Thanks for the memories
by digby
Robin Williams has died. This one's hitting me hard. No one on the planet made me laugh harder than he did.
I'll just put this one of The Birdcage up for now --- I just watched it again recently and he and Nathan Lane killed me. Williams played the straight man (as it were) but he couldn't help being funny:
It appears he suffered from depression and may have taken his own life. For some reason that doesn't surprise me although it makes me very sad. There was always a melancholy running underneath the manic genius.
He made a great movie about mental illness many years ago. An amazing performance:
RIP
Also too: He was a real Hollywood liberal --- you know, the kind they hate more than anything. The truly funny ones.