Sad
Garp will be missed.
[bang] [bang] [bang] [bang] [bang]
He'll be missed . . .
:(
Classic Robin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pcnFbCCgTo4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pcnFbCCgTo4)
NSFW
Quote from: Scoober1103 on August 11, 2014, 04:10:50 PM
Garp will be missed.
Robin and John Lithgow. I remember seeing that in the theater.
I'll be watching some Goodwill tonight.
Indeed, RIP.
Thanks for the entertainment.
He will be missed
Goodbye Centennial Man.
Mork from Ork
Garp
Mrs. Doubtfire
Dead Poet Society
Good Morning Vietnam
Good Will Hunting
Popeye!
And more that I can't remember
Soooooo many awesome roles :-\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XlpVcO4hg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5XlpVcO4hg)
RIP Mr. Williams.
I hope you are finally at peace. :'(
Comedian? More like Performance Artist Extraordinaire.
Quote from: DesmoDiva on August 12, 2014, 10:15:07 AM
RIP Mr. Williams.
I hope you are finally at peace. :'(
Amen
Read this earlier today..
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling." -David Foster Wallace
Which lead me to David's Wiki page..
"Wallace's first novel, 1987's The Broom of the System, garnered national attention and critical praise. Caryn James of The New York Times called it a successful "manic, human, flawed extravaganza", "emerging straight from the excessive tradition of Stanley Elkin's Franchiser, Thomas Pynchon's V., John Irving's World According to Garp"."
Wealth. Opportunity. Freedom. Choice.
Weird :-\.
Quote from: ungeheuer on August 13, 2014, 07:26:35 AM
Wealth. Opportunity. Freedom. Choice.
Weird :-\.
Comedians must be some of the most intelligent people around. But when you're dealing with that kind of perspective, you may just become vulnerable to being crushed under the weight of your own mind.
Quote from: ungeheuer on August 13, 2014, 07:26:35 AM
Wealth. Opportunity. Freedom. Choice.
Weird :-\.
Two ex-wives with alimony payments. On the verge of bankruptcy. . . . Scratch wealth off that list and obviously in his mind you can scratch off Freedom as well and probably Choice too. Another reason not to live in Kalifornia. At least in other states they just split the assets in half at the time of the divorce and you're done instead of soaking the male for all he's worth until the ex remarries or dies.
"Robin Williams admits his finances are far from a laughing matter. The comedian has been left on the verge of bankruptcy after two costly divorces. The 62-year-old is returning to TV and selling his $35 million house to help cover his debts. "The idea of having a steady job is appealing," Williams told Parade magazine. "There are bills to pay. My life has downsized, in a good way. I'm selling the ranch up in Napa. I just can't afford it anymore." The "Mrs. Doubtfire" star divorced his first wife in 1988 and ended his second marriage with Marsha Garces in 2008 after 19 years. "Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money', but they changed it to 'alimony'. It's ripping your heart out through your wallet," Williams said. He's currently married to graphic designer Susan Schneider who he tied the knot with in 2011. The Oscar winning actor will star alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar in a new TV show called The Crazy Ones which will debut in the U.S. on September 26."
Most funny people use laughter to mask hidden issues. I had never met the man, but had read sometime back that he was on meds to help with manic issues. Imagine the internal conflict of wanting to quiet the manic episodes and feel “normalâ€, when it’s the manic behavior that brings home the bacon.
My fear in all this is… is the message it sends about suicide and mental illness. A few days ago Robin was just another guy that entertained people on a semi irregular basis. Some movies were good, some not so good. Some jokes good, some not do good. I doubt anyone woke up the other day wondering “I wonder what’s up with Robin Williams?†But now…. he’s on the tip of everybody’s tongue. His movies are flying off the shelves, and people just can’t get enough of the man they didn’t give a rats ass about the day before.
