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An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.An inside look at the ABC sitcom which turned Robin Williams into a star in 1978.
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- 4 wins & 6 nominations
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David James Lewis
- Ira Denmark
- (as David Lewis)
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- TriviaIn Marley Brant's 2006 book "Happier Days: Paramount Television's Classic Sitcoms 1974-1984," Robin Williams revealed that he didn't watch the movie, joking, "If they're going to make a bad movie about your life, you should wait for the Cartoon Network version."
- GoofsUpon being temporarily written out of the series after the 1978 - 1979 season, it was established Fred sold the music store and went on the road as a classical conductor with Cora tagging along. There are several post-1979 scenes where the music store set is visible in the background and scenes filmed on it.
- Quotes
Robin Williams: I have to go now, my drugs are wearing off. Anyone wants to sue me, please call my law firms: Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, and Shapiro.
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Typical "Going Hollywood" Movie
In the 1920's they called it "going Hollywood" talented but naïve kid from the sticks gets a big movie deal, becomes an overnight sensation, gets big-headed, blows his money on alcohol (an illegal substance in the U.S. back then) and sex, then either dies young or pulls himself together, gives up the booze and returns to the woman who loved him before he became famous. In 1933 Raoul Walsh directed a film with that title, starring Bing Crosby and Marion Davies, and "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork and Mindy'" could almost be considered a remake. It takes the known facts of Robin Williams' early success and presses them into the familiar cliché mold, with cocaine instead of alcohol and John Belushi as a sort of Mephistopheles to Williams' Faust. Best things here are Chris Diamantopoulos' eerily exact reproduction of the early Robin Williams and some bits of felicitous creativity in the writing (especially when Diamantopoulos as Williams encounters a busker doing him doing Williams and gives him $100).
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By what name was Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy (2005) officially released in Canada in English?
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