I can't believe you guys stole my "Wowzers" phrase. Next thing you know I'll see "cool beans" on my favorite interweb page.

And I can't believe you guys didn't know she was the nanny. That's pretty well-known.

@Morningstar: Sometimes it takes awhile for news to reach the East Coast.

@TheStarterWife: Zings all around! It was news to me. But then again, I don't really keep tabs on Robin Williams and his carnal delights.

Did none of you read my earlier comment about Ryan Phillipe? Wowzers. (Or 'cool beans' if you did.)

So much hotter when Jude Law was fucking his nanny. Wonder why. It must have been the hotter everyone.

@Mark Graham: Crap. Now I'm never going to get one of those fancy stars.

@TheStarterWife: Never say never. However, I wouldn't advise you to hold your breath.

@Mark Graham: You're forgiven. it's old news for us old people. I'm sure you had bigger concerns 19 years ago. Like whether your mom is going to let you see Batman or not.

Williams has since passed the nanny-shtupping baton on to Ethan Hawke, who's running for the home stretch.

@TheStarterWife: @Mark Graham: Christ, you two. Get a room.

@Mark Graham: And just the mental image of a shower drain full of Williams body hair made me die a little on the inside.

Bachelor number one shouldn't hit on women who have access to the internet:

"During Williams' first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he met in 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming he gave her herpes without notifying her. The case was settled out of court."

@Midge: She did! And she drove there! However, we had to have someone else's parents pick us up. That's how the Graham family rolled back in suburban Michigan in 1990. Now Tales From The Darkside: The Movie ... well, that was another matter entirely. Never underestimate the value of having friends with older siblings who would gladly buy you a ticket to a Rated R movie.

A long time ago, we were at Squaw Valley riding the Gondola up to the top of the mountain. The only other people in the car were Robin Williams, his nanny wife (then, perhaps just the "nanny") and a kid or two.

We pretended like we were really cool and didn't look at him.
At first.
We got to the top of the mountain and there was this pool. Robin's kids wanted him to go swimming with him and he didn't have a suit. So he went into the bathroom and bought a black and white paper suit. (why they had paper swimsuits at the top of a mountain in squaw valley, i have no idea).
Then, we couldn't stop staring because this was a swim suit made out of paper. And bit by bit, it began it tear and fall apart in the water.
And I can tell you that yes, Mr. Williams is a very, hair man. Everywhere.

I not only remember that he ran off with the nanny, I remember the People Magazine headline: "His life is a minefield!"

@heidiho: Hey, I make one joke...

But glad to know that Graham is open about disliking me.

@TheStarterWife: Oh come on now. All in good fun. Next time I'm on your coast (mid-April, methinks), first G&T is on me. Truce?

@Hockeymom: I wonder how he felt and what he did when this new-fangled "men must be hairless" trend started? Do you suppose he ever went in for some waxing?

I saw him in a hotel lobby here last month in a T-shirt and he didn't look quite as hairy as I suspected. Could he have gone the waxing route? Did Nanny Wife prefer the hairier version, and this is where things started to go wrong? Or is age causing him to lose the body hair?

So many questions.

I guess the nanny got over her Wookie fetish.

@Tippi from Toronto: He was also sued by a costar from one of his movies for giving her herpes during the filming of their love scene!

Yeah, his moving from V.V. to the nanny was not news to those of us of a certain age living in S.F. back in the day.

Wonder what was finally the last straw though - they seemed so tight . . . maybe now that she's getting near the "change of life" age, she's getting hairier while indeed he's getting less so.

@WGARefugee: this really made me snicker because I couldnt help but imagine someone handing a lover a document stating "This is to inform you that I'm about to give you herpes." Probably just me.

@TheStarterWife: @Mark Graham: Wait, wait, wait. When did the stars start? And what's the criteria for getting one?

@Desk_hack: Thank you, I was wondering the same thing...and why don't the old-timer/classic commentors automatically get them*? I see people with gold stars who've I've never seen on here before.

*I'm talking about TSW, Panda, SugarTits, Little Mintz, etc...

@hack-a-rific: LolCait gave stars to everyone who mentioned the word "star" in a Gawker post last week. That is why there are nifty cool stars all over the joint...

I just noticed this star thing. It's so mysterious.

I want one!

And I sent Gawker's Sheila a tip today that went up AND got her over 4K views. That's got to count for something!

