Shazbot!

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He could make you laugh so hard you’d cry; he could make you cry hard too. From off-planet Mork, to on-air hell-raisin Vietnam DJ Cronauer , influential teacher Keating at a stiff prep school in Dead Poets Society, a dogged doctor in Awakenings; his ragged professor of Good Will Hunting a true zenith of roles. And more. Stand-up to the heights of a frenetic manic colossus. He rode and collected bicycles too.

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“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

                  But O heart! heart! heart!

                   O the bleeding drops of red,

                    Where on the deck my Captain lies,

                                  Fallen cold and dead…”
Walt Whitman

One Comment to “Shazbot!”

  1. Terrible really. How truly very sad. This guy was a GENIUS.. one of life’s truly funny men.
    If you can remember the Michael Parkinson show, I saw him ON there twice and he owned the thing. Only Billy Connolly might get close.?
    Illnesses will get most of us in one form or another, but mental health is a cruel thing. Silent and too often deadly, as here.
    I am so saddened by this.
    WF

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