![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Steve Martin, whose fame he may eventually eclipse, Williams is a ravenously comic off the screen as on during a single lunch-hour break between rehearsals he bounces through at least a dozen different vocies, from Peter Lorre's to the squeak of a Hollywood tot to Quasimodo to a swish teacher at an acting school for fish ("I worked with Flipper when he was nothing ") to that of his own tight-lipped parrot, who lives at home with Williams' new wife Valerie and an iguana that sleeps under the refrigerator. "Very Strange."Ī momentary calm - but these spells do not last long. It's frightening." He looks down, almost sorrowfully. But 30 million people? That's like 80 football fields. I think about being in a hall with 8,000 people, or a football stadium with 100,000. "It is strange to think if this show is doing well then 25, 30 million people are watching," Williams says. Network television would seem hardly the medium for such a manic new talent, but "Mork and Mindy," a situation comedy built entirely around Williams' charms and inspirations, has become the highest-rated new series of the year, ranking fourth - near "60 Minutes" and "Charlie's Angels' - among the top 10 in the season so far. ![]() Then he looks around, remembers who he is, sits down again and asks the futile question, "Now where were we?" It's a bit disorienting to come upon a fellow with the inventiveness of an Albert Einstein and the attention span of a Daffy Duck, but these are among the qualities that have made Robin Williams at 26 the hottest comedian in America. Dropping the conversation like a napkin off a lap, he jumps to his feet and shouts in a cracker twang, "Lola! Lola! Get the baby! It's a quake!" The minor rumble of a delivery truck outside his trailer on the Paramount lot is more than enough to set Robin Williams off. ![]()
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