[TexasGator]

Anyone compiling a list of RW threads?

[ThomasMore]

Abortion: A Tragedy That Has Visited Too Many!

[Obadiah]

Actor and comedian Robin Williams died August 11th from a suspected suicide.

From a suspected suicide, huh?

[Alex Murphy]

… His early days back in San Francisco after dropping out of Julliard (in the mid 1970’s) were among the unhappiest of his life. His relationship with his girlfriend, which had seemed so full of promise back in New York, had now come to a sudden and abrupt end…In an interview in Playboy magazine some years later, the subject turned to the Bush administration’s stance on abortion….Williams offered that making the decision to have an abortion was not an easy one, which begged the obvious question from interviewer Lawrence Grobel about whether he had ever found himself in that position. ‘Long, long, long time ago,’ Williams replied candidly, ‘and it was because we were too young and it wasn’t right.’

PFL

[Bobalu]

The old movie "Alfie" 1966, has an abortion scene that is very hard to sit through...powerful and disturbing.

I could never watch the film again because I couldn't take seeing that sequence.

From a comment on IMDB..

Michael Caine plays Alfie, a hipster swinger in 1960s London whose attitudes and actions we abhor even as we warm to the twinkle in his eye. Caine plays the role just right. The movie would go nowhere if he wasn't able to make us understand what about Alfie attracts women despite his treatment of them. The film has noble ambitions, and explores some pretty dark (and for the time, edgy) terrain, when Alfie's antics catch up with him and he leaves one of his conquests (played quietly by Vivien Merchant) in the hands of a sleazy abortionist. The look on Caine's face when he returns to his apartment and sees the aborted fetus, visual confirmation of his callous disregard, was enough on its own to earn him the Oscar nomination he received for this film.

Art imitates life all too well in this film.

[Fester Chugabrew]

The evil one would convince us that our bodies are our own, to do with them as we please. The contrary truth, albeit an uncomfortable one, is that we are creatures under the hand of a Creator. We most certainly are NOT our own to do with ourselves as we please.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I wonder how a man experiences a pregnancy with a loving partner after having conspired to terminate a pregnancy with a different loving partner some years ago. Those experiences must be hard to reconcile.

[RIghtwardHo]

OK look. I’m as pro-life as anyone but this is ridiculous.

[fwdude]

I’ve always been suspicious about the mental health of anyone who can’t seem to turn off their comedy persona. You never seem to see the real “them” because it is constantly cloaked behind a fake identity - for some reason. Chris Farley and Phil Hartman were two others that this describes.

The extreme opposite of down-to-earth.

[miss marmelstein]

Who knows what causes suicide?

When I was a kid living in L.A., I met RW at least 3 times through a friend who studied comedy with him at Harvey Lembeck’s studio. She had trouble relating to him during their improvs because he never, ever took time to pay attention to her. She was just a prop he worked around - not good when someone else is in the scene with you. So she simply quit doing improvs with him. And she was wildly talented, too.

I remember people at the comedy clubs saying with awe: “He’s going to be a star!” This was before Mork & Mindy. I guess they were right but all I remember was how wildly egotistical he was. From what I’ve read, he changed for the better.

[minnesota_bound]

suspected suicide? Maybe he slip while putting on his belt....
Cocaine & drinking & hollywood did him in.

[metmom]

A headline on NBC News Online shares that Robin Williams Battled Demons for Decades Before His Death.

Probably far more true than they realize.