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BY RANDY REIGER
Williams plays darker characters
The Associated Press
PARK CITY, Utah — Robin Williams has provided some of the darkest and lightest moments at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
First, he menaced the crowds with One Hour Photo, a grim story in which he plays a joyless photo clerk who dangerously fixates on a family. Then Williams had people rolling in the aisles as he turned a question-and-answer session on the movie into an impromptu standup routine.
"This was a bizarre, creepy movie. Now coming up and making people laugh, it's like being an emotional sorbet," Williams said after the movie's premiere last weekend.
Williams cracked wise on why he chose such a dark role ("Because Mr. Rogers On Ice was already taken"), on his characters fuzzy blondish hair ("They cut my hair with a Roto-
Rooter"), and on security for upcoming Winter Olympics events around Park City (anthrax-antsy guards shouting, "There's white powder everywhere!" and then being told, "It's snow, sir").
Best-known for sympathetic, lovable characters in such films as Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society. Williams has three movies coming out this year in which he plays the heavy. Preceding One Hour Photo, which opens this fall, Williams plays a murder suspect opposite Al Pacino in Insomnia and a former children's show host gunning for revenge against the man who replaced him in the black comedy Death to Smoochy, directed by Danny DeVito.
"Have I played a lot of these characters? No." Williams said in an interview Tuesday. "Do I want to play them? Oh God, yeah, because they're fascinating."
In One Hour Photo, Williams
plays Sy Parrish, a quiet, lonely man who builds a fantasy life for himself as "Uncle Sy" to a family of regular customers at the photo-developing center where he works. His obsession turns to stalking, and when Sy realizes the family is not the picture-perfect unit he imagined, he takes frightening steps to set matters straight.
"It's a completely new way to see Robin Williams," writer-director Mark Romanek said. "But if you look more carefully at his dramatic work and even some of his comedic work, it isn't that far afield from some of the earmarks of other characters he's played. People who are obsessive, isolated, lonely."
Williams said a woman at the first screening forgot who she was watching. "That's the greatest compliment of all, that they said it's no longer Robin Williams. They just find themselves watching this man."
Crossword
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1 Unflappable
5 Ancient Yemen
10 Toll House cookie morsel
14 __ Star State
15 Christmas tune
16 Take on
17 Rude
19 Way off
20 Chairman __
21 Stick with a stick
22 Northern weasel
24 Gratuities
25 Dreary
26 Shoves
29 Supervisor
33 Like a rainbow
34 Car on call
35 Gossip Barrett
36 Skiers' ride
37 Savory jelly
38 Assumed a reclining position
39 Container weigh
40 CD alternative
41 A la __
42 Ground troops
44 Swindle
45 Prickly plants
46 Caramel-topped custard
47 North or South follower
50 New Mexico art colony
51 Afore
54 Light beige
55 Pronunciation mark
58 Give off
59 Boss of Tammany Hall
60 Science magazine
61 Base cafeteria
62 Easy touch
63 Cheer (for)
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1 Quahog
2 Ms. Chaplin
3 Suspicious of
4 Kauai souvenir
5 Quantities of ice cream
6 Pulp writers
7 New York state
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9 Hypersensitive
10 Sovereign's chief
steward
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12 Persia, now
13 Pierre's father
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23 College cheer
24 Near that place
25 The South
26 Singer Smith
27 Citified
28 Table runner
29 Delighted
30 Comments from
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31 Form a bond
32 Judging
committee
34 Winter Palace
rulers
37 Captivates
41 Abyss
43 Kernel
44 Overcast
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47 Consider
48 Highest point
49 Singer
    Kristofferson
50 Not kosher
51 Patron saint of
sailors
52 Clinton's attorney general
53 Way out
56 "Sands of __ Jima"
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