Haha not jokes. Wow, they’re so last decade. You know what else is last decade? Robin Williams. You know who hates him? Raquel Welch, aka Duke Magazine’s Raquel Welch.

You hate him so much, Raquel. You hate him so, so much. You hate him so much you want to create twelve renditions of his most grating characters and then show them to everyone in the whole world in an art exhibition about how much you hate him so much. Him and his “comedic shtick (the wild gestures, the rapid fire one-liners) designed to bamboozle the audience into thinking he’s funny”. You hate him so much you want to have the show open tonight in a huge catharty* party at Black and Blue and stay open until July 18…

TS: If you had one chance to hurt, maim, torture or kill Robin Williams, and every concievable tool at your disposal, how would you do it?

I’d make him sit through all of his movies with his eyes forced open with clamps (a-la Clockwork Orange) and see how he likes it! By the end, he’ll be reduced to a blubbering mess.

TS: Robin Williams had his moments of charm in both Hook and Good Morning, Vietnam. Discuss.

I hated both those movies! He was totally annoying (in both) and tried so hard to endear himself to his audience, it made me sick. I don’t know why no-one’s noticed that he’s a total racist in Good Morning Vietnam. He is so patronizing to the vietnamese people in that scene where he’s at the English speaking class – he talks to them like they were idiots. Hook was a terrible movie. It wasn’t fun or funny and the whole premise made no sense. I mean what was the deal with Wendy as an old woman? Was she still attracted to Peter Pan as a man, even though he was supposed to be like her son-in-law or something? Sick!

According to the artist, “anyone who fails to show up will go in my special HATE book and be hated forever after.” But apparently to be hated by Raquel is to be hand stitched twelve portraits of yourself which get exhibited for a fortnight. So even though we really want to go tonight, we’re kind of tempted not to.

*as in, catharsis. artistic license for hilarious wordplay granted by amelia.

Posted by steph in Art, Events

Tags: Black and Blue Gallery, Duke Magazine, Flubber, I Hate Your Guts, Raquel Welch