Robin was besieged by paranoia and so confused he couldn’t remember his lines while filming a movie. He was wrongly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and the telltale signs of Lewy body dementia in his brain were not discovered until the autopsy. Now all we have left are memories. It was too sudden, too soon, and too awful. At his memorial that September in San Francisco, my daughter Lily and I sang a little song for him. Goodnight, Robin Thanks for all the laughs… It still doesn’t seem real. I can’t bear it. It’s too fucking sad. Shortly afterwards Mike Nichols died, and then Garry
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