Thats not to say he didnt deliver i think if you watch the fisher king again he was don quixote figure, a mad visionary, that i think caught some of the manic energy and a lot of the darkness. Thats a performance i dont think is sufficiently appreciated. Moscow on the hudson great film. Gets the soul of a russian expatriate, the deep melancholy. Also surprisingly effective later in this career when he was cast as a serial killer in the film insomnia opposite al pacino, and it was startling the way he seemed to relish having a chance to swear on screen and to be nasty and cruel. Those were sides of his personality that didnt often show up on screen. The kind of danger you talk about, the feeling when you are watching him, particularly in his improvisational mode, not necessarily in the confines of scripted film, although sometimes in those roles, that really comes across. I want to play his first appearance on carsons tonight show where you can feel that sense of watching someone who doesnt himself know what will happen next. You feel it and theres this kind of exhilaration and terror at the same moment. This i kind of how i think of him. This is Robin Williams on the tonight show for the first time. Dont get nervous. Oh, god. Not really, no not really, no way. There is some reason you dont get nervous. I suffer from severe dyslexia, too. I win on my block trick or 12th. Better get some fish. Say hi to your mom and dad. [laughter] where is home for you, or did you come from a home . Oh, the people in the institution, tommy. Havent taken your medication yet, its going to be fun. Back at 12. How are you, mr. Williams . Im real fine. Look at these things, flipper. Right now theres someone going, what are you doing . Oh, god. Youre a nice man. Dont be afraid. It went away. Seem like real men can stand up to herpes. Everything there, all the seems completely authentic, like this person channeling all the kind of crazily Intense Energy coursing through him into what he was doing in the moment and feels both unsettling and you cannot come away from it. Its. Its a high wire act he played and he did it Better Seeing him live he did it better than anyone. Lets not forget he came of age in hollywood at really the height of the cocaine epidemic and he was famously quoted as saying cocaine is gods way of telling you, you make too much money. And i fear that like so many people he felt at a certain point he was burning so brightly he had to have something to keep his confidence up. I dont know sort of like robert deniro, maybe a buddy of his in that i think deniro talk about it, too. There was a way in which they burned something essential out of them doing that, and of course, his you always when you heard him on talk shows he would speak with this great melancholy about his period in his life when he burned so brightly and yet was also accompanied by insane terror. The terror of to be performing at that level, and to try to keep it up. Can you imagine . Because he was better than anybody. Where do you go from what you just saw on carson . How can you ever capture that . How can you be sure of capturing that . Thank you, david. I really appreciate it. Youre welcome. Joining me on the phone is mark harris, writer for entertain. Weekly. I was just going back through some of the most resent Robin Williams interviews and what struck me was a palpable sense that he didnt feel the way that were all talking right now about Robin Williams career as being remarkable and spanning decades and awardwinning roles and brilliantly talented, but he didnt feel that way about himself. It comes through in the most recent interviews about his career, finances, the fact he had gone to back to rehab in 2006. Theres this massive gap between im really struck by this in one of these moments the gaff of perception between people who are watching from the outside and what it is like to live inside the head of that person. I think that right and as stunned and sad as we all are, in a way we are less surprised than we might be if this was news about someone who did not wear his heart on his sleeve as much as Robin Williams did. He was not someone who concealed what he was going through, whether it was struggles with Substance Abuse or Health Issues or emotional issues or insecurity. He was open about many of the difficulties through the years that he faced, and i think that kind of openness also extended to many of his performances. I mean, over the years, especially after mork mindy, and the early 8s so when he started his career as a movie actor, there were times in the lesser movies that he made when we would recoil a little from the sort of sad clown thing that he was often forced to do, the sentimentality lou the laughter, like patch adams, that i think in a way in those parts williams was communicating something that was very true to him, which is that comedy for him was a way of masking pain, coping bane, overriding pain, expressing pain, aside from all of the other really brilliant aspects about him as a comic artist and performing artist. He was a very true guy. I mean, there was real honesty, not just anarchy but truth in this comedy. Do you think we will remember him for his films . What role do you think will we remember him most for . Well, its funny, i was listening to davidedelsteen say earlier that movies failed for the most part to harness the really unique, freewheeling, fastmoving, talent he had, and i mostly agree with that. He always seemed a little hemmed in by having to just play one part, but i think in some ways the big exception to that is the movie that he didnt actually see him in, which was aladdin. The performance as the genie was a rare occasion when the movie was able to keep up to him and is a tribute to the fact that Robin Williams made everyone else look slow, that it took a cartoon to keep pace with him. Mark harris from entertain. Weekly. Thank you so much, mark. Thank you. If youre watching this right now and you have had thoughts about suicide and are depressed, i want to read this very important number to you. 