Severely handicapped class arrives - The Lowell

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gooj to Williams for a brief white.
Ke was bind at the Comedy Store
and wotted several other dub* in Lra
Angeles. In the fall of i976. Wa!*ami
wu spotted by a producer for ABC
and obtained a role in 'he revival of
Despite Uic up* and downs.
Williams was not badly off. But his
really big bnal came wncn he (w* the
rote of an alien named Mork on an
episode of Happy Days.
With some positive rcspomc on the
fancier, ABC decided to use the
Mork character in J ipin-off *cri*t.
Mori A Mind?. Two weeks after the
new. how went on the lir, it became
one oi J*e top-rated serin. The res.:
b show bu*u£\* hutory.
Mork A Mituh lattjd Tour seasons
and came to an end in 1982 when
"...the show ticcamc too complex
because the producers ran out of the
simple sitcom themes wlikh made ibe
show what it was. Those icxiulty
oriented shows we did in the later
years. 'Mork become* cheerleader
for the Denver Broncos!' — they
were a dtutfc*."
Although 1'ie ilf* e-mc toa rather
undignified end. (t was a definite
catalyst in launching William**
career.
When asked when he stand to perform
conscioiuly. William* replied.
"1 think it w» in the seventh grade
when my parents *ent me to a public
school in Detroit. Movt of the kith
*-rc bigrcr ihun me and warned M
prove it by smashing me into walls.
1 told joke* to entertain them. *o they
wouldr.'t kick the...out of me."
William* also recalled a lime when
he made i comedy ipcevh at a private
boys* school which he iaier attended,
("...really full ofh>pchintllecnials
who would say thing* tike. That
was a very atinine thins lo "y>
Williams) ar-d told a Polish joke."
He later found out that his assistant
kcadmaiter was Polish...in the headmister's
den.
Humor his always been in
Williams* Mood, ru doubt, but whit
really affected his approach to com-
edy and perhaps to life in general wn
hi* fMimiy'% move to California, right
Uforc his senior year in high school.
"At ray old high school. I was a
good HodLnt. I was goirj to be the
president ol the senior clais and was
looking forward to a very itratght existence,
pluming to attend a small
co&gc in the Midwest or maybe e^cn
an ivy Ic^v; school. But then, my
diJ tt:i r ol. j*d my family moved to
Tiburcr"
Williams a*xat3l Redwood High
School his senior year where he first
vrvc.-al weeks were -.pcnl adjusting.
"At firv. I WOT- •< lie and Jack*, and
carried a briefcase, and pcopk uid
thing? like. 'A brie'ease — how
unmellow. Y«\)'re real); creating
creative energy, man.* Soon enough,
though, I got lo wraring jean* and
Hawaiian ihirts.
"I became, predictably, ies* conservative,
less rigid, and I Icarnrd to
really let go. I think that adjustment
lo 'freedom' helped me much Liter
with iniproviutional forms of comcdy."
Amidst Ms rite io stardom.
William* ha* not supped doing improviviuoiu],
live comedy. He hat
been known to pop in unexpectedly
i»i various comedy clubs in the city
and in Los Angeles to perform.
"I'll at«ay» do live comedy, oco
't It should mean performing on the
Mtrel. Contaa with a live jcxiience
U important to me — it's a natural
high. When you're on. jou feel toully
i.i tontrc!, that nothing on go
wrong. — and great stuff juc comes
nut of nowhere.
"Livetomedy.cipeciaily imptov.
l\ therapeutic in a lot of ways. Work-
Robin WUUium In "Moscow on Uw Hudson."
fag in clubs keeps my creative energy
flowing and alto gives me a chance
to explore other ikies of m/ielf."
Meanwhile. Williams is working
on a minor theatre projert. between
surprise nifht club appearance*. "I
feel that I Mill ru\c a lot of time in
my career, in the coming years. I'd
tike to trtiyhe write and direct my
own movie*. I'll always do live comedy
and 1 haven't ruled out television,
cither. If it's right. I'll do anything
— an>tiling to keep my adretul'n. mj
crrative energy going."
( A View to a KUV: Excitement, but no finesse
By Stephen Hruxr
In a way. ii is corfomag that
James Bond movies make few pretensions
to depth or importance; the>
simply exist es good, old-fashtorcd
adventure movies. No one would
have been the wone, however, if A
Vie* To A Kill, O07's lateM. had
made a couple of pretension* to intcl'igcnt
*!iaU>guc, decent acting, or
maybe even a coherent plrt-
tcltigcncc pub James Bond on hi* trail
pecauK of vonv *on of \u\pcctpc'» tcjJiip tlectmnu:-'>pc in*
duMruliu« aN\iid hi\ hliinp. Np
out of the picture a» inj:
/ixio'i companion. ju*t f'ir the
vikc of hiring Grace June* in ihc
imivic. She loi>k* e*i' and *inivtcr
enough, and I *ur-p a!irjcti*c, hut it ccrumly
uould lu*e been the same movw
uiihoul her. Even Tanya Roberta'
furt had umte tclc*ancc to # J>c plot.
A Virv. to a Kill i* highly t>pkal
of the June* Bond movie genre in the
overwhelming, unspeakable
ncfariou'.nctA of th- vilbin (altiwugh
microchip* as a momr, are SdJly
lackiug in glamour ard uaiifuc), the
uuve workllincu of the hero, ami the
*ctuc of UK villain ha*tr.g bti'n infinne
trouble to ixr a* rvtl. complex,
and dauardly u r«Hublc.
y. the movie lack*
some crucial subtleties. It has gusto.
hut no fiocuc, not much style, and
not much utspemc. It has milliondollar
special effects, but simplistic
directing and cinematography. It ha\
famou* zcton. but a script unworthy
of La**ie'» iKlin^ abilities, with a
strong tendency toward imnc. prrdKuble
dialncue.
A View to a Kill i* simply a *oltd.
action-[