From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, January 6, 2001 at 2:57:33 AM UTC-8, NowReVuing wrote:   
   > Robin Williams is a schizoid encyclopedia of topicality who owes everything   
   he   
   > is to the media; he has become a mutation of trash overload. Without his live   
   > wire "Name That Impersonation" energy, would audiences accept him? They   
   didn't   
   > in his best performance -- as a Russian in Paul Mazursky's "Moscow on the   
   > Hudson." His fawning public didn't go see "The Fisher King," and there was no   
   > stampede to see "Awakenings." I wonder if the huge box office for "Mrs.   
   > Doubtfire" is less a triumph than inheritance? That is, audiences will go see   
   > Williams in just about anything so long as he pulls everything down to a   
   > hyper-comic denominator. Even when it doesn't belong -- as in "Good Morning,   
   > Vietnam." Audiences don't see anything in him beyond free-floating   
   caricature.   
   > This talent a mad, whirling brilliance, and in concert, it's genius as if on   
   > speed. Yet the intensity can be exhausting; as an ultimate satirist of trash,   
   > Williams is crazed, maddening, always amusing, but, alas, very tiresome. His   
   > feverish, manic mimicry is so abundant and convulsive that, when not checked   
   by   
   > a strong director, it spills over onto everything and what might otherwise   
   by a   
   > fine performance gets displaced. Williams's talents for mimicry helped him   
   > enormously with the Russian language in "Moscow," yet there's not a trace of   
   > his concert mania. And what he does in "Moscow" is neither subdued nor   
   > condescending -- it's show-stopping stuff in the most sincere movie way   
   > imaginable. (How ironic that during Reagan's hyped commie hatred, Williams,   
   > excessively American, used his hairiness, healthy complexion and ingratiating   
   > voice to become the screen's most romantic Russian -- beating out Mikhail   
   > Baryshnikov.) It was in "Good Morning, Vietnam" that I started getting very   
   > tired of the growing garbage heap that is Williams' repertoire. It has its   
   > place, but not in Vietnam. I'm not taking a solemn position: Vietnam was a   
   > savage laughing war because of all the hypocrisy and lies. Using those   
   > elements, as Robert Altman did in "M*A*S*H," they're savagely, brutally   
   funny.   
   > But coming from Williams, the laughs aren't razor-sharp observations, they're   
   > convulsions from a media junkie.   
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