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Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest)
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter ^
| 02-12-04
| Scott Roxborough
Posted on 02/12/2004 6:10:42 AM PST by veronica
BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - The Berlin Film Festival has gotten a much-needed shot of levity when Robin Williams turned the news conference for Omar Naim's sci-fi thriller "The Final Cut" into a free-association comedy routine.
Williams got the biggest laughs from the packed room of international journalists and critics on Wednesday when he started taking shots at the Bush government and its search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
"Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant," Williams joked. "They say they don't know if Iraq had any WMDs -- well, all they have to do is ask (Vice President Dick) Cheney for the receipts."
Set in a near future in which people can have a computer chip implanted in their brains that records their entire lives, "The Final Cut" was well received by the Berlin crowd in its competition bow, with hearty cheers greeting it at the sold-out press screenings.
Williams plays a video editor who splices together the deceased's recorded memories, cutting out anything unpleasant to make horrible lives into picture postcards.
Asked what he would cut out of the movie of his life, Williams quipped, "Probably those years I was drinking -- but that seems to have happened already."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: activistactors; agitprop; bipolar; boycott; boycotthollywood; bushbashing; germany; hollywood; hollywoodleft; lordhawhawjunior; lyingliar; mccarthywasright; neenerneener; onforeignsoil; robinwilliams; shutupandsing; unfunnyman
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Manic, unfunny goofball attacks Prez while on foreign soil.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:10:42 AM PST
by
veronica
To: veronica; newgeezer
Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest) Then he must be doing something, maybe many things, right.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:11:47 AM PST
by
biblewonk
(I must try to answer all bible questions.)
To: veronica
Robin Williams keep your sorry *ss on Nazi soil okay. Don't come back!!!!
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:13:11 AM PST
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: veronica
Off his meds again.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:13:41 AM PST
by
angkor
To: veronica
Shyeah. Right. Political commentary from Mrs. Doubtfire.
Hey... Robin. If I really feel the need for some gassy platitudinizing from a guy swishing around in a dress: I'll go visit Andy Sullivan's blog, or something. :)
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:14:55 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
To: veronica
He's gotta to something to make people laugh. Certainly his movies have become unwatchable. My daughter rented "One Hour Photo". What a POS.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:15:49 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands.)
To: angkor
I heard once that Robin Williams, like Jonathan Winters, has received treatment for a mental illness. Now I believe it.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:16:45 AM PST
by
Quilla
To: All
Robin Williams went to entertain the troops at Xmas in a war zone, for a number of years in a row now. We don't like to hear criticism of the prez in an election year, but a nation of yes men is weaker than one with criticism. This guy is one of very few who has earned the right.
I'm a staunch defender of the prez, but Robin gets a pass on this.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:17:54 AM PST
by
Owen
To: veronica
"The Final Cut" ... Williams plays a video editor who splices together the deceased's recorded memories, cutting out anything unpleasant to make horrible lives into picture postcards."Similar to his role in that blockbuster One Hour Photo, prying into recorded personal lives.
To: veronica
Robin W. is a douche bag!
To: Seruzawa
Isn't Robin a girls name?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:18:22 AM PST
by
ChadsDad
To: veronica
Robin is such an
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: veronica
"Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant," Williams joked.All intelligence is relative, Robin. At least GWB never signed up to do Patch Adams.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:18:35 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
To: veronica
The list of "entertainers" I have blacklisted over the past few years is really getting long.
The benefit is that I have been re-reading boks I read 20-30 years ago i.e., Michener's Poland and The Source.
Kinda makes me wonder what I ever saw in the likes of Mork!
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:20:05 AM PST
by
JimVT
To: veronica
Sad. Williams spent a great deal of time entertaining the troops in Iraq. I am sad that he didn't learn anything.
How sad that he chooses to spread lies about Dick Cheney selling WMD's to Iraq...ESPECIALLY to Germans! When the Germans are the ones who had illegal arms contracts with Saddam!
Disgusting. No more Robin Williams movies.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:20:17 AM PST
by
tuckrdout
(Terri Schindler (Schiavo) deserves to have her wishes honored: Give her a DIVORCE!)
To: veronica
Robin Williams military duty in the 70s:
To: veronica
he's on my list of movie people to avoid.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:20:23 AM PST
by
petercooper
("daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime" - Nicole Gelinas, 02-10-04)
To: robertpaulsen
I suppose he'll also claim he's a veteran. He played a dj in God Morning Vietnam. Adrian Cronauer?
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
All intelligence is relative, Robin. At least GWB never signed up to do Patch Adams.Or Death To Smoochy. :)
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:22:53 AM PST
by
veronica
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GW Bush 1-20-04)
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