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Brother Buzz

(39,438 posts)
1. Just beyond the GG bridge towers in your avatar is the Robin Williams Tunnel
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 11:17 PM
Jul 2023

Note: The rainbows were painted back when it was called the Waldo tunnel, not for Robins tradenake 'rainbow' suspenders



Robin Williams explaining how golf was invented is one of my favorites


BigmanPigman

(54,451 posts)
2. I just re-watched Inside The Actor's Studio with him from 2002
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 11:50 PM
Jul 2023

He is simply amazing. A non-stop mind. He dressed as a doctor about to perform a prostate exam on Christopher Reeves after his accident. It just about saved Chris from complete loss of hope. Robin's son calls them "brothers from another mother" since they were friends at Julliard.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64ojf8

Glamrock

(12,003 posts)
3. I was so mad at him when he took his own life.
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 11:55 PM
Jul 2023

He had been in my life regularly since I was 6 years old when he first appeared on Happy Days. He’d been making me laugh from adolescence to my tweens, my teens, twenties, thirties, forties. I was heartbroken and aghast at that most cowardly move to take his own life….then my mom was diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia.



















I now salute his courage having seen the effects up close and personal. And, as it can be hereditary, having watched it, I won’t put my wife through that. I commend him and am ashamed of my ignorant judgement. If it happens to me…I hope I have the courage to spare those I love from the pain of watching the extremely aggressive disease destroy the person I am.

Miss you Robin…

Delphinus

(12,463 posts)
12. I knew
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 07:22 AM
Jul 2023

a person with LBD - he was a salesperson and after he told me all the things it was doing to him, it frightened me that they thought he could still drive and be out on his own.

May you escape the horror of this disease.

SunSeeker

(57,390 posts)
4. Loved that. Yes, the flag is a symbol of all of us; a country of, by and for the people.
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 12:18 AM
Jul 2023

All these right wingers waving the flag hate so many of us. They obviously have no clue what the flag actually represents. They've basically appropriated it to be their symbol of hate. That is so much worse to do to the flag than spitting, trampling or burning it.

orleans

(36,593 posts)
7. i was just noticing that when i looked at his twitter profile and saw some of the
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 01:06 AM
Jul 2023

tweets -- over 1 m. followers?

i tried to google but was only finding an older actor

anyway, i wanted to post this on fb and my twitter feed so i went to youtube and got a clean ( LOL) copy:



6. I'm a Robin Williams superfan, yet I've somehow never seen this.
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 12:26 AM
Jul 2023

What a great bit. "I'm just a symbol, you're the people!"

lark

(25,809 posts)
13. Robin Williams was a true treasure and will always be missed.
Thu Jul 6, 2023, 08:43 AM
Jul 2023

What an epic genius and so sad that he sufferred the way he did.

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