Yep, "Awakenings" moved me profoundly and I give large credit to Robin Williams for capturing the essence of human compassion. What a tremendous talent. It's a sad day, learning of his death.
Having met Oliver Sacks in real life, I was all the more impressed by Robin's performance in Awakenings. Here Robin says there would be all kinds of people in Oliver Sacks audience: when I met him, he had been at Patrick Stewart's birthday party a week or so before! twitter.com/PaulCoddington/status/1129149098123075585?s=19
Christopher Reeve once said that " Robin Williams is a gift to the world ". That's FRIENDSHIP. If you can have a friend that says that about you, you're blessed.
Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine (June 1995) was frightening to contemplate, for he knew that he had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery. Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve. It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: "For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay."
Chris was my favorite actor and still is. I know Robin was a major supporter with the Chris Reeves Foundation as well as old roommates in school. Hopefully they'll get to recap on old times. Who can fill such a void of humor? The shoe just isnt gonna fit anyone no more than the cape does from Christopher Reeve. Rest in peace to two awesome talents.
I love Robin Williams. I always have since Mork and Mindy. He's just the perfect entertainer and seems to have a lot of heart. He loves to make people happy.
I wish Robin Williams was my uncle. I would visit him all the time! ^_^ One of the greatest and most sincere human beings. Also, we shall always remember Christopher Reeve, may he rest in peace and may his legacy go on!
yeah he did. I read it on IMDB Once I read that I was like "aw" My friends would never do that for me. Robin is a wonderful person since he did that to Chris. It would be an honer to meet him.
it's funny you should say that because there's a great story where christopher was in the hospital after his accident and considering suicide, and this masked doctor came in, started cracking jokes and everything, and christopher figured it out that it was robin, and it was the first time he'd laughed since his accident, and christopher later said that it was one of the moments that helped him get through the worst of it at the beginning...never underestimate the healing power of laughter
It's nice to see an interview where Robin isn't doing his usual "schtick" of acting crazy and loony, and speaking 1,000 MPH. He's his normal self here, which is refreshing.
+Earth Ruler The crazy and loony Robing Williams, to me, is also as real as the Robing Williams in this video. There are times to be funny and times to act the way he is in this interview.
The humour was a front. Behind every clown there is ALWAYS a deep, sensitive, and caring individual. Don't get me wrong, being funny is a talent, but it's often seen as an empty or one dimensional one, which is phenomenally unfair. Most comedians make amazing character actors, becasue they are expert observers of the human condition. Sadly, most don't get to realise it due to typecasting. He was a great friend to Chris Reeve.
yeah, reeve could be still alive and being one of most handome-middle-age man right now, together with his friend robin, just like richard gere, if he never like riding horse.. one thing can change everything..
if u read christopher reeve's biography he talks about robbin making him laugh in hospital when he wanted to kill himself... listening to robbin talk about christopher like that makes me cry.. christopher was my hero and still is..
and when reeves had to have a dangerous operation, at some point his spine wasnt connected to his skull, and the docs said it was 50/50 it would work, a that time, when obviously reeves must have been really scared, robin went into the room, dressed up, speaking in a russian accent saying hes there to do a rectal exam on reeves, n tht made reeves laugh, n everything went fine, but unfortunately, reeves condition just kept pullin him downhill ever since and we lost the real superman. RIP.
Hi Robin.....My name is JOHN DOUGLAS ROW ..My cousin is David Straiton of "HOUSE" FAME ...tv director as David Shore friend.He hangs around David Steinburg alot(your manager of course) .I almost got to see u at the Sony Centre Nov 13 here in Toronto but could not get enough money together after a botch surgery by Dr. Claudia Cina.. Same operation that John Ritter had but I survived.It has taken me 8 years to recover..THE surgeon left the country to Italy to avoid a malpractice suit....
I don't understand why anyone would insist the way you do, on the inadequacies of another human being. Every human being is extraordinary and almost without limit. I can not begin to understand how anyone would dare to put a limit or label on another human being, especially someone so obviously extraordinary as Robin William. His suicide COULD call you to draw any conclusion - such as compassion or regret or grief - but instead you choose to dismissively sum up this tragedy as "stupid". Do you know anything about pain, suffering, loneliness. I hope for your sake that you are very young; that could be your only excuse. But even a child should be able to see that there was something lovely and special about this man.
@@iahvesix3779 He was not in his right mind when he died. He was suffering from a VERY aggressive & fatal form of Lewy Body Dementia when he took his own life. PLEASE try to have some compassion!
