I was actually surprised how much i enjoyed The Fisher King because i usually hate anything Robin Williams does. One of my friends used to gone on about how good he was, but i find him overrated to the point of annoyance.

Was his latest film a light-hearted comedy about a Jewish man who pretended to have a radio to help the kids escape the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps? Christ almighty (sorry, wrong religion)

Having said that, i wasn't that surprised that i enjoyed the Fisher King. It was directed by Terry Gilliam after all.

Yeah, and Jeff Bridges is about as under-rated as Williams is over-rated.

RW's post-success stand-up is also unbearable - a bunch of stolen one-liners strung together by gurning. I wonder what he was like live before he landed Mork and Mindy?

Hasn't he announced that he's returning to stand-up?

RW Factoid: for his part in "Moscow on the Hudson", he learned Russian. Because he was playing a Russian.

Is it only me that is worried by the sheer number of roles in which Robin Williams pretends to be a child or has the mental age of a child eg. Hook, Jack etc.. Am I alone in finding this just a bit sinister?

He was brilliant in Take That...

Oh, wait a minute...

No.

>Watching the Woody Allen interview with Mark Cousins (who has the most annoyingly mannered inflection in his voice that I've ever heard

He sounds as if he is speaking out of his nose. Mark Cousins, that is. Where did he come from? Has he done any other TV stuff. I've just never seen him elsewhere.

>>Watching the Woody Allen interview with Mark Cousins (who has the most annoyingly mannered inflection in his voice that I've ever heard
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>He sounds as if he is speaking out of his nose.

I'm tempted to cite other orifices, but...

Mark Cousins, that is. Where did he come from? Has he done any other TV stuff. I've just never seen him elsewhere.


I don't know...the moment you start referring to anyone as a 'critic', and their self-awareness goes down the toilet. He didn't even have any particularly good questions (unlike, of all people, Parkinson when he interviewed him last year).

Never mind, Woody had some great stories anyway. And Bullets Over Broadway is ace.

Cousins - annoying voice yes, and I didn't see the Woody Allen thing (come to think of it Woody Allen has an annoying voice too) but his interview with Polanski was pretty good the previous week (and Polanski is an awkward bugger). He also did a pretty good scene by scene thingy with Scorcese, whose voice is not irritating but is very very fast.

He's nowt in Manchester nowt. You wait Gary Barlow will be back on form.