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Death to Patch Adams

In the past decade, the manic, profane but good-natured fearlessness that Robin Williams achieved as a comedian has dwindled to just an on-screen glimmer. He spent most of the ’90s playing saintly psychologists (Good Will Hunting), saintly doctors (Awakenings and the universally loathed Patch Adams), saintly vagabonds (The Fisher King),…

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