I did already explain this to you. He's NO LONGER an idéa because he is already created officially. As soon as you've published or built something from idéas in your mind, It has become a creation. The Idéa is no longer an Idéa, but in this case a fictional wizard who've been published through books, movies and games etc. But hey... I kind of WISH you were right, but that's another story.. ;)
Children very rarely inherit a neurological abnormality the exact form of a parent. If a down syndrome adult had children, they'd pass on the chromosome number and affect birth, perhaps, but the nerve injury is NOT determined by the chromosomes, and is NOT gene-directed! I hope we can find nerve tissue transplants and therapy to maintain nerve functions. Perhaps it won't be 100%. Perhaps 60, 70,80% of Nerve function returned with medicine and lead somewhat normal life.
Everytime I get a chance to see you, my cousin wrecks my chance...I have talked to David Steinburg"s secratary many times to you which I have records to prove and sent pictures of myself.I have a very similar apperance. Am I related to you...I have a great deal of respect for your work but everytime I do a set people say I act and talk like you.It is uncanny because I am not trying to impersonate..
You did not have to take it too literally. I was just meaning that God ''belongs'' to many religions, not that he has to exist as with proof. The word ''exist'' may not have been that wisely chosen by me, but further in that case.. Neither you can state that he DOESN'T exist as that requires absolute knowledge of it. You're not SUPPOSED to know because God is only for believing in, it's pure faith.(This is where many Christians fail, if not all).
I have. Have you? If so, we came to different conclusions about His mercy. John 3:16: "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
SteadiReality: You don't understand. Jesus sacrificed Himself. But I agree with you: I'm not going to debate you. I'll just pray that you see the Truth.
Just1Bum no one knows what the truth is, everyone has in the back of their minds the voice of logic/reason saying you don't know that definitely, christians are good at ignoring it. thats all.
Harry Potter exist as the fictional figure he is, made by human WITH proof of it. He is not an idéa as he is already created. You being a ''realist'' should know that. Seriously.. why did you even bother comparing them?
The 2nd & 3rd part of your comment is very good, it is the ''fuck god'' I don't agree with. Don't blame God for Snotras words. Blame ONLY his religion. ''God'' exist in many religions, with various names. I live by no religion but I do pray to God sometimes. However.. Christianity is indeed nothing but despair, you will only complicate yours and others lives with it.
Sigh...I have all respect for Chris Reeve, but I hate when they use hackneyed phrases like "a real life Superman" or marvel at his "courage". I've known a paraplegic for years and sometimes for a laugh, I'll tell him how much I admire his "courage"...I'll say: "You have so much COURAGE, John...so many people in your position would kill themselves". He finds it funny...sometimes I would pretend to abuse him in public while he would flail his arms and pretend to cry.
There's a big difference between a paraplegic and quadriplegic, and a quad and one who is totally dependent on a ventilator like Chris Reeve was. Your friend as a para had the use of his arms for transfers, to drive, to feed himself, get a drink of water, blow his own nose, help dress himself, toilet himself. He had the ability to breathe on his own, to roll over, and do many more skills than someone who is a quad. Just being able to breathe alone reduces anxiety in a huge way, and being able to do much of your own care takes the burden off of others. People do say to quads that they "have courage" because they are thinking of how thankful they're not in the situation of having to live life in a chair, or figure out how to adapt to life dependent on others. My mom was injured 7 years after Chris Reeve and although she wasn't dependent on a vent, she told me that her body felt like it was encased in concrete and she hated it. She said she wished she'd died when she'd fallen. But she didn't, she lived 14 more years in a chair, dependent on others to pick her nose, brush her teeth, get poop out of her butt for her each day, turn her over so she didn't get bed sores, feed her, pull her blanket up and down. She frequently said she wanted to die, but also was afraid to be alone because something may happen that could kill her. It takes great individual courage to have a debilitating medical condition and to keep moving forward with life each day. Never discount that.
I wish Robin Williams wasn't his own biggest fan. His belief that he must crack gags and put on voices (few of which are funny) RELENTLESSLY is SO tiresome.
![Robin Williams - Parkinson interview [2002]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4LaJDOD5cJI/mqdefault.jpg)
You were a good friend to Christopher Reeve and a Good friend to all of us who loved you Robin..thanks
R.I.P Robin Williams . I still can't believe it. Awakenings was an extrodinary movie . The world is not the same without you.
Yep, "Awakenings" moved me profoundly and I give large credit to Robin Williams for capturing the essence of human compassion. What a tremendous talent. It's a sad day, learning of his death.
Having met Oliver Sacks in real life, I was all the more impressed by Robin's performance in Awakenings.
