Robin has enlisted his support for new legislation, which will ensure U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have their university tuition paid in full because the sacrifices they've made for their country have not been compensated fairly.
The proposed bill would cost the U.S. government $4 billion annually - a total that pales in comparison to the weekly cost of the American occupation in Iraq.
Robin says, "It's a payback for them. It's all-access to the American Dream. We in no way have given the vets their due. These guys and gals have sacrificed so much. It's the least we can do."

Kevin Spacey will lead the ensemble cast of Shrink, including Robin. Kevin Spacey plays a shrink to the stars and Robin's character is one of his clients. Other cast members include: Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Griffin Dunne, Pell James, Robert Loggia, Keke Palmer, Laura Ramsey, Gore Vidal, Dallas Roberts and Mark Webber.

The film, written by Thomas Moffett and directed by Jonas Pate, started production this week in Los Angeles.

The George Washington University announced yesterday that Robin will headline GW's 2008 Colonials Weekend. He'll perform at GW's Charles E. Smith Center on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17-18, 2008, at 9:30 p.m. Tickets will range in price from $57-$150 and will be available exclusively to the GW community at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 8.

"We are excited to welcome one of America's most versatile talents to campus for Colonials Weekend 2008," said Robert A. Chernak, senior vice president for student and academic support services. "In addition to being a Hollywood humorist, Robin Williams also is an exceptional humanitarian, having performed in USO shows around the world, as well for numerous charity benefits at home, including Comic Relief, which he helped found over two decades ago. We look forward to a frantic, fast-paced evening of the hysterical humor that marks his unique style on stage."

RWF Note: Please note this event is only available for the GW community and therefore no RWLive! Update message has been released. If you're not part of the GW community, please do not ask for another way to get tickets. Thanks.

A Time For Heroes celebrity carnival held on Sunday, June 8, in Los Angeles was sponsored by Disney to benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation. Robin , Mischa Barton, Blair Underwood, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams of The Cheetah Girls, Nicole Richie, Joel Madden, Heidi Montag, Perez Hilton, Spencer Pratt, Christina Milian, Rumer Willis and Denise Richards were just some of the celebrities in attendance.

Later that day Robin was set to appear at the taping of the event described below.

Yesterday the 6th Annual TV Land awards were taped at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA with many television, film and musical icons set to appear. Other than Robin, Jonathan Winters, Mike Myers, Steve Carell, Garry Marshall, Justin Timberlake, Dick Van Dyke, Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Henry Winkler, Kathy Griffin, Jack Klugman, the cast of "The Office", "Roseanne" and "The Golden Girls", Kim Alexis, Lionel Richie and Beverly Johnson appeared on stage.
The show will premiere on TV Land on Sunday, June 15 at 9 p.m. ET/PT

Robin presented The Pioneer Award to Jonathan Winters. This is given to performers who have distinguished themselves by pushing back the frontiers of the media and bringing true originality to the world of entertainment.

The 2nd USA National Doodle Day auction started on May 08 and Robin has donated a signed picture and a doodle that are now up for auction. They have lots of items up for auction from for example the X-files, Ellen Degeneres, Jeff Bridges, Stellan Skarsgard, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Goldie Hawn, Seth Green and many more (you can find those here).
The auction will benefit Neurofibromatosis, Inc. and will end on Sunday May 18.

Tickets for Robin's show on April 30th at the Throckmorton Theatre (Mill Valley, CA) will not go on sale today (wed. April 23).

Note from Throckmorton Theatre: Tickets will go on sale thru Ticketweb at noon on Friday April 25, 2008. We will also have 100 tickets available at our door, 142 Throckmorton at noon. (No tickets will be sold over the phone at 142 Throckmorton.) There is a 2 ticket limit per person. Duplicate orders are subject to cancellation.
PLEASE NOTE: You must bring valid photo identification AND the credit card used for purchase to the Box Office. The person who purchased the tickets must be the one who picks them up. Box office will open at 6:30PM on Wednesday April 30th, Doors for seating 7:30pm, Show at 8pm.

