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Show ROBIN WILLIAMS/continued We'd like to clear up a remarkable body of work, notably Moscowon the Hudson, Good Morning, Viemam and Dead Poets Societyin the 1980s and more recently Awakenings, a few things about tap water. in Samuel Beckett's Waitingfor Godot, And, with pals Whoopi Goldberg and A look at what you can’t see. You'dlike to way you want it, healthier and refreshing. think that the water that water. Think of Brita as a way totake tap sprays outof yourtapis as water back to the beginning clean as the waterthatfalls Before people. Before cities. - from the sky. But it’s a long Ourpatented filter makes it e joumey to your tap. And a lot can happen. happen. With ion exchange Too often, impurities are finding their way resin and activated carbon, it turns tap into the water. While you may not be able water into better water —in seconds. Which to see them, you don’t want them. is probably why Brita is the most popular impurities. pitcher in the world. Today, 40 million And doubt. it's hard to people get their water from one source. Removing know exactly what's in your tap Tasting is believing. The most water. But you can be certain of unusual thing about Brita water? It’s this: the Brita” Water Filtration \ hard to believe it’s tap water. It certainly Pitcher removes 99% of lead, 98% of doesn’t taste that way. In fact, it seems chlorine, 93% of zinc, 93% of copper, 94% like it’s from an entirely different place. of sediment and it reduces water hardness. From a time when water was perfect. Clear So you ¢ and untouched. You can have this taste again. be sure your wateris always the Billy Crystal, he is a hostofHBO's annual Comic Relief special, which has raised more than $46 million for the homeless. In 1988, after a lengthy separation, Tap water becomes wonderful his first marriage ended in a divorce that j c gave him joint custody of Zachary. A year later, he married Marsha Garces. whom he had met when she was hired to care for Zachary. Today,theylive in San Francisco with their daughter,Zelda. 9, and son, Cody, 6. Zachary, now 15, lives nearby with his mother but remains very close to Williams. “IT have found an extraordinary woman,”Williams said of Marsha. “Our marriage lasts because she’s so damn honest. She peels through pretense quicker than a comedy club. Besides,she is so exotically beautiful. Years ago, when | first fell in love with her, she had this same beauty, but it has just gotten better and better as she has grown older with me “And my kids?”he asked rhetorical- ly. “They bring me a real sense of my responsibility.” I asked Williams what kind of world he wanted his children to inherit. “Twant a world without all the | wealth going only one way,” he answered. “I do Comic Relief because | want people to know—and mychildren to know—thatthere’s an entire culture of homeless people outthere, not bums. Ican’t stand to see peopleisolated and alone, especially children.I live a certain lifestyle, and yet I go, “Wait a minute! Maybe five blocks awaythere is someoneliving in a Hefty bag. It could be me.It could be mychildren.” “Pm just‘trying to get acrosstheidea life. I guess I am an optimis future, but a cautious one,” he said, smiling. “It's my mother saying,‘People are basically good.’ And my father in the background going,‘There are still those who would throw you under a speeding busfor a nickel.’ My doing [dramatic] movies is my wayof saying, ‘The goodness of man,” while my comedyis say- ing, *Yeah, but watch out.’” ie PAGE 6 - SEPTEMBER 20, 1996 - PARADE MAGAZINE |
