Two Systems

Lily & I both had the day off today, so we went to Central to observe more than participate. Neither of us can vote in Hong Kong, whether the elections are democratic or not, but we are both sympathetic to the protesters' cause. Since we are from Canada and the United States, we see voting as a basic right. Other than losing face, I can't see any reason for the Beijing government to oppose Hongkongers voting for their own leaders. It's not like the Chief Executive can make Hong Kong independent from China. The most he could do is disagree with official state policy.

I can't say if Sunday was more crowded than Tuesday. There was a considerable crowd both times. Sunday was the more eventful day with the tear gas and everyone expecting something big to happen. It was in the air. You could feel the anticipation. I think a lot of people thought the Chinese government was going to Tiananmen Square this thing. No one seemed to expect anything to happen on Tuesday.

Despite the enormous crowd, it was all very peaceful for a protest. There were some minor scuffles with the police over the weekend with a few minor injuries, but everyone – protesters and police – remained remarkably calm. We could walk across the street and feel safe the entire time we were there. It took far longer than usual to move around. This is Hong Kong, so it always takes too long to get anywhere with all the crowds, but this street was wall to wall people. It was even worse than the MTR on a Saturday night.

I would be hesitant about walking through a protest of this size in other parts of the world. In the United States, you have to think about getting shot. In Egypt, you have gang rape. Protesters in too much of the world have to worry about pepper spray. The big concern in Hong Kong was whether or not the police would bring out a water cannon. I'm sure that's not so fun when you are near the front of the crowd and take the full force of the high pressure stream, but everyone else just gets a little wet. Considering the options, I would vote for the water cannon. A spray of water in Hong Kong in September is not the worst thing in the world.

By the time we left the protest, it was still going on. No one seems to know when or how it will all end. Unlike most protests in Hong Kong, this one does not want to simply evaporate.

Some of the experts and people who talk too much on TV are worried that China will bring in the military and end it Chinese style. That would be a mistake. Hong Kong might not be as important to China economically as it was ten years ago, but it is still very important. Hong Kong is important to financial markets all over the world. The communist leaders in China are some of the most capitalist people in the world. They are more than aware of money and what it can do for them. It seems unlikely that they will want to throw so much of it away just to save face. Losing face is a big deal in China, but everyone seems to find a way to rationalize it whenever it happens and make up excuses that explain why they did not, in fact, lose face. Saving face is important in China, but saving money is even more important.

One Country

Earlier this year, the Chinese government decided that from now on, candidates for Hong Kong's Chief Executive would have to be pre-approved in Beijing. This outraged more than a few people in Hong Kong, even though the Chief Executive has never been elected by the people. He is elected by a committee of people who are appointed and elected by other committees, almost like the American Electoral College.

A lot of people have been trying to get democratic elections in Hong Kong for some time now, and this new policy only makes that pretty much impossible. Previous Chief Executives could have theoretically been in favor of democracy and tried to pull Hong Kong away from China. Now that Beijing has to approve all candidates, that is far less likely to ever happen.

People are supposedly going to be able to vote directly for candidates in 2017, but all of those candidates have to be selected by Beijing. So China is giving Hong Kong the right to vote, but not the right to vote for whoever they want.

The protests started pretty much right away, but they were small in the beginning. Chinese people are used to being told what to do by their government and it takes a while for any indignation to set in. But Hong Kong has a level of freedom unlike any other Chinese city, and the people of Hong Kong are very sensitive when it comes to China trying to take any of that freedom away.

After about a week of student protests, it all came together on Friday. Student groups and other protesters set up camp outside the Central Government office on Connaught Road and vowed to stay there until their demands were met. Barricades and temporary fences were set up to keep the protesters from interfering with business as usual. That did not last long. When more people showed up on Saturday, Hong Kong police came out in full force with riot gear and rubber bullets.

This only enraged the protesters more, and probably made more moderate Hongkongers sympathetic to the protests. Someone is always protesting something in Hong Kong, but riot police on the streets are a rare sight.

