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Onstage he's as manic as ever, sweating by the pint as his body bounds around, trying to keep up with the rapid-fire humor synapses of his brain. His jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last...
...ability to mimic the Munchkins and the Lollipop Guild perhaps doesn’t make for high art, but is a shining instance of his ability to conjure vast cohesive soundscapes using only his voice. During this performance, you could only marvel at the energy and manic zeal that goes into evoking and faithfully capturing the spirit of the original film in seven minutes. His wicked witch, right down to the laugh is a spine-tinglingly faithful recreation. It is, in a woefully inadequate word, breathtaking. And that’s just when he sings alone...
Warnings won't scare off the folks in Hollywood. "I live in a town completely devoted to vanity," says writer-actress Carrie Fisher, 45, who has been Botoxing for five years. "It irons out the wrinkles. You'd never know I was manic-depressive." Danny Bonaduce, 42, a child actor (The Partridge Family) turned co-host of The Other Half, was accompanying his wife to a Botox session when her doctor asked him if he wanted some. "Three days after I did it, Dick Clark said to me, 'You look 10 years younger!' With Botox, people can't really tell...
Here are a few basic principles, news to nobody. Sports stoke adrenaline, laying out a drama that usually ends in an unambiguous win or loss. "Fan" is short for fanatic; each close pitch or missed basket or hard body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some parents are among the most rabid, reckless fans. Inflating their kids' skills, magnifying a child's lapses, they can make dinnertime a celebration or an inquisition; and if they don't take out their frustration on the infant athletes, they may attack the arbiters. "Kill the umpire" is only...
...life, and I thought it was all over. I checked myself into an observation ward [in a hospital] for a while because I knew I was suicidal. I wanted to get some help. And I had an epiphany. I saw people who had profound emotional problems. These people were manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics. I looked around and said to myself, I don't have any problems. I realized all I was doing was being absurdly self-absorbed and giving in to self-pity, and I wanted to just get out. So I told them what they wanted to hear...