression, they die from Depression – an illness that kills millions each year. It is hard to know exactly how many people actually die from Depression each year because the figures and statistics only seem to show how many people die from “suicide” each year (and you don’t necessarily have to suffer Depression to commit suicide, it’s usually just implied). But considering that one person commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US alone, we clearly need to do more to battle this illness, and the stigmas that continue to surround it. Perhaps Depression might lose some of its “it was his own fault” stigma, if we start focusing on the illness, rather than the symptom. Robin Williams didn't die from suicide. He died from Depression*. It wasn't his choice to suffer that."
"Robin Williams didn't die from suicide. I only just heard the sad, sad news of Robin Williams’s death. My wife sent me a message to tell me he had died, and, when I asked her what he died from, she told me something that nobody in the news seems to be talking about.
When people die from cancer, their cause of death can be various horrible things – seizure, stroke, pneumonia – and when someone dies after battling cancer, and people ask “How did they die?”, you never hear anyone say “pulmonary embolism”, the answer is always “cancer”. A Pulmonary Embolism can be the final cause of death with some cancers, but when a friend of mine died from cancer, he died from cancer. That was it. And when I asked my wife what Robin Williams died from, she, very wisely, replied “Depression”.
The word “suicide” gives many people the impression that “it was his own decision,” or “he chose to die, whereas most people with cancer fight to live.” And, because Depression is still such a misunderstood condition, you can hardly blame people for not really understanding. Just a quick search on Twitter will show how many people have little sympathy for those who commit suicide…
But, just as a Pulmonary Embolism is a fatal symptom of cancer, suicide is a fatal symptom of Depression. Depression is an illness, not a choice of lifestyle. You can’t just “cheer up” with depression, just as you can’t choose not to have cancer. When someone commits suicide as a result of Depression, they die from Depression – an illness that kills millions each year. It is hard to know exactly how many people actually die from Depression each year because the figures and statistics only seem to show how many people die from “suicide” each year (and you don’t necessarily have to suffer Depression to commit suicide, it’s usually just implied). But considering that one person commits suicide every 14 minutes in the US alone, we clearly need to do more to battle this illness, and the stigmas that continue to surround it. Perhaps Depression might lose some of its “it was his own fault” stigma, if we start focusing on the illness, rather than the symptom. Robin Williams didn't die from suicide. He died from Depression*. It wasn't his choice to suffer that."
I remember seeing him in an interview- it could have been on Inside The Actors Studio- when he told the story of when he was around 13 or so and was upstairs (in the mansion) making a bunch of noise, knocking things over, etc. and his Mother yelled up the stairs 'Robin! What are you doing?' and without missing a beat he yelled back 'Masturbating!'. She never asked him again.Today's encore selection - in memory of the extraordinary Robin Williams, from Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon. This selection describes how Williams started his career. As a preamble to this selection, we include a story recounted by Groucho Marx in his 1959 book Groucho and Me:
" 'I'm sure most of you have heard the story of the man who, desperately ill, goes to an analyst and tells the doctor that he has lost his desire to live and that he is seriously considering suicide. The doctor listens to this tale of melancholia and then tells the patient that what he needs is a good belly laugh. He advises the unhappy man to go to the circus that night and spend the evening laughing at Grock, the world's funniest clown. The doctor sums it up, 'After you have seen Grock, I am sure you will be much happier.' The patient rises to his feet, looks sadly at the doctor, turns and ambles to the door. As he starts to leave, the doctor says, 'By the way what is your name?' The man turns and regards the analyst with sorrowful eyes. 'I am Grock.' "
"Robin Williams was an acting student in the early 1970s at New York's prestigious Juilliard School, where his classmates were Christopher Reeve and William Hurt. As producer George Schlatter recalls, 'He didn't graduate because they asked him to leave after his junior year. They said, "No, Robin, there's just nothing more we can teach you. So you should go out and work."' Williams himself remembers the conversation with the school's founder, the esteemed director and actor John Houseman, a bit differently: 'Mr. Williams, the theater needs you. I'm going off to sell Volvos.' ...
"Robin Williams was born in Chicago in 1952 and was raised in a well-to-do suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan, where his father was a busy senior executive with the Ford Motor Company. Neglected by his family, Williams grew up in a thirty-room mansion, where he had the entire third floor to himself. To entertain himself, he created an array of imaginary playmates. ...
Shock value knocks people off their game. That is so funny he said that. I would have laughed my a** off as his parent.
Smart and funny at 13!!
