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Quote of the Week: Robin Williams

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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? Robin Williams“Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?”
― Robin Williams

Things I didn’t know about Robin Williams:

  • In 1973 he was accepted into Julliard – only 20 people were accepted that year.  He was also one of two people who were accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program.  The other person was Christopher Reeve.
  • He and Christopher Reeve were close friends until Reeve’s death in 2004.  Robin Williams paid many of Reeve’s medical bills.
  • He had Lewy body dementia.  I had no idea.Robin Williams: Comic Genius Deluxe SetRobin Williams - When the Laughter Stops 1951-2014 by [Herbert, Emily]Robin Williams hbo weapons of self destruction

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Movie Night: Good Will Hunting

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We have started a new tradition at our house.  Each Saturday night, one of us picks a movie and we all watch it together.  Now, we have four different takes on the movie that we can talk to death.  At our house, we all have very strong opinions.  It also gives us an opportunity to see a movie we may not have ever watched otherwise.  Have fun trying to figure out who picked which movie.  Movie night!Good will hunting

1997 |  R  | Amazon/Vudu/Netflix | Directed by:  Gus Van Sant  Produced by:  Lawrence Bender

Starring: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgard, Minnie Driver

Music by:  Danny Elfman

Runtime:  126 minutes

Budget:  $10 million

Box Office:  $225.9 million

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Good will huntingGood Will Hunting. Have you seen it?  I hadn’t.  When Hayden asked if we would watch this as our Movie night movie, Denton and I both had to stop and think if we had actually ever watched it to begin with.  Neither one of us had seen it.  Can you believe that?  I am thinking that it was such an iconic movie and it’s been talked about for so many years that we rationalized in our minds that we had seen it along with the rest of the world.

Good Will HuntingYou know that I’m not going to give you any spoilers about the movie, just in case you’ve missed them all over the past 22 years, but I just want to put my two cents into the pot.  Firstly.  Robin Williams.  There is nothing else I need to say to make you want to watch this movie.  He was such an actor.  There truly isn’t a good adjective to use for his skill.  The world lost so much when he died.

Good Will HuntingThe rest of the cast is superb too.  I loved it and of course you should go watch it right now if you haven’t seen it.  You won’t be sorry!

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