Posted on 05/06/2018 4:09:53 PM PDT by libstripper
Robin Williams struggled to remember his lines.
This was unusual for the hyperverbal, Oscar-winning actor, and it hit him hard in Vancouver in 2014 during the filming of “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,” the third movie in the successful family franchise.
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Robin Williams was sort of a unique talent but he was a typical Hollywood leftist. He is remembered here on FR for uttering lots of profanity at some dim fundraiser with children present and the Toons in attendance during Bill’s Presidency. He had a bad end. Nuff said.
It might have contributed to the acceleration of symptoms but it did not cause the disease. People who have never had anything stronger then an aspirin get it.
“It was Lewy Body dementia - which is worse.”
It is worse. Terrifying, in fact. Many who suffer from Lewy body dementia also became violent.
I will always remember and love Mr Williams for a single movie role, “Moscow on the Hudson” (1984), where he portrayed a Soviet Russia emigre trying to make a new life in New York City. Very moving, very convincing and a performance done just right.
Mr Williams, you made me smile far more times than most of your contemporaries and for that, sir, I thank you! God Bless!
He is remember here on FR for his Throughout his six USO tours to Iraq, Afghanistan, and 11 other countries and performed for 90,000 troops by the time of his final tour in 2010.
Leftist maybe I don’t know, but there are few if any hollywood types that did as much for our troops.
Pure horse feces. Williams rose to stardom on Happy Days, where he gave a killer audition for the alien part. The audition was totally unexpected and he was immediately hired and given a spin-off (Mork and Mindy).
Some people simply have talent. Williams was one of the greatest and gifted comedians of all time.
I’m a former cop. No one hangs himself while seated intentionally.
True...few...but Bob Hope comes to mind...bigly!
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I think both statements can be true. He was undoubtedly a great talent but apparently was also a heavy cocaine user back in the eghties.
I’m glad he did the troop thing and am sorry for the way he died. He had talent too. Maybe he wasn’t a leftist but doing fundraisers for the dims would make me categorize him as such. As time passes his politics will fade and what remains will be his recorded performances.
True in his day Bob did plenty. But he was gone and someone need to take up the mantle and Robin did just that.
He hung himself. He was also found with a knife and some hesitation marks on his wrist.
Some idiot reporter asked the police spokesperson if it was something "sexual" and the officer was stunned.
"No, absolutely not!"
Williams had Lewy Body dementia, which is not easy to diagnose while a person is alive.
As is the case with Alzheimer's, you can only "confirm" it by autopsy.
His doctors thought he might have Parkinson's, as he had become morose, and began to have some motor function problems.
I agree it was sad.
He had relied on his quick wit, and improvisational skills his entire life.
Lewy Body dementia robbed him of his mind and personality, which terrified him.
As it would anyone.
Does anyone ever know for sure what they would do when confronted by such a devastating disease? I admit I haven’t a clue.
Was he also manic, or at least bi-polar ?
I know that is what Carrie Fisher mistook him for anyway after he attended one of her shows.
I met Robin Williams at the country club where I managed the bar. Was a smallish birthday party for his mom, I think. Anyway he came up to the bar where me and a cocktail waitress was standing. She looked at him and said....you look familiar and he said I’m Robin Williams. She looked at me and I looked at her and we both looked at him and said nuh uh. He laughed and said really I am. We said nuh uh. He pulled out his drivers license and showed us and then walked off. We still weren’t sure whether to believe him or not. He was dressed in a suit and tie and was really low level energy. It just really didn’t look like the Robin Williams we knew. Afterward we said....hmmm, guess it was him. Lol
My grandmother never touched one single drop of alcohol. Tobacco never came into her presence. Forget drugs. She took her vitamins and ate as she was instructed.
She died of dementia.
People get sick and die. Good or bad, unless there’s an accident, we all meet the same fate.
“ThatsWasn’t Parkinson’s. It was Lewy Body dementia - which is worse”
That’s what took my dad.
Who wasn't a heavy cocaine user in the 80s in Hollywood?
Very few have a good end.
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