European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 stars and stripes july 2007 faces frenetic actor Robin Williams sits Down actor talks about balancing drama and rehab photos by Reed actor and comedian Robin Williams poses last month while promoting his new movie License to wed in Santa by Sandy Cohen the associated press los Angeles Robin Williams is an improve an Oscar winning dramatic actor and the kind of offt Decuff per former who seems to live in a perpetual animated state of comic in his latest License to which opened july Williams plays an overt top pastor who puts a ready marry couple through an intrusive pre wedding prep he shifts gears for August a dra Matic fable due this then hell Dou ble clutch Back to with 2008s old dogs opposite John and a planned return to the Road with his standup after promoting his new movie in new Williams spent his Airport bound drive on the new Jersey Turnpike talking with the associated press about his love of his stint in rehab and balancing come drama and a you Bounce Between comedy and do you approach them differently Williams not sometimes with a comedy its just having the instinct of How real you play it and what level you want but i think for me its the same amount of work and preparation for a do you have a preference Williams my preference is live perform Williams because you get the theres an its live that Why i think actors like you musicians need comedians definitely need it Doest matter what size and what whether its 30 people in the club or in a Hall or a its its you need a does that mean you will do standup again Williams of i did a couple of dates before preparing for this it was i would like to do that after this next a who Are some of the people you have yet to work with but want to Williams i dont so i just learn from even like in this movie with people who Are kind of just Start ing out like John Krasinski the intended Groom in License to and the boy playing the choir Josh Hes Hys and Freddie Highmore his costar in August who is Stone cold Brilliant and so i just like the fact that i get to work with anybody at this a when and How did you know you wanted to be an actor Williams i knew when i failed my Politi Cal science classes that the options were Clos it you have to i need once you acknowledge the process j f Robin Williams on going to rehab a have you wanted to perform since you were a kid Williams it didst really hit until senior year of High school and they had the class play where you made fun of the teach ers and i could do Deacon impressions of like two or three of it got huge laughs and it was of this is like a lot of you Start doing that and All the sudden girls Are youre its a Way to meet then something else kicked in where All the sudden you Start doing it and i really enjoy and youre doing improve and the Chance to use All the knowledge that you and you get the laughs then its really a is improve your thing Williams sometimes you can have stuff and it looks like improve but other when youre really that when its really i when you really do find a new idea or youre in and its All work that the its like a musician when they hit a that when youre like All its when it its a you Back off and just ride a what roles do you dream of doing Williams you always dream of some of the historical Ulysses those Are the just be cause those Are characters from history and you read about them and what com amazing plus theres great works of fiction that you can go a what do you like to do when youre not working youre a big baseball fan Williams Ive just started to be a baseball Billy Crystal is the one who got me hooked on going to in really a cycling fan and a i like to ride that my a what Are some of your favorite roles youve played Williams playing Oliver sacks or someone like the Fisher King was probably one of the just be cause Hes such a damaged Good will Hunting for just great to play someone at that Point in their those Are some of the Best for a what about dead poets Williams for that was kind of a life changing experience As it i for everybody who did it was kind of a be ginning of a passion for work and a passion for what you a last you made a highly publicized trip to what do you think about today revolving door rehab for Young stars Williams with people who recidivism is always a i fell off the Wagon after 20 years and people Are really it Only kicks in when you really want to i obviously Lind say Lohan said Shes go into to stay in rather than come out and have a birthday party sponsored by a Vodka they cant keep you in rehab unless its court or so when you decide to stay that a Good Shes i have a and the Only person who can really address that is you deciding you need you have to kind of give up in order to Deal with you have to i need and once you acknowledge the process Aiken fights woman on plane Clay Aiken was involved in an air plane disturbance with an other passenger Satur Day while in route to Tulsa International Airport in a newspaper report the dispute on a Continental airlines flight took place be tween who was travelling saturday morning to a performance at the Brady and a the Tulsa world reported for sundays Edi concertgoers who attended the former american idol singers show said after Ward that Aiken joked onstage about being beaten up by a girl earlier in the Aiken Fri special agent Gary Johnson said there was a dispute Between a male Passen Ger and a woman on the flight but could not confirm the passenger was he said the dispute was Over the male passengers foot resting on the woman he said there was an allegation the woman gave the male passenger a minor shove during the at that Point the flight Crew was Able to resolve the Johnson Aiken was runner up on the to Talent show american idol in Prince swears hell be Back Prince thrilled his Hometown fans with three shows Over 12 Only stopping when police shut him Down Early the Minneapolis native first performed saturday at a department store to promote his new cramming nine songs into a 45minute he then played that night at the target Center he capped the night with a return to first the club he made famous in the movie purple i am the purple one declared after the first after the target Prince waited until nearly before starting the first Avenue the first time he had played at the club since the City lets music play until 4 he was 15 songs and 70 minutes into a 24song set when he announced from the stage the authorities say we gotta we always listen to the i Promise ill be Prince or Star sued in paternity Case a croatian woman is suing or Star Goran claiming Hes the father of her 4monthold daughter and demand ing a paternity Mirela filed the lawsuit after Visnjic refused to recognize the child As Ruzics Nenad said Fri who plays Luka Kuvac on the Long running Abc Visnjic has been mar ried to Ivana Vrdoljak since 1999 and lives in los visa could not 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