Word: robin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robin Williams is a movie misfit. As the decade's reigning comic soloist, master of the improvised trip through his own weird inner space, he generally arrives onscreen bearing the burden of our heightened hopes for a divine madness. Up to now, his genius has not fit any known film format. Narrative obligations and the implicit demand that leading characters be sane, likable and consistent have always constrained...
...Robin Williams stalks a concert stage, conning inspiration from the ether. In a nightclub, a customer's name will spark a from-nowhere verbal riff. And in the course of an hour's interview, he will miraculously inhabit the skewed brains of two dozen apparitions. Among them: a meat-eating Mahatma Gandhi, Gomer Pyle with a case of VD, Elvis Presley drafted for Viet Nam, Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak and, of course, a singing hunchback. Here is Williams speaking about his role as Good Morning, Vietnam's gonzo deejay: "God, it can't get any more right than...
Something was wrong. Other skitcom graduates, like Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy, had profitably accommodated their TV personalities to the big screen. But Robin Williams was not allowing himself to be Robin Williams. It made for a dispiriting spectacle, like watching a great juggler hold, just hold, a lemon. Williams traces his yen for straight roles to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where he studied acting. 'I had my Juilliard training -- ((highbrow accent:)) 'I'm an actor here' -- and then I do comedy on the side. It's this Jekyll-and-Jessel thing -- ((stentorian voice:)) 'Actor during the day; at night...
...tapes of noises for the kids to identify. One was of a baby crying, and a little girl said ((little girl voice:)), 'That's a baby crying.' Then they played a tape of laughter. 'I know! I know!' Zachary said. 'That's comedy!' And I thought, 'Riiiight!' " Play on, Robin...
...Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Melanie Stephens, Robert B. Stevens, Mary Themo; Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor) Photographers: Eddie Adams, Terry Ashe, William Campbell, Sahm Doherty, Michael Evans, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Peter Jordan, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Neil Leifer, Ben Martin, Harry Mattison, Mark Meyer, Ralph Morse, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Stephen Northup, Bill Pierce, David Rubinger, Antonio Suarez, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...