RIP Robin Williams

The stuff involving Plummer-Williams-Ruehl-Bridges is terrific.

isn't this the entire cast

Some random familiar faces in this, too, like David Hyde Pierce and Tom Waits. But yeah, the four person axis is pretty much everybody and all the speaking roles, save Michael Jeter, who is also pretty intense in this.

it's just outrageously corny and hence untruthful

I meant the four of'em together, which takes almost an hour to happen.

xpost That's one of the many things so strange about the movie. Like I said, it was way more Gilliam-y than I remembered, but the story did not necessarily call for the Gilliam touch. So there are these weird glimmers of fantasy and ... not truth, interspersed with these moments of raw emotion. Very awkward, precarious mix. I mean, jeez, there is a scene where Robin Williams' wife's brains are blown out all over his face.

i saw a similar brains-blowing scene the other night in Raul Ruiz's City of Pirates, a much funnier film

anyway, which of RW's standup lines have been repeated most often? I think "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money."

God fucked up and creating the platypus.

Or was that George Carlin.

Another wrinkle:

Robin Williams Had Early Parkinson's, Wife Says

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/robin-williams-death/robin-williams-had-early-parkinsons-wife-says-n180826

Wau

:(

i wondered whether health news had inspired this

the guy was already walking on a wire when he COULD be constantly active

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XiooG_Zrmc

anyway, which of RW's standup lines have been repeated most often?

Among Reagan-era early teens, the "heat-seeking moisture missile" one.

http://petapixel.com/2014/08/14/photographer-photographs-two-mimes-1974-realizes-35-years-later-one-robin-williams/

awesome

I rescreened The Best of Times last night. Still holds up. I forgot the Under Fire team of Roger Spottiswoode and Ron Shelton directed and wrote it, which explains how well drawn the townspeople are.

I once dated someone who had a family connection to Taft, CA where The Best Of Times was filmed. Underrated movie and does get a little bit of the town's feel
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/taft-has-special-connection-to-robin-williams-williams-filmed-one-of-his-earlier-films-there-081214

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LA4gJeCio

^if you get the Smith Barney joke you're at least 45

don't be so optimistic

hey at least I didn't post the Leo Gorcey/Boys in the Band sketch

i never thought i'd have any good will for nikki sixx

hey at least I didn't post the Leo Gorcey/Boys in the Band sketch

A friend reminded me of this insanity today.

is the joke that houseman was the pitchman for smith barney

wow how droll

i never thought i'd have any good will for nikki sixx

Tommy Lee called him the kindest man he ever met.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuzvFhsIgAErJxL.jpg

this is my favorite recent robin williams movie moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4n_lKjvwU

is that worth seeing? I haven't seen a Bobcat movie since Shakes the Clown (which tbf is one of my favorite movies ever)

yes, it's worth seeing

poly, I didn't claim it was droll, i claimed it was OLD

why was John Houseman famous anyway? I never saw him in anything but commercials

After a lifetime mostly behind the scenes as a producer, won an Oscar for playing imperious law professor in '74, did the same shtick for the rest of his life in movies and commercials.

it can't be old because i'm not old and i remember those commercials

i am young and vibrant

(much to the consternation of his old collaborator Orson Welles, who was competing with him for ad work) xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63gpEtgrDq0

he was also Rick Schroeder's grandpa on "Silver Spoons"

Houseman's role in The Paper Chase, and that movie in general, catches the zeitgeist of the era for better or worse. But tbh those days and his advertising are well before my time

anyway, it's a shame that wicked Martin Short impression of RW is not online, but here he breaks out his talk-show-mode Jerry Lewis for no real reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrwfH_d3iI

I don't remember his commercials and I barely remember watching The Paper Chase, so I mostly know him as Ruth Gordon's boyfriend in My Bodyguard, the driving instructed in The Naked Gun and a punchline on Seinfeld.

*instructor

What?
Robin Williams is dead?
Oh no!!

is that worth seeing? I haven't seen a Bobcat movie since Shakes the Clown (which tbf is one of my favorite movies ever)

I'm a big fan of Sleeping Dogs Lie, but it's...divisive, to say the least.

Worlds Greatest and God Bless are better films than Sleeping Dogs.

WGD is on netflix.

john houseman was a brilliant dude, also a candidate for The Most Interesting Man in the World

he was that rare thing, a Hollywood insider who was also a genuine intellectual. he wrote some great stuff for the early incarnations of film quarterly.

also he produced fritz lang's moonfleet which makes him an automatic candidate for immortality

i like the way that, in his talk-show appearances, williams always seem to simultaneously be outrageously mugging for the crowd and having an extended private joke

seemed like a smart guy

RE: Williams in a Tim Burton Batman movie
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2014/08/15/comic-book-legends-revealed-484/3/

cool thks

I just started reading The Disaster Artist and Greg Sestero is writing about meeting Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman while filming a funeral scene in Patch Adams. Weird that when the book was published 10 months ago both of those guys were still alive.

just got to the bit in the maron interview where he talks about his suicide attempt. oof.

Yeah, that made me get real concerned all the sudden for everybody else I've heard of who's been through an attempt.

Watched Popeye over the weekend - if anything I appreciate it more now than I did as a kid. comedy is p low key (apart from the slapstick) but it is really great at creating that particular, v strange world.

tried to watch Good Will Hunting and... man I dunno how you guys sit through insufferable crap like this where everyone is either unlikeable or spouting pablum