Robin Williams, the Juilliard-trained actor and uncontainably exhibitionist comic who became one of the most dazzling all-around talents in show business, winning an Academy Award for a dramatic role in "Good Will Hunting" and an Emmy for his stand-up work, was found dead Monday at his home in Tiburon, Calif. He was 63.
Ever since bursting into the public consciousness as the manic, rainbow-suspender-wearing TV alien in the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," he seemed to be permanently toggling between two points on the emotional dial: wild, hyperkinetic looniness or unabashed sincerity.
Luke Harding, the author of "The Snowden Files: The Inside Story Of The World's Most Wanted Man," said on Twitter that the U.S. filmmaker has bought the movie rights to the book.
LOS ANGELES, California – Mickey Rooney, whose long Hollywood career began as a child star in the 1930s, has died at the age of 93, U.S. media reported late Sunday.