President Obama Responds To Robin Williams' Death: 'He Was One Of A Kind'
Source: Huffington Post
President Barack Obama expressed his condolences on Monday to the family and friends of comic and actor Robin Williams, who died in an apparent suicide earlier that day.
Williams, 63, was found dead around noon on Monday at his home in Tiburon, California.
The president commemorated Williams for his "immeasurable talent" in the statement:
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robins family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/11/obama-robin-williams_n_5670241.html
Botany
(70,447 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)He will live forever.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....there are four movies that he completed that have yet to be released.
Ah, I'd much rather have him here though.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)trueblue2007
(17,193 posts)Robin Williams died suddenly Monday, leaving behind a still-active film career. This holiday season, moviegoers will be able to see him reprise his role as Teddy Roosevelt in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. The sequel wrapped production in May, according to Twentieth Century Fox, and will bow on Dec. 19th.
Williams other holiday flick is the indie family comedy Merry Friggin Christmas, co-starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Lauren Graham and Oliver Platt. Phase 4 will release the movie, produced by Captain America directors Joe and Anthony Russo on November 7.
He also recently starred opposite Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad) in the Dito Montiel drama Boulevard, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. The movie has yet to land theatrical distribution.
Williams, who was one of the first big stars to lend his voice to an animated movie with his work in 1992s Aladdin, has also voiced the animated character of Dennis the Dog in Absolutely Anything, an upcoming live-action British comedy starring Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale that is due out next year.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-last-roles/
progree
(10,890 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)This is a major loss.
For perspective, Jerry Lewis is still alive.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)AND Dick Van Dyke too.