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Article: ROBIN WILLIAMS: STRAIGHT TALK IN A DOZEN VOICES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1989
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NEW YORK - No surprise here: Robin Williams is on a rant
and on a roll. "Good Morning, Vietnam," his recent breakthrough
movie, was made for the Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures. His
new movie, "Dead Poets Society" (which opens Friday), is also a
Touchstone film. Furthermore, Williams appears in the video in the
animation exhibit at the new Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park in
Florida.
What gives? Has the iconoclastic Robin Williams -- perhaps the
man with the most rapier-like comedic wit in America -- become a
company man?
Williams -- sitting in a hotel suite, serving what he calls
"Betty Ford speedballs" (coffee with a Perrier on the side) --
seizes the moment. "Do you believe ...