He killed himself this morning. :(
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-found-dead-in-tiburon-home-of-apparent-suicide/ (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-found-dead-in-tiburon-home-of-apparent-suicide/)
Just saw this, very sad. :(
:(
What the fuckity. Maybe he spiraled out after they canceled his great comeback show.
Did not expect this one. :(
Wow. Didn't see this coming at all. Man must have had some serious demons. RIP, Mork. :(
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on August 11, 2014, 06:13:54 PM
He killed himself this morning. :(
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-found-dead-in-tiburon-home-of-apparent-suicide/ (http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-found-dead-in-tiburon-home-of-apparent-suicide/)
Now he really isn't someone I would have marked down as a suicide risk. Quite the opposite. Wow. :blink:
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Robin Williams @robinwilliams · May 22
My new movie #AngriestManInBrooklyn is in select theaters and On Demand THIS FRIDAY May 23rd: http://bit.ly/1i1I1Q8
One of his last tweets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC0u0ERV9OA
Mila and Tyrion. Looks like an interesting flick tbh. I guess his last.
wtf :(
I loved Mork and Mindy. :(
NO NO NO NO NO
I loved that guy :(
:cry:
That sucks. RIP.
He got financially shredded by two divorces and was bankrupt. Be careful who you marry. Somebody put John Cleese on watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws66aAdthE0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws66aAdthE0)
One of the best moments in movies.
:blink:
Good grief, that's sad. :(
Quote from: grumbler on August 11, 2014, 06:21:58 PM
Wow. Didn't see this coming at all. Man must have had some serious demons. RIP, Mork. :(
He was always one of those brilliant personalities that, just by the way his genius worked, you knew he had demons.
But I always thought that once he got beyond those coked-out, high-risk frenetic years of the 70s and early 80s stand-up scene and early television success that he was safe, that he had gotten past them.
I would say they finally caught up with him, but it's apparent they had never left.
:(
Did not see that one coming. :o
RIP
God. Desperately sad. RIP.
I think he was in a 12 step program pretty recently. RIP. :(
RIP. :(
:( Losing one of the greats on my birthday.
Gonna have to go back and watch one of his pre-sober standup shows. :weep:
Only now do I see that Williams had a a very tumultuous personal life! :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams#Personal_life
Damn. He was truly one of the very greats.
Whoa.
Robin Williams?
Is that the wanna be jewish comidian?
I hated his ass since Peter Pan.
Quote from: Siege on August 11, 2014, 09:33:37 PM
Robin Williams?
Is that the wanna be jewish comidian?
I hated his ass since Peter Pan.
Jealousy is an awful thing.
Quote from: Siege on August 11, 2014, 09:33:37 PM
Is that the wanna be jewish comidian?
Dude loved New York enough.
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Wasn't his biggest fan, but I liked some of his work. Sad to see him go like this. :(
Quote from: grumbler on August 11, 2014, 06:47:58 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws66aAdthE0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws66aAdthE0)
One of the best moments in movies.
Agreed
Here is one of my favourites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq_XBP3NrBo
http://youtu.be/LsIh5z7oYyY
Live at the Roxy, 1978. Some serious and truly brilliant improv, John Ritter makes an appearance later in the show.
Damn. :cry:
This is sad; he always came across to me as a fragile person, the way his comedy worked. RIP. :(
This calls for rewatching "What Dreams May Come" tonight.
Wow, so sad. He was a unique talent, and one of my favorites. I really liked his work, his comedy and movies. :(
Absolutely terrible news. :(
Wow, still can't believe he's gone. You really take someone like him for granted, like he's always going to be around.
Quote from: derspiess on August 12, 2014, 10:16:54 AM
Wow, still can't believe he's gone. You really take someone like him for granted, like he's always going to be around.
Agreed, and he had films and other work going on, another role in a Night at the Museum film coming out in December.
And yet, Jim Gaffigan is still alive. Further proof there is no God.
Hey now, Gaffigan is hilarious.
Quote from: derspiess on August 12, 2014, 10:16:54 AM
Wow, still can't believe he's gone. You really take someone like him for granted, like he's always going to be around.
I know. He has been a fixture of our culture since Mork and Mindy. Crazy that he is gone. He was one of a kind and will be missed :(
Terrible for it to end that way.
Quote from: derspiess on August 12, 2014, 10:52:10 AM
Hey now, Gaffigan is hilarious.
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You would say that.
I was driving up highway 1 yesterday from San Luis Obispo to Big Sur, out of all contact with news or the net. When I got here (in range of a a cell tower) the first text I got was from a friend about this.
