Robin Williams dead at 63

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Is dead poet's society on netflix?

witness said:
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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Do you have a link?
 
RIP :(

Will re-watch Aladdin this weekend.

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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Thank you for this.
 
I really didn't want to see that AA pic.

I'm sorry for the guy and for his family. I don't really love any of his movies, I must've seen only 4 or 5 of them, but I always felt he was a good man. Awesome beard too. He'll be missed.

EDIT: Thanks Besada.
 
It is a hell of thing to wake up to your birthday to the realization that a Great like Robin Williams just died. Puts a downer on the whole day.

It's fitting that it is raining pretty hard over here.
 
I am rarely moved when a celebrity dies. Nothing crass or cynical, but at the end of the day they are just people.

Yet when people die who had a pronounced effect on your life pass, you can't help but be moved. Friends, relatives, loved ones, mentors, colleagues..

Robin Williams may have not made me into the man I am today, nor do I have any personal stories with him. What I do have are ~40 years of one man making me laugh possibly more than any other human on the planet. Between movies, standup, interviews, and just genuinely being a funny, and GOOD man. I can say with little hesitation there isn't probably a human on this planet, celebrity or otherwise, who brought more laughs into my life. That someone who is capable of doing something like that is no longer with us... that is indeed something to mourn.

To the billions of lives you affected and enriched over the past 40 years, whether directly or indirectly.. you will be missed. That you felt alone among those billions is pure tragedy for the funniest man on earth.

RIP indeed. :(
 
Of all the celebrity deaths, this one hurts the most. I was a huge fan of his. His HBO standup special is one of my all-time favorite comedy shows. Aladdin is my favorite Disney movie. Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Will Hunting, The Birdcage, Jumanji... ugh, I'll really miss him.

R.I.P.
 
I never really took celebrity deaths hard. Oh sure I've been upset when a certain celebrity dies, and from time to time I've wondered how sucky it would be if a certain actor or celebrity dies I liked so much, such as William Shatner. It saddens me to know that he is at the age where he could be gone any day now, and I accept it as an inevitability. But in all the celebrity deaths I could imagine happening, Robin Williams never entered the equation. For some reason the man seemed immortal to me; that nothing on Earth could take away such an amazing human being. Surely, the gods if they exist deemed him untouchable!

But alas, reality has completely and utterly sunk in. In the end, the legend was just a man. Prone to all the hurt, and susceptible to the demons of any other. His legacy, however will endure longer than anyone can know. In that way, he is immortal, and he left one hugely positive mark on a negative world.

RIP Robin Williams. You will be missed more than I can ever say.
 
Currygan said:
I'm not watching that movie ever again. it always made me cry at the end, but now it would be a damn rainstorm
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I didn't just cry at the end. I got choked up putting in the dvd. I started to tear up when Williams first appears. I cried during pretty much every scene and at the end it probably sounded like someone stabbing a cat in hurricane.

I loved that man and goddamn do I love that movie.
 
From laughing at Mork's antics as young kid to being inspired by Dead Poet's Society as a young teen, to even becoming jaded by his antics in movies like Jack, Robin Williams always seemed fondly familiar, even familial.

He and Christopher Reeve were best buddies before Reeve's untimely death, it might seem corny but I really believe that Superman will be there to guide Robin's soul as he passes into the light.

Like many of us here I'm feeling a personal loss, that was part of his gift, you felt you knew him - but who knew that his zany comedic persona hid the tears of a clown, joined today by the tears of millions of those whose lives he touched.

R.I.P Robin.
 
Hanging? Ugh, worst way to find someone. The brother of my friend that hung himself years ago found him and he still has nightmares about it. Just terrible all around.

I'm going to need to have a marathon later in the week, though that will probably just make me sadder :(
 
Currygan said:
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
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Oh my god, this guy was a natural. Jeez. Ultra fast wit.. So animated

The wrists were apparently cut as well...

Man these details.
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God dammit :|
 
I'm still shocked and upset about Robin's passing. I literally watched all his movies religiously and weekly, numerous times a week, when I was growing up. My favorites being Flubber, Jumanji, Hook and Mrs. Doubtfire. I think the part that makes me the most upset, is the way he passed. The way he was tortured internally and felt that death was the only way out. It breaks my heart.
 
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.