Here Robin says there would be all kinds of people in Oliver Sacks audience: when I met him, he had been at Patrick Stewart's birthday party a week or so before!
twitter.com/PaulCoddington/status/1129149098123075585?s=19
@Mike Hardie , Indeed the first time I watched interview of Oliver Sacks my initial reaction was - "Wait I know this guy!"
He's with his friend now. We all miss both of them
Robin's humanity will live on.
Christopher Reeve once said that " Robin Williams is a gift to the world ". That's FRIENDSHIP. If you can have a friend that says that about you, you're blessed.
Reeve went through inner anguish in the ICU, particularly when he was alone during the night. His approaching operation to reattach his skull to his spine (June 1995) was frightening to contemplate, for he knew that he had only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the surgery.
Then, at an especially bleak moment, the door flew open and in hurried a squat fellow with a blue scrub hat and a yellow surgical gown and glasses, speaking in a Russian accent. The man announced that he was a proctologist and was going to perform a rectal exam on Reeve.
It was Robin Williams, reprising his character from the film Nine Months. Reeve wrote: "For the first time since the accident, I laughed. My old friend had helped me know that somehow I was going to be okay."
patik
thanks for simply copying and pasting the script from his book you tool. You had no idea about anything and just copied
Not buying it.
Chris was my favorite actor and still is. I know Robin was a major supporter with the Chris Reeves Foundation as well as old roommates in school. Hopefully they'll get to recap on old times. Who can fill such a void of humor? The shoe just isnt gonna fit anyone no more than the cape does from Christopher Reeve. Rest in peace to two awesome talents.
I am glad that Chris had a wonderful friend like Robin, a friend like that is hard to find.
A genius and a powerful humanitarian. A great inspiration for all humanity.I am heartbroken by the death of my friend.
R.I.P Robin Williams and Christoper Reeve good guys one true superhero one true comedian
It's funny that he can be such a high-energy comedian, but his voice sounds SO...calming.
Now two good actors and friends are in heaven! Christopher Reeve for my really was a superman he fought to the end !
Who the flip is Christopher Reeve? I have heard of Christopher REEVES, who played superman.
@@brianlinville439 Lol is this meant to be a joke? It's the other way around, it's always been Christopher Reeve, not REEVES.
The only Reeves who played Superman was George Reeves. Chris was Reeve.
Robin Williams thank you for being friends with Chrisyopher Reeve
faithful friend
Up, up and away Robin
They were wonderful friends, both men were and are amazing in their field....
All of these wonderful questions we never got to...
I love Robin Williams. I always have since Mork and Mindy. He's just the perfect entertainer and seems to have a lot of heart. He loves to make people happy.
I will never forget the horse riding accident, and now Chris lives on a little more with Robin around!
lol I love Robin Williams. He and Chris must have had a lot of laughs together. :-)
I didn't know he helped pay, but he was perhaps his CLOSEST friend and that's understandable!
RIP Robin Williams
Chris and Robin. Best friends in heaven playing the best roles....
I wish Robin Williams was my uncle. I would visit him all the time! ^_^ One of the greatest and most sincere human beings.
Also, we shall always remember Christopher Reeve, may he rest in peace and may his legacy go on!
sevyr Robin was everyone’s Uncle:)
yeah he did. I read it on IMDB Once I read that I was like "aw" My friends would never do that for me. Robin is a wonderful person since he did that to Chris. It would be an honer to meet him.
*Sigh*... Robin, Christopher and Oliver. All of them are gone. :( oh gee
Oliver Stone IS not GONE. Mentally perhaps but not physically.
Oliver Sacks died in 2014
...but Christopher Robin, may he live on in all our hearts as truth lies undercover of the night ✌
Kinda strange that Charlie Rose is talking about Chris Reeve here, when a decade or so later he's talking about the impact Superman has made in BvS.
All three men were so inspiring, intelligent , and wise 😊❤️
Two people sitting have a long winding chat entertaining each other & so then the millions who get to watch it later , this was proper tv
it's funny you should say that because there's a great story where christopher was in the hospital after his accident and considering suicide, and this masked doctor came in, started cracking jokes and everything, and christopher figured it out that it was robin, and it was the first time he'd laughed since his accident, and christopher later said that it was one of the moments that helped him get through the worst of it at the beginning...never underestimate the healing power of laughter
yeah, they were best friends. He was there for Chris. He helped pay for his medical stuff. Now thats a friend.
Miss this guy x
It's nice to see an interview where Robin isn't doing his usual "schtick" of acting crazy and loony, and speaking 1,000 MPH. He's his normal self here, which is refreshing.
