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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Aug 12, 2014 2:44 AM UTC  FILE - This June 15, 2007 file photo shows actor and comedian Robin Williams posing for a photo in Santa Monica, Calif. Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, died Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in an apparent suicide. Williams was 63\. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) FILE - This June 15, 2007 file photo shows actor and comedian Robin Williams posing for a photo in Santa Monica, Calif. Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, died Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in an apparent suicide. Williams was 63\. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)Reed Saxon—AP  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Aug 12, 2014 2:44 AM UTC Robin Williams, who died on Aug. 11 at 63, was not the kind of guy you simply interviewed. He was the kind of guy with whom you lit a fuse and then stood clear. Our chat in 2011 was in anticipation of his first appearance on Broadway in a serious play, but the conversation quickly spilled over into unchartered territory. My first impression of him was that he was one impressively hairy human. Sitting there in the makeup chair (for a portrait and [video of him](http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,904668886001%5F2065366,00.html) that TIME ran with the story), I noticed that he was covered with a wild, manly mane, over all his body like the overgrowth in his film _Jumanji_. He joked about how his chest hair was so thick it actually poked through the fabric of the shirt he was wearing. As we sat down to talk, he noticed that the battery cover on my tape recorder was missing. He started talking very slowly at first, and then very fast — imitating the warp effect when you try to play back a recording when the batteries are dying or loose. Through my terrified laughter, I begged him to stop, worried about the panic it would unleash in whoever landed transcription duty. From that point on, it was like an off-road trip into comedy wilderness without seat belts. Williams was widely known and loved for his outsize comedic roles, like the Genie in _Aladdin_ and the dad turned Mrs. Doubtfire_._ He was almost as widely mocked for overly earnest roles in _Jakob the Liar_ or _Patch Adams_. Sometimes he landed the manic-depressive balance just right — _Dead Poets Society_, _Good Will Hunting_ — and those were among his most critically acclaimed roles. But in person, he was a mixture of both these extremes: heartfelt _and_ off-the-wall. One moment he’d be going off on a riff about the chintziness of the abandoned official residences he saw while [doing USO tours](http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/aug/11/robin-williams-uso-tours-kuwait-retreat-video/) in Iraq — “Colombian drug lords would be like, ‘This stuff is so tacky!'” — and the next he’d be talking about how worried he was for the mental health of returning veterans. I came away from the interview in awe of his prodigious gifts — his energy and ability to throw off one dazzling comedy firework after another, each sparking off the next in a way that was so random but brilliant that you didn’t really know where to look. But I also came away with a sense that he was a guy who had figured out how to not let it cost him too much; that he had faced down his darkness and his addictions and impulses. He had harnessed, I felt, whatever it was in him that strained at the leash, sometimes pulling him toward a manic hailstorm of comedy and sometimes somewhere just as crazy, but also scary and destructive. I guess I was wrong. At some point, I ran out of written questions. Either that, or we were so far off topic, I had to make them up as I went, asking such howlers as whether you could be funny when you get old. It didn’t matter how lame I felt my questions were though: he had a hilarious response to whatever query you offered up. I ultimately sat back and marveled at that chaotic comedy geyser’s full height. Eventually, of course, he had to go and that wild ride we were on turned back into a regular old office again, drab and ordinary. Which is what the world feels like tonight. 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