“I felt like I was dragging Howard the Duck up a hill by myself with my teeth the whole time. “It wasn’t working on the level it needed to work on,” Thompson remarks. There is a ticket waiting for you at the counter.’ I was incredibly excited.” . “So, on Memorial Day 1985, I got a call from my agent who said, ‘You have to get right to the airport! Robin Williams just quit and you’re now Howard the Duck. I am being handcuffed in order to match the flapping duck’s bill.'” Zien reminisces. “What I was told was by the third day, Robin said, ‘I can’t do this. An actor to voice Howard had not been cast during production, so all of Howard’s lines were read on set by the puppeteers, and the bill moved to fit their bland delivery, rendering Williams’ wild improvisational style moot in postproduction. But that would not last long, as Zien reveals the late actor-comedian left the project within the first week out of frustration over syncing his voice to the duck’s animatronic bill. THR has an oral history on one of the signature cinematic disasters of our time:Īt the end of a lengthy bicoastal audition process, Zien learned Robin Williams had been cast as the voice of Howard. I didn’t know what a box-office bomb was in 1986, but I knew that Howard the Duck was something extraordinary. And the rest of the women on the team who stepped up-especially Jordan Chiles-ought to be celebrated, too. She should be cherished, admired, and supported. If she never competes again, she’s already the GOAT. And that extra year was also another 12 months that she had to wake up and be Simone Biles for the rest of the world, every day. She’s doing this with an extra year of wear and tear on her body. But she’s also 24 years old in a sport that’s built for teenagers. As I’ve watched the Biles-mania of the last month, I kept thinking that the assumptions baked into it were incredibly, almost criminally, unfair to her.īiles is the greatest of all time. But skill sports are different and require a different type of mental focus.Īnd being a “dominant” athlete is different than having billions of people-with a “b”-talking about how you’re the greatest of all time, how no one else is even close, how you’re leading a team in a historic level of dominance, etc. Generally speaking, fast never takes a day off. It’s one thing to be a dominant racer who is expected to perform well. I don’t know exactly what happened to Biles, but if I had to guess it would be something like this: The entire weight of the world has been on her shoulders, for years, in full view of several billion people. It is a miracle-a damn miracle -that only one of the insurrectionists was killed.īecause if the Capitol Police had acted like the Buffalo PD, then the death toll would have been unthinkably high.
They placed themselves in harm’s way in order to protect the members of Congress. (The performance of the higher-ups is a different matter.) It was everything we want from law enforcement: They deescalated violent situations when they could. Corruption is when an institution covers up its wrong decisions instead of bringing them to light.īut as I’ve been saying since January 8, by and large the performance of the Capitol police officers on the ground during the insurrection was exemplary. And generally speaking, it’s the cover up that reveals the rot.Īnyone can make a bad decision in a snap-second situation. Individually, police officers often act unprofessionally and collectively police officers often turn a blind eye to the misconduct of their colleagues. If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you know how cop-skeptical I am.
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