By Sunday, there were far more protesters. I don't know how many people filled the streets, and I'm sure each side will claim a different number. The protesting groups will aim too high while the government aims too low. But there were a lot of protesters on the streets outside those government offices and the thought of them shutting down the city on Monday led the police to action.

No one expected the tear gas. This is Hong Kong, after all, not Missouri. That only outraged protesters even more. Hong Kong police generally keep their distance when people protest. This new active role has a lot of us wondering if this is the shape of things to come.

I had to work Saturday night and Sunday during the day, so I could not go and check it all out until Sunday night. I got there after the tear gas incident. I never saw any of that. What I saw was a very large crowd of protesters completely covering the street. Connaught Road is pretty big and there are wide open spaces in front of the government buildings. It was all filled with people.

What struck me was how civilized it all was. If this were any city in the United States, there would be a lot of bodies on the ground right about now. Protesters were chanting, but no one seemed to hold any animosity toward the police. The protests were against the government in Beijing, not the police officers from Hong Kong. Likewise, the police were exceptionally restrained considering how many protesters were out there. The police were seriously outnumbered by the protesters, yet none of them panicked and started shooting, American style. I don't think anyone even had any guns without rubber bullets. Hong Kong riot police seem to operate on the belief that people will generally obey the law. This is a highly unusual city.

San Francisco 1

We stayed at the Argonaut Hotel near Fisherman's Wharf. Despite being dangerously close to the most touristy part of the city, it was a nice hotel and surprisingly quiet at night. The hotel is across the street from the Maritime Park, so there is less traffic than one might expect.

Even though most of the area's attractions – Pier 39, the aquarium, Madame Tussauds – were east of the hotel, I often wandered west. The park was a nice place to walk around and had a pedestrian pier with great views of Alcatraz and the bay without all the tacky souvenir shops. There was also a tiny beach that always seemed to be crowded. Just south of the park was Ghirardelli Square, the one place in San Francisco where every chocolate lover has to go. Right after we left the city, they had their annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival. Talk about bad timing.

The Argonaut is a boutique hotel with a nautical theme. The area used to be San Francisco's main fishing village and the hotel is close to the working part of the wharf, so that makes sense. Some of the rooms have views of the Golden Gate Bridge, but ours faced the ships in the marina. There are a couple of old World War II ships and some even older 19th century boats that you can visit nearby, but we never had enough time.

One of the best things about the hotel was that they had free bicycles for guests. San Francisco is probably not the best place in the world for a bike ride, but the Fisherman's Wharf area is flat and the Golden Gate Bridge is a reasonable, and beautifully scenic, ride away. Between the hotel and the Golden Gate Bridge was the Palace of Fine Arts. It was built for the World's Fair, but does not seem to have any real purpose today except as a nice place for a picnic.

Even better was the service at the hotel. Living in China, I have grown accustomed to some pretty lousy customer service. This was my first trip back to the United States since Ryan and I went to Minnesota in 2012. We stayed at his mother's house that time, so I had not stayed in an American hotel in quite a while. I think I was expecting it to be just like a Chinese hotel, for some reason. I was pleasantly surprised. The staff at the Argonaut was genuinely friendly, as opposed to the usual pretending to be friendly, and they not only knew what they were doing, but they actually seemed to want to do their jobs. Chinese hotel managers should take a class or two from this hotel.

My only complaint with the hotel was that we had to leave so soon after we arrived. The main point of the trip was Los Angeles. San Francisco was essentially a long layover. If I ever go back, and I hope I do some day, I will definitely try to stay at this hotel.

Los Angeles Audition part 2

Going to Los Angeles was probably the most unusual trip ever. We supposedly went for an audition, but most of the time, we looked around and took in the sights. We even went to Disneyland. Before Los Angeles, we stopped in San Francisco for a couple of days. That had absolutely nothing to do with the audition at all. This was more of a vacation with an audition thrown in.

