Everyone who can will capitalize on it. I've noticed an increase of Robin Williams flicks being advertised to me on a couple venues. It's just how it works.
Not sure how I feel about that. It's like Apple is using this tragedy to get attention.
I just did a factory reset on my Apple TV (trying to get the software update that some are getting) and on boot it featured 3 Robin Williams movies for purchase on iTunes:
- Dead Poets Society
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Good Morning Vietnam
I dunno. Maybe they aren't capitalizing on it. Maybe iTunes Media Store is just featuring movies that are trending with rentals and purchases right now.
I'm wondering if anyone else feels, well, not surprised about this. Sudden passings are always a surprise, but the suicide part isn't so much. Robin was always one of the more eccentric figures in Hollywood. Every interview I ever saw of him was basically 80% or more of him performing impersonations, making voices, and cracking jokes, as if he felt like he needed to. But really, he could have just sat back and talked.
As someone who knows the desire to get people to like you through a funny mask, I could pick up on it immediately. I personally don't do that all the time and it's certainly not all I am, but I felt that that was what Robin was. Due to the frequency he was doing it, I always figured that he was always putting on the funny mask because that was the only way he felt comfortable with getting people to like him. I'm really sad by this, but not surprised.
Take Jon Stewart in comparison. Funny as hell, but he can instantly become serious on real issues, and doesn't feel the need to be the talking monkey. In fact, the talking monkey bit happened when he went on Fox News and the Fox commentator said "I like you better when you're funny. Go back to being funny." and Stewart just ripped him apart.
I personally liked Robin far, far more in his dramatic, serious scenes. The scene in Patch Adams where he is crying with his head on the casket of his girlfriend or wife is heartbreaking.
His wife said in a statement today that he was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's.
http://news.kron4.com/news/wife-robin-williams-suffered-from-early-stages-of-parkinsons-disease/
His wife said in a statement today that he was suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's.
http://news.kron4.com/news/wife-robin-williams-suffered-from-early-stages-of-parkinsons-disease/
Not sure how I feel about that. It's like Apple is using this tragedy to get attention.
I'm pretty sure Apple is not starved for attention. Would you rather they pretend not to care?
come on now, you know that the cool thing to do is hate on apple. he's just being cool.
Source -“He was not in a chair,” Boyd said.
“The best way to describe his position when we found him, when we examined him ... [is] his body is in a position that looks like he’s sitting in a chair, slightly off the ground, suspended from the belt that was wedged between the door and the door frame.”
Ah yes. Great ad.
Seemed like one of the very few legitimately good guys in Hollywood.
Williams was booked for an event, he required the company that hired him to also hire homeless people to fill smaller on-site positions. Brian Lord, who attempted to book the popular actor for Premiere Speaker’s Bureau, opened up about the unique booking requirement.....
.....“Years ago I learned a very cool thing about Robin Williams, and I couldn’t watch a movie of his afterward without thinking of it,” Lord wrote. “I never actually booked Robin Williams for an event, but I came close enough that his office sent over his rider. For those outside of the entertainment industry, a rider lists out an artist’s specific personal and technical needs for hosting them for an event- anything from bottled water and their green room to sound and lighting requirements. You can learn a lot about a person from their rider. This is where rock bands list their requirement for green M&Ms (which is actually a surprisingly smart thing to do).”
“When I got Robin Williams’ rider, I was very surprised by what I found,” he continued. “He actually had a requirement that for every single event or film he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them to work. I never watched a Robin Williams movie the same way after that. I’m sure that on his own time and with his own money, he was working with these people in need, but he’d also decided to use his clout as an entertainer to make sure that production companies and event planners also learned the value of giving people a chance to work their way back.
This is where rock bands list their requirement for green M&Ms (which is actually a surprisingly smart thing to do).
Why would it be a smart thing to do?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/15/westboro-baptist-church-robin-williams_n_5682288.html
....Really? They really want to pick this fight?
Why would it be a smart thing to do?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/15/westboro-baptist-church-robin-williams_n_5682288.html
....Really? They really want to pick this fight?