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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
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To: Ron in Acreage
Good
To: veronica
LOL! Or Jumanji, as long as we're on the subject. :)
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:24:17 AM PST
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
To: veronica
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?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:24:19 AM PST
by
VOYAGER
(!)
To: Quilla
Don't drag Jonathan Winters into this.
He's great.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:24:29 AM PST
by
nuconvert
("Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?")
To: veronica
Or ONE HOUR PHOTO!
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:25:14 AM PST
by
donozark
To: veronica
The gork from ork on speed hasn't much changed in the last 30 years. What's the surprise?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:25:51 AM PST
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: veronica
What an idiot...I never found him funny. Traitorous #$%^.
27
posted on
02/12/2004 6:26:25 AM PST
by
muslims=borg
(Behind enemy lines in New Jersey)
To: ChadsDad
Sure, we all know Robin of Loxley was lacking the right equipment.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:26:25 AM PST
by
wtc911
(Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?)
To: nuconvert
Winters was also a Marine.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:27:04 AM PST
by
wtc911
(Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?)
To: veronica
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 ?
To: veronica
Tell your sorry jokes to our military, not to a bunch of international journalists and critics, Robin.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:29:27 AM PST
by
sarasota
To: Owen
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.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:30:13 AM PST
by
wtc911
(Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?)
To: JimVT
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.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:37:58 AM PST
by
tell me
To: veronica
Is it just me, or does Robin Williams, in interviews, seem mentally disturbed?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:38:10 AM PST
by
adam_az
(Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm hunting weftists.)
To: veronica
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.
To: wtc911
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.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:41:11 AM PST
by
smiley
To: veronica
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?
To: smiley
No disagreement...just give him the nod he deserves for getting in front of the troops.
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:53:04 AM PST
by
wtc911
(Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?)
To: ChadsDad
" Isn't Robin a girls name? "
Ever hear of ROBIN HOOD ?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:53:29 AM PST
by
sushiman
To: ChadsDad
" Isn't Robin a girls name? "
Or baseball great ROBIN Roberts ?
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posted on
02/12/2004 6:54:25 AM PST
by
sushiman
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