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Outrage in ferguson, missouri, today after police shot and killed an unarmed teenage saturday afternoon in broad daylight. Heres what we know about the death of 18yearold Michael Brown. After brown was walking with another individual on the road near the canfield papers in ferguson, sub bausch of st. Louis, missouri, after an al temperature indication, key elements are disputed by the police, brown was shot and killed by a Police Officer. Police do not dispute a Motor Vehicle who has not been publicly identified shot and killed Michael Brown, Police Officer is on administrative leave pending an investigation. Theres also no dispute that Michael Brown was unarmed. As for the altercation, an individual who says he was accompanying Michael Brown has said in multiple interviews he was walking in the street with brown when the Police Squad Car pulled up. The officer said to get the f on the sidewalk. It was not a minute from our destination and we would be off the street, johnson said. Again, this is a man who says he was with Michael Brown prior to and during the altercation. Johnson told cbc news that after a pause the officer reversed his car and the following ensued. He pulled up on the side, tried to brush his door open but we were so close it rick rick said and bounced back and i guess that got him a little upset. At that time he reached out the window dent get out the car, reached his arm out the window and grabbed my friend around his neck, and as he was trying to choke my friend and he was trying to get away and the officer then reached out and grabbed his arm to pull him into the car. Now the officer is pulling him inside the car and he is trying to pull away. At no time the officer said he was going to do anything until he pulled out his weapon. His weapon was drawn and he said ill shoot you, or im going to shoot, and the same moment the first shot went off, and we look at him. He was shot and the was blood coming from him, and took off running. Johnson said he ducked and head but brown kept running and the officer got out of the car. His weapon was already drawn when he got out of the car. He shot again, and with my friend shot he put his hands on the gun and started to get down but the officer still approach with his weapons drawn and he fired several more shots. Various news accounts refer to multiple witnesses, many unnamed, but one who is willing to offerer an constant described the evented this we. Haired gunshots fired and im like, my goodness, whats going on. I gather my things and look out the window, and at this moment he is running, chasing of michael, forcefully down the street, and as gunshots being being fired. I went from that window to my balcony where i then saw michael, running this way, turns his body towards this way, hands in the air, being compliant, he gets shot in the face and chest and goes down and dies. Police offered a different account as described by st. Louis county police chief john del mar. The officer had an encounter with two individual, one of whom was mr. Brown, who was walking down the road in ranfield apartments. He spoke to the individuals about getting off of the street and perhaps taking the sidewalk. One of the individuals complied, the other did not. In fact, the officer decided to get out of his car to continue the conversation. He was pushed back into the car and there was a physical confrontation, and that car, were in fact there was a struggle over the officers gun. We do know, for example there was one shot fired within the car. And then were taking a look tres of the details of the investigation at this point, to determine exactly what happened once the Police Officer exited the car. As the fib today announced its own investigation, many questions remain unanswered, including how many shots were fired and how many hit Michael Brown. In the wake of browns death, outrage, protests continued today in the st. Louis area for the third day. Protesters chanting no, justice no peace. Many protests, including yesterday, were marked by intense intersection actions with the police. Rioting erupted. Community meetings taking place in the st. Louis area. A makeshift memorial has sprung up and the family of the 18yearold who was planning to begin College Classes today, called for justice, not violence. The violence needs to stop. This report is all needed, all needed, but not the violence. Joining me now is Duran Johnson who says he saw the incident. Mr. Johnson, you say you were walking with michael. Were