Jim Moore Remembers Robin Williams' GQ Cover Shoot with Richard Avedon

I remember this day very vividly. It was 1985 and Williams was transitioning from TV star to the movie star he would become for the rest of his career. It was a few years after Mork & Mindy, but just before he started shooting Good Morning, Vietnam. Richard Avedon took the picture. Before our cover shoots, Avedon used to send me photos of his ideas. So, if we were shooting David Letterman, or in this case Robin Williams, he would take a Polaroid of himself holding the prop he thought would work ...