Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest)

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter ^ | 02-12-04 | Scott Roxborough

[veronica]

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - The Berlin Film Festival has gotten a much-needed shot of levity when Robin Williams turned the news conference for Omar Naim's sci-fi thriller "The Final Cut" into a free-association comedy routine.

Williams got the biggest laughs from the packed room of international journalists and critics on Wednesday when he started taking shots at the Bush government and its search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant," Williams joked. "They say they don't know if Iraq had any WMDs -- well, all they have to do is ask (Vice President Dick) Cheney for the receipts."

Set in a near future in which people can have a computer chip implanted in their brains that records their entire lives, "The Final Cut" was well received by the Berlin crowd in its competition bow, with hearty cheers greeting it at the sold-out press screenings.

Williams plays a video editor who splices together the deceased's recorded memories, cutting out anything unpleasant to make horrible lives into picture postcards.

Asked what he would cut out of the movie of his life, Williams quipped, "Probably those years I was drinking -- but that seems to have happened already."

[veronica]

Manic, unfunny goofball attacks Prez while on foreign soil.

[biblewonk]

Robin Williams ridicules Bush (at Berlin Film Fest)

Then he must be doing something, maybe many things, right.

[Defender2]

Robin Williams keep your sorry *ss on Nazi soil okay. Don't come back!!!!

[angkor]

Off his meds again.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Shyeah. Right. Political commentary from Mrs. Doubtfire.

Hey... Robin. If I really feel the need for some gassy platitudinizing from a guy swishing around in a dress: I'll go visit Andy Sullivan's blog, or something. :)

[Seruzawa]

He's gotta to something to make people laugh. Certainly his movies have become unwatchable. My daughter rented "One Hour Photo". What a POS.

[Quilla]

I heard once that Robin Williams, like Jonathan Winters, has received treatment for a mental illness. Now I believe it.

[Owen]

Robin Williams went to entertain the troops at Xmas in a war zone, for a number of years in a row now. We don't like to hear criticism of the prez in an election year, but a nation of yes men is weaker than one with criticism. This guy is one of very few who has earned the right.

I'm a staunch defender of the prez, but Robin gets a pass on this.

[robertpaulsen]

"The Final Cut" ... Williams plays a video editor who splices together the deceased's recorded memories, cutting out anything unpleasant to make horrible lives into picture postcards."

Similar to his role in that blockbuster One Hour Photo, prying into recorded personal lives.

[DooDahhhh]

Robin W. is a douche bag!

[ChadsDad]

Isn't Robin a girls name?

[LuigiBasco]

Robin is such an

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant," Williams joked.

All intelligence is relative, Robin. At least GWB never signed up to do Patch Adams.

[JimVT]

The list of "entertainers" I have blacklisted over the past few years is really getting long.

The benefit is that I have been re-reading boks I read 20-30 years ago i.e., Michener's Poland and The Source.

Kinda makes me wonder what I ever saw in the likes of Mork!

[tuckrdout]

Sad. Williams spent a great deal of time entertaining the troops in Iraq. I am sad that he didn't learn anything.

How sad that he chooses to spread lies about Dick Cheney selling WMD's to Iraq...ESPECIALLY to Germans! When the Germans are the ones who had illegal arms contracts with Saddam!

Disgusting. No more Robin Williams movies.

[Bluntpoint]

Robin Williams military duty in the 70s:

[petercooper]

he's on my list of movie people to avoid.

[Ron in Acreage]

I suppose he'll also claim he's a veteran. He played a dj in God Morning Vietnam. Adrian Cronauer?

[veronica]

All intelligence is relative, Robin. At least GWB never signed up to do Patch Adams.

Or Death To Smoochy. :)