Personally, I don't care about "celebrities" and the cultlike following of them. Robin Williams' celebrity status, if he can be said to have one, is of no interest to me. Maybe it's due to being removed geographically that I never encountered this sort of thing, but to me I admired the man because of his enormous talent for making it look so easy to make people happy. That he had a natural ability for this is evident from the interviews I've seen of him, in which he is clearly having a whale of a time. He always came across as being everybody's friend, even through the lens, and he always seemed to make time for his fans; unlike some others I could mention who appeared so remote and standoffish that you could picture their fans having to apply for an appointment just for an autograph. I've been privileged to meet and speak with quite a few well-known stars of the big and small screen (many of them probably only people over here would know, though I have met a couple of Romero's zombies) and I can say with confidence that Mr Williams' approachability isn't particularly common.
That, to me, makes his death all the more personal seeming.
That, to me, makes his death all the more personal seeming.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
