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Robin Williams and "Some Where Over the Rainbow"  

stevenjosepht 78M
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8/12/2014 9:42 am
Robin Williams and "Some Where Over the Rainbow"
Robin Williams committed suicide at age 63. His comedic genius was immediately recognized with the 1970s TV program "Mork and Mindy".

Today also happens to be the 75th anniversary when the film THE WIZARD OF OZ was first released in limited theatres in North America.

That song by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg--"Somewhere Over the Rainbow"--speaks to Hollywood.

The end of the song: "Why oh why can't I?" speaks to limited expectations--something Hollywood is not comfortable with.

But for Sandra Bullock's 54 million dollar income, there are many Hollywood types struggling with manic personality as waiters or falling into drug addiction... For Hollywood, meeting those expectations becomes a dream come true, or a nightmare... In Robin William's life--it seems to have become a nightmare... A nightmare made worse by his own addiction to drugs and alcohol. While one oftentimes falls into alcohol addiction, drug addiction presents an element of [bad] choice--one deliberately, consciously, knowingly ingests something that will be addictive....

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can't I?

If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow
Why oh why can't I?

Robin Williams--1951-2014--aged 63--RIP!
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8/12/2014 2:59 pm
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stevenjosepht 78M
3726 posts
8/14/2014 3:29 pm
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Yeah--it's always sad that they have this deep depression... Apparently declining health along with addiction issues didn't help...


CuriousAnd2Shy2 63F
54 posts
8/17/2014 10:24 am

 Stephen - I come to it from a different viewpoint. He was basically manic-depressive (my opinion) or bipolar, and used his comic freneticism to lift his own spirits. He talked about it often, from the late 70's onward, as he tried to stay sober and be in the moment and find that happiness everyone told him was was "supposed" to feel.

Once he got wealth, he still wasn't able to calm down or be happy, and he wrote about the fact that cocaine was the best thing that ever happened to him because it helped him be calm and feel normal. Until he built up a tolerance and it couldn't help him any more.

I truly think that suicide was his final / last choice. He tried physical relief (remember when he rode marathons with Lance Armstrong all over the world), he tried therapy, and he tried various medications. I think he did everything he could to stay with his family and see through the "normal" span of his life, while also losing many emotionally important friends along the way. Christopher Reeve, his college roommate, and Jonathan Winters, to name only two.

I don't understand the reference to Sandra Bullock in the blog, so I'm just going to concentrate on the Robin William issues. And say that, if you've never felt that level of helplessness to hormones, rapid fire thoughts, and depressive spiraling down of emotions, you truly can't get why it would be an act of relief to try something - anything - to calm it all down.

I think he danced as fast as he could as long as he could until he just couldn't do it anymore. As a non-Catholic, I don't fault him for his choice, and I don't laud him for his bravery. I just wish it could have ended differently for his children and for him.

But, as someone who struggles with the great "whys" - why are we here, what is the purpose of this nightmare of a life, why does it have to be so hard, etc., etc., etc., we're going to have to disagree on this one because we'll never know the answers. The ability to focus on endurance or resilience is something that many of us lack when they are exhausted from the battle.

Hope your day is going well. Happy Sunday.
Regards,
2Shy


stevenjosepht 78M
3726 posts
11/20/2014 2:41 pm
    Quoting CuriousAnd2Shy2:
    Stephen - I come to it from a different viewpoint. He was basically manic-depressive (my opinion) or bipolar, and used his comic freneticism to lift his own spirits. He talked about it often, from the late 70's onward, as he tried to stay sober and be in the moment and find that happiness everyone told him was was "supposed" to feel.

    Once he got wealth, he still wasn't able to calm down or be happy, and he wrote about the fact that cocaine was the best thing that ever happened to him because it helped him be calm and feel normal. Until he built up a tolerance and it couldn't help him any more.

    I truly think that suicide was his final / last choice. He tried physical relief (remember when he rode marathons with Lance Armstrong all over the world), he tried therapy, and he tried various medications. I think he did everything he could to stay with his family and see through the "normal" span of his life, while also losing many emotionally important friends along the way. Christopher Reeve, his college roommate, and Jonathan Winters, to name only two.

    I don't understand the reference to Sandra Bullock in the blog, so I'm just going to concentrate on the Robin William issues. And say that, if you've never felt that level of helplessness to hormones, rapid fire thoughts, and depressive spiraling down of emotions, you truly can't get why it would be an act of relief to try something - anything - to calm it all down.

    I think he danced as fast as he could as long as he could until he just couldn't do it anymore. As a non-Catholic, I don't fault him for his choice, and I don't laud him for his bravery. I just wish it could have ended differently for his children and for him.

    But, as someone who struggles with the great "whys" - why are we here, what is the purpose of this nightmare of a life, why does it have to be so hard, etc., etc., etc., we're going to have to disagree on this one because we'll never know the answers. The ability to focus on endurance or resilience is something that many of us lack when they are exhausted from the battle.

    Hope your day is going well. Happy Sunday.
    Regards,
    2Shy
Hi there Curious--I'm terribly sorry I have failed to respond sooner. I have been in a terrible funk myself lo these many months. I think the frenetic part is spot on. Eventually, that simply wears down... The post was more an attempt to gauge Robin Williams as a success--and he was surely that--in a career --and town--that chews people up and spits them out. The demons of drug addiction, alcoholism, and manic depressive/bi-polar disorders add to the complexity of the career path that acting represents.

Hope all is well with you.


stevenjosepht 78M
3726 posts
11/20/2014 2:44 pm
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Hi--SexySandra... Sorry I have not got around to responding sooner. But I have been in a terrible funk myself lo these many months. Lot's of people underestimate demon rum; fortunately, alcoholism has never been an issue with me. I did not realize that there was something like almost 20,000 suicide by gun every year in America and I gotta wonder how much of that is due to alcoholism; alcohol being a major depressant. And shooting oneself is a very painful way to death.

Hope all is well with you this Holiday season... Steven


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