Article: The Hollywood Funny Business; Robin Williams, Dan Aykroyd and the S.F.-L.A.-N.Y. Interview Routine

"WHHAAAAAAA!!"

There's a plastic Do Not Disturb sign on the door and a strange high-pitched braying noise coming from the other side. It's either Ethel Merman wrestling a pit bull or Robin Williams giving another interview.

"NNRRRAAAAAA, WHHAAAAAAA!!!"

"You won't need an hour," the PR woman says with an icy smile. "A half an hour with Robin is like an hour with anyone else. He talks fast."

Williams is the first stop on a cross-country Hollywood mini-marathon that will also feature Dan Aykroyd, with John Hughes, Burt Reynolds, Bill Murray, Joe Mantegna, Barbara Eden, Claude: Baby Sitter to the Stars, the Polo Lounge, Paramount Studios, the Bob Hope Building, Oscar de la Renta, the ...

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