RW as RL? (was Blasphemy!)

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> dasienko at e... wrote re: Robin Williams:
> 
> >This is OT I'm sure, but Dinah, I guess you've never  seen Dead 
Poets
> >Society, Awakenings, and his Academy Award winning role in Good 
Will
> >Hunting. (among Others). 
> 
> I have, and I'm sorry, but nothing I've seen there makes me ever 
want 
> to see Robin Williams in anything again.  The hilarious, manic guy 
who 
> can get serious and heartwarming in the blink of an eye . . . it 
just 
> seems like the same tired formula over and over to me (I'm thinking 
of 
> Dead Poets Society, Good Morning, Vietnam, & Mrs. Doubtfire).  But 
it 
> just goes to show that the moviemakers won't be able to please 
> everyone.  Fortunately for me, he's American and will not be likely 
to 
> appear in a major HP role.
> 
> Now, if he'd go back to standup, I'd pay money to see him.  He was 
> very funny, or at least I thought so when I was in college.
> 
> Amy Z

I'm of exactly the same opinion.  I love his standup (the only 
televised one I remember is at the New York Palladium (is that 
right??), but his films turn me cold as I find them so emotionally 
manipulative.  I enjoyed DPS and Awakenings when they first came out, 
but I have got very impatient with Robin Williams since - over 
emotional, and far too saccharine.  It is this, not Neil's 
description of Branston pickle, which sends me retching for the sick 
bucket.

Catherine