Post by Patrick on Aug 17, 2014 1:07:53 GMT
Pretentiously - and I for one always hates it when people do this, much as I hate the rollercoaster that accompanies every celeb death these days. The Today Programme on Radio 4 had bonus material this week with both Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall leaving us and they made sure - it being the silly season - that they filled their programmes to the brim with various examinations of their lives and talking to people who did and didn't barely know them.
As for Mr Williams. Well. I came over "A bit Spike Milligan" when I read about it. It was ten to midnight on Monday and I had the phone pressed to my face with Twitter as usual when the first news reports started pinging onto my timeline. I felt smacked in the face with a bat. It's an odd thing these days in that I seem to feel less bothered by the deaths of relatives than I do the odd celebrity! Which is a usual depth of shallowness that I wouldn't normally touch with a barge pole!
I was always a Williams fan though. From Mork and Mindy and onto the eighties/nineties (until they were nicked) I had a Williams collection - back in the days when TV - Channel 4 would have "Seasons" of his films. Or BBC2 for that matter. I loved the fact that under Jeremy Isaacs reign at Channel 4 - we would have "Robin Williams - Live at the Met" as a Christmas Treat to rival Morecambe and Wise nearly.
The World According to Garp was underrated, as was Moscow on the Hudson. Maybe he was up there with Jack Lemmon or Tony Curtis? I don't know. He has a special place in my heart anyway.
Bloody annoyed though that it took his death for Today to fill their programme (also) with items on Depression and the state of Mental Health Services in the UK. This from a programme who have had Jeremy Hunt on regularly Lying about his cuts to NHS services and ignoring the heinous crimes of slashing funding to Mental Health Services! Today of course have also had Iain Dipstick Smith on there - whose very Welfare reforms are driving people into the depths of despair and to take their own lives - and no one from that programme took him to task on it then either!!!
There are waiting lists from six months to over a year for counselling treatment in my area alone - so the picture across the rest of the country - in more urban areas must be disastrous. Just last week in one day there were four reports of people throwing themselves under trains at each end of the country (Reports from Network Rail on Twitter). A reporter I talk to on there tells me that railway staff have told her it's one a day normally and they've seen a rise in the past few years.
Think my head has exploded. Best get off to bed. Anyway. The point of the thread was to leave any tributes or memories you might have of these two great entertainers.
As for Mr Williams. Well. I came over "A bit Spike Milligan" when I read about it. It was ten to midnight on Monday and I had the phone pressed to my face with Twitter as usual when the first news reports started pinging onto my timeline. I felt smacked in the face with a bat. It's an odd thing these days in that I seem to feel less bothered by the deaths of relatives than I do the odd celebrity! Which is a usual depth of shallowness that I wouldn't normally touch with a barge pole!
I was always a Williams fan though. From Mork and Mindy and onto the eighties/nineties (until they were nicked) I had a Williams collection - back in the days when TV - Channel 4 would have "Seasons" of his films. Or BBC2 for that matter. I loved the fact that under Jeremy Isaacs reign at Channel 4 - we would have "Robin Williams - Live at the Met" as a Christmas Treat to rival Morecambe and Wise nearly.
The World According to Garp was underrated, as was Moscow on the Hudson. Maybe he was up there with Jack Lemmon or Tony Curtis? I don't know. He has a special place in my heart anyway.
Bloody annoyed though that it took his death for Today to fill their programme (also) with items on Depression and the state of Mental Health Services in the UK. This from a programme who have had Jeremy Hunt on regularly Lying about his cuts to NHS services and ignoring the heinous crimes of slashing funding to Mental Health Services! Today of course have also had Iain Dipstick Smith on there - whose very Welfare reforms are driving people into the depths of despair and to take their own lives - and no one from that programme took him to task on it then either!!!
There are waiting lists from six months to over a year for counselling treatment in my area alone - so the picture across the rest of the country - in more urban areas must be disastrous. Just last week in one day there were four reports of people throwing themselves under trains at each end of the country (Reports from Network Rail on Twitter). A reporter I talk to on there tells me that railway staff have told her it's one a day normally and they've seen a rise in the past few years.
Think my head has exploded. Best get off to bed. Anyway. The point of the thread was to leave any tributes or memories you might have of these two great entertainers.
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