Nothing about the death of Robin Williams seems real. It happened so suddenly, so out of the blue, that somehow it seems more like a headline than a reality. Surely someone so full of life, so familiar, so ever-present, has to be out there somewhere, right? Watching the PBS Pioneers of Television special Robin Williams …
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Robin Williams plays Rainbow Randolph, a children’s television show host that has fallen from grace after getting caught taking a bribe from some supposed eager parents who want their kid front row center on his show. Much to his bitterness, the station programmers (Jon Stewart and Catherine Keener) easily replace him with squeaky-clean Sheldon Mopes …
Pacino plays Will Dormer (the name a clever play on the French verb “to sleep”), a veteran cop from LA, who is called to a case in Alaska, the land of the midnight sun, as a favor to a friend in a small town police force. There’s been a murder of a teenage girl, unthinkable …
On the surface, The Birdcage could not be a more straightforward movie. When Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) decide to get married, they face the daunting task of introducing their parents to one another. Val’s father, Armand (Robin Williams), owns a gay night club in South Beach, Florida, and his “mother”, …
When I was little, I thought Mork and Mindy was the funniest, edgiest show on TV. I felt like I had a very important date every time it was on, and I made a pointed effort to mention it at school, just to show how incredibly hip I was. I even had a Mork doll …
I mean, I dramatically lowered my expectations before sitting down in the theater, and I knew the film probably wouldn’t be very good, but nothing prepared me for the pungent stinkiness of this frenetic, unfunny, obnoxious disaster. Robin Williams and John Travolta co-star as long-time best friends and sports-marketing business partners Dan and Charlie. Dan …
Are you ever just tired at the end of the work week? You know, like really really tired? Cancel your social plans tired? “Please, you guys should go out anyway without me…” tired? I knew I had a big-ass frosty microbrew in my fridge that had been beckoning for a couple weeks. One of those …
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