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Thread: Feels like losing a friend: Robin Williams
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Nicolemr
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RIP ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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rexory
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I'm shattered, too. So many great moments; such a great loss.
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Pyx_e
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O Captain! My Captain!
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mousethief
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May his memory be eternal. What a talent.
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balaam
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It is so sad when someone who has brought so much joy to so many loses their joy. Adiction sucks.
RIP
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Macrina
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Desperately sad ![[Frown]](frown.gif) RIP Robin.
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QLib
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Curiosity killed ...
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I heard the news as it came in last night and saw the devastation expressed by so many comedians on Twitter as they saw the news. So many of the comments talked about his humanity, his honesty about addictions, his groundedness, his need to perform and those amazing films. Robin Williams is so much a part of everyone's lives through his films.
Anyone else tried explaining Mork and Mindy to their children this morning?
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Marvin the Martian
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A genuinely sad loss
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Clarence
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It seems I was just the right age to follow Robin Williams: I can do an Orkian handshake, he freaked me out in The World According to Garp, made me launch and cry in Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets Society. He was a piece of my adolescence.
I will miss him.
Nanoo nanoo Robin Williams.
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Pine Marten
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I've just found out - how sad. One of my favourite films of his is The Fisher King.
RIP, Robin
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Gill H
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# 68
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Genie, I wish you free.
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Starbug
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So very, very sad.
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L'organist
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Shazbot.
A tragic loss
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Kelly Alves
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Can't really wrap my mind around this.
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Caissa
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It was a shocking piece of news to awake to this morning.
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moonfruit
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It's hard to explain why this saddens me quite so much. But it does.
This tweet: Genie, you're free nearly made me cry.
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Barnabas62
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I was absolutely gutted. It did feel exactly like losing a friend.
Time for Smokey Robinson I think. The private cost of being publicly hilarious seems, far too often, to be far too high.
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Schroedinger's cat
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I missed the Mork and Mindy years, but he was superb in Good Morning Vietnam (and I don't think anyone else could have played that role so well), Mrs Doubtfire, and Dead Poets Society. I know that DPS is a bit nerdy to like, but it was a brilliant film, if you ignore trying to find metanarratives etc.
Such a good actor, who could bring comedy and engagement to a role. So sad that he could not fight the demons any more.
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Taliesin
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Captain, my captain...
Seizing the day.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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I worked in an infant toddler room today. In my (toddler)room two kids kept crying for their mommies, and in the infant room two kids had colic and kept shrieking nonstop all day. It seemed eerily appropriate after reading the news this morning.
But now I am going to bed.
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Mamacita
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This one really hurt.
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Wesley J
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Agreed. Sadness.
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irish_lord99
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For whatever reason this has troubled me more than the death of any other actor or celebrity in recent memory. My mind almost rejects it, like I keep thinking he's gonna pop back into the headlines with a big grin saying "Gotcha!"
I can't believe he's gone. Memory eternal.
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RuthW
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I got to watch Robin Williams work when one of his movies spent 8 days filming at the church where I work. It wasn't a good movie, but he was amazing -- spent the entire time on, entertaining everyone. And he was a really nice guy, too.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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What a privilege, RuthW! A memory to cherish.
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Rev per Minute
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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
I got to watch Robin Williams work when one of his movies spent 8 days filming at the church where I work. It wasn't a good movie, but he was amazing -- spent the entire time on, entertaining everyone. And he was a really nice guy, too.
A lot of comments have made that same point - he seems to have always been nice when on show, though I guess his family saw differently when he was on the drink, etc. a great guy and a great loss.
The phrase that has kept coming to mind since I heard the news, with 'Goooooooooooooooooood morning Vietnam!', is
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This will not look good on my résumé!
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Golden Key
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# 1468
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I've been imagining him reuniting with his buddy, christopher Reeve. Trash talking, joking, etc.
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Kelly Alves
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This is a happy- making idea.
Couple notes: ordinarily I would think sniffing at the idea of memorializing a " nineteenth century nobody" a little harsh, but in reading up on Waldo, he does indeed seem like a pretty humdrum stereotypical Eastern money guy of the type that rolled into Northern California in droves during the Gold Rush and distinguished themselves by buying up land, putting other people to work on building stuff, and slapping their name on it. (See: Brisbane, Baden, Burlingame, Daly, etc.) No disrespect to Mr. Waldo, it just seems like his main legacy is his name. ( which will remain on the Waldo Grade, after all. )
The Waldo Tunnel, as mentioned in the article, does indeed seem to be a center of meteorilogical weirdness-- due to the meticulously compartmentalized microclimates in the Bay Area, very regularly the northbound entrance of the Waldo Tunnel-- the one decorated with a rainbow-- delivers travelers straight from a bank of thick fog to impossibly clear skies, like the Marin County customs bureau restricts the fog at the county line, or something.
The petition makes the argument that the weather- changing reputation of the tunnel well reflects the effects of Williams's talent and generous spirit, and plus the iconic rainbow arch coincidentally pays tribute to "Mork's" trademark suspenders. I think it is a wonderful idea, and sincerely hope this goes through.
[ 25. August 2014, 22:57: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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JoannaP
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I can't quite believe that I have only just remembered this ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) , but I have remembered the episode of Homicide, in which Robin Williams made a guest appearance as a man visiting Baltimore with his family when his wife was killed. That was a damn fine episode.
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