Tickets are $40 and Artist's proceeds will benefit God's Love We Deliver

As most of you all have seen, Robin has done quite a number of shows this month and has several more coming up. Most of the shows are to prepare for the Vegas show on May 25th, but on April 25th he'll be participating at an event benefitting Oak Hill School, the Ryder Foundation and the ASHA Academy. Here's the information provided by "Comedy for Kids SF":

Join the legendary Dana Carvey, Robin Williams, and friends for a five-star evening of food, wine, and wit for a worthy cause benefiting Oak Hill School, the Ryder Foundation and the ASHA Academy.
Enjoy a VIP cocktail reception followed by an intimate gourmet dinner prepared by Bay Area celebrity chefs. Laugh out loud at a private stand-up comedy show featuring Dana Carvey and friends. Meet the talent at an exclusive after-party with divine desserts and drinks, and groove to the beat of the Back Burner Blues Band.
Tickets for this event are $200 and up.

Here's a list of Robin's other upcoming shows at either Bimbo's or the Throckmorton Theatre (as of April 22nd):
April 22 - Bimbo's - sold out
April 24 - Bimbo's - sold out
April 28 - Bimbo's - sold out
April 30 - Throckmorton - Ticket sale starts April 23, 2008 @ noon ONLY at Ticketweb

Tickets for Robin's previous Throckmorton show on April 21 were sold out within seconds. Here's a note from Throckmorton Theatre about that:
The Robin Williams tickets sold out within seconds on Ticketweb. This resulted in many happy ticket holders, but many more frustrated patrons who have supported the 142 Throckmorton Theatre over the years. We wish we had more space and we wish we had the potential for a process to include everyone. We believed that Ticketweb was far more capable of handling the intense interest in the Robin Williams show than our two phone lines at the Theatre.
We are honored that Robin wants to use the Theatre to develop his new work and that our community loves his extraordinary talents.

The show, being co-hosted by Ellen Degeneres and Ryan Seacrest, was taped last Sunday, April 6 at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. Last season, Idol raised over $76 million and received a special Governor's Award Emmy. All proceeds go to various U.S. and international charities, including the Children's Defense Fund, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Make It Right, Malaria No More, Save The Children, and the Children's Health Fund.

Celebrities who joined Robin at the event are: Celine Dion, Forest Whitaker, Billy Crystal, Dane Cook, Kiefer Sutherland, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Jennifer Connolly, Elliott Yamin, Fantasia and Amy Adams join previously announced international talent and sports figures Bono, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Fergie, Chris Daughtry, Carrie Underwood, Annie Lennox, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Maroon 5, Heart and Gloria Estefan.

The show will air on Wednesday April 09, 2008 (7:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX and during the show, viewers will be able to make donations via toll-free lines and the Internet.

Normally we don't talk about stuff this personal about Robin, but since the press got word of it, there's no way of hiding from it.

Please respect the privacy of all parties involved. We wish Robin, Marsha, Zelda and Cody all the best and strength they need.

Robin Williams has signed on to guest star in the upcoming 200th episode of "Law & Order: SVU."
Robin will play an engineer whose life has gone off track following a tragedy. Events lead him to start questioning authortity, and
encouraging others to do the same.

Robin hasn't done much series TV since his starmaking perf in "Mork & Mindy." Most memorably, he guest starred on NBC's late "Homicide: Life on the Street," a turn that led him to an Emmy nomination.

"SVU" exec producer Neal Baer said the Williams seg boasts a "powerful and complex" storyline. Baer and "SVU" co-exec producer Amanda Green wrote the script.

The episode will air on April 29, 2008.
*edit* Filming starts this months.

It's been quiet for a while, but yesterday we finally received an update again!
The main news was received without too many details yet, so please check the site every once in a while for changes/updates. Ticket sales and prices are still unknown, but the following, the most important thing has been confirmed:

Robin will return to Las Vegas and do a one-man show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday May 25th, 2008.
Normally he does some shows at smaller venues to prepare for a show as big as these Vegas shows, so please stay tuned, as we expect the same thing to happen here.