I don't care about the stars; posting is attention-whoring enough for me. Except that they're gray for me...Do you have to be a Special Person to even *see* the gold stars??

@Desk_hack: @heidiho: All will be explained in due time.

@Mark Graham: Curses. You found the chink in my armor - free booze. All is forgiven and I promise to play nice. Believe me, aside of the editors (past and present), few are as protective of this place than I am.

@hack-a-rific: @Desk_hack: Who knows, I just see the Gawker and the new blogs (io9, Jezzies) peeps with them. It is interesting that the Gawker Media Overlords have decided to make a class system different than the one that was already in place - commenter approval.

@TheStarterWife: Not just commenter approval but entourage/follower one-upmanship, since all the numbers are public. I know Hez has more followers than me, but I've got the star and she doesn't.

I think they're just rewarding commenters who post regularly/have no lives.

The first thing they tell you when you land in L.A. is that Robin Williams ran off with the nanny. It's even on brochures at the airport.

@TheStarterWife: Pretty much. Just like in the real world, we old people get no love.

I could have sworn that Cody was a boy. I remember Robin Williams on The Tonight Show, bragging "He's hung like a field mouse!"

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: I would like to dispute that story. Because I said "star" in my comments about 8,000 times over on Gawker and no fucking star for me! I practically begged for one! And then, mysteriously, today a star appeared beside my name.

@raincoaster: Just for that I am going to start following you. Better close your curtains.

Didn't Robin Williams run off with the nanny around the same time that Joe Piscopo ran off with his nanny? Sad that I remember these things ...(head hanging down low, toe kicking dirt)

@TryThisAtHome: They were the original Nanny Shaggers.

Wow, 18 years is a long time to have to laugh at jokes that aren't funny.

When she stopped being the nanny, and became the wife, did she still have to take care of the kids or did they get a new nanny? And did the new nanny look like Mrs. Featherbottom?

I rode my bike past their house in SF and they were having a kids birthday party in the yard, and they were unloading a PONY!!!

And my husband told me a funny story about 4th of July at Lucas Ranch, a bunch of kids were pointing at George (who was talking to Robin,) and George says to Robin, "I think they might want autographs" and called the kids over to give them HIS, and they all ran over and asked Robin for his autograph. Nobody got herpes, but it was a very spinal tap moment!

This whole star thing is giving me bad flashbacks about being at girl-scout camp and being left behind during canoeing because nobody would pick me to row with them. *Sobs*

@shag_carpet_bomb: You just earned yourself a star.

@Mark Graham: Grambo's buying drinks? I want in on this beernevolence!

@raincoaster: Laugh it up, Rainball. Just for that I'm putting Visine in your scotch tomorrow. It'll be Sex & the Squitty.

Wow! Forty-three comments behind a nanny/babysitter shagging revelation and nothing about The World According to Garp.

Eighteen, eighteen. Is there any word in the English language as sexy as that?

funnyman?

@Mark Graham: was it AD or ST? I got a million of each :)

I'm giving out stars. Who wants a star?

Disturbing, her face kinda looks like his!

@Seth: (:

@Hez: Well, at least there'll be sex, so that's a step up.

@Seth: Hez wants a star. And if you give her one, she'll owe me TWO drinks tomorrow!

@Seth: Thanks, pumpky. And I didn't even have to ask. This is the best early birthday present ever!

@Seth: Whaddwe have to do for them?

Oh boy!! Ye starred me!!
I mean, that's coo'...

@Seth: Oh please, me!! I complimented you about your Kevin Federline joke!

I will devote a wing of my home to worshipping you. Shrine builders are standing by.

@Seth: Don't make me ask Grambo. I'm already trying to scam him for free drinks.

(Might I add, these are craftsmen-- nay, artisans! From Italy! 32 of them on very short work visas, just waiting for the go ahead to start carving those marbles!)

PS: That is a really nice shirt. It's kinda "shirty".

@Trixie from Toronto: Well, I'm very pleased you got your star!

@Seth:

Who do I have to blow to get one, and what will I have when I get one?

Defamer has not met my expectations for being defaming enough by NOT knowing the dirt on Robin, his soon-to-be ex-wife AND the joyful association with the film-art that is Mrs Doubtfire. de-SHAME-r on you, DEFAMER!

Or, maybe I'm simply compensating for the fact that I'm old enough to remember this news from that time and how creepy people thought it was then...