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This man was making all of these noises? And he was just one person? He gave such life to the swirling orb of blue that, for me even as a child, there was really no other reason to watch the movie.Īs I would learn when I got older, he embodied the depths of any character he took on, be it Mork (Mork and Mindy) or Adrian Cronauer (Good Morning, Vietnam) or Armand Goldman (The Birdcage) or Batty Koda (Fern Gully) or even dear old Mrs. A stream of characters poured from his mouth and I sat there, jaw on the floor. I knew Robin Williams was talented even at a young age, watching behind-the-scenes clips of him in a sound booth, headphones strapped to his ears as he improvised dialogue as Genie in Aladdin. And why should they even bother to try? There is often great beauty in just watching genius bubble and thrive before your eyes, undisturbed. The wit so quick, the turns of phrase so clever, the improvisational ability beyond and off the charts. And he was easily, in my opinion, one of the greatest actors we not only ever had, but will ever have. Like I was moving slow motion through water, grasping at nothing and trying to stay afloat. I had a bunch of work to do, an interview to transcribe, emails to send, articles to edit, and when I found out I suddenly I felt everything stop. I feel how I felt when your grandmother called me to tell me John F. "Daddy and I are sitting here and we're just shocked, speechless. I had called my mother at approximately 7:40pm today, Monday, August 11. With that, I hope you'll permit me to share a few sentiments about his passing. Through it all, we keep pounding, as Williams did until his death.
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We laugh, we dream, we survive and sometimes seek chaos.
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Though I don't mention our fair New York in this piece, I think our experience of the city is very much part of the energy with which Robin Williams lived his life.