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Basically he was amazing throughout the whole thing, and just a total fucking class act.
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Thank you so much for this. The man was amazing. It's a shame this had to happen.

Hanging? That's a horrible way to go or be discovered. I was hoping for overdose or something cleaner. I use the term loosely of course. Damn.

This is probably the worst I've reacted to a celebrity death. I didn't even get this bad with Michael Jackson or Steve Jobs, both which were younger than Williams. Must be the cause.

I need to get out of this thread and cheer myself up. It's such a dreary sad day. Have to decide which movies to watch tonight.
 
cosmicblizzard said:
Hanging? Ugh, worst way to find someone. The brother of my friend that hung himself years ago found him and he still has nightmares about it. Just terrible all around.
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Yes, it is a horrible way to find someone. My ex-sister-in-law's nephew, around my age and a guy I was around often while growing up, killed himself by hanging. He had a fight with his girlfriend then went outside to his front yard and just tied a rope up in the tree in the front yard and did it right there. People just drove up and saw him swaying there.

I don't think it's the worse way however. My uncle killed himself in 2011 and did so by rifle to his chin aimed upwards out in his back storage building. I didn't find him but arrived at the scene shortly afterwords. My aunt and my cousin found him when they walked in and they said it was the worst thing ever. My aunt has since passed as well, I believe his death led to her death because of shock and heartbreak, but my cousin is still haunted by it. I wont go into details but I will say he had a closed casket funeral. They did allow the family into the private room right at the end of visitation and they opened it up. They had a special pillow that looked to be made specifically for this purpose, where it was placed at the neck and you could only see from the bottom of the neck and down. I will never, ever forget it. That haunts me to this day, so I can't imagine what it did to my aunt and cousin. I can't imagine what people go through who end up finding these people.
 
Volimar said:
Zelda just tweeted this:

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This fucking crushed me. Can't imagine what she's going through right now; I hope she has some good people around her to help her through this.
 
So he tried to slit his wrists, then when that failed, he hung himself.

Wow, I just cannot imagine his mindset at that point. So incredibly sad, the world lost a truly great man, and he might have been the only one to not realize it. :(
 
RIP Robin Williams. Heard about this yesterday but just now saw the press conference. I would've never expected a suicide from a man who seemed so fun and down to earth, but he likely had immense inner struggles to result in this. I hope he found his peace, and I hope his family and friends find comfort soon. Condolences to them.
 
nemss said:
So he tried to slit his wrists, then when that failed, he hung himself.

Wow, I just cannot imagine his mindset at that point. So incredibly sad, the world lost a truly great man, and he might have been the only one to not realize it. :(
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Jesus. I thought it was an overdose or carbon monoxide or something.
 
The way the internet has reacted only goes to prove how well loved he was, usually when a celebrity dies the trolls show up with their tasteless comments and bad jokes, even here on Gaf it can only take a couple of pages before someone's shouted down.

This time I've seen nothing but love and respect and that's amazing.

RIP
 
BattleMedic said:
The way the internet has reacted only goes to prove how well loved he was, usually when a celebrity dies the trolls show up with their tasteless comments and bad jokes, even here on Gaf it can only take a couple of pages before someone's shouted down.

This time I've seen nothing but love and respect and that's amazing.

RIP
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I honestly can't think of one person who hated him.
 
Master Yoshi said:
Hearing the details of his suicide is gut-wrenching... if by chance he had written a suicide note, would that have been disclosed by now?
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The press conference had a lot of "we are not disclosing that at this time" so it's possible there was one and they are keeping it under wraps while the investigation is ongoing.

Kifimbo said:
Releasing the details on HOW he killed himself is really fucking stupid, from a public health standpoint.
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What do you mean by public health? Like someone is going to be inspired to kill themselves the same way Robin Williams did?
 
Kifimbo said:
Releasing the details on HOW he killed himself is really fucking stupid, from a public health standpoint.
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Some people need to know. As soon as I heard it was asphyxiation I figured it had to be hanging, which, let's be honest, is probably the way I would go out too (I deplore guns, overdosing on medication would be too painful, and high building leap..well, I'm afraid of heights)
 
Kifimbo said:
Releasing the details on HOW he killed himself is really fucking stupid, from a public health standpoint.
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They would be public eventually, i think coroner reports go in public domain? I always assumed they said it early so that it wasn't seen as hidden down the road.

Very sad, i think the note should be kept private.
 
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