+Earth Ruler The crazy and loony Robing Williams, to me, is also as real as the Robing Williams in this video. There are times to be funny and times to act the way he is in this interview.
The humour was a front. Behind every clown there is ALWAYS a deep, sensitive, and caring individual. Don't get me wrong, being funny is a talent, but it's often seen as an empty or one dimensional one, which is phenomenally unfair. Most comedians make amazing character actors, becasue they are expert observers of the human condition. Sadly, most don't get to realise it due to typecasting. He was a great friend to Chris Reeve.
Love the jokes to keep it light when it's such a serious matter to him.
Because they were best friends. Robin Williams wanted to help.him. If my friend was in the hospital, I would help pay for the bill.
Robin Williams is dark and very deep!
yeah, reeve could be still alive and being one of most handome-middle-age man right now, together with his friend robin, just like richard gere, if he never like riding horse.. one thing can change everything..
Seriously, one of my favorite things that Robin did was to constantly interrupt Charlie Rose.
if u read christopher reeve's biography he talks about robbin making him laugh in hospital when he wanted to kill himself... listening to robbin talk about christopher like that makes me cry.. christopher was my hero and still is..
Interesting stuff❤
and when reeves had to have a dangerous operation, at some point his spine wasnt connected to his skull, and the docs said it was 50/50 it would work, a that time, when obviously reeves must have been really scared, robin went into the room, dressed up, speaking in a russian accent saying hes there to do a rectal exam on reeves, n tht made reeves laugh, n everything went fine, but unfortunately, reeves condition just kept pullin him downhill ever since and we lost the real superman. RIP.
Rip robin
Kris Worsnop R.I.P Robin and Chris!
Hi Robin.....My name is JOHN DOUGLAS ROW ..My cousin is David Straiton of "HOUSE" FAME ...tv director as David Shore friend.He hangs around David Steinburg alot(your manager of course) .I almost got to see u at the Sony Centre Nov 13 here in Toronto but could not get enough money together after a botch surgery by Dr. Claudia Cina.. Same operation that John Ritter had but I survived.It has taken me 8 years to recover..THE surgeon left the country to Italy to avoid a malpractice suit....
you read the book too, I agree with you completely!
He is actually pretty intelligent.
+Gavarni Bijovug stupid people usually don't commit suicide. sadly.
I don't understand why anyone would insist the way you do, on the inadequacies of another human being. Every human being is extraordinary and almost without limit. I can not begin to understand how anyone would dare to put a limit or label on another human being, especially someone so obviously extraordinary as Robin William. His suicide COULD call you to draw any conclusion - such as compassion or regret or grief - but instead you choose to dismissively sum up this tragedy as "stupid". Do you know anything about pain, suffering, loneliness. I hope for your sake that you are very young; that could be your only excuse. But even a child should be able to see that there was something lovely and special about this man.
Gavarni Bijovug
read my comment again.
@@iahvesix3779 He was not in his right mind when he died. He was suffering from a VERY aggressive & fatal form of Lewy Body Dementia when he took his own life. PLEASE try to have some compassion!
sorry I have to say it. Superman is the godfather of Popeye's son.
Mind blown! You are correct!
+Darryl Joudrey ...............and Marlon Brando, the Godfather, was also Superman's father.
@Darryl
I would love to see the Fleischer cartoon for that.
P.s. Superman is also godfather to Peter Pan's son.
@@Richard_John_Dick_Grayson Peter Pan's got kids?
@@Victory987 He does in the movie "Hook".
These are fantastic clips of Robin Williams appearance(s) on Charlie Rose show.
When was the "interview"?
For the last 2 minutes Charlie is laughing non-stop.
I didnt know he was the godfather of robins kids
they were super tight, they met at Julliard and robin was always interested in neurology even before Chris' accident
I love charlie rose
The Lamarckian theory that characteristics acquired by habit, use, or disuse may be passed on to future generations through inheritance.
Yeah when he mentioned "dogs playing poker," I googled for those old art prints and the table is.. exactly like the one in the interview. Wowser.
😂😂😂😂
Isn't that sad, when you listen to Robin Williams to talk about the spinal cord being put back together?
Damn Frogs.
when was this???
Wow William broke Chris here lol
I did already explain this to you.
He's NO LONGER an idéa because he is already created officially.
As soon as you've published or built something from idéas in your mind,
It has become a creation.
The Idéa is no longer an Idéa, but in this case a fictional wizard who've been
published through books, movies and games etc.
