Robin Williams dead at 63

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My wife comes to me last night saying that she saw on facebook that Robin passed away. I said I couldn't believe it. It has to be fake. I then went to look it up and there it is! I was stunned. He was my favorite actor when I was growing up. Robin, you will be missed! My heart goes out to the family. I wonder if Nintendo would do something for him since he was the biggest Zelda fan, it would be nice...
 
It would be kind of nice if the Zelda series would have a little statue with a person kneeling in front of it as a form of respect for Willams and in his honor.

Kinda like WoW did for one programmer who died during it's creation.
 
The Lamonster said:
Sounds like he used an exit bag - is that accurate?
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I really have to wonder whether this sort of detailed info will make it to the masses.

are we expecting the wife or someone saying "yeah, he took a plastic bag and used to it kill himself"

dunno, I don't think anyone near RW should talk about that,
 
sphinx said:
I really have to wonder whether this sort of detailed info will make it to the masses.

are we expecting the wife or someone saying "yeah, he took a plastic bag and used to it kill himself"

dunno, I don't think anyone near RW should talk about that,
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True. For all we know it was an autoerotic asphyxiation accident and they're claiming he was depressed to preserve his beloved legacy.

Although I highly doubt that is the case. Just illustrating the point.
 
I've posted in this thread earlier but it's just now starting to sink in. I guess the shock is wearing off.

Robin Williams really is dead :( :( :(
 
My deepest condolences to his family and friends. He will be greatly missed.

Farewell to Thee! But not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of Thee;
Within my heart they still shall dwell
And they shall cheer and comfort me.

Life seems more sweet that Thou didst live
And men more true Thou wert one;
Nothing is lost that Thou didst give,
Nothing destroyed that Thou hast done.

Anne Brontë
 
pauljeremiah said:
Earl's Court Tube Station this morning

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That actually made me want to cry.
 
The Lamonster said:
True. For all we know it was an autoerotic asphyxiation accident and they're claiming he was depressed to preserve his beloved legacy.

Although I highly doubt that is the case. Just illustrating the point.
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Wasn't that the plotline to one of his movies? Where his son did the same thing and he wrote a fake suicide note so his son wouldn't be shamed by the public?
 
Fuck.

For years I couldn't understand when those 80's or 70s shows would report people feeling for some celebrity dying or how much it mattered. How it impacted common people when Lennon died, or Whitney.

I guess I now know. This is depressing. I fucking grew up watching this guy, quite literally!
 
otake said:
Fuck.

For years I couldn't understand when those 80's or 70s shows would report people feeling for some celebrity dying or how much it mattered. How it impacted common people when Lennon died, or Whitney.

I guess I now know. This is depressing. I fucking grew up watching this guy, quite literally!
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Phil Hartman's murder is what did that for me. However, this is a whole different level.

I don't think I'm going to get over this anytime soon.
 
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
 
People just say that part of their childhood died when someone famous dies. But today, I really feel those words. More precise words cannot be spoken.
 
HeySeuss said:
Wasn't that the plotline to one of his movies? Where his son did the same thing and he wrote a fake suicide note so his son wouldn't be shamed by the public?
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World's Best Dad.

But we've known Robin had been suffering from depression for some time. I didn't know it was this bad...but that is often the case with suicides.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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That is a great story. He seems like a really down to earth guy.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Wow. Thanks for posting this.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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That story shows, what a great guy he really was.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Stuff like this is why he was my favorite comedian/actors. Just always heard stories about how he would go out of his way to not make things all about himself.

I'm so going to miss his ad libs. He was fucking amazing at making stuff up right on the spot.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Echoing the crowd, this is awesome. He seemed like a really good guy.
 
I am absolutely heart-broken. Robin has been making me laugh since his first appearance as Mork on Happy Days. I know he's struggled with depression and addiction most of his life, and it's terribly sad that it finally overcame him.

Depression robs us of ourselves before it robs our families of us. It's a terrible, terrible thing to experience, that loss of self, and the slow but inexorable belief that the world would be a better place without you.

I'm sorry, Robin, that we don't have better answers, better medicines, a better society in which to deal with these problems. I'll miss you, sir.
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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It's always the good ones that go. I would've given my left nut to meet him.
 
