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Robin

By Robin , Itzkoff , Dave;Williams

Book information

Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Year
2018
ISBN
9781627794244, 9781627794251, 1627794247
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (23989160 bytes)
Series
A New York Times book
Pages
xii, 529 s., [16] tav. : ill. (nogle i farver)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
RobinWilliams

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From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a compelling portrait of one of America's most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations – all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams's comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt, which he drew upon in his comedy and in celebrated films like Dead Poets Society; Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher...

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