I guess I’m just a lil pissy about the celebrity aspect of this. Hearing about Robin’s death on the same day that Daryl shipped out to Iraq, and having been a survivor of a suicide attempt myself, it’s left me with a bit of a “who gives a shit†attitude towards the news. If something bad happens to my friend in the Middle East, will the nation mourn his loss; is he any less important as a human?
One of the guys we flew back to DC with for Honor Fight, passed away the same day as Robin. He made people laugh, he made people cry, same as Robin, but I would argue that because he had quietly lived his life after having stormed the beaches of Normandy his impact on the world was much larger than that of Mr. Williams, and nobody outside his family and friends knows his name or celebrates his impact on the world.
I find that sad.
I’m a somebody to a few people, but a nobody to most, and have done very little with my life that could be thought of as a positive influence on others, so if I had been successful when I decided to quit wrestling my demons, I would totally understand the lack of nationwide grief surrounding my passing . But for people to glorify the loss of people like Cobain and Williams, and totally ignore the (still with us) lives of Lara and Ash (the WWII vets lm and I have befriended), guys who helped maintain peace, liberty and freedom in the world, frosts me.
This whole celebrity/impact thing is ass-backwards.
Off to wrestle demons and feed kittens.
Quote from: bobspapa on August 14, 2014, 10:32:09 AM
This whole celebrity/impact thing is ass-backwards.
You need to get over it and not let it bother you. It isn't that the "unknown" people are being slighted...they're just unknown. It's as simple as that.
It's not so much that I feel the average good human is being slighted, I'm saddened by the fact that people attach soooo much weight to the impact people like Williams have on thier lives, and completely ignore the impact everyday people have on them. He plays a teacher and people praise his performance and wax poetic about his performances impact on thier life, but can't even name thier own kids teacher.
The word "genius" has been used alot the last few days, and by no means am I trying to run a good man down (I truely do believe that he was a good man), but there is no genius in what he did or who he was. He was the perfect storm of meds/defects and timing. He was a flawed human, same as any one of us.
I feel sorry for his family and those who loved him on a personal level,primarily because I've had to look into the faces of loved oves, and apologize for putting them through my selfish act, and I know what it does to them.
Like I said... on Sunday, he was in the background and nobody cared, on Monday, he's a genius who lost a battle and the worlds lost a great human, and I find that odd and sad.
Lots of other good humans died on Monday too.
I thought the same thing about our values being skewed when an actor gets more notice than a multitude of veterans (or cops or firefighters). But then, we all share a common experience through celebrities because their fame connects us and hopefully this serves to raise awareness of anyone who battles similar demons - including those that serve to protect the rest of us.
See... that's part of my issue with all this. Everybody is talking about what a good man he was and how great his body of work was, but zero talk about how make the beast with two backsed up it was for him to have given his friends and family the everlasting gift of why and how did I/we fail him?
People are not running out, looking for ways to come to terms with thier own inner demons, they are out in force buying Garp videos and Mork and Mindy memorabilia.
I would love for Brian Williams to come out on the 6 o-clock news and say.... " he was a funny man who will be missed, but that was a f'ed up selfish thing to do to those who truely cared for him... now on to those Isis douche bags beheading people in the middle east"
I doubt that anyone would call 100 vets a day all selfish too. They put it on the line for us and if what they do breaks them, they're still better than me. Anyway, a person probably isn't thinking rationally and considering all of the consequences at the point they commit suicide and it may even be completely rational and justified in certain circumstances.
Quote from: bobspapa on August 14, 2014, 01:29:56 PM
It's not so much that I feel the average good human is being slighted, I'm saddened by the fact that people attach soooo much weight to the impact people like Williams have on thier lives, and completely ignore the impact everyday people have on them. He plays a teacher and people praise his performance and wax poetic about his performances impact on thier life, but can't even name thier own kids teacher..............
I had the same thought.
I've read that calls to mental health facilities have increased since Mr Williams passing. It would appear that has worked its way into being more than just a glorification of a celebrity living in excess.
I'm happy to be proven wrong.