Sad, sad news. He was both powerful and fragile. In the end the demons won, but our life is richer for him having been around for the decades he was.
RIP.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2014, 10:36:34 AM
And yet, Jim Gaffigan is still alive. Further proof there is no God.
Somebody is mad that Gaffigan insulted Maryland crabs.
BUG MEAT
Quote from: PDH on August 12, 2014, 11:29:37 AM
I was driving up highway 1 yesterday from San Luis Obispo to Big Sur, out of all contact with news or the net.
Love that drive.
Pretty sure I still have my old Mork suspenders somewhere. Loved those things, but it did bug me a little that they weren't exactly the same as what he wore on the show.
I found some old Mork & Mindy trading cards not too long ago, cleaning out some old storage boxes.
Ditched them, though.
Found a General Zod card. Framing that one.
Quote from: Siege on August 11, 2014, 09:33:37 PM
Robin Williams?
Is that the wanna be jewish comidian?
I hated his ass since Peter Pan.
One of his best. Him and Billy Crystal doing an impression of two gentile businessmen.
Crystal: How's business?
Williams: Fine.
What will your verse be?
:cry:
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Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2014, 12:24:44 PM
I found some old Mork & Mindy trading cards not too long ago, cleaning out some old storage boxes.
Ditched them, though.
Found a General Zod card. Framing that one.
Got that one beat. I got a Dick Cheney Rookie card from 1991.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 12, 2014, 07:44:08 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2014, 12:24:44 PM
I found some old Mork & Mindy trading cards not too long ago, cleaning out some old storage boxes.
Ditched them, though.
Found a General Zod card. Framing that one.
Got that one beat. I got a Dick Cheney Rookie card from 1991.
My investment in Obama commemorative plates will pay off big someday.
And yet you give me shit about my mammies.
What about a Randy Savage baseball card?
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I hope the bit of him "dropping his elbow" isn't a photoshop. :lol:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 13, 2014, 09:15:15 AM
And yet you give me shit about my mammies.
:rolleyes: It's not like I'm collecting Michelle memorabilia.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 12, 2014, 07:44:08 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2014, 12:24:44 PM
I found some old Mork & Mindy trading cards not too long ago, cleaning out some old storage boxes.
Ditched them, though.
Found a General Zod card. Framing that one.
Got that one beat. I got a Dick Cheney Rookie card from 1991.
Down in Florida I have full sets of the Topps Desert Shield and Desert Storm trading cards. :blush:
I have a full sets of Topps from the 1990 Baseball season.
Stolen from fahdiz:
http://youtu.be/ael2ojGGUok
:(
Howdy, Martinus.
Howdy ho.
Welcome back Marty
Time to slaughter the fattened calf. :)
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
The prospect of a progressing dementia and inability to control my mental faculties is something I am deeply afraid of. I hope I die of a heart attack before that.
Quote from: Martinus on August 14, 2014, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
The prospect of a progressing dementia and inability to control my mental faculties is something I am deeply afraid of. I hope I die of a heart attack before that.
You have nothing to worry about. :)
Quote from: The Brain on August 14, 2014, 02:55:58 PM
Quote from: Martinus on August 14, 2014, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
The prospect of a progressing dementia and inability to control my mental faculties is something I am deeply afraid of. I hope I die of a heart attack before that.
You have nothing to worry about. :)
Is this because I am bound to die of a heart attack or because my mental faculties are incapable of deteriorating? :unsure:
Quote from: Martinus on August 14, 2014, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
The prospect of a progressing dementia and inability to control my mental faculties is something I am deeply afraid of. I hope I die of a heart attack before that.
Good thing that you haven't described Parkinsons. PArkinsons is what Michael J Fox has - it attacks the body, not the mind (and by the way they have some marvelous treatments for Parkinsons).
And Seedy - early-onset would mean that Williams was suffering from the disease earlier than you'd expect. Since he was in his 60s, I think you mean he had early symptoms of Parkinsons. :nerd: :contract:
Edit: some searching reveals Parkinson's can lead to dementia in late stages, but and that it is a brain problem, but my point largely stands - it leads involuntary muscle movements, not diminished mental capabilities except for late progression (and many sufferers never even reach that stage).
Quote from: Martinus on August 14, 2014, 02:58:29 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 14, 2014, 02:55:58 PM
Quote from: Martinus on August 14, 2014, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 02:38:19 PM
Apparently his wife is saying he was dealing with early onset Parkinson's.
