His High-octane Comic Genius Rocketed Him To Fame In Mork Mindy But Behind The Clownish Antics Chaos Reigned

His high-octane comic genius rocketed him to fame in Mork & Mindy, https://pinfaves.com/peter-jackson-weight-loss/ but behind the clownish antics, chaos reigned.

Drawing on new interviews with friends, family and co-stars, this gripping biography of Robin Williams reveals for the first time the full story of the star's dizzying downward spiral 
Cocaine had already gained acceptance in Hollywood when Robin Williams arrived in Los Angeles in late 1976.
The drug was in the city's bloodstream and it was traded like currency, especially by those who wanted access to fame, or wanted to keep that night's party going just a little bit longer.
Mork & Mindy focused on Mork's misunderstandings about Earth society, was a huge hit and turned Robin Williams into a bona fide star
When Williams's friend Bob Davis came to see him at The Comedy Store, where he was now earning $200 a week, he was stunned to find his old classmate casually doing cocaine with other people in the parking lot of the club after the show.
‘Some guy just walked up to him with a spoon full of cocaine, held it up to his nose and - whoosh,' said Davis.

‘This wasn't a friend of his - this was a fan who just walked up. It was such an odd thing.'
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Later in his life, when Williams was open about his drug habit, he said cocaine was so readily available he almost never had to pay for it. ‘They give it to you for free,' he said. ‘"You have a drug problem? No problem. Everybody's got it." Everyone will pump you up if you're ready, because it also gives them some control over you.

You'll tolerate conversations with people you wouldn't even talk to in daylight.'
Williams studied drama at college and at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York but his taste for improvisation and getting laughs saw him drifting to comedy.
By 1976 he was doing regular stand-up spots at San Francisco comedy clubs.
‘The first time I did improv with him I couldn't keep up,' said fellow comedian Mark Pitta. ‘It was very embarrassing. He used to sweat, and he reeked. So I wanted to get offstage for two reasons.

One is, he stinks, and the other is, I'm not doing well.'
Dana Carvey, then a student but now best-known for starring in Wayne's World, said: ‘People always said he could get away with anything. He'd do an improv and touch a woman's breasts - "Oh, titties" - and somehow it was fine when he did it.'
Williams studied drama at college and at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York but his taste for improvisation and getting laughs saw him drifting to comedy
Williams with his first wife Valerie in 1978 (left); Williams with Pam Dawber in Mork & Mindy (right)
Williams soon fell into a pattern. One set somewhere would be followed by drinking and drugs, or it would lead to more sets at more clubs, followed by more drinking and more drugs.

Once the night began, there was no way of knowing how it might end. In 1978, with his reputation growing, he won the part of the alien Mork in an episode of the hit TV series Happy Days. When filming began, it soon became clear Robin was going beyond the boundaries of what had been written for him, but these contributions were welcomed.
‘When Henry Winkler and Ron Howard saw this talented man, who they didn't know from Adam either, they both gave him plenty of room to work,' said series creator Garry Marshall.
Robin was very clearly running away with the episode.

‘It was almost as if he sucked the script in like a sponge,' said Winkler ‘And then he would spit it back out, but then it would have been Robinised.'
The appearance was such a success that Mork was given his own spin-off show, Mork & Mindy.
When one of his managers called to tell him he'd be paid $1,500 a week, Williams, in his innocence, screamed excitedly, ‘Wow!' ‘Schmuck,' his manager replied. 'It's $15,000 a week - I was just teasing.'
The series, which focused on Mork's misunderstandings about Earth society, was a huge hit, turning Williams into a bona fide star and reaching nearly 26 million American homes at its peak.
Viewers were left with the impression that Williams was making up whole portions of episodes while the cameras rolled, a false perception that he was all too happy to indulge
Twenty-six-year-old Pam Dawber played Mork's flatmate Mindy.

She was the straight woman and was happy to do it because she and Williams got along so well. Though she was three months younger, she became the big sister he never had, who scolded him when he showed up late to work and berated him for his poor hygiene and crass behaviour.
Dawber said she was never bothered by Williams's dirty habits and considered it his way of acting out gentle feelings of affection for her. ‘I had the grossest things done to me - by him,' she said. ‘And I never took offence. I mean, I was flashed, humped, bumped, grabbed.

I think he probably did it to a lot of people. But he certainly did it to me, because I was with him all the time for eight months out of the year. But it was so much fun. Somehow he had that magic. Even though, if you put it on paper you would be appalled.
‘He had this guileless little thing that he would do.

He'd look at you, really playful, like a puppy. Then all of a sudden he'd grab your t*** and run away. And somehow he could get away with it. It was the Seventies, after all.'
Viewers were left with the impression that Williams was making up whole portions of episodes while the cameras rolled, a false perception that he was all too happy to indulge.
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