there other people on the street that could have witnessed or corroborated your account . Because obviously the police are telling a very different story than what you and some other witnesses said. At the moment, at the time when we were in the street, before the officer pulled all the way on the no, i did not see anyone. My eyes were not looking for anyone. My ears were open, just talking to my friend. So before the officer said his first words, no, i did not see anyone. How quickly did this escalate . Sounds like from your account that it was a sort of casual comment made bay Police Officer for the two of you to get off the street, and it sounds like there was gunshots within, what, 60 seconds . What was the time frame of this encounter like . The time frame was a little just like you said, 60 seconds or less. It sped up so quickly, it got out of hand real quick. It wasnt even a minute, like you said, 60 seconds. Did michael reach and struggle for the officers gun as the police are saying he did . Incorrect, sir, he did not reach for a weapon at all. He did not reach for the officers weapon at all. You were able to see this interaction. Yes, correct. Were you scared in that moment . Not scared yet but more shocked at how the officer approached us. It really just more shocking than scared at that moment. Mr. Buzzley, have you or your client been approached by investigators . Seems like this is very key eye witness testimony. Well, what is interesting about this we have not. Matter of fact the naacp, contacted the authorities and the Police Department yesterday to make us available, and make mr. Johnson available, and at that point they said they had some other things going on, they did not want to interview mr. Johnson at that time, and also wanted to indicate that mr. Johnson ranwayen ran away and did not witness what was going on and we know that is incorrect. Mr. Johnson, any doubt you withthere with michael at that moment . Sir, did not leave until the last shot was fired, until i confirmed that my friend was not moving and he was dead. Thats when i took off running. Is there the possibility, based on your account of how things went down do you believe that, say, dash camera from the Police Officers video would show what happened in terms of how things were set up spatially . No. The way that the officer approached us, if there was a dash cam on his car, all that it would have gotten is me and my friend walking in the street, and thats it. Because e. Because the actual shots fired and michaels death came when he was behind the police car. Aim correct . His death came from behind the police car, but the initial shot, we were on the side of the driver door of the police car. What was going through your head as you are now, you say, crouched behind a car, watching a Police Officer chase your friend . Im fearing for my life at this moment. At this time the first shot had already been fired and i noticed my friend had been shot. Then in the situation before where gunfire has let out and i dont take fond to guns so i feared for my life. I didnt know what to do. In shock mitchell body couldnt move at that moment. How close were you and michael . I didnt fully have to extend my arm out to touch michael or the officer. I was that close that i could touch both of them without even fully extending my arms. Did michael at any point strike out, lay hands on, assault, the officer . He did not initially assault the officer. I didnt see no point in time where i was standing in the officers driver door window where he touched the officer in any type of threatening way, not whatsoever. How Close Friends were you and michael . Were you tying . We werent so much as Close Friends, childhood, because i just moved over in the paper. When i met him we just became good friends. What kind of person was he . He was a very cool person, quiet, calm, and gentle. Doran johnson and his attorney, thank you both. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. The breadth of the protest in the Community Raises the question of what is next, not just in this investigation but in Police Community relations. Meanwhile, st. Louis county police chief john bellmar says he supports the parallel fbi investigation. The shooting we saw this weekend comes on the heels of several high profile incidences of people being shot by or killed by Police Across the country. Of course the death or eric garner, which was ruled a homocide in new york city after he was first questioned by police for the charge of selling untaxed cigarettes. There has also been a whole lot of different information released out in the wake of the death of Michael Brown. First accusations that he had been busted for shoplifting. So far there has been no corroboration of that. A lot of outrage, too, about how he has been portrayed, both in the ins circulated about him and what people had done to try to presume that they knew what kind of person michael was. Joining me now is msnbc contributor goldy taylor who is in ferguson. What are things leak in ferguson right now . The tensions are still fairly high, although not quite as high as last night itch hear there was an incident at a nearby mall but were not sure its related to he recent unrest. What is the context for what were seeing in ferguson county . Seems to me that