But hey... I kind of WISH you were right, but that's another story.. ;)
Kinda ironic since the close friend he's talked about is no stranger to the dual identity.
ho ho ho Spot the Lamarkian in this Interview....
Actually... he isn't being Lamarkian... I see now. It is more complex than that (what he was saying).
And anyway, even if he was...
cheers so i scrape the wax from my ear because my father does as well i see
Children very rarely inherit a neurological abnormality the exact form of a parent. If a down syndrome adult had children, they'd pass on the chromosome number and affect birth, perhaps, but the nerve injury is NOT determined by the chromosomes, and is NOT gene-directed! I hope we can find nerve tissue transplants and therapy to maintain nerve functions. Perhaps it won't be 100%. Perhaps 60, 70,80% of Nerve function returned with medicine and lead somewhat normal life.
Everytime I get a chance to see you, my cousin wrecks my chance...I have talked to David Steinburg"s secratary many times to you which I have records to prove and sent pictures of myself.I have a very similar apperance. Am I related to you...I have a great deal of respect for your work but everytime I do a set people say I act and talk like you.It is uncanny because I am not trying to impersonate..
why would chris need help with money?
The hell do liberals have to do with anything?
You did not have to take it too literally.
I was just meaning that God ''belongs'' to many religions, not that he has to exist as
with proof.
The word ''exist'' may not have been that wisely chosen by me, but further in that case..
Neither you can state that he DOESN'T exist as that requires absolute knowledge of it.
You're not SUPPOSED to know because God is only for believing in, it's pure faith.(This is where many Christians fail, if not all).
what is Lamarckism.
1:35. Lamarckism.
Some would argue that since Robin Williams killed himself, he won't be going to heaven. I don't know if I agree with that belief, however.
God is bigger than that. He's much more merciful than people realize.
I have. Have you? If so, we came to different conclusions about His mercy.
John 3:16:
"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."
First you need EVIDENCE of heaven and hell to make your comments and you have none
SteadiReality: You don't understand. Jesus sacrificed Himself. But I agree with you: I'm not going to debate you. I'll just pray that you see the Truth.
Just1Bum no one knows what the truth is, everyone has in the back of their minds the voice of logic/reason saying you don't know that definitely, christians are good at ignoring it. thats all.
Harry Potter exist as the fictional figure he is, made by human WITH proof of it.
He is not an idéa as he is already created.
You being a ''realist'' should know that.
Seriously.. why did you even bother comparing them?
The 2nd & 3rd part of your comment is very good, it is the ''fuck god'' I don't agree with.
Don't blame God for Snotras words.
Blame ONLY his religion.
''God'' exist in many religions, with various names.
I live by no religion but I do pray to God sometimes.
However..
Christianity is indeed nothing but despair, you will only complicate yours and others lives with it.
Sigh...I have all respect for Chris Reeve, but I hate when they use hackneyed phrases like "a real life Superman" or marvel at his "courage". I've known a paraplegic for years and sometimes for a laugh, I'll tell him how much I admire his "courage"...I'll say: "You have so much COURAGE, John...so many people in your position would kill themselves". He finds it funny...sometimes I would pretend to abuse him in public while he would flail his arms and pretend to cry.
There's a big difference between a paraplegic and quadriplegic, and a quad and one who is totally dependent on a ventilator like Chris Reeve was. Your friend as a para had the use of his arms for transfers, to drive, to feed himself, get a drink of water, blow his own nose, help dress himself, toilet himself. He had the ability to breathe on his own, to roll over, and do many more skills than someone who is a quad. Just being able to breathe alone reduces anxiety in a huge way, and being able to do much of your own care takes the burden off of others.
People do say to quads that they "have courage" because they are thinking of how thankful they're not in the situation of having to live life in a chair, or figure out how to adapt to life dependent on others. My mom was injured 7 years after Chris Reeve and although she wasn't dependent on a vent, she told me that her body felt like it was encased in concrete and she hated it. She said she wished she'd died when she'd fallen. But she didn't, she lived 14 more years in a chair, dependent on others to pick her nose, brush her teeth, get poop out of her butt for her each day, turn her over so she didn't get bed sores, feed her, pull her blanket up and down. She frequently said she wanted to die, but also was afraid to be alone because something may happen that could kill her.
It takes great individual courage to have a debilitating medical condition and to keep moving forward with life each day. Never discount that.
I wish Robin Williams wasn't his own biggest fan. His belief that he must crack gags and put on voices (few of which are funny) RELENTLESSLY is SO tiresome.
That is incredible a friend that came to the aid of his dear friend. Robin Williams is wonderful!
R.I.P Robin Williams