What surprised me was how nice the hotels were. My agent booked us very good rooms in Santa Monica and San Francisco, and San Francisco was not even supposed to be part of the trip. We only added that later, and my agent still paid for it. I have to say, this guy really went above and beyond. When I become a big star and forget all the little people who helped me to the top, I hope someone in my entourage reminds me to send him a fruit basket or something.

911

Los Angeles Audition part 1

About a month ago, my agent got me an audition at MGM in Los Angeles. Even though I just got back from a big vacation in Tokyo, I'm taking more time off to go to California. I was not even sure if I wanted to go at first. If I get the part, that presents a serious problem. I live in Hong Kong, not Los Angeles. Taking a week or two off of work here and there is one thing, but to film in the United States, I would probably have to take even more time off. Unless it is a very small part. Then I have to wonder what is the point of flying to the other side of the world for a one day walk-on part.

I decided to go because it seems like a bad idea to turn this down. It is a pretty good opportunity. It could lead to bigger and better things. Even if it does not, I'm getting a free trip to Los Angeles. That's not too shabby.

My agent originally booked a flight for me and the three other girls I'm going with from Hong Kong to San Francisco to Los Angeles. I figured as long as we are landing in San Francisco anyway, why not spend some extra time there. I don't know the other three girls, but it did not take much to convince them. Two of them are Canadian, but they don't need visas to go to Los Angeles. I don't know if going to San Francisco first would have caused any problems, but if they get the part, they are going to need work visas anyway.

Our agent already booked the hotel in Los Angeles, but then he had to find one in San Francisco after we changed his plans. He did it all a lot faster than I would have. If it were up to me, I would probably still be looking at hotels. Hopefully, he did not simply book the first hotel he saw. He says they are both very nice hotels, so we will see.

I'm leaving for California tomorrow. Today is the Moon Festival, so I did not have to miss it at all. That worked out conveniently. The holiday means nothing to me, but I like a good moon cake.

When I come back, I will be an internationally famous movie star. Or not.

Moon Cake Day

Monday is the Moon Festival. This is a big party day in Hong Kong. It's a national holiday and feels almost like Fourth of July in the United States. The origins are different, but it's a day of eating barbecue and lighting fireworks. People can't legally set off fireworks here. They let the government do all the heavy lifting, but everyone can light a red lantern. Those never explode. At least not if you do it right, but they look pretty good floating away into the sky.

Two Moon Festivals ago, Lily, Kevin and I were at the big house at Clear Water Bay. That was a great place to have a party. This year, we are at our new apartment, which is a million times better than the old apartment, but not quite as good for parties as the big house. We have an enormous balcony, which is a great place to watch fireworks and light red lanterns, but we decided not to have a party.

Lily is working a lot right now and I'm leaving the country on Tuesday. I just unpacked from the Tokyo trip when I had to pack again for a different trip in another direction.

We might go to someone else's party, but that is still up in the air. All I know is I'm getting some moon cakes one way or another.

Tokyo Trip part 9

Just north of Yoyogi Park is Shinjuku, which is a completely different type of neighborhood from Shibuya. It might as well be a different city. We almost chose a hotel in Shinjuku before we found the Shibuya apartment. Ryan and Kevin liked the red light district in Shinjuku, but Lily & I thought it looked like some kind of cartoon neighborhood. It was more like some weird Disney Toon Town than a sexual haven. It was funny because other parts of Shinjuku were more of a serious business area while a lot of Shibuya was like a cartoon town. I thought they should have put the red light district in Shibuya and our apartment street in Shinjuku.

Shinjuku also has one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Building, which is probably a great place to see views of Tokyo. Unfortunately, we went in between storms, so we never saw Mt Fuji. Supposedly, you can see it very well from the observation deck, which is completely free to enter, but only on a clear day. We almost went to the Tokyo Skytree, which is the second largest tower in the world, but it was too cloudy to make it worthwhile. We would have had great views of fog.

We went to other areas of Tokyo, of course, but we spent most of our time in Shibuya and Shinjuku.

