News about Robin Williams

Robin Williams' on-screen daughter Lisa Jakub revealed that the late actor defended her after she was expelled from high school while filming Mrs. Doubtfire in 1993. The actress, 45, shared that Williams had noticed she was upset and when she told him her school kicked her out he personally wrote a letter to her principal.  'I got thrown out of high school on Doubtfire,' Jakub said while appearing on a Mrs. Doubtfire reunion episode with her movie siblings Mara Wilson and Matthew Lawrence, on Lawrence's Brotherly Love podcast.

IQ scores are falling in the US and one expert said technology could be to blame. The average IQ score in the US is now 98 down from 100, but some states how outranked others in intelligence. New Mexico ranked last for intelligence levels at 95, while New Hampshire came in at number one with an average of 103.2 IQ level.

The Mrs Doubtfire siblings enjoyed a fun reunion this week - 31 years after the iconic comedy premiered. Former child stars Matthew Lawrence , 44, Mara Wilson , 36 and Lisa Jakub , 45, who played Hillard siblings Chris, Natalie and Lydia in the Robin Williams and Sally Field-helmed 1993 film, smiled as they posed for a group photo.

Shelby Hewitt, also known as 'Ellie Blake', 13, and 'Daniella Blake Herrerra', 16, conned her way into three high schools and a treatment center, even tricking a therapist and her partner into becoming her foster parents. Students who told her she looked like she was in her 30s were disciplined for bullying - even though they were right. One well-meaning classmate sought to console Hewitt by telling her that white skin often 'cracks' (ages quicker) than other races. The reasons for the alleged fraud are still unclear, as an investigation into her ongoing court case by the Boston Globe saw former classmates and furious parents question how she pulled it off.

Actor Zack Norman has died aged 83. The star, who was best known for his role as a crocodile-loving antiquities smuggler in 1984's Romancing The Stone, passed away on Sunday night from 'natural causes' at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his family announced.

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: It's difficult to believe right now, but Robin Williams may have been forgotten - a brief but well-known comic actor who died after a blaze of heroin, booze, and fame. Pam Dawber, his co-star in Mork & Mindy, remembered rehearsals with him ashen and hungover from a wild night on the tiles in Los Angeles in March 1982. He told her how he wanted to hang out with Robert de Niro at a hotel, but he couldn't get in.' Rather, he stayed at Chateau Marmont hotel to take drugs with Blues Brother John Belushi, who was so heavy he couldn't even stand up.' Pam began to weep when seeing a publicity picture of herself with Williams on A Life In Ten Pictures (BBC2). Mork & Mindy's founders had her co-star tell Belushi that she was dead. He died as a result of Williams' overdose when he was leaving him that night.

Robin Williams was used by Sir Billy Connolly to terrify guests at his Aberdeenshire home by posing as a Scottish wildcat. When he owned Candacraig House in Strathdon, the Big Yin had a stuffed wildcat next to the fireplace. Williams, a late comedy celebrity, was a regular visitor to Connolly and his wife Pamela's lavish parties. Williams would slip behind the wildcat and make feline threatening sounds to annoy uninhibited visitors, according to the former stand-up. Connolly, 81, of Glasgow, mourned Parkinson's disease, spoke fondly of his friend when he unveiled his new art collection, which also includes a drawing of a wildcat.

Allison Schardin, 38, was arrested on Thursday after she reportedly had sex with two teenage boys on a Colorado youth hockey team, while a third child was watching in a hotel room in Roseville, Minnesota. According to the criminal complaint, she reportedly told investigators that she and her husband, as well as their two children, accompanied the hotel for a staycation on January 14. According to the Star Tribune, the teenage boys were going from Colorado to play in a hockey tournament and stayed at the same hotel. After being arrested, she reportedly confessed to having sexual relations with two of the boys and begged for a condom.

Robin Williams may'be alive' today if his companion Christopher Reeve had not passed away, according to Glenn Close. In the documentary Superman: The Christopher Reeve Story, the Fatal Attraction actor, 76, discussed the close friendship the late comedian and the Superman actor had. 'I always felt that if Chris were around, Robin would still be alive,' the actress, who appeared alongside Williams in 1982's The World According to Garp, told People.'

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Shelby Hewitt, 32, was reportedly a traumatized child and tricked the Boston school board into allowing her to enroll in three separate public high schools. On Tuesday, the accused 'fraudster' appeared in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday for nine charges including three counts of forgery, two counts of forgery, two counts of forgery, one count of uttering, and one count of identity theft. Hewitt reportedly carried out her elaborate scheme, which included fake names, pretending to be a 13-year-old foster child with a 'controlling' foster-mother between December 6, 2021 and February 3, 2023. Brighton High School, English High School, and Jeremiah E. Burke High School were among the three public schools she tricked.

This weekend, Disney+ has announced a fabulous line of kids movies to get the family into a holiday mood. Here's our ultimate guide to the top ten shows and films that fans should look forward to. LEGO Marvel Code Red, the new animated comedy blockbuster, is at the top of the list.

