A bench in Boston became a memorial to Robin Williams on Tuesday, since his Academy Award-winning performance in "Good Will Hunting" was filmed in the city.
Janice Page, a Boston Globe movie editor, and Mariagrazia Lafauci, a Boston TV and movie tour guide, joined NECN to share their perspective on Robin Williams’ legacy and his connection to Boston.
"It’s a fine line it seems between a creative genius, someone who paints outside the lines and has all this manic marvelousness and someone who suffers from a mental illness," Page said. "He was clearly depressed and had addiction problems. Without knowing all the details, which will reveal themselves as we go, we do know that much. And I think that fine line is part of what makes an artist so, you know, great and part of what we respond to, especially with a comedian, but it’s also danger, red lights. You never know when it’s going to turn."
One of the major stops on the tour Lafauci hosts is at the L Street Tavern, where Williams spent so much time while filming “Good Will Hunting.”
"The tone was completely different there today. There were still the same pictures of Robin Williams on the walls, smiling and looking the same as he always did, but everyone kind of knew the tone was different. Everyone was kind of reflecting, and actually, one of the most beautiful things was somebody brought a can of corn to the L Street Tavern because in Robin Williams’ Oscar speech, he had called the people of Southie a ‘can of corn,’ meaning that they were top shelf," Lafauci explained.
Williams died Monday at his California home at age 63. Authorities say he hanged himself.
