I’m not a singer or dancer: Drew Barrymore
Actor Drew Barrymore, who is a part of the musical, Come As You Are, says she’s neither a singer nor a dancer, but has learnt that “when you’re comfortable in your own shoes, you can do anything”.
Starring alongside Barrymore in an all-cast version of the musical are South Korean musician and actor Yoona, and Henry Lau, a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician and composer.
“When we were discussing how to make Come As You Are bigger and better for 2018, a musical was the first thing that came to my mind. I’m not a singer or a dancer, but for this campaign to celebrate what is achievable when we are comfortable just being ourselves, I wanted to get outside of my
Anew book reveals that the late comedian and actor Robin Williams repeatedly grabbed his Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber’s breasts and bottom, and exposed himself to her on the sets of their American sitcom.
Detailing sexually inappropriate behaviour from Williams, in Dave Itzkoff’s yet-to-be-released biography of the late actor, Dawber’s says, “I had the grossest things done to me by him.” But she says that she excused it as part of Williams’s playful personality. The actor, who played Mindy on the show, adds, “And I never took offence. I mean I was flashed, humped, bumped, grabbed. I think he probably did it to a lot of people … but it was so much fun.”
The revelations were reproduced in the Daily Mail. Williams would also wrestle her, break wind on her and come on to the set totally naked. He also once “goosed” an elderly woman playing Mindy’s grandmother by poking her between the buttocks with a cane. comfort zone.
“I love how it turned out and it has proven to me that when you’re comfortable in your own shoes, you can do anything,” Barrymore said in a statement.
“If you put it on paper, you would be appalled,” says Dawber, 66. “But somehow he had this guileless little thing that he’d do – those sparkly eyes. He would look at you, really playful, like a puppy, all of a sudden. And then he’d grab your t**s and then run away. Somehow, he could get away with it. It was the 70s, after all,” she adds.
“It was just Robin being Robin,” said Howard Storm, who directed Mork & Mindy. Often Williams groped Dawber because he was “bored”, he said: “He’d be doing a paragraph and in the middle of it he would just turn and grab her ass. Or grab a breast. And we’d start again. I’d say, ‘Robin, there’s nothing in the script that says you grab Pam’s ass.’ And he’d say: ‘Oh, OK.’’’
The show’s producer, Garry Marshall, also recalled: “He would take all his clothes off, he would be standing there totally naked and she was trying to act. His aim in life was to make Pam Dawber blush.”
Mork & Mindy ran from 1978 to 1982 , and starred Williams as a curious alien who lodged with Dawber’s Mindy in Boulder, Colorado. The show was Williams’s springboard to a successful movie career. He went on to do Hollywood hits such as Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets’ Society, Mrs Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting.
Williams killed himself in 2014, following a history of depression, drug addiction and mental health issues. He was misdiagnosed with Parkinson’s and found after his death to have had Lewy body dementia. The Guardian
HOLLYWOOD ACTOR DREW BARRYMORE SAYS THAT SHE HAS LEARNT THAT ‘WHEN YOU’RE COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SHOES, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING’.