The devastating news of Robin Williams' tragic passing will, by now, have reached you. And here at Beaut HQ, we're feeling a little bit low today.
Touching tributes from fans and loved ones continue to reverberate around the internet while many of us find are stopping for a moment to carefully consider and reflect on such a brilliant man. How could it be that someone who had touched so many lives, someone responsible for more belly-aching laughter than any of his peers, would no longer be with us?
And maybe even more difficult to comprehend, is the idea that someone who brought so much joy to countless hearts the world over could struggle to find that same joy within himself. As the incredibly gifted actor and comedian reportedly called time on his longstanding battle with depression (though a full report has yet to be released), the world lost a little of its light.
For me, the magic of Robin Williams will live on, immortalised in my memory as the genie from Aladdin, as Mrs Doubtfire with her 'Mediterranean-style' hairy legs, as the charming, all singing all dancing Mexican penguin from Happy Feet, as the man-child trapped inside a jungle board game (Jumanji) and as the psychologist who opened Matt Damon's heart to a world of potential in Good Will Hunting. I'll also enjoy revisiting The Birdcage in which his character teaches Nathan Lane to walk like John Wayne.
For others, he'll be remembered for his role in the Dead Poet's Society, Hook and as Mork from Mork and Mindy.
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Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this unfathomably difficult time. We'll leave you with his daughter Zelda's painfully heartfelt tribute; no reflection here could be quite as apt as the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night... You - only you - will have the stars that can laugh.
I love you. I miss you. I'll try to keep looking up. Z.
