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Christine Lahti on That Time She Was in the Bathroom When She Won a Golden Globe
She’d wandered to a faraway bathroom. Robin Williams jumped onstage to stall for time. And a stranger in the hallway became a casual hero.
The year was 1998, and Lahti had received her second consecutive nomination for the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, which co-starred Adam Arkin, Mandy Patinkin, and Hector Elizondo. “People from the Deep South say, ‘We’ve had cloning — it’s called cousins.’” Lahti returned to the Beverly Hilton ballroom right in time to hear Williams chanting her name, at which point the crowd leapt to its feet in a frenzied applause. Watching famous people give normal speeches is pleasant enough, but what everyone really wants is for things to fly off the rails, for some sort of mishap or mix-up or whim to intervene.
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