I have to admit that we enjoyed Robin Williams last sitcom "The Crazy Ones." The set up was that he was the head of a famous ad agency that he ran with his daughter Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is unlucky in love even thought the perfect guy is right under her nose in the doufy guy from "Old Christine" who plays her best friend. They had the really gay guy from Mad Men who proposed to Joan playing a player who banged everything that moved and who was Robin Williams protege. Plus the sterotypical hot dumb but smart working girl secretary for the plebs. Typical sitcom memes but it was pleasant. The best part was the last three minutes where they played bloopers where Williams and the cast would riff off mistakes and word play that could be really funny.
I had boycotted Robin Williams for a long time after he started hanging with Whoopi and spouting the normal commie Hollywood bullshit. He was just too manic for me. My comedy tastes run to guys like Rodney Dangerfield, Buddy Hackett, Jim Norton and Nick DePalo. So I would change the channel when one of his movies came on. I sort of put him in the dude from MASH Sandinista slot in my television viewing.
So I was pleasantly surprised to see him in this show and was really disappointed when it was canceled.
What a waste.
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I didn't even know he was on. Don't watch much prime time anymore.
Had i known he was on, i like to think i would have given him a shot.
I feel bad that he felt that was all the choice he had. Fuck. Some people have demons.
Suicide is a horrible thing for those you leave behind. There is no glamorizing it.
Trooper, You and a lotta folks have a big chip on your shoulders. I recently read a pretty good book titled, When Hollywood was Right. It was a history of Hollywood and California politics starting in the 40's to Reagan. There's a lot of John Wayne in it. I learned how the evolution came about. The writer is conservative, but the account is pretty straight.
If a person is funny, SO WHAT! Now, if it's Bill Maher or Whoopi, I see your point. But, if politics doesn't consume their act, if it's just a part of it, I let it go. Are they funny? That's the question. Margaret Cho is hilarious, but she crossed the line during the Bush era. Dennis Miller did a touching tribute to Williams last night on O'Reilly. I suggest you watch it. They were friends. I have the same philosophy as Miller on liberals. Maybe because I am like him in that I was a liberal and then evolved. Maybe that's the difference w/ me and some of you folks.
I was a teenager when Mork came out, and Williams did inane better than anyone in the day, so I was a fan. Never really cared for him on the big screen. It seemed every movie he was in was centered around the moment that he would go on one of his inane rants. Thoroughly enjoyed Fisher King, even with his obligatory rant.
Hook was a good kid's flick, which was surprisingly not ruined by the huge personalities of Williams and Hoffman. Like Lem, I don't watch prime time, so I never saw his current project.
As far as his politics went, he seemed like any run of the mill ignoramus, spewing politically correct, trendy anti-conservative tripe. Not like Ed Asner, Barbara Streisand, or Ted Danson. People like that have convinced themselves that they really are intelligent and know more than everyone else about science, God, and human nature. His politics didn't annoy me, his acting did.
I liked Williams. When I found him unfunny I turned him off. When he was funny I watched. He was more funny than not.
I do not see Troop having a big chip on his shoulder, obviously he is around libtards all the time living in New York, but if you become dead to him you are dead to him.
That's right. There are people like Tina Fay and David Letterman and Alec Baldwin who are will never give a dollar to because of the crap they spout. I can't argue al day long. So I just change the channel.
I will give you an example. Movies and TV shows want to film in Carroll Gardens all the time and they scout our shop all the time. So this one person calls up and wants to use the shop for a day.
Now we have been though the mill and had our own show so we know how production wants to get locations for free and tell you about all the great "publicity" and "advertising" value you will get. Our new motto about this is:
Fuck you pay me.
So this mook tells me they want to film and I quote my going rate when I don't want to be bother of $5000 a day. If they want to pay that I can close down and take the inconvenience. The guy goes "You don't understand. This is Whoopi Goldbergs next project." "Oh I didn't know that. In that case it will be $10,000."
I didn't like Williams, except as a comic actor in films with a good script. One reason is he couldn't do one of his frantic "ad-libs" for three minutes without some shot at Republicans,Conservatives, etc.
I'm sure Roger Dangerfield was a hard core liberal, but he was funny and he didn't obsess about politics. The same is true of Winters, Newhart and Rickles.
"You don't understand. This is Whoopi Goldbergs next project." "Oh I didn't know that. In that case it will be $10,000"
Classic.
Like I've said, Williams was great, the rest of it was so subpar that it made getting to his bits a lot more work.
Buffy isn't a very good actress and the premise was solid but the stock Hollywood 25yearoldivyleague writing didn't add any depth or uniqueness. It was like if van Gogh was hired to do a paint by numbers.
Like the love I'm hearing for the Fisher King. Amazing movie, but no one I know has heard of it.
I think Newhart and Rickles are conservative, or @ least moderates.
As usual, when I find a show I like, its gets canceled. Now it appears that people die on shows I like.
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