comedy clubs, Williams blew through an immense amount of blow only to be scared straight by the sudden death of John Belushi a few hours after they last saw each other.
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While filming his TV show and moonlighting at the L.A. “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money!” jokes Williams to David Letterman (whose whisker-filled visage highlights one of the talking heads segments). The success of “Mork and Mindy” brings Williams his first brush with addiction, a disease which would haunt him for the rest of his life. Williams’ sitcom sidekick Pam Dawber is also on hand to describe how Williams turned every taping of the show into a 3-hour improvisation-filled comedy routine. The story shows not only how much power Paramount Pictures wielded over the then-number one network ABC, but also how far Garry Marshall would go to prevent the loss of even one viewer of his 50’s era sitcom.
Williams first finds his way into television sets courtesy of the “Happy Days” spin-off, “Mork and Mindy.” The story behind that is one of the more intriguing points of interest in “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.” Garry Marshall’s son explains that Mork’s existence stemmed indirectly from the “ Star Wars” phenomenon that blew up in 1977. Not one second is devoted to Barry Levinson’s notoriously awful “ Toys” nor Francis Ford Coppola’s hideous “ Jack”, which is probably for the best, but Williams’ stunning work in Christopher Nolan’s “ Insomnia” remake is also forgotten.Īll the expected beats are hit, however.
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She takes us through his movie career, stage work in plays like “Waiting for Godot” and his last television sitcom, “The Crazy Ones.” While Zenovich can’t fit in everything, what’s left out is rather noticeable.
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We follow Williams from a quiet childhood as an only child in a conservative Midwestern environment to his extremely rude awakening as an adolescent in free love plagued San Francisco to newfound fame in the drug-filled celebrity world of Los Angeles. Zenovich’s approach Is generally chronological. Like “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind” is adept and harnessing that emotional energy for maximum effect. Fans will reconnect with some of that sadness during this film, especially while watching hilarious moments of Williams’ incredible improvisations from his stand-up and in outtakes from his television shows and movies. In fact, when I heard about “ Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” my first thought was “too soon,” not realizing that four years have passed since Williams’ death the loss seemed much fresher in my mind. At least in this film’s defense, there’s the possibility that not enough time has passed for a harder look at its subject. The same problem plagued HBO’s documentary on Spielberg (and both films unfortunately give short shrift to the hot mess that is “ Hook”).
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