Rest In Peace, Robin Williams

[calliopes_pen]

Rest in peace, Robin Williams. He died yesterday at the age of 63 of an apparent suicide. When I was around the ages of 9-13, I loved him so much. Hook and Jumanji were a tie for my favorite of his movies at one point, and I watched so much Mork and Mindy on Nick At Nite when I was younger than that. I enjoyed him as the Genie from Aladdin, and may be one of the few to remember him as a frog in Faerie Tale Theater. He will be deeply missed by everyone he brought even a modicum of laughter to.

People keep bringing up Dead Poets Society and Good Morning Vietnam as better movies of his—I’ll have to watch them sometime. He was great in The Birdcage. I also remember this little cameo that he and Billy Crystal had in an episode of Friends.

You can read reactions from the White House (they issued a fantastic statement), Pam Dawber, and several others over here and (if you’re interested in one from Sarah Michelle Gellar in this next link) here and here.

Comments

[frenchroast.livejournal.com]

Dead Poets Society is good, but you might want to wait on it if his death has made you really sad, because...it is not exactly a happy movie. I'm really hoping no one deeply affected by his death who hasn't seen Dead Poets Society decides to pick it up and watch it in the next few days, b/c that could be really rough.

[calliopes_pen]

Given the little I've ever heard of that movie--and the quotes from it going around as a result of his death, yeah. It would be bad for anyone going in unprepared. If it doesn't turn up via Comcast's On Demand area for free, or doesn't air on a channel sometime in the next few days, then I'll track it down myself.

I'm not really a fan of his comedic work now that I'm older, and haven't actively looked for a film of his since the age range mentioned earlier, outside of The Birdcage. So Dead Poets Society might be more interesting to me than something that's supposed to be funny.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

The amount of people he made laugh...