Wednesday, June 17, 2026

(Watch) Glenn Close Name Checks Robin Williams in Moving Speech About Mental Illness at Variety Lunch

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Please do watch Glenn Close’s beautiful speech about mental illness at last week’s Variety lunch for Power of Women. Other speakers and honorees included Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Rachel Weisz, and Kim West. But it was Glenn’s speech that really touches the heart. Variety filled midtown Cipriani and did a brilliant job– kudos to Michelle Sobriano, Claudia Eller et al. Rosie Perez and Emmy Rossum were among the guests, as well as Caroline Hirsch (Caroline’s Comedy Club, and Stand up for Heroes), “Selma” star Carmen Ejogo. I got to meet Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe of Uganda, who you can (and should) follow on Facebook.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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