It turned out to be a reasoned decision made after the din died down that had more than a random Hollywood connection at its core.Īt the time, Paula was working as an associate producer with Columbus on the first Harry Potter film. While it might be a stretch to say that Robin and Marsha Williams saved my life, it's no stretch to say that nearly 14 years ago, on a day that I got my shock diagnosis, Marsha and Robin and their friend and neighbor Chris Columbus helped convince me to move my newly-christened, Stage 3-advanced, colorectal cancer ass 1,250 miles from Colorado to San Francisco-in hopes of my receiving the best treatment I could possibly find. As two of the few female producers on that film, they bonded early on during some of the quieter moments of production.
Doubtfire in 1993 and have been friends for more than 20 years. My wife, Paula, and Robin's former wife, Marsha, met on the set of Mrs. And to think now: He won his Oscar pretending to be a shrink called upon to help a gifted young man with a manic streak who couldn't shake the depressive. One thing we know: They don't hand out Academy Awards(R) for dick jokes.Ĭelebrated, loved, and praised for so much of his life for being "manic," it maybe hurts more now for his friends and fans to think about how deeply, how painfully, he must have fought the darkness of depression. Though we all think we "knew" him from his work, the truth is there's so much we don't know about Robin Williams' life and why he died. (You can find the story here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Editor's Note: In 2001, Curt Pesmen wrote a 6-part real-time memoir about survivorship for Esquire, entitled "My Cancer Story," in which Robin Williams had a cameo role.
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