AAHN001209 Photo: Christopher Felver/? Corbis. All Rights Reserved. What hurts most about the apparent suicide of Robin Williams is that as much as he achieved, he died in his own mind unfulfilled. And to an extent, he was unfulfilled — he never found a form that would capture the genius of his stand-up act or his early appearances on The Tonight Show , when his mind worked faster than anyone alive and very possibly dead, when he seemed to be channeling a fleet of circling UFOs containing the galaxy's best comedy writers. The man didn't need to play a sitcom alien to seem as if he had his own extraterrestrial energy field. No, it wasn't all spontaneous. As with his kindred spirit Steve Martin, what seemed natural (or supernatural) had hours of practice and pain and self-doubt behind it. Whenever Robin Williams performed, he had to follow the toughest act in show business — Robin Williams. But if you saw him onstage — as I did, in San Francisco comedy clubs in the late '80s whenever word got out to a select few (I wasn't one, but I knew some) that he'd be slipping in late to try out new… Read full this story
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