羅賓·威廉姆斯：白天不懂夜的黑
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作者：by Matt Zoller Seitz
羅賓·威廉姆斯的離世突然而毫無預兆。或者說，在世人眼中，他不應該以這種方式突然離開人們的視線。我們隻記得他歡樂的模樣，哪怕在嚴肅的劇情片或是晦暗不明的驚悚片，我們也期待他有那麼一兩句幽默台詞能引得觀眾捧腹大笑。所以我們不斷發問：他看上去那麼樂觀開朗、沒心沒肺，怎會以自殺的方式了卻自己的一生呢？殊不知鎂光燈之外的他，終生與酒精、毒品以及抑鬱症糾纏，台上的歡笑不過是他的職業需求，嘴角牽扯的笑容根本沒有到達眼底和內心，一切不過是一場夢幻一場戲罷了。
如果說流多少眼淚，有多少歡笑，吃多少穿多少這些是恒定的，那麼在台上威廉姆斯把自己所有的光與熱都耗光後，留給自己的生活就是生命的晦澀與無奈。那些被酒精和毒品摧毀的歡樂，那些被抑鬱症奪走的平靜，都是他要成名的代價。他在進行一項交易，把那些看似簡單的美好拿去交換，得到的一開始是甜蜜，後來卻是越發難忍的苦澀。我們隻看到了陽光底下的光，卻不知道背後的影子黑暗無底，能生生地把一個人的生活給吞沒。
——Mac
It’s hard to choose a single moment that represents the career of Robin Williams， who was found dead this morning of an apparent suicide at 63. Somehow they all seem representative. There were flashes of anarchic joy in his grimmest roles， and moments even in his most 1）outwardly 2）featherweight performances when it seemed as though a cloud had passed across his face.
Williams battled drug problems and depression throughout his life. Although he had 3）crests and troughs， the light never traveled far from the darkness or the darkness from the light. Like 4）Jack Lemmon， you could believe Williams as a man standing on a ledge or walking on air. That was the most surprising and often haunting thing about Williams： that sense that when he unleashed the full force of his talent， he was reaching out to the audience and running away from something.
“When he appeared on the Jonathan Ross show earlier this summer， he’d been vintage Williams， hyperactive to the point of deranged， 5）ricocheting between voices， riffing off his internal dialogues，”wrote The Guardian’s Decca Aitkenhead in a 2010 profile 6）pegged to World’s Greatest Dad， a 7）pitchblack comedy with unbearably painful dramatic passages， many of which revolve around a suicide note. “Off-camera， however， he is 8）a different kettle of fish. His bearing is intensely 9）Zen and almost mournful， and when he’s not putting on voices he speaks in a low， tremulous 10）baritone—as if on the verge of tears—that would work very well if he were delivering a funeral 11）eulogy.”
His first 12）indelible character， Mork from Ork， was a one-off supporting character on Happy Days， an extraterrestrial who battled the show’s king of cool， the leather jacketed Fonzie. “He could make everybody happy but himself，” said Garry Marshall， who cast Williams in the star-making role as Mork. Producer Marshall was so impressed with Williams’ hair-trigger imagination that he built a 13）spinoff around him， Mork and Mindy.
The show was even more of a situation comedy than most sitcoms， mainly because of who its star was. A man with Williams’s 14）freewheeling brain might’ve had trouble staying on script anyhow—he modeled his standup style on his mentor and friend Jonathan Winters—but at the time he was also feeding a 15）prodigious cocaine habit， one he’d joke about and ruminate on as he got older（“Cocaine is god’s way of telling you you are making too much money，” he said in Robin Williams Live at the Met）. He also drank too much， but got 16）sober in 1983 and stayed sober for 20 years， until he cracked while filming Insomnia （great performance as a possible psychotic killer） on location in Alaska. There were 17）relapses and treatments and apologies； anybody who’s dealt with these oftenintertwined problems， substance addiction and depression， knows you don’t so much beat them as beat them back. Or 18）harness them.