We spent a tiny amount of time in Chiyoda, home to the Imperial Palace. You need a reservation to go inside the Imperial Palace, and there are a million blackout dates, so we just looked at the outside. It is probably far more impressive inside.

Minato is an enormous district with far more than anyone can see in one trip. Even if we had stayed in a hotel there, we would barely know the place. The main tourist sight is Tokyo Tower, a slightly taller version of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone told us the views are better from the Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku, though again, only on clear days.

Chuo is a tiny district, by Tokyo standards, but home to the Ginza. By day, the Ginza is a shopper's paradise. It is Tokyo's version of New York's Fifth Avenue, Paris' Champs-Élysées and Amsterdam's PC Hooftstraat all rolled into one. By night, it is an epileptic's worst nightmare. The sensory overload from the lights alone is enough to give you seizures. Tokyo has about nine million people. The lights and noise of the Ginza make it feel like all of them are on a single street at any given time.

Tokyo Trip part 8

The neighborhood we were in could not have been better. We stayed in Shibuya, which is famous for shopping and food, but our apartment was on a quiet street away from all the excitement. We were only a few blocks away from everything, but once you turned onto our street, life immediately moved slower. It was like being in a quiet residential neighborhood right next to all the downtown action.

We were an easy walk to the Shibuya JR station, but we were also pretty close to the Harajuku station. I think our apartment might have been right in the middle of the two, but we mostly used Shibuya because it was a bigger station that went to more places.

I'm not really sure what is south of Shibuya, but just north of our apartment was Yoyogi Park and the Meiji Shrine. The first time we went there, we took the JR from Shibuya to Harajuku, but then we quickly found out that we could easily walk to the park. The front entrance to the park was about the same walking distance as the Shibuya station.

The Meiji Shrine was very interesting. Ryan thought it looked like a Chinese temple, but I thought it was completely different. Chinese temples seem louder. Not only in the noise made by all the people, but in the design. This shrine was calm and relaxing. Chinese temples are rough and jagged. The Japanese people at the Meiji Shrine were far more reverential than I have ever seen anyone at a Chinese temple. You can easily walk around a Chinese temple without being the loud American because Chinese people are, by and large, far noisier. At the Meiji Shrine, we were effortlessly the loud Americans, even though half of us were Canadian.

It's interesting that Canadian's have no bad reputation anywhere when most of the world probably looks at Canadians and assumes they are American. I wonder how many obnoxious Canadians have wandered around, letting everyone assume they were American.

Robin Williams

We heard about Robin Williams when we were in Tokyo. Celebrities die all the time. Usually it's cancer. Sometimes they simply live a very long time. Every once in a while, there is a celebrity death that takes everyone by surprise. The only thing more shocking than the fact that Robin Williams is dead is how he died. I'm rarely surprised when rock stars overdose, but I'm still surprised that someone who made so many people laugh could end his life the way he did.

More often than not, when a movie star gets their start in TV, everyone remembers the movies and forgets the TV. Especially if it was only one show. Everyone knows a hundred Tom Hanks movies. How many people talk about Bosom Buddies anymore? But even after Robin Williams played hundreds of memorable characters, and was a memorable character on his own, people still call him Mork.

His movies were not all classics, but look at the directors who wanted to work with him. Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Barry Levinson x3, Paul Mazursky, Penny Marshall, George Roy Hill, Kenneth Branagh, Steven Spielberg, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, Danny DeVito, Harry Shearer, Christopher Nolan, Peter Weir, Gus Van Sant, Barry Sonnenfeld, George Miller, Lee Daniels, Michael Ritchie, Chris Columbus x3.

He played Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Oliver Sacks (more or less), Adrian Cronauer, Patch Adams, TS Garp, Alan Parrish, Euphegenia Doubtfire, John Keating, Jakob Heym, Rainbow Randolph, Parry Sagan, Osric, Popeye, Peter Pan and John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.


