I want to be Elliott Gould (when he wasn't crap)

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Sorry to start a pretty gratuitous thread, but I don't get on here much these days and this is something that's really been on my mind. With a lot of time to spare at the moment, I helped myself to a double-dose of Altman/Gould classics yesterday in M*a*s*h* and The Long Goodbye, and I just can't belive how watchable and charismatic this man was. He even makes Donald Sutherland (a pretty decent actor, but no icon) look pretty cool by association. The mumbling, the general hairiness and don't-give-a-fuck-ness of his performances are just so important, special, and vital. I love Elliot Gould.

So what happened to him? Is it old age, the fate that awaits us all? Why has he become such a camp, ineffectual and strangely feline non-entity? Granted, he was funny in Ocean's Eleven for about two minutes.

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

My friend Rachel, who's never met my dad or seen pictures, said that she's always imagined him to look like Elliott Gould. I took it as a compliment. Wasn't he on Friends recently as someone's dad?

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

I love this movie:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JKT4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

He was the coolest guy. And SO WAS DONALD SUTHERLAND HATER!

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

genevieve bujold rep!!!

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

(never thought I'd write that)

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

Don't forget Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice!

I join the Gouldlove.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

He's been fine in everything I've seen of his recently excepting _Friends_. To see him do the _Friends_ thing but well, check out _Playing Mona Lisa_. It's cute. (Heh - Marlo Thomas plays his wife!)

David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

he did a beer ad a few years back, it was weird. haven't seen him in a film since Casino.

stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:46 (twenty years ago) link

I wanted more of him in Ocean's Eleven. That wasn't crap.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

He wasn't in Casino. Maybe you're thinking Ocean's Eleven?

(xp)

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

He used the word "casino" a lot in Ocean's Eleven. I understood.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

He was in The Big Hit, which was a fun movie but his role in it was just ... sad. Granted, it was probably about three days out of his life and he added a[n executive-produced-by] John Woo movie to his resume.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, Donald Sutherland doesn't need Gould to look cool.

rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link

not Casino? was he in Goodfellas? i guess i'm thinking of someone else. but i was right about the beer ad.

stevem (blueski), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Come on Tep, he was pretty hilarious in The Big Hit no?

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:33 (twenty years ago) link

"oh mr ma-a-arlo-o-owe!!"

mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

Cory brand cat food mumble mumble

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

I HAVE TO WATCH THAT MOVIE NOW!!

*clicks out of ilx and hunts through giant untidy video pile*

mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

Come on Tep, he was pretty hilarious in The Big Hit no?

It's not that he was bad, not at all (it does look like I meant that, doesn't it?) It's just ... well geez, this is Elliott Gould! Doing the drunken father-in-law thing? I felt bad for him.

Although not as bad as when he saw Chandler naked, I guess.

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:59 (twenty years ago) link

genevieve bujold ... wtf? i only know her from "la guerre est finie" and "dead ringers"...

ts gould vs bogie vs mitchum

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:01 (twenty years ago) link

Who else here was completely obsessed with that traumatic episode of Who's the Boss? when Tony saw Angela naked and it was edited all weird?

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

Bujold is a Quebec actress who showed up in a bunch of movies in the '70s. She's awesome in Brian DePalma's Obsession, where she plays a 20/30something AND a seven-year-old kid.

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:02 (twenty years ago) link

how did she end up in a film by alain resnais then? was she in paris in the '60s?

she's terrifying in "dead ringers"

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link

Bujold was great in House of Yes, even if you don't like the movie (I love it, but it seems to inspire hate in some people).

Who else here was completely obsessed with that traumatic episode of Who's the Boss? when Tony saw Angela naked and it was edited all weird?

Wow, I remember the episode -- hallmark of my childhood, without a doubt -- but I don't remember the editing. I'm not sure I've seen it since the show was still on (like, not in syndication).

Tep (ktepi), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link

s1utsky went to the lev kushelov academy for grammar school, apparently.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:05 (twenty years ago) link

yeah get the kuleshov effect mixed up with your sexual awakening and you can get into all sorts of trouble, trust me

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

(ps in re bujold: make that '60s and '70s)

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:07 (twenty years ago) link

yeah get the kuleshov effect mixed up with your sexual awakening and you can get into all sorts of trouble, trust me

would certainly make flirting confusing.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:08 (twenty years ago) link

BTW this thread title would make an awesome song title.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link

would certainly make flirting confusing.

yeah for a while I'd just look blankly at people and then point to a bowl of soup

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link

The Long Goodbye was such a horrible movie! I mean, Gould was very good in it, but the dialogue doesn't make any sense! You can fast forward whenever someone opens their mouth and you won't miss a thing. Hollywood scriptwriters had far too much access to blow in the 70's.

Dan I., Friday, 15 August 2003 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

What? What doesn't make sense?

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

it was written by a 60-yr-old woman!

