In 1973, Williams was one of only 20 students accepted into the freshman class at the Juilliard School, and one of only two students to be accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year, the other being Christopher Reeve.[23] In his dialects class, Williams had no trouble mastering all dialects quickly. Williams left Juilliard in 1976.
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His roommate was Kevin Conroy. (Batman and Robin!)
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Nope. We HAVE TO.
Mostly Iāve been feeling angry about the unfairness of Williamās fate.
Then I saw this, and started feeling so freaking sad:
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Iāve gazed down into that abyss, and never had the courage to call. Iām better now, but I wish I had. If youāre thinking up reasons not to call: You should call them.
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Itās not your fault.
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I am sad now. I did not follow much of his work, but movies I watched when I was young simply etched his face into my memory. I did not know this man, but whatever I saw of him was not too far from my personal opinions. I wish he was still with us, and I hope his family will have been given a better context. Take care, everyone.
Fuck. Fuckity fuck. Justā¦fuck.
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And Phillip Seymour Hoffman too in the same year. This is the second time this year Iāve sat down at the computer and read a headline that felt like a physical blow. Iām jaded to most world news; itās not that I donāt care as much as my caring one way or another just doesnāt seem to matter. But news of the death of a great storyteller, stories that moved me, sometimes deeply, always feels personal and thereās nothing for it but to feel sorrow at the loss. Iāll miss those two very talented actors.
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If you havenāt yet seen it - go see āA Most Wanted Manā. It was really an excellent film.
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Itās hitting me the same way Spalding Grayās death did - that remorseless sense of inevitability, because both were so haunted by torment. And both of them were performers I admired tremendously.
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Figures that my ācuzā would sum up my sentiment exactly.
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What a tragedy. What a loss. What a wonderful person. Nothing more I can add - the volume of his creativity speaks for itself.
What a loss. He was a fixture of my childhood in the best possible way. He was a staple of my teen years, turning in some of his most brilliant performances. And he is well respected in my adulthood as an incredibly talented performer who has left us well before his time.
My heart goes out to his family.
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Itās weird, because he took those gigs clearly in hope of breaking free of his ācomicā persona, like it would make him happier to be thought of as an actor first (one thinks); but working on Insomnia led him back to the bottle. He had a number of films coming out in the next few months, and I understand not all where to pay the bills (so to speak). Weāll never know what was going on in that supercharged mind of his. Iām so sad.
In the past I imagined a parallel dimension where heās just āuncle Robinā to somebody, a funny drunkard selling insurance or something; maybe he would have fared better? In the real world, he had a clear talent and took all opportunities he got to make a living out of it; but in the end, he couldnāt do it anymore and there was nobody there to physically stop him from walking away. In that parallel dimension, maybe a bitchy wife and ungrateful children would have been there all the time. I donāt know, Iām rambling, itās just a great loss, he was a great actor / comedian / geek and by all accounts, a very nice man too.
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I winder if he was upset over the death of his dear friend Jonathan Winters last year? Winters has a similar style and managed to live with bipolar, although he was hospitalized at one point.
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I too wondered about a possible linkā¦I guess you never really know what peopleās internal demons are like, about their inner turmoil.
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