Popeye
directed by Robert Altman
written by Jules Feiffer
produced by Robert Evans
music by Harry Nilsson
starring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Paul Smith, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini, Linda Hunt, Ray Walston, Klaus Voormann, Dennis Franz, Bill Irwin, Sharon Kinney, Van Dyke Parks

The World According to Garp
directed & produced by George Roy Hill
starring Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Swoosie Kurtz, Amanda Plummer, Jenny Wright, John Irving

The Survivors
directed by Michael Ritchie
starring Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed, Kristen Vigard, Annie McEnroe, John Goodman

Moscow on the Hudson
directed & produced by Paul Mazursky
written by Paul Mazursky & Leon Capetanos
starring Robin Williams, María Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks, Alejandro Rey, Savely Kramarov, Elya Baskin

The Best of Times
directed by Roger Spottiswoode
written by Ron Shelton
produced by Gordon Carroll
starring Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance, M Emmet Walsh, Dub Taylor, Kathleen Freeman, Kirk Cameron, Anne Haney, Tracey Gold

Club Paradise
directed by Harold Ramis
written by Chris Miller, Harold Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray
starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy, Joanna Cassidy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joe Flaherty, Robin Duke, Mary Gross

Seize the Day
directed by Fielder Cook
starring Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller, Glenne Headly, Richard Shull, Jo Van Fleet

Good Morning, Vietnam
directed by Barry Levinson
starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, Robert Wuhl, JT Walsh

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
directed by Terry Gilliam
written by Terry Gilliam & Charles McKeown
starring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese, Jack Purvis, Charles McKeown

Portrait of a White Marriage
directed by Harry Shearer
written by Martin Mull & Allen Rucker
starring Martin Mull, Mary Kay Place, Fred Willard, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Conchata Ferrell, Robing Williams

Dead Poets Society
directed by Peter Weir
starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood Smith, Lara Flynn Boyle

Cadillac Man
directed by Roger Donaldson
starring Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Annabella Sciorra, Fran Drescher, Lori Petty, Lauren Tom

Awakenings
directed by Penny Marshall
written by Steven Zaillian
starring Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, John Heard, Max von Sydow, Anne Meara

Shakes the Clown
directed & written by Bobcat Goldthwait
starring Bobcat Goldthwait, Julie Brown, Adam Sandler, Blake Clark, Kathy Griffin, Robin Williams

Dead Again
directed by Kenneth Branagh
starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams, Andy García, Hanna Schygulla

The Fisher King
directed by Terry Gilliam
written by Richard LaGravenese
produced by Debra Hill & Lynda Obst
starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter, David Hyde Pierce, Harry Shearer, Kathy Najimy, John de Lancie, Tom Waits

Hook
directed by Steven Spielberg
starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Gwyneth Paltrow, Phil Collins

FernGully: The Last Rainforest
directed by Bill Kroyer
starring Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams, Grace Zabriskie, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Robert Pastorelli, Kathleen Freeman

Aladdin
directed, written & produced by Ron Clements & John Musker
starring Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Robin Williams, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried

Toys
directed & produced by Barry Levinson
written by Valerie Curtin & Barry Levinson
starring Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Jack Warden, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J, Donald O'Connor, Jamie Foxx, Yeardley Smith, Wendy Melvoin, Debi Mazar

Mrs Doubtfire
directed by Chris Columbus
produced by Marsha Garces Williams & Robin Williams
starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Matthew Lawrence, Mara Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday, Martin Mull

Being Human
directed & written by Bill Forsyth
starring Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Theresa Russell, William H Macy, Lorraine Bracco, Hector Elizondo, Ewan McGregor, Lindsay Crouse

Nine Months
directed by Chris Columbus
written by Patrick Braoudé & Chris Columbus
starring Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, Robin Williams, Ashley Johnson, Alexa Vega, Kristin Davis, Zelda Williams

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
directed by Beeban Kidron
starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Chris Penn, Melinda Dillon, Alice Drummond, Robin Williams, Julie Newmar

