I wont be the first, last, funniest or most profound to remark on Robin Williams passing tonight, but the closeness that I (and surely anyone who feels like theyve grown up with him) feel for him and his work is bubbling over for me. He was Michael Jordan-level when it came to comedy. I felt like I missed lots of his jokes when he was on late night shows because Id be laughing too hard at the joke that he had said seconds before. I remember him speaking so eloquently and sadly about the passing of John Belushi of a drug overdose, and how it shook up all actors everywhere, especially him, causing him to get sober. I fear too that, like many artists who, even temporarily, fall out of vogue, we had been taking him for granted for years. Prior to tonight, Im sure that I hadnt given him much thought for a long time. And yet, now, look at the outpouring of grief...overwhelming, beautiful, remarkably wide-spread, and yet somehow, oddly right-on-the-money. Ah, what a breathtaking loss, but ohhhhh, how tremendous to have basked in his gifts for as long as we did. Forgive the lack of focus to these comments, honestly blindsided here...I think a lot of us are. Rest in happiness, peace, and love: A bitter irony that someone who made us so many people so happy could, himself, be so sad.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:34:50 +0000
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