The prospect of a progressing dementia and inability to control my mental faculties is something I am deeply afraid of. I hope I die of a heart attack before that.
You have nothing to worry about. :)
Is this because I am bound to die of a heart attack or because my mental faculties are incapable of deteriorating? :unsure:
QED
Quote from: Barrister on August 14, 2014, 03:00:35 PM
And Seedy - early-onset would mean that Williams was suffering from the disease earlier than you'd expect. Since he was in his 60s, I think you mean he had early symptoms of Parkinsons. :nerd: :contract:
Just quoting the text from the headline direct, since it's easier than cutting and pasting on a smartphone.
So go take your lawyerly sensibilities and fuck youself hard until you bleed.
Jeez, Seedy. Be more careful next time. WTF
QuoteRobin Williams' friends saw signs he was succumbing to depression
LATimes.com
The end was shockingly sudden: a belt hung on a door; an assistant's distraught call to 911. But the road that led to Robin Williams' apparent suicide at age 63 was a long one — and if you knew where to look, there were plenty of signposts indicating trouble along the way.
In the wake of Williams' death at his home here Monday, fans around the world have struggled to understand what could have led a man whose thousand-megawatt comic persona had brought so much joy to millions to such depths of despair. But Williams' closest friends and colleagues knew well that beneath his manic, Technicolor exterior, the actor had battled depression for years.
In recent months — as Williams wrestled with the cancellation of his CBS TV series "The Crazy Ones" and fought to maintain a sobriety that had at times proved fragile — those friends could see that he was losing that fight.
"He started to disconnect," comedian Rick Overton, a friend of Williams' since the 1970s, said Tuesday. "He wasn't returning calls as much. He would send texts and things like that, but they would get shorter and shorter."
Williams appeared to have died of asphyxia due to hanging, authorities said Tuesday. The actor's wife, Susan Schneider, had left their home that morning at 10:30. His assistant arrived about an hour later and found him hanging by a belt affixed to a closet door, slightly elevated in a seated position, Lt. Keith Boyd, assistant deputy chief coroner for the Marin County Sheriff's Department, told reporters. Recent cut marks were visible on his wrist, and a pocket knife was found near his body.
Boyd confirmed that Williams had "received treatment for depression" but declined to speculate on what may have led the actor to take his own life. Toxicology tests will be conducted to determine whether he had drugs or alcohol in his system. Boyd declined to say whether Williams had left a note.
Comedian and longtime friend Steven Pearl ran into Williams at a barbecue last month in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he could see that something was wrong. Williams, who had battled drug and alcohol addiction early in his career, had just come out of a stint in rehab in Minnesota, where he had gone, his publicist said at the time, to "fine-tune and focus on his continued commitment" to his sobriety.
"You could just tell something was off," Pearl said. "He seemed detached. It's hard to explain. He didn't seem like his usual self. My fiancee and I were like, 'Is he OK?' I didn't know it would get this dark."
From the outside, Williams' career looked like one that any actor would envy. Propelled to fame in the late 1970s as a lovable alien on the smash sitcom "Mork & Mindy," he made the transition to movie stardom with apparent ease, weaving between broad comedy and more serious dramatic turns. He earned Academy Award nominations for 1987's "Good Morning, Vietnam," 1989's "Dead Poets Society" and 1991's "The Fisher King," and finally won the best supporting actor Oscar for his performance in 1997's "Good Will Hunting."
But, like any major movie star with such a long career, Williams accumulated his share of bombs along with the hits, including much-maligned critical and commercial duds like "Fathers' Day" and "Bicentennial Man." In recent years, he would sometimes joke self-deprecatingly about what he seemed to view as a downturn in his career. On his 2009 stand-up tour, he imagined a conversation with his car's GPS, in which the navigation system was trying to steer him off the Golden Gate Bridge. "I said, 'Why? Have you seen my movies recently?'"
In 2005, with his box-office drawing power inexorably waning, Williams began drinking again while shooting the independent film "The Big White" in Alaska, and soon checked himself into rehab. At one point, as he told comedian Marc Maron in a 2010 interview on the "WTF" podcast, he contemplated suicide.
"It's trying to fill the hole, and it's fear," he told Maron of what led him back to drinking. "You're going, 'What am I doing in my career?' You bottom out.... People say, 'You have an Academy Award.' The Academy Award lasted about a week, and then one week later people are going, 'Hey, Mork!'"
No longer on Hollywood's short list for major starring vehicles, Williams increasingly took supporting roles in films like "Night at the Museum," along with smaller independent films and roles on the stage. He had always been an adventurous performer, and quite often these projects allowed him to stretch himself in ways he hadn't before. Recently, for example, Williams attached himself to play the role of a Chechen terrorist in an independent comedy called "Eisner."