Jumanji
directed by Joe Johnston
starring Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bebe Neuwirth, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde

The Birdcage
directed by Mike Nichols
written by Elaine May
produced by Mike Nichols & Neil Machlis
starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Calista Flockhart, Hank Azaria, Christine Baranski

Jack
directed by Francis Ford Coppola
starring Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Fran Drescher, Michael McKean and the evil Bill Cosby

Aladdin and the King of Thieves
directed by Tad Stones
starring Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Robin Williams, John Rhys-Davies, Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Orbach, CCH Pounder, Frank Welker

The Secret Agent
directed & written by Christopher Hampton
starring Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Christian Bale, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Izzard, Peter Vaughan, Robin Williams

Hamlet
directed by Kenneth Branagh
written by William Shakespeare
starring Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie, Richard Briers, Kate Winslet, Nicholas Farrell, Michael Maloney, Rufus Sewell, John Gielgud, Judi Dench, Robin Williams, Gérard Depardieu, Jack Lemmon, Brian Blessed, Billy Crystal, Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris, Richard Attenborough

Fathers' Day
directed by Ivan Reitman
written by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
produced by Ivan Reitman & Joel Silver
starring Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Bruce Greenwood, Charles Rocket, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary McCormack

Deconstructing Harry
directed & written by Woody Allen
produced by Letty Aronson & Jean Doumanian
starring Woody Allen, Paul Giamatti, Mariel Hemingway, Hazelle Goodman, Kirstie Alley, Amy Irving, Judy Davis, Elisabeth Shue, Caroline Aaron, Eric Bogosian, Richard Benjamin, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Garner, Stanley Tucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robin Williams, Demi Moore, Billy Crystal, Bob Balaban

Flubber
directed by Les Mayfield
written & produced by John Hughes
starring Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Clancy Brown, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg

Good Will Hunting
directed by Gus Van Sant
written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
produced by Lawrence Bender
starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, George Plimpton

What Dreams May Come
directed by Vincent Ward
written by Ronald Bass
starring Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Gooding Jr, Max von Sydow, Rosalind Chao, Werner Herzog

Patch Adams
directed by Tom Shadyac
written by Steve Oedekerk
starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Harold Gould, Michael Jeter, Richard Kiley, Peter Coyote

Jakob the Liar
directed by Peter Kassovitz
written by Peter Kassovitz & Didier Decoin
starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Michael Jeter

Bicentennial Man
directed by Chris Columbus
written by Nicholas Kazan
starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren, Stephen Root, Bradley Whitford

Get Bruce
directed & written by Andrew Kuehn
starring Bruce Vilanch, Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Carol Burnett, Robin Williams, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine, Lauren Bacall

AI Artificial Intelligence
directed & written by Steven Spielberg
starring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Robin Williams, Ben Kingsley, Meryl Streep, Chris Rock

One Hour Photo
directed & written by Mark Romanek
starring Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle, Nick Searcy

Death to Smoochy
directed by Danny DeVito
written by Adam Resnick
starring Edward Norton, Robin Williams, Danny DeVito, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart, Harvey Fierstein, Vincent Schiavelli, Robert Prosky

Insomnia
directed by Christopher Nolan
written by Hillary Seitz
starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Paul Dooley

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
directed & written by Eric Idle
starring Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey, Bill Murray, Catherine O'Hara, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher, Steve Martin, Mike Nichols, Kevin Nealon

The Final Cut
directed & written by Omar Naim
starring Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel, Joely Collins

House of D
directed & written by David Duchovny
starring David Duchovny, Anton Yelchin, Robin Williams, Téa Leoni, Erykah Badu, Frank Langella, Orlando Jones, Zelda Williams

Noel
directed by Chazz Palminteri
written by David Hubbard
starring Susan Sarandon, Penélope Cruz, Paul Walker, Alan Arkin, Robin Williams, Chazz Palminteri

