{"id":6281,"date":"2015-01-28T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:10:30","slug":"repostbobcat-goldthwait-thanks-my-best-friend-robin-williams-indiewire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/28\/repostbobcat-goldthwait-thanks-my-best-friend-robin-williams-indiewire\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Bobcat Goldthwait Thanks &#039;My Best Friend&#039; Robin Williams &#124; Indiewire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m emotional,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, Robin Williams was my best friend and this is the exact same theater where I showed him &#8216;World&#8217;s Greatest Dad&#8217; for the first time. The reason I&#8217;m bringing that up is that Robin&#8217;s a big part of why we&#8217;re here today.&#8221;<br \/>\nGoldthwait said that he had initially wanted to tell Crimmins&#8217; story as a narrative feature, but Williams felt otherwise. &#8220;Robin was familiar with our friendship and he knew Barry&#8217;s story,&#8221; Goldthwait said. &#8220;He suggested I make it as a documentary. In fact, he gave me the initial money that started this movie in February.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/bobcat-goldthwait-thanks-my-best-friend-robin-williams-at-emotional-call-me-lucky-screening-20150127\">Bobcat Goldthwait Thanks &#8216;My Best Friend&#8217; Robin Williams | Indiewire<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m emotional,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, Robin Williams was my best friend and this is the exact same theater where I showed him &#8216;World&#8217;s Greatest Dad&#8217; for the first time. The reason I&#8217;m bringing that up is that Robin&#8217;s a big part of why we&#8217;re here today.&#8221; Goldthwait said that he had initially wanted to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/28\/repostbobcat-goldthwait-thanks-my-best-friend-robin-williams-indiewire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Bobcat Goldthwait Thanks &#039;My Best Friend&#039; Robin Williams &#124; Indiewire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}