"It would allow him to go a little nuts, which he liked to do," writer-director Andrew Bergman said. "He didn't have that many movie parts where he could be his unchained self."
Still, while he continued to work regularly, Williams no longer pulled in the big paydays he had in his earlier career and, with tens of millions of dollars in divorce settlements from his first two marriages to contend with, he found himself facing growing money problems.
In hopes of shoring up his finances and recapturing some of the old "Mork & Mindy" magic, he returned to television last fall with a highly touted starring role in the comedy "The Crazy Ones." CBS had high hopes for the show, on which Williams played an over-the-top Chicago ad man opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar. The gig also provided a steady paycheck — a reported $165,000 per episode — which he candidly admitted he needed.
"I have two [other] choices: Go on the road doing stand-up, or do small, independent movies working almost for scale," Williams told Parade magazine in 2013. "There are bills to pay."
To raise cash, Williams also decided to part with a 640-acre ranch in Napa he had owned for more than a decade, a spread he called Villa Sorriso, or "Villa of Smiles," which was listed this spring for $29.9 million. "I just can't afford it anymore," Williams told Parade, adding, "Divorce is expensive.... It's ripping your heart out through your wallet."
"The Crazy Ones" started off strong, with more than 15 million tuning in for the Sept. 26 premiere, according to Nielsen. But the reviews were mixed and the audience steadily eroded as the season went on. Production on the series ended in March and was followed by a wrap party at Bugatta Supper Club in Los Angeles. But Williams wasn't able to attend because he was starting work on the film "Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb," the third installment in 20th Century Fox's comedy franchise.
On May 10, CBS announced "The Crazy Ones" wouldn't return for a second season. Friends say the news was a serious emotional blow to Williams, who had spoken of finding himself increasingly prone to bouts of depression ever since undergoing open-heart surgery in 2009.
"He took the cancellation of the show hard," Overton said. "It would hit any of us hard, but especially a heart patient who has depression. The one-two punch of that can make all the difference in the world. He got real quiet. I've known those eyes for decades. I know where the spark is supposed to be."
In late spring, Williams wrapped up work on the latest "Night at the Museum" film — reprising his role as Theodore Roosevelt — and voiced a talking dog in "Absolutely Anything," a sci-fi comedy from former "Monty Python" star Terry Jones. It would be his last professional job.
In early July, Williams checked himself into the Hazelden addiction treatment center in Center City, Minn. He had not fallen off the wagon, his publicist said at the time, but was instead struggling to hold himself together as he crumbled under the weight of depression.
What transpired in the weeks between Williams' return from Hazelden and his death is unknown except to those closest to the actor. It may never be clear what fueled the darkness that haunted him for years.
In June, Williams made what was to be his last major public appearance, at the San Francisco Zoo, an organization he had raised money for over the years. Along with zoo director Tanya Peterson, he toured the grounds, checking in on a parrot he had donated to the institution and feeding a howler monkey that had been named after him.
"He met the monkey and immediately quipped, 'Finally, an animal species that is as loud and hairy as I am,'" Peterson recalled. "It was on a Friday at 4 o'clock, and I kept thinking Robin Williams would probably have better things to do. But it was a lovely moment."
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on August 13, 2014, 10:07:48 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 12, 2014, 07:44:08 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 12, 2014, 12:24:44 PM
I found some old Mork & Mindy trading cards not too long ago, cleaning out some old storage boxes.
Ditched them, though.
Found a General Zod card. Framing that one.
Got that one beat. I got a Dick Cheney Rookie card from 1991.
Down in Florida I have full sets of the Topps Desert Shield and Desert Storm trading cards. :blush:
Yeah, those were great.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 14, 2014, 07:24:18 PM
QuoteRobin Williams' friends saw signs he was succumbing to depression
LATimes.com
In June, Williams made what was to be his last major public appearance, at the San Francisco Zoo, an organization he had raised money for over the years. Along with zoo director Tanya Peterson, he toured the grounds, checking in on a parrot he had donated to the institution and feeding a howler monkey that had been named after him.
"He met the monkey and immediately quipped, 'Finally, an animal species that is as loud and hairy as I am,'" Peterson recalled. "It was on a Friday at 4 o'clock, and I kept thinking Robin Williams would probably have better things to do. But it was a lovely moment."
Maybe the monkey got the joke to? Can't get much better than that, cross-species humour.