Robots
directed by Chris Wedge
written by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
starring Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Stanley Tucci, Dianne Wiest, Paul Giamatti, Chris Wedge, Lowell Ganz, James Earl Jones

The Big White
directed by Mark Mylod
starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Blake Nelson, Woody Harrelson, Alison Lohman

The Aristocrats
directed by Penn Jillette & Paul Provenza
starring Lewis Black, David Brenner, George Carlin, Tim Conway, Phyllis Diller, Carrie Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Gilbert Gottfried, Richard Lewis, Bill Maher, Martin Mull, Kevin Nealon, Don Rickles, Chris Rock, Rita Rudner, Bob Saget, Harry Shearer, Sarah Silverman, David Steinberg, Jon Stewart, Rip Taylor, Dave Thomas, Bruce Vilanch, Fred Willard, Robin Williams, Steven Wright

The Night Listener
directed by Patrick Stettner
written by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, Patrick Stettner
starring Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale, Sandra Oh, Joe Morton

RV
directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
starring Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna Levesque, Josh Hutcherson

Everyone's Hero
directed by Christopher Reeve, Daniel St Pierre & Colin Brady
starring Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, William H Macy, Brian Dennehy, Mandy Patinkin, Forest Whitaker, Robert Wagner

Man of the Year
directed & written by Barry Levinson
starring Robin Williams, Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Lewis Black, Jeff Goldblum, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler

Happy Feet
directed by George Miller
starring Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Robin Williams, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes

Night at the Museum
directed by Shawn Levy
written by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant
produced by Shawn Levy, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
starring Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Kim Raver, Ricky Gervais, Paul Rudd, Anne Meara

License to Wed
directed by Ken Kwapis
starring Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Christine Taylor, Peter Strauss, Grace Zabriskie, Mindy Kaling, Wanda Sykes

August Rush
directed by Kirsten Sheridan
written by Nick Castle & James V Hart
starring Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler, Marian Seldes, Mykelti Williamson

World's Greatest Dad
directed & written by Bobcat Goldthwait
starring Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Henry Simmons, Morgan Murphy, Toby Huss, Bobcat Goldthwait

Shrink
directed by Jonas Pate
starring Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows, Robert Loggia, Gore Vidal, Robin Williams

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
directed by Shawn Levy
written by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant
produced by Shawn Levy, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan
starring Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant

Old Dogs
directed by Walt Becker
starring John Travolta, Robin Williams, Kelly Preston, Lori Loughlin, Seth Green, Rita Wilson, Bernie Mac, Matt Dillon, Luis Guzmán, Ann-Margret, Amy Sedaris

Happy Feet Two
directed by George Miller
starring Elijah Wood, Alecia Moore, Ava Acres, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara, Anthony LaPaglia, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

The Big Wedding
directed & written by Justin Zackham
starring Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Katherine Heigl, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried, Robin Williams, Christine Ebersole

The Butler
directed by Lee Daniels
written by Danny Strong
starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Terrence Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, Cuba Gooding Jr, Lenny Kravitz, Robin Williams, James Marsden, Liev Schreiber, Nelsan Ellis, Jesse Williams, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda

The Face of Love
directed by Arie Posin
written by Arie Posin & Matthew McDuffie
starring Annette Bening, Ed Harris, Robin Williams, Amy Brenneman, Jess Weixler, Linda Park

Boulevard
directed by Dito Montiel
starring Robin Williams, Kathy Baker, Roberto Aguire, Bob Odenkirk

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
directed by Phil Alden Robinson
starring Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, James Earl Jones, Sutton Foster, Richard Kind, Jerry Adler, Louis CK

A Merry Friggin' Christmas
directed by Tristram Shapeero
starring Joel McHale, Robin Williams, Lauren Graham, Candice Bergen, Oliver Platt, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeffrey Tambor

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
directed by Shawn Levy
produced by Shawn Levy, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe
starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais, Ben Kingsley, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Andrea Martin

Absolutely Anything
directed by Terry Jones
written by Terry Jones & Gavin Scott
starring Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Robin Williams