They work with marginalized people: the ones you don’t see, the ones you don’t want to see, the suffering you can’t see.Īt first Patch hated the Robin Williams movie. A few properly placed phone calls by Patch’s local charity partner, Maria Eliseeva probably helped.Įvery November Patch, thirty international volunteers and a dozen Russian friends are on the loose in the city-visiting orphanages, hospices, homeless shelters and hospitals.
They were eventually released, having charmed their jailers. Twice in the early 2000s he and several of his cohorts were detained while street-clowning in the shadow of the Kremlin. Patch loves being arrested, preferably in grand public places. Patch Adams is in town.Īt 74, the clown-doctor made famous by the eponymous 1998 movie starring Robin Williams, is alive and kicking…hard. The authorities maintain they’re necessary for assembly of an ice-skating rink across from Lenin’s tomb.
In mid-November barricades go up around much of Red Square. Barely a smattering of snow and record high temperatures create anxiety and a sense of imbalance.īut each year one reliable harbinger of the season appears. Even the Russian winter has fallen victim to global warming.
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