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Dropping Like Flies

Stillwater
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 12, 2014 at 05:08 PM UTC #
Relaxer wrote:
He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts


Part of my first job in the Air Force was to give tours of the Pentagon. Sometimes we would give them to visiting dignitaries, sports teams in town for the WH visit and celebrities.  I spent over an hour with Robin Williams just talking and walking around the building and he couldn't have been a kinder, more genuine person. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but it my, admittedly anecdotal, experience he was a good dude.  
bunnyman
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 12, 2014 at 05:35 PM UTC #
One of my favorite roles of his was in the Birdcage, which actually has gotten better over time. That movie is simultaneously hilarious and touching. The scene where he's on the bench with Albert talking about what cemetery he'll be stuck in is one of those moments where 2 actors make you forget you're watching a movie. What they talk about is real, and the scene feels genuine. You don't remember that you're watching Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, you begin to believe that Albert and Armand are real people. That's why it's more than reading off a script. And I suspect that's why people are so bummed. Most people think they have some kind of personal connection to actors or artists or musicians but when their art transcends script, sheet music, or canvas and hits a nerve, it's an innate feeling in all of us that somehow we "know" something about them because they made us feel like they know us. Whether it's John Lennon or Philip Seymour Hoffman or whoever, we can't help but feel crummy. I didn't know Tommy Ramone from a vagrant, but I was still sad when he died. He was part of a band that made my life brim with excitement and joy.
vansmack
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 12, 2014 at 07:10 PM UTC #
Stillwater wrote:
I spent over an hour with Robin Williams just talking and walking around the building and he couldn't have been a kinder, more genuine person.   


Norm MacDonald Tweeted a Robin Williams Remebrance
Yada
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 12, 2014 at 07:16 PM UTC #
vansmack wrote:
If I learned anything this past year, it's this:

"Williams actually died of a disease—a terrible, terrible disease. Depression consumed the man, and it killed him, too, even if it used his hands to do it. I can't help but think: if we as a society talked more frankly and openly and without shame about depression, if we took depression more seriously as a disease rather than as an issue of deficient willpower or character, maybe we wouldn't lose so many irreplaceable people—our heroes, our visionaries, our friends, our family—year after year." - Georgetown Professor, David Ebenbach


Well said… and quite sad. Suicide is anything but painless.
wml7
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 13, 2014 at 12:04 AM UTC #
Lauren Bacall
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 13, 2014 at 01:57 AM UTC #
she picked a horrible time to die.  every news story, every facebook post, every article, every sidewalk discussion, every breath of single importance . . . doesnt give, a collective shit, about her death. 
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 13, 2014 at 02:24 PM UTC #
walkonby wrote:
she picked a horrible time to die.  every news story, every facebook post, every article, every sidewalk discussion, every breath of single importance . . . doesnt give, a collective shit, about her death. 

I care…one of my first crushes  :'(
TheREALHunter
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 15, 2014 at 07:04 PM UTC #
R.I.P. Jay Adams
vansmack
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 16, 2014 at 12:33 AM UTC #
TheREALHunter wrote:
R.I.P. Jay Adams


Fuck Fuck fuck
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 20, 2014 at 04:00 AM UTC #
I realize I'm late to the wake but I'm really affected by Robin Williams' death… what a bummer… what terrible news to wake up to…

One of those guys that just made the world a better place….I was hanging out with my my inlaw, with some relatives from Argentina…everybody was just so bummed out..

I think his early 80s (almost surely 82?) stand up act video is brilliant..this is the one where he is wearing the black baggy leather pants and goes on riffs about sperm, the "fuckin islands" (i.e., falkland islands), etc…. its also funny because he is so evidently coked up out of his mind but he lets fly…

a very very sad event….

enjoyed watching some mork and mindy over the weekend.
chancegardener
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 20, 2014 at 04:13 AM UTC #
Charles M. Young - the great writer for Rolling Stone magazine back in the 70s – the guy who showed a 15-year-old suburban Philly kid (me) what punk rock was all about back in 1977. Thank god for this man – he saved me (and plenty of other kids) from a world of Boston, Billy Joel and Earth Wind & Fire.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charles-m-young-rock-journalist-who-championed-punk-dies-at-63-20140819
sweetcell
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 21, 2014 at 09:38 PM UTC #
Got wrote:
The Knife

http://pitchfork.com/news/56416-the-knife-call-it-quits/

uh, can someone please check up on walkies?
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 21, 2014 at 09:42 PM UTC #
sweetcell wrote:
Got wrote:
The Knife

http://pitchfork.com/news/56416-the-knife-call-it-quits/

uh, can someone please check up on walkies?
Hey, jerk, I already made this joke in musicology. Stop stealing my material.
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 22, 2014 at 01:10 AM UTC #
T,he nerve.  No, cat pho,to for, you.
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 22, 2014 at 01:24 AM UTC #
walkonby wrote:
T,he nerve.  No, cat pho,to for, you.
Commas in the middle of words now? I eagerly await the day your posts devolve to the point they're just strings of commas broken up by randomly placed letters.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 22, 2014 at 05:04 PM UTC #
walkonby wrote:
cat pho


Thought something was a little off with my Vietnamese noodle soup the other day
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Re: Dropping Like Flies August 28, 2014 at 03:52 PM UTC #
no, joan . . . no!  oh joan, hold on!
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