Robin Williams found dead inside his home

[Jessen]

Aladdin is on Disney all weekend

 

[kato]

Has anyone heard that the Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket Robin Williams memorial? I only glanced at at headline, then it disappeared. I sure hope those ***holes are kept away. Bill Maher where are you?

Nothing is sacred anymore! SHAME! SHAME!!!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Dead Poets Society is featured on TCM once or twice a year, and The Birdcage shows up on AMC periodically. Mrs. Doubtfire has been shown on ABC Family several times and will be featured this evening at 6:30 and 9:00PM on Hallmark Movie Channel. There is also an episode of Law & Order SVU entitled Authority that stars Robin Williams. I will keep an eye out for any Robin Williams films, etc. that might be featured and post them here.

 

[LietKynes]

Has anyone heard that the Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket Robin Williams memorial? I only glanced at at headline, then it disappeared. I sure hope those ***holes are kept away. Bill Maher where are you?

RSBM

Are we allowed to 'name' them on this forum ? If so, fine. I think Westboro Baptist Church has been in the msm long enough for them to be 'named and shamed'.
Completely disgraceful, those whackos are !
If they are going to do such a despicable thing (they've already done this in the past); I hope those bikers or anyone else will step up and block them. ---I'd go and do it myself if I lived in the area !
IMO

 

[wendiesan]

Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church

I posted about WBC filthy publicity stunts yesterday, but this is newer information. Yesterday, the Robin Williams funeral did not show up on their schedule of events, they were just using his name, image, calling him a " pimp", at different locations. Now it seems they are having an official protest.

Members of the controversial Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church are planning an ill-advised protest at actor Robin Williams' funeral over his portrayal of a gay man in The Birdcage.
The Good Will Hunting star passed away on Monday and while details of his funeral have not been made public, members of the church have already announced plans to picket the memorial.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...t-robin-williams-funeral-20140816-104ybx.html

I'm guessing a lot of people who loved Williams will make sure that any WBC demonstration is going to be very uncomfortable for its members and will not allow them to disrupt any services. WBC makes its money by baiting people to react to their nastiness, and then suing them (a lot of them are lawyers) over supposed civil liberties violations.

Fred Phelps and his small congregation provide WBC's funding; the group neither solicits nor accepts outside donations. In addition to this income, the church makes money by winning or settling civil lawsuits involving the church. During the 1990s, the group sued Topeka multiple times for failing to provide sufficient protection during its protests.... According to Shirley Phelps-Roper, they also won more than $100,000 in 1995 in a lawsuit against Kansas' Funeral Picketing Act, which they claimed violated their First Amendment rights.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church

Fred Phelps, cult leader, died on March 19, 2014.

Phelps was often called "the most hated man in America," a label he seemed to relish.
"If I had nobody mad at me," he told the Wichita Eagle in 2006, "what right would I have to claim that I was preaching the Gospel?"

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/20/us/westboro-church-founder-dead/

 

[MissJ]

I take parkinsons meds, not for parkinsons but another illness and I can verify that they do exacerbate depression.

 

[atthelake]

I take parkinsons meds, not for parkinsons but another illness and I can verify that they do exacerbate depression.

When younger ..two times I started meds for something (birthcontrol, stop smoking ) and BOTH times within two weeks my friends said your personality has changed ...so menopause ..no hormones/drugs as it DOES affect imho . when i see advertisements talking about the symptoms and side effects for drugs ..i cringe using and having a worse outcome than the original problem

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[Jessen]

watched RW in Whose Line Is It Anyway today. Hilarious.
http://www.veoh.com/watch/e141749cFTQFZAk?h1=Robin+Williams+in+Whose+Line+is+it+anyway?

 

[wendiesan]

Beautiful memorial from Marc Klaas really underscores that, despite his stardom and vulnerability, Robin Williams was in integral part of his community and a caring, generous man.

It’s a common refrain for people in my situation. Your child is kidnapped. Time passes and answers are not forthcoming. You sink into despair as you contemplate why God has forsaken your family, yourself, and most importantly your child. What are you to do if you are thrashing about in total darkness without a flashlight to guide you to the path of hope?

Robin Williams was not a friend of mine. However, we lived in the same general community in Northern California. He was known to pop up unexpectedly and without an entourage at local comedy clubs, restaurants, county fairs, and other places that normal people would frequent. At any rate our paths had never crossed until the dark days after Polly’s abduction on October 1, 1993.

Mr. Williams was but one of many who assisted with the Polly search. I learned that he had reached out to Polly’s half-sister Annie (not my daughter) and the girls who were with Polly on the night that she was kidnapped. He spent time with them. He gave them autographed copies of the Mrs. Doubtfire script, and ultimately reintroduced laughter into the broken hearts of suffering children.

When he showed up during a fundraising event in Santa Rosa he brought light into the darkness. When he took over auctioneer duties the trickle of support became a river of sustenance. An autographed Willie Mays baseball bat which had been languishing at around $100 quickly sold for more than $2,000 and the man who purchased it couldn’t have been happier. And so it went throughout the evening as the manic styling of the comic with the sad eyes stole hearts and induced much needed laughter.

