The RIP thread...

Fuck just heard about Robin Williams, RIP. Love his movies and his stand up

Facebook is turning itself inside out over RB death

Such fakery, much nauseating, very society of the spectacle

RB death

Robin Billiams?

that's him

I dunno I normally get sickened by people claiming grief over celebrity deaths but I do find the news about Robin Williams upsetting

yeah but 'sad news' would have been enough - now I'm wading through load of clips of his very unfunny stand up and trite sentimental film characters.

likewise. for every mildly amusing bit of stand up he did he apparently made 10 mawkish, sentimental piles of shite that would get you reaching for the remote faster than you could say 'patch fucking adams'.

hey ho. thoughts with his friends and family.

Ah, so its a personal taste thing then. just don't load the video's people are allowed to pay homage to a persons death if they have felt that person has had a positive influence on their life.

I can't help thinking; how long could a showman, a humanist such as Williams hold out if he could witness the outpouring of affection his death encouraged? Could it reboot him entirely or worse, would he be stuck in a perpetual loop of wanting out, feeling loved, seeing himself in a new context, realising it's the same and he's still fucked, wanting out, feeling loved... Like a horrific Groundhog Day.

RIP dude. You were often amazing, sometimes cheesy, always likeable... For what it's fucking worth.

From the wiki entry on Christopher Reeves spinal injury...

Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent." The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: "For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay."[61]

Robin Williams never really did it for me. I always found his mania a bit hard to bear, but this tickled me.

. not worth a debate .

His daughter, one of three children he had, is 25 so is already grown up.

No-one knows what was troubling him, but to call him selfish shows a lack of understanding of depression, IMO.

has anyone called him selfish?

apollo did, but he's edited his post.

not richard pryor, again!

@apollo - read this;

http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/aug/12/robin-williams-suicide-and-depression-are-not-selfish

I actually cried. That dude was a total dude. [mostly] Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Night Sweet Prince

he was guilty of some cheesy/crap stuff but for me its more that he's part of my childhood than the quality of his work; and the fact the this happened to him when he meant a lot to a lot of people

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RIP Robin Williams.

Massive bike and trainer nerd. I can relate.

Lauren Bacall - RIP.

Pretty much the last of the hollywood greats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MheNUWyROv8

The line that launched a career.

Robin Williams, the most astonishingly funny, brilliant, profound and silly miracle of mind and spirit, has left the planet.
He was a giant heart, a fireball friend, a wondrous gift from the gods. Now the selfish bastards have taken him back. Fuck 'em!
Terry Gilliam

And Terry knows
rest in peace fisher king