Robin Williams: Escape From The Zoo

March, 1979

Watching Robin Williams perform is like being entertained by a repertory company: Several dozen characters flash in and out so quickly that you don't want to take time to laugh for fear you'll miss something. Dialects break into falsetto, then into something that sounds like a gang of pirates, then trail off into wicked impressions or a babble of machine sounds. The temptation is to call Williams a fine actor, but he's more like 15 or 16 actors and a couple of actresses. And behind all of them i...