Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest)

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter ^ | 02-12-04 | Scott Roxborough

[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."

[Ron in Acreage]

Good

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

LOL! Or Jumanji, as long as we're on the subject. :)

[VOYAGER]

Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest).

Another "brilliant" windbreaker sounds off with a noise from the brain that is deposited in his descending colon!

Will we ever be free from these Hollywood dipsticks?

[nuconvert]

Don't drag Jonathan Winters into this.
He's great.

[donozark]

Or ONE HOUR PHOTO!

[freeangel]

The gork from ork on speed hasn't much changed in the last 30 years. What's the surprise?

[muslims=borg]

What an idiot...I never found him funny. Traitorous #$%^.

[wtc911]

Sure, we all know Robin of Loxley was lacking the right equipment.

[wtc911]

Winters was also a Marine.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Robin has an incurable dose of the clap. He was sued by a former "groupie," who now must live with Bareback Williams' "gift."
Funny guy, eh ?

[sarasota]

Tell your sorry jokes to our military, not to a bunch of international journalists and critics, Robin.

[wtc911]

Williams does do his bit for the fellas, but I don't think that buys him a pass on this, not in Berlin.

btw...most don't know this but within two blocks of where this festival is held you can see rows of buildings with bullet and shrapnel damage still there from 1945.

[tell me]

I agree. Now that the entertainers turn my stomach, I have really cut down on TV, videos, and movies. Caravan was also an interesting reread.

[adam_az]

Is it just me, or does Robin Williams, in interviews, seem mentally disturbed?

[Dr. Thorne]

Robin Williams ran out of funny many years ago. However, these jibes are no worse than Leno or Letterman, and certainly not as vicious and hateful as most burblings from Hollywood miscreants like Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, etc.

Bush is a big boy and can handle this kind of lame humor made at his expense.

[smiley]

Robin Williams....one and the same who spouts off the smut "F" word in front of grade school kids.....thanks but no thanks...he's no role model for youths.

[anniegetyourgun]

It was he assigned week to bash the prez. I'm absolutely convinced now that the DNC sent out an assignment list last year. How else to explain why we get one of these vapid Hollywood types speaking his/her hatred for Bush every week?

[wtc911]

No disagreement...just give him the nod he deserves for getting in front of the troops.

[sushiman]

" Isn't Robin a girls name? "

Ever hear of ROBIN HOOD ?

[sushiman]

" Isn't Robin a girls name? "

Or baseball great ROBIN Roberts ?