XCLUSIVE: On October 24, a delivery driver weaving through traffic in Elephant and Castle, South London, when a vehicle's door opens to block his route before he gets to the car. A woman sporting a patterned top and purple cardigan 'just like Mrs Doubtfire' emerges from the driver's seat as he approaches the vehicle length away and tells him, 'You just ran into me.' Despite the confused rider's reassuring her that he did not interfere with her and encouraging her to return to her vehicle, she continues to walk to the orange Toyota GT86's rear to inspect it for damage.

Chris Columbus, a legendary film producer, recently announced that he spoke with Robin Williams to discuss a potential sequel to the beloved film prior to his death in 2014. After struggling with bipolar disorder and heroin for decades, Williams committed suicide in August 2014 by hanging himself with a belt. He was 63 years old. Columbus recalled his last meeting with the late actor and how they worked on a'solid' script together in Business Insider.

Mrs. Doubtfire is one of Robin Williams' most well-known films, and it first appeared in theaters 30 years ago. Daniel (Williams) was a divorced dad who has no access to his children. Because of this, he disguises himself as a British nanny named Mrs. Doubtfire, whom Miranda (Sally Field) recruits to watch their children, Lydia (Lisa Jakub), Christopher (Matthew Lawrence) and Natalie (Mara Wilson). Here are the complete details of Mrs. Doubtfire's film premiere, 30 years ago.

Robin Williams made such improv on Mrs. Doubtfire's set that 2 million feet of film had to be shot to accommodate him. The 1993 film stars Robin Doubtfire as a fumbling voice actor who gets divorced and loses custody of his children, based on the novel Madame Doubtfire. Daniel enters into a harebrained plan to see more of his children - including Miranda, who was hired by his ex-wife Miranda. Chris Columbus, the film's director, smugly told Business Insider that he kept 'four cameras' running at all times to keep up with' Robin, marking 30 years since the film's premiere. In fact, Robin was such a whirlwind of invention that Chris Stewart has '972 boxes of footage' from Mrs. Doubtfire and hopes to include them in a film.

On 17,149 square feet of land, Robin Williams' seven-bedroom family home in Sea Cliff was built in 1926. Breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, and the Marin Headlands can be seen from the house (right)

Kardashian kicked off Halloween weekend by announcing her epic Halloween costume, which involved transforming into her sister Kim. The POOSH founder, 44, displayed her baby bump in the same skintight floral Riccardo Tisci that Kim, 43, notably wore to the 2013 Met Gala while pregnant with her daughter North West, now 10. The SKIMS CEO's appearance was absolutely savage on the internet, with several people comparing her to a grandma-worthy couch as well as Robin Williams' character from the film Mrs. Doubtfire.

"The Woman in Me" by Britney Spears' memoir is one of the year's most awaited book launches. Over the years, no public figures have been more scrutinized than Spears. Despite all of this, she has sparked a great deal of admiration from followers and admiration around the world. "The Woman in Me" is a sad tale that reveals how other people have influenced Spears' life from the beginning. The majority of us know the individual fragments of her tabloid story from the time she shaved her head to her release from her 13-year conservatorship in 2021, but seeing it all laid out together makes her journey much more readable and perhaps a little frightening.

Just days after attending a conference on climate change's mental health, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex landed on a Caribbean island on a private jet. After attending the summit in New York on October 10, Harry and Meghan used a Dassault Falcon 7X jet to fly from New Jersey to Canouan, and then again for the four-hour hop between the exclusive retreat to Atlanta, Georgia. They attended Project Healthy Minds' conference, where Zak Williams, the son of comedian and actor Robin Williams, told attendees that climate change was adversely impacting mental stability, particularly in young people. Both the couple have in the past been keen to promote their green credentials. When Harry was questioned by Oprah Winfrey two years ago, he referred to climate change and mental stability as the two 'pressing topics.'

On Friday, it was announced on It Takes Two that the actress, 49, had dropped out of this weekend's screening due to medical reasons. Amanda reportedly posted a poignant note to her Instagram Stories on Saturday morning, although she hasn't yet spoke about her absence, in a now-deleted post.

Following a 'abysmal' comedy sketch by a Mrs Doubtfire impersonator, viewers of this Morning were left irritable on Tuesday. From the 1993 classic film to promote the Mrs. Doubtfire musical, actor Tom Scanlon changed into Robin Williams' iconic role. Hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary continued to interview Tom as if he were the genuine Mrs Doubtfire, causing viewers to 'cringe' and begged them to'make it stop'.

The debut of a new short film Once Upon a Studio was among the many highlights of Disney's 100th anniversary celebration on ABC on Sunday.

On Sunday, fans of The Wonderful World of Disney: The 100th Anniversary Celebration on ABC saw the debut of a new short film Once Upon a Studio, which features some of the company's most popular characters. Even though Robin Williams'beloved character Genie from Aladdin's first animated film was killed in 2014 at the age of 63, he was still present in the short film. Although many fans had doubted whether the studio used AI to bring the Genie back to life, producer Yvett Merino said that was not the case.