All shows will be listed on this page.

For those who don't know what this is all about, please visit this page (comingsoon.net) and watch all 4 clips. It's pretty hilarious. Soon after the release of the "I'm f*ing Matt Damon" clip, Jimmy Kimmel announced he'd hit Silverman back with a clip called "I'm f*ing Ben Afleck and that Robin, Don Cheadle, Ashlee Simpson, Cameron Diaz, Huey Lewis, Christina Applegate, Joan Jett, Macy Gray, Benji and Joel Madden, Lance Bass, Josh Groban and Harrison Ford would be part of it

That clip (youtube) was released today!

March 04 the Mrs. Doubtfire Behind the Seams DVD will be released and on May 13, 2008 the Blu-ray will follow in its footsteps. The Behind the Seams DVD contains every extra you can imagine and it looks like the Blu-ray version will contain most of those extra's as well (missing a few TV spots and trailers). Extra's included:
- Feature length commentary by Chris Columbas
- From Man to Mrs: The Evolution of Mrs. Doubtfire
- Aging Gracefully: A Look Back at Mrs. Doubtfire
- Behind-the-Scenes Photo Gallery
- A Conversation With Legendary Animator Chuck Jones
- Original Pencil Test
- Final Animation
- Deleted and extended scenes
- Many trailers & TV clip
- ....and more

Today the list of presenters was announced and Robin was not mentioned, which means this is the first time in many years he won't appear on stage during this event.
The good new is that August Rush is nominated in the category 'Best Song' and Jamia Simone Nash will perform "Raise It Up," from the film, with the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem, headed by Jamal Joseph, who shares the song's music and lyric credit with Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas.

Other nominations in the same category are:
"Happy Working Song" (Enchanted) with music by Alan Menken (Aladdin) and lyric by Stephen Schwartz.
"That's How You Know" (Enchanted) which will be performed by Kristin Chenoweth (RV) and Marlon Saunders.
"So Close," (Enchanted) to be performed by Jon McLaughlin.
"Falling Slowly" (Once)

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2007 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
Host this year is Jon Stewart.

Navarre Corporation has decided to release this title on DVD (pre-order). The release date is set for April 08, 2008.

Can I do it...till I need Glasses is sometimes listed as Robin's first film, but he originally didn't appear in it. When the film was shot (this was before Mork &Mindy), Robin did do some scenes, but those were not used for the film. When Robin became famous as Mork, the studio decided to re-edit the film and re-release it.
Some VHS tapes that are available on the internet mention Robin as one of the actors, but some VHS tapes contain the original version without Robin. The information about the DVD does mention Robin as one of the actors, but we cannot confirm this is the re-edited version till we got our hands on a copy.

Other upcoming DVD releases:
- February 14 > Mork & Mindy Season 2 (region 2)
- February 18 > Documentary: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
- March 04 > Mrs. Doubtfire: Behind the Seams edition
- March 11/April 1st > August Rush DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray

Warner Bros will release August Rush on DVD on March 11, 2008. There's not a lot of information about extra features. The Blu-ray version will have some alternative scenes though.

Robin won the People's Choice Award in the category "Favorite Funny Male Star".
Even though no ceremony was held, Robin had his acceptance speech already taped on location in Kabul during his recent USO tour with Kid Rock and Lewis Black. Robin, who apparently - and not surprisingly - had lost his voice during the tour, let Rock and Black do the accepting for him while he mimed his reaction.

Robin Williams will be David Letterman's first guest upon the return of his "Late Show" on CBS Wednesday (jan 02).
The appearance of a Hollywood A-lister who can talk a mile a minute may be Letterman's way of quickly trying to draw a distinction between his show and his late-night rivals, who are without writers and may also have trouble booking major entertainers as guests.

*edit* For those who worry about Robin crossing the picket line...he isn't. Please read this article to confirm this.