I've never really seen any of his prominent movies (actually, the only ones I can think of is flubber and jumanji lol) but when I heard about this yesterday, it was a little upsetting. But i suppose the same person on the screen may not be the same person off screen. I hope he is in a better place now.
 
Guy really seemed like a real life Peter Pan.

Someone posted in the TMNT thread that the original April O Neal was filming a movie with RW, and she mentioned she's doing a TMNT film. RW got excited, and gave her his blessing.

A child at heart. Bangarang.
 
besada said:
I am absolutely heart-broken. Robin has been making me laugh since his first appearance as Mork on Happy Days. I know he's struggled with depression and addiction most of his life, and it's terribly sad that it finally overcame him.

Depression robs us of ourselves before it robs our families of us. It's a terrible, terrible thing to experience, that loss of self, and the slow but inexorable belief that the world would be a better place without you.

I'm sorry, Robin, that we don't have better answers, better medicines, a better society in which to deal with these problems. I'll miss you, sir.
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Very heartfelt response. Thank you.

Yeah mental illness is truly the scourge.
 
I was talking to a family member about Robin Williams and the movies we loved growing up, how energetic and childlike wonder he always projected, that awe as a kid that made you love movies.....I started tearing up again.

This is hitting a lot harder than I would have realized. :(
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Wow. What a guy... You so often hear how actors and celebrities are complete asses around regular people. It's a shame there aren't more like Robin...
 
Jasper said:
Some sicko in a recent AA meeting took a photo of Robin Williams, and has now released it.
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You shouldn't really release or share photos from people in an AA meeting, this is fucking disgusting. I hope radar online gets all the shit it can get.

Also you shouldn't share that photo either.
 
Jasper said:
Don't know if this has been posted...

Some sicko in a recent AA meeting took a photo of Robin Williams, and has now released it....
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Can you please not direct post that picture? I don't want to see a paparazzi photo of an AA meeting. I feel like I'm violating someone. :/
 
dyls said:
I had a couple scenes in License to Wed playing a singer in the church choir where Robin Williams's character was a priest. We filmed for three days at a church in long beach, and he managed to do a couple very cool things in that time.

1. If you've seen the movie, you know it's terrible. Not funny at all really. So we were doing these scenes in the church with Robin at the pulpit delivering these crappy jokes. As soon as the cameras would cut, he would start riffing and just busting up everyone in the room. It was hot and awful in the church and there were maybe 500 extras sweating away in their Sunday best in uncomfortable wooden pews for hours, and it could easily have been miserable for everyone. But he singlehandedly kept everyone entertained and happy.

2. Later we were filming with just him and the choir. Once again it was dreadfully hot and we were all wearing thick choir robes over our regular clothes. There was no A/C in the church, only big yellow hoses piping in cold air from outside, and of course they were all aimed at him. But between every take - and I mean every take - he would lift up the hose and slowly blow it back and forth over the whole choir while talking to us all and asking us questions about ourselves.

3. We had recorded the audio at a studio a few days earlier, so when we filmed we were just lip syncing to our own playback track. But the playback kept fucking up until they finally cut it and we were lip syncing to nothing. Not great. Still, it probably would've worked as we were all in the background and they could've edited it to look okay. But Robin said, "Didn't you guys sing this?" to which we replied yes. "So why don't you just sing it live now?"
The SAG rep had to explain that the rates for on-camera singing are a fair bit higher than off camera plus lip sync (to the tune of about $800 more per singer, with over 30 singers.)
"Fuck it," he said, "I'll pay the bump. Let's hear it."
So we sang it live and he loved it and it raised the spirits of the whole day and that's what made it in the film.

Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Quoting this for new page, thank you for sharing.
 
I'm rewatching his interview at Letterman in 2008

interview is a strong word: he basically pulls the brakes and goes on a fifteen minutes neck-breaking plethora of hilarious gags. Letterman cant do anything but laugh his arse off


part 1
part 2

I cant stop laughing. What a talent
 
I just started listening to the Marc Maron podcast and that intro just gutted me. I've never heard this interview before either. The clip of Conan announcing it and the audience gasp because they didn't know, and just the guys looking so sad about this. That was the first time I teared up about it.
 
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