The last time I saw him was at Piatti Restaurant in Mill Valley. He was seated alone at a table for four, facing away from the panoramic view of Mt. Tamalpais and the Marin Headlands. When Violet and I were seated I nodded to him. He smiled in response. Violet encouraged me to approach Mr. Williams to thank him for the unsolicited $10,000 donation that he had made some years later and his overall kindness, but I declined. I wish I could take that moment back, because I don’t think I ever formally thanked him for his benevolence and caring. Now it is too late, because although my season in Hell is long past, his did not end until last Monday: the day the laughter died.

feed://www.klaaskids.org/blog/?feed=rss2&cat=6

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

August 16, 2014 4:11PM

If you do anything today, make sure you take the time to watch this touching Robin Williams tribute video


These words from “Jack” now seem more poignant than ever: “Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...o-the-late-actor/story-e6frfmvr-1227026591431

Thanks Marlywings.....I just viewed that short tribute on Fishwrapper. I have a lump in my throat but it was beautifully done.....made me smile & feel sad at the same time! So touching and moving. What a sweet man he was!

 

[tezi]

Wendiesan, Thank you for sharing the Mark Klaas tribute. He is one of my heroes...I still can't believe Robin is gone...

 

[Elainera]

Me too I just watched the tribute on CNN. It was very touching. I had tears in my eyes.

 

[kimi_SFC]

Beautiful memorial from Marc Klaas really underscores that, despite his stardom and vulnerability, Robin Williams was in integral part of his community and a caring, generous man.

[bI'm bringing forward the link to Marc Klaas' post. He has such a way with words, and I am in tears reading the quoted excerpt. Going to read it in its entirety now. Thank you, once again wendiesan! :loveyou:

www.klaaskids.org/blog/?feed=rss2&cat=6

ETA: (I wasn't able to access the RSS feed via iPhone :blushing: so here is the direct link to the post in MK's blog | The Klaas Act:

The Day the Laughter Died
Posted on August 15, 2014 by Marc Klaas

http://www.klaaskids.org/blog/?p=1715

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

I just saw where one of RW's fellow attendees from Hazelden is speaking out about him and his time there. That's really too bad as I would expect anyone seeking treatment there would honor the expectations of privacy.

 

[kimi_SFC]

Robin Williams as Lovelace and Ramon just showed up to save the day on Happy Feet Two on ABCFamily - now on FiOS.

My youngest is enthralled. My eldest can't bring herself to watch - she says it's too sad knowing he's gone (I totally get that!), so the DVR is capturing this for posterity.

:rose:


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[RR0004]

So saddened by his passing. It makes my heart hurt.

 

[Jmoose]

I actually don't want to know any more details about his passing-it is just too sad. And I think it's too private.

 

[fruity]

Robin Williams: actor Rob Schneider says Parkinson’s disease drugs led to star’s suicide.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...to-stars-suicide/story-fn907478-1227027345278

A CLOSE friend of Robin Williams blames the drugs the star was taking to battle Parkinson’s disease for the tragic comedian’s suicide.

Actor Rob Schneider took to Twitter to make the claim after William’s wife revealed the star had been diagnosed with the debilitating illness shortly before he took his own life.

The Deuce Bigalow star tweeted: “Now that we can talk about it. Robin Williams was on a drug treating the symptoms of Parkinson’s. One of the SIDE-EFFECTS IS SUICIDE!".

To be honest this worries me a bit. The side effect is depression, not suicide, and usually doctors try not to mix meds in combinations that will make it worse. I worry that people might go off their PD meds if they hear this, and usually the meds are the lesser of two evils. Robin had only been recently diagnosed by the sound of it, so it is very likely that his meds were not stable. I remember reading an article saying his doctors had still been trying to find the right combinations.

 

[michmi]

Rob Schneider is making a mountain out of a molehill here. Yes, there can be a side effect of depression and if he had just recently started taking the drug(s), then I certainly would entertain the possibility that a Parkinson's drug might have worsened his already-present depression (and who wouldn't be depressed after being diagnosed with Parkinson's? I'm no big fan of the pharmaceuticals for any neurodegenerative disease, either - frankly I don't believe any of them help the majority of people, but if Rob Schneider reads the side effects for most drugs for psychiatric and neurological illnesses, he'll find suicidal ideation or depression listed on every one of them.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Robin Williams Recorded a Video Message For a Woman With Terminal Cancer, Months Before His Death—Watch

Corinne Heller, eonline
Seconds ago

This is just so sad and beautiful.

Months before his recent death, Robin Williams recorded a video for a terminally-ill 21-year-old New Zealand woman named Vivian Waller, who had named him on a bucket list of five things she wanted to do before she died, according to local newspaper The Sunday Star Times, as seen on website Stuff.co.nz .

"Sending all my love to you, Jack and Sophie," the beloved actor says in the video , "Mark this off your bucket list." ...

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20140817/b570118/