[FairfieldLife] Re: Nice Quote - Shows the Nature of this Gentle Man

[emilymae...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Wonderful Ann.  What Carrie Fisher said is front and center on Yahoo, but I'll 
post it because her tribute is also very touching... 
 Carrie Fisher on Robin Williams: 'He Was the Opposite of Selfish' 
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 Carrie Fisher on Robin Williams: 'He Was the Opp... 
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 Following a performance of her one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, a few years 
back, Carrie Fisher was surprised to see one of her longtime friends sho...
 
 
 
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 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> wrote : Message from 
Glenn Close:Robin Williams was my friend. He was the star of the first movie I 
ever did called The World According To Garp. It was his second feature film and 
he was wildly popular because of his years in the TV show, Mork and Mindy. 
George Roy Hill was our director and he believed in Robin's transcendent 
talent. I watched as the two of them worked on ridding Robin of all the 
mannerisms he had taken on while playing a brilliantly funny, spontaneous 
alien. Robin was seriously determined to become a film actor and George took 
his desire seriously. It was wonderful to watch. Robin was incredibly sensitive 
to the crew, to the people who don't always get the recognition they deserve 
for the various jobs they do during a shoot. Robin knew everyone's name and 
could always get a laugh---not a laugh aimed at himself, but a laugh that 
recognized others. He gave various favorite crew members special nicknames. Our 
camera operator had famously combed-back, black hair that had considerable 
amounts of product in it, keeping every hair in place in all kinds of weather. 
Robin dubbed him "Teflon Man" and would do hilarious rifts as an archeologist 
in the distant future finding "Teflon Man" with his hair still perfect. 
 Robin was incredibly sensitive and gentle and loving. He was very 
self-critical. During Garp we had a press conference and I was asked to go 
along with Robin. I watched this quiet man, who I'd never seen reading a 
newspaper or magazine or watching TV, explode into the press room and do an 
amazing turn on all the most current events, people and issues. He wove it all 
into a cohesive whole with no notes, nothing but his genius. It was 
breathtaking in its spontaneity and brilliance. Everyone was completely blown 
away. When we walked out of the room together, Robin turned to me with a 
worried look and asked in a whisper, "Was that all right?" I gave him a long 
hug and said, "Yes! You were incredible" He checked to make sure I really meant 
it and then went to his trailer.
 Robin was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him 
for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his 
humor and insights--though they came from a place of pain and 
uncertainty---connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how 
human we are...how we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and 
others of unspeakable despair. Robin had it all. I am so deeply thankful that 
this dearly loved man graced this particular planet.