Something I was thinking about a lot tonight was when he received the Cecil B. Demille award at the Golden Globes back in 2005. That was kinda during the period where he was focusing more on "serious" movies. When they were about to present him with the award, they, obviously, played a montage of his career, since, it's a life-time achievement award. During the moments where they showed clips from movies like Popeye, they'd flip the camera over to Williams and he just looked furious. At the time, I was kinda pissed at him for that, because it felt like he was embarrassed of what made him. Now,of course, I'm just jumping to conclusions, but I wonder if he wasn't more just embarrassed. Who knows. Of course, I've heard a few people talking about The Crazy Ones getting canceled and I wonder how much that affected him. Additionally, I can't help but notice that two of his upcoming films are a 3rd Night at the Museum movie and a proposed sequel to Mrs. Doubtfire. That can't exactly be the trajectory he wanted his career to be on, I'd assume. I mean...a cash-grab sequel on one of his (IMO) best movies?
We're watching his Inside the Actors Studio episode now, it's wonderful. The one area of his career I'm woefully ignorant of is his stand-up comedy. Part of me, I guess, just didn't want to see him quite so blue. But I'm loving the hell out of it now.