RIP Robin Williams

[Natural Citizen]

It's just disgusting that as literature dies along with so much else that once made the world a better place, we have people here proudly saluting its demise.

We may never have another Dostoevsky, nor Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner...We're a bunch of mental sloths now. Give us shiny things to occupy our vacant minds.

Sometimes there is some truth in fiction. Especially in movies.

 

[fr33]

RIP It's a sad day but the memories of him for me will always be happy.

 

[phill4paul]

I have a friend that works in movies. Costuming, etc, and I've been told that Robin never took advantage of his position. Indeed, sat "among the people." If anyone wishes to hate him for his politics then so be it. From what I understand he was a human that never considered himself more than anyone else. In his latter days, the non-cocaine days.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I have a friend that works in movies. Costuming, etc, and I've been told that Robin never took advantage of his position. Indeed, sat "among the people." If anyone wishes to hate him for his politics then so be it. From what I understand he was a human that never considered himself more than anyone else. In his latter days, the non-cocaine days.

It's the dumbest thing to not like the guy because "Oh...he's a Democrat". WTF? And? So you're a Republican. What's the difference? Two parties working in synergy to destroy the will of the people except fighting over who gets to be in charge. Well...not talking about you, per se, Phill. Generally speaking, I suppose.

I'm thinking about voting for an Independent just for the sake of glory. Undecided at the moment. Kind of waiting on boy wonder over here to see what he's going to choose to address once the oven warms up in the championship kitchen.

 

[brushfire]

One of my absolute favorites as a kid. That and Dukes, and the muppet show. Favorite episode of Mork and Mindy was the one where Mork disassembled Mindy's Jeep, and then reassembled it in the apartment LOL.

 

[donnay]

This skit still brings tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.

RIP Robin.

 

[Michael Landon]

He was an actor in so many of my favorite movies.... Fisher King, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, What Dreams May Come, Good Morning Vietnam, One Hour Photo, The Final Cut.... damn, he was a good actor and I'll miss him.

RIP Robin Williams

Here's a video of Robin Williams at a tribute to my favorite comedian, Sam Kinison:



- ML

 

[V3n]

"Asphyxia"? Really?

Call a spade a spade.. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7764618

Was he found with a rope around his neck hanging from the rafters? They would have said he was found hanged.
Was he found in his car with the motor running? Carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Was he found with a plastic bag over his head? Yeah, you can say that.
Did he have a belt around his neck tied to the closet door? Was he naked? You can't say that. Even if it is true.

But "Asphyxia"? When do they ever say that? Only when the truth is too controversial to say. I think he died the same way that David Carradine and Michael Hutchence died, but he's too big, too beloved, to tell the truth.

I don't think it was a suicide. I think he enjoyed getting off. And if that's true, the media should take this as a teaching moment, and tell the truth, if it helps someone else from passing in the same way. Just be honest, just be real.

"Suicide by asphyxia" my ass.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

"Asphyxia"? Really?

Call a spade a spade.. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7764618

Was he found with a rope around his neck hanging from the rafters? They would have said he was found hanged.
Was he found in his car with the motor running? Carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Was he found with a plastic bag over his head? Yeah, you can say that.
Did he have a belt around his neck tied to the closet door? Was he naked? You can't say that. Even if it is true.

But "Asphyxia"? When do they ever say that? Only when the truth is too controversial to say. I think he died the same way that David Carradine and Michael Hutchence died, but he's too big, too beloved, to tell the truth.

I don't think it was a suicide. I think he enjoyed getting off. And if that's true, the media should take this as a teaching moment, and tell the truth, if it helps someone else from passing in the same way. Just be honest, just be real.

"Suicide by asphyxia" my ass.

You pretty much described the plot of one of his most underrated films, World's Greatest Dad

 

[green73]

Sometimes there is some truth in fiction. Especially in movies.

Sometimes? Great fiction lives on truth. Diamonds of truth smite us on practically every page of the good stuff.

 

[Working Poor]

RIP I like this skit of his it still makes me laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFM11SmoxfI

 

[phill4paul]

It's the dumbest thing to not like the guy because "Oh...he's a Democrat". WTF? And? So you're a Republican. What's the difference? Two parties working in synergy to destroy the will of the people except fighting over who gets to be in charge. Well...not talking about you, per se, Phill. Generally speaking, I suppose.

I'm thinking about voting for an Independent just for the sake of glory. Undecided at the moment. Kind of waiting on boy wonder over here to see what he's going to choose to address once the oven warms up in the championship kitchen.

I dunno. I take people for who they are regardless of their politics. Who someone is on a ground level means so much more than their politics. Whether Dem or Rep. Matters not. They might not get what it is with their political bent. But, they get what means to be an evolved human.

 

[Thor]

Don't exactly know what is being discussed in this video but for some reason, it always gave me goose bumps.



RIP Robin Williams

He is talking about "himself" (the role) in that clip. He is the husband who is the coward... in the movie. Strange - that movie is about suicide, and he is trying to rescue his wife from hell for committing suicide... and that is how he supposedly killed himself. If he asphyxiated himself to end his life - and it was not a sex act, or murder.

What Dreams May Come and Dead Poets Society are 2 of my favorite films by him...

To think, someone so talented, so externally happy, someone who makes so many others laugh and feel grounded - is so tormented and depressed internally. Shocking and sad. Sad indeed, political persuasion aside.

RIP

Mork calling Orson, come in Orson... Nanu.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

It's just disgusting that as literature dies along with so much else that once made the world a better place, we have people here proudly saluting its demise.

We may never have another Dostoevsky, nor Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner...We're a bunch of mental sloths now. Give us shiny things to occupy our vacant minds.

+rep :'( I rather hope the Bread And Circuses ends soon. It's quite amazing the beautiful art and literature that sometimes gets produced when people aren't preoccupied with shiny things and freak shows.

 

[Suzanimal]

RIP, Robin Williams

 

[lilymc]

I grew up watching him, and I remember how much he used to make me laugh on Mork & Mindy.

He will be missed.

 

[dannno]

If one week ago, somebody asked you who you thought was the least likely well known person in the world to commit suicide, outside of political circles, would you have possibly guessed Robin Williams?

 

[phill4paul]

If one week ago, somebody asked you who you thought was the least likely well known person in the world to commit suicide, outside of political circles, would you have possibly guessed Robin Williams?

No.

 

[PRB]

I will miss him, but it's hard to feel sorry for a millionaire. he had many more options than most of us if we were in the same boat, if there was any way to save him, he had it, if not, there's nothing to say, it was just his time.

 

[PRB]

"Asphyxia"? Really?

Call a spade a spade.. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7764618

Was he found with a rope around his neck hanging from the rafters? They would have said he was found hanged.
Was he found in his car with the motor running? Carbon-monoxide poisoning.
Was he found with a plastic bag over his head? Yeah, you can say that.
Did he have a belt around his neck tied to the closet door? Was he naked? You can't say that. Even if it is true.

But "Asphyxia"? When do they ever say that? Only when the truth is too controversial to say. I think he died the same way that David Carradine and Michael Hutchence died, but he's too big, too beloved, to tell the truth.

I don't think it was a suicide. I think he enjoyed getting off. And if that's true, the media should take this as a teaching moment, and tell the truth, if it helps someone else from passing in the same way. Just be honest, just be real.

"Suicide by asphyxia" my ass.

you really think he, living in the US, had that kind of fetish and chose to go solo with that kind of risk? wouldn't it have been safer if he had a partner to play it with?