[QUOTE=chappy;380215]article by a close friend of mine:

[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724[/url][/QUOTE]
2 minutes after EMT's arrive to be pronounced dead sounds like acute lead poisoning.
:cry:

Edit:
Asphyxia
[url]http://media.nbcbayarea.com/documents/william-dead.pdf[/url]
Generally in a case like this lividity needs to be present for EMT's to declare (along with the hospital via radio). [A close family member has direct experience in the field.]

[QUOTE=chappy;380215]article by a close friend of mine:

[url]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724[/url][/QUOTE]

Wonder if his depression had anything to do with the cancellation of his latest TV show, [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2710104/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6]The Crazy Ones[/url] (never saw it: I simply have no taste for sitcoms anymore, unless we're talking of "serious dramas with lighter touches" like [i]House[/i]), or if it was a more-chronic thing. Comedians seem to be disproportionately depressive/morose IRL, perhaps "making others laugh" is a coping mechanism.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;380217]Comedians seem to be disproportionately depressive/morose IRL, perhaps "making others laugh" is a coping mechanism.[/QUOTE]
This could well be true.
One thing which did seem to be true for Robin Williams was that his warm-hearted persona as an actor and comedian was also the impression he gave to colleagues when rehearsing with them. From all accounts he was a wonderful person to work with, something which certainly isn't true of every star actor. Maybe he successfully hid his problems from his colleagues, or maybe the problems only started later on in his life.
What a sad loss.

[QUOTE=Brian-E;380241]This could well be true.
One thing which did seem to be true for Robin Williams was that his warm-hearted persona as an actor and comedian was also the impression he gave to colleagues when rehearsing with them. From all accounts he was a wonderful person to work with, something which certainly isn't true of every star actor. Maybe he successfully hid his problems from his colleagues, or maybe the problems only started later on in his life.
What a sad loss.[/QUOTE]

All I can honestly say is I've beem crying a lot over his death.

Imagnine being that powerfull, and that insecure.

Fscking increadable!

[QUOTE=ewmayer;380217] perhaps "making others laugh" is a coping mechanism.[/QUOTE]

I'm quite sure it was. I think the temporary fix ran out when it dawned on him that "making others laugh" was something done for the benefit of others, not for the benefit of himself.

RIP

Lauren Bacall, age 89.

I recently re-watched [i]The Shootist[/i] on DVD, in which a dying John Wayne plays a dying gunslinger. Some marvelous scenes between him and LB.

Robin Wiliiams` wife today revealed that RW was in the early stages of Parkinsons -- so on top of chronic depression and battles with substance abuse, perhaps this was the proverbial last straw.

The irony of RW having starred in [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1]Awakenings[/url] is manifest.

[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/30/344500428/john-walker-jr-cold-war-spy-for-soviets-dies-at-77"]John Walker[/URL]

[URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/28/joan-rivers-dead-dies_n_5730104.html"]Joan Rivers[/URL]

[url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-richard-kiel-james-bond-jaws-dead-20140910-story.html]Richard Kiel[/url], legendary Bond-villian "Jaws".

I most enjoyed the comedic turn he had in "Moonraker", where he after one of his character's classic impossible-survival acts he is smitten by a blond cutie (with braces, of course) who stoops to help him. Toward the end of the movie he speaks for the one and only time as Jaws, again very funny because it's so incongruous for the character.

Some other enjoyable roles of his: The Solarite in the 1961 SciFi cheese fondue [i]The Phantom Planet[/i] (spoofed by MST3K but also enjoyable standalone), the classic "Twilight Zone" episode mentioned in the above Chicago Tribune obit (for the longest time I thought that portrayal was by the actor who played Lurch in [i]The Addams Family[/i]), and the "heavy with a heart of gold" he played in the Clint Eastwood western [i]Pale Rider[/i].

[QUOTE=ewmayer;382770][url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-richard-kiel-james-bond-jaws-dead-20140910-story.html]Richard Kiel[/url], legendary Bond-villian "Jaws".[/QUOTE]

Jaws was a pretty awesome character.