RIP Robin Williams

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/

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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

They had a trailer for the latest Night at the Museum before Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend and you could hear a collective inhalation when Robin Williams appeared on screen.

They probably should cut the clip where Williams as Teddy Roosevelt falls face first, seemingly dying, into a table.

I went to see that this weekend and nobody reacted audibly to that trailer (though I winced inside)

we're rewatching garp in 40 minute chunks (we have a 14 week old baby) and the scene where garp is overjoyed at his wife being pregnant, and drawing on her belly was partic hard to watch without a lump in the throat.

fuck off, henry rollins

Would like to see Rollins in Doubtfire 2.

weird to see Rollins make the "think about the children" appeal, what does he know about parenting

altho tbh I kinda agree w him about suicide in general, although I wouldn't frame it in such a harsh way as he does

As far as I know, he hates his parents. At least that's the way he's portrayed it in his spoken word bits for about 25 years, so, um. I would've thought the value he placed on parenting to be extremely low.

ppl who hate their parents often have pretty unrealistic ideas about good parenting ime.

otoh, some had really shitty parents so.

anyway fuck henry rollins on this, that's the main thing i came to say.

can you imagine how often rollins has thought of ending it himself tho?

He's been on a strength/weakness trip forever, has been stridently anti-suicide for just as long, it's nothing really out of the ordinary. And he's always been pretty protective of children, iirc so that part didn't seem that off to me.

That being said, and even being a bit of a Rollins fan, I don't agree with any of it because I'm not really into the whole absolutist it's THIS not THIS and if it's anything else FUCK OFF

Henry Rollins and Oprah should get together, finally quell those gay rumors, share cover space on O magazine, dole out tough love to middle America etc

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Rollins is a hypernarcissist. Suicide rarely crosses the minds of people with everything in balance. When you love yourself as much as he does, you likely can't imagine depriving the world of more YOU.

pure speculation but prob never imo? whatever, wanna see him hardman cancer patients too, they need to grab that shit by the scruff of the neck.

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idk why Rollins would hate his parents, he obviously copped a lot of that hardman shit from his dad

Rollins does a lot of USO touring and hospital appearances, so I don't think he's hardmanning cancer patients and wounded vets. For a guy who likes to dig into the nuances of things, he's totally missing it here.

That being said, and even being a bit of a Rollins fan, I don't agree with any of it because I'm not really into the whole absolutist it's THIS not THIS and if it's anything else FUCK OFF

this. I'm sympathetic to so many of the feelings he describes, but I that he has to give it that BETTER EAT YOUR WHEATIES spin

I hate that he has to give it that spin, i mean

and depression leading to suicide isn't the kind of choice that he frames it is, fuck everything and everyone I'm going to die. it's a frame of mind that's unrecognizable, choices made that completely discount your own value to the world around you, it's just...talking about it in that way is really naive to me

i really do understand what he means about children, and I don't necessarily think he's wrong exactly, I just don't think that it's a line in the sand kind of argument and seriously coming down against suicide over a guy who's already dead is just the most pointless waste of words to me

should have just stopped the essay with I get it, but then again, maybe I don’t. and left out the following contradictory shit about respecting the choices of people he no longer takes seriously, they blew it, i got life by the gonads etc etc

guessing the la weekly is not a place that will suggest you trim the argumentative noise from your thinkpiece

lol

rollins's reaction seems understandable as a personal reaction -- you know, something you'd write for yourself just to get it off your chest, then forget about -- but i don't know why he felt the need to publish it. he doesn't seem like a bad guy but i wonder how he can possibly think he's being helpful to anyone by saying stuff like:

Almost 40,000 people a year kill themselves in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In my opinion, that is 40,000 people who blew it.

like, does he seriously think that many, if any, of those 40,000 people would have benefited from his "you gotta hang in there" approach? does he think that none of those 40,000 people ever heard anything like that before? pretty much anyone who's ever been open about their depression gets exposed to that "just buck up, get over it" shit.

i also don't get why you'd end any essay that isn't about at least one of the stooges with "raw power forever."

I have life by the neck and drag it along. Rarely does it move fast enough. Skynyrd rules.

All of Williams' children are adults, btw

grab parkinson's disease by the neck

people who are not 15 years old listen to anything Henry Rollins has to say?

honestly at this point 15 year olds don't probably know who he is so i guess it's adults who listen to him

jd otm, i am acquainted with people who have grabbed cancer, parkinson's, and depression by the neck. the dif is that if you die from cancer or parkinson's, ppl go "damn, he grabbed that shit by the neck, well fought," but if you fail with depression, they do quite often go, "what a pussy, he blew it."

i mean yeah, lolhank, but fuck him hard on this.

who's henry rollins

oh he's the guy from the tattoo band

which blob of ink is he

http://i.imgur.com/dNhoboZ.png

he's got a look

blue steel, man

mrs doubtfire. i've come to incinerate you.

"blew it" is such a sensitive and apt metaphor too

i haven't read that henry rollins thing so this is a non-sequitur but: kinda surprised at how many suicidal ppl i've admitted recently that have cited RW as a trigger

rollins thing is such garbage
imagine being outraged so many people ~choose~ to kill themselves

I don't think we've posted this yet. Somebody dug thru the next World of Warcraft update and found what will probably his tribute in teh game. Versions of Genie, Mrs Doubtfire, and Mork should be showing up.

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-what-world-warcrafts-robin-williams-characte-208404

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5201/71/16x9/640.jpg