Little Known Facts About Robin Williams Will Help You Better Remember The Lovable Genie
Robin Williams, the comedian who helped us sail over our difficult times with side-splitting, tear-jerking mad laughter, passed away this week. It is quite unfortunate that those who make us laugh till we cry are often so broken on the inside. The actor, who battled depression and suspected bipolar disorder, sadly took his own life. But such events do not obscure the facts that he was one of the best funnymen who roamed the free earth. His antics have offered us the best medicine for ailments: laughter.
As the world tries to remember the genie of laughter, here are a few relatively lesser facts about Robin Williams, may his soul rest in peace — or as he would have wanted it, eternally in laughter.
Robin didn’t want his name and fame plastered on the poster of Disney’s Aladdin:
Robin Williams voiced the immensely adorable Genie in Walt Disney’s hit animated movie Aladdin, the street-rat who discovers a powerful, but lonely, genie in a lamp. Though Genie is undoubtedly one of the chief, or rather the most important, characters, Robin Williams had agreed to voice him only if his character took up no more than 25 percent of the advertising and provided his name wasn’t used for marketing. Needless to say, while Disney agreed initially, the film’s posters and marketing strategies tell a different tale.
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Robin was huge fan of Legend of Zelda series and guess what his daughter’s name is!
Robin Williams was an avid fan of the Legend of Zelda game series. So fascinated was he with the game that he even named his daughter Zelda as a comical tribute. Moreover, the actor also appeared in an advertisement for Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in 2011.
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Robin Williams was a pantomime before the fame:
Robin Williams performed as a mime in the early 1970s, much before he shot to fame with Mork and Mindy.
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Robin Williams cheered-up the cast of the Schindler’s List:
This is so Robin Williams. Such a sweetheart was he that Steven Spielberg regularly put Robin Williams on the phone to cheer up everyone on set of Schindler’s List.
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Robin was the first to lift the spirits of Christopher Reeves after his devastating accident:
The curse of playing Superman struck Christopher Reeve very badly. An accident during horse-riding left young Christopher paralyzed from the neck down. Robin rushed into his hospital room, dressed like a doctor proclaiming he was a proctologist and was going to give Reeves a rectal exam. This was the first time Reeves laughed since the accident.
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He calmly fudged up facts, including one about his birthplace:
One fine day, Robin Williams calmly stated to the assembled press that he was born in Scotland. Robin was born in the windy city of Chicago.
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Script writers left blank spots for Robin during Mork and Mindy:
Robin was so good at and addicted to improvisation that writers for Mork and Mindy would leave out spots in the script to let him be him and cut loose.
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Robin Williams will forever remain etched in our hearts owing to the manic energy he brought to all his performances. Hope god has an equally happy time that we, the humble human beings, had when Robin was among us.