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link

woah i saw this thread title and i thought that i had started it when i was drunk and had forgotten

i love elliot gould. the long goodbye is fucking great

gareth (gareth), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

check out Little Murders, 1971. the best Gould movie ever (this is not a light statement). black, black, black, black comedy. directed by Alan Arkin and written by Jules Feiffer. if you like the stuff with altman, watch this movie tonight, I know it's friday.

milton (Jon L), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link

I will watch it! I love Alan Arkin!

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

arkin and sutherland both have excellent scenes. arkin plays a paranoid detective. sutherland plays the reverend of First Existential Church and performs a particularly savage wedding ceremony. but it's gould's film yup. hard to stress how good it is.

milton (Jon L), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

the long goodbye is the only altman film i actually really like (except secret honour which i haven't seen for 21 yrs) plus it has ARNIE in it!!

mark s (mark s), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

Okay but you know how movies sometimes have these scenes where two characters take turns staring off into the distance and philosiphizing while the other says all these banal bon mots and none of it has anything to do with the plot? That's The Long Goodbye! The whole thing! And what's with all the gangsters stripping naked in that one scene, huh!? It was totally pointless! WTF! DO YOU SEE!!!

Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:16 (twenty years ago) link

it has a terrifically weird cast all round: henry gibson long-stride loping thru the flowerbed, sterling hayden as soused hemingway, icy gabbly nina van pallandt, mark rydell in his ugly tight trousers, the loungy guy who plays terry lennox, like a whole deliberate fusion-collision of unreconcilable acting techniques (non-acting, in NvP's case, but that sort of works pretty well somehow)

is the building that marlowe and the hippie lesbians live in famous?

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

And the old guy with the beard was SO annoying! Sterling Hayden you say? A pox on him and his offspring!

Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

(but if I watch it again and try to see the intent in the non-acting maybe I'll see what you're talking about. cause it was a pretty movie, I remember thinking that if I just turned the sound off completely I could maybe pretend that it was a good movie instead of bullshit at all times.)

Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

i think the only relentlessly banal bon mot = "that's ok with me" which PM says abt 2348756891723465 times

roger wade is a veritable fount of pompous bullshit, but then he's a bad writer and a drunk, and that's what they're like (actually i've never met one)

otherwise the only bit of really spare business is the cat stuff at the start — which i like — and the malibu gatekeeper who does moviestar impressions — which i also like

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

i think part of the point is that everyone marlowe encounters is a TOTAL fake — which is pretty true to the books, oddly enough, given that marlowe has become totally a non-chandler character, plus the plot is importantly changed (supposedly cz altman got bored and couldn't be bothered finishing the book THOUGH I COMPLETELY DON'T BELIEVE THIS)

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:28 (twenty years ago) link

But the naked gangsters!

Dan I., Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:29 (twenty years ago) link

marty augustine likes capricious power-trips, they keep people guessing — hugh hefner as a pathological gangster-swinger, this is such a funny-terrifying idea — esp.with that poor girl in her nose-reconstruction bandage!!

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:34 (twenty years ago) link

the half-mumbled, borderline-incomprehensible overlapping dialogue was altman's big innovation (aside from the sophisticated use of zooming and tracking in deep focus shots)..it sort of turns hawks (who also made a marlowe movie!) inside-out, instead of the dilogue overlapping in these sophisticated snappy rhythms with great clarity, it's submerged and arrrythmic. i'd say it only goes so far, and in other films the dialogue seems pointlessly empty and flat (almost like bad improvisations) as if just the gesture was enough. but i like it a lot in "the long goodbye."

amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 16 August 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

the thing about altman is that i find the revisionist quality of his plots in this period ultimately not v. rewarding...trite. it isn't as thoroughly conceived/achieved as the half-revisionist fantasies of ford, boetticher, hawks, etc. (his forebears) so seems a bit like an adolescent provocation. I usually don't realize this until after the picture is over, or as it's winding down. "McCabe & Mrs Miller" is the most obvious example. the surface attractions are so inventive that it keeps you sufficiently distracted.

the best parts of "Long Goodbye" for me are the multiple versions of the title tune, sung and performed in every manner imaginable (toward the end, by a mariachi band!). again, a facile thing--it isn't funny the second time, but it's awesome the first time.

amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 16 August 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

i woke up with this is in my head: "if you try your luck you could be donald DUUUUCK!! hooray for ho-ollywood"

mark s (mark s), Saturday, 16 August 2003 08:39 (twenty years ago) link

Great Elliot Gould moment - in 1979 war flop bag'o'stars w/nice Schifrin s'track Escape To Athena, EG is led for first time into Greek PoW camp. He passes completely uncredited William Holden and says, "You're still here?!"

Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 16 August 2003 10:49 (twenty years ago) link

i loved this as a kid, hell 70s Disney live action movies then were fab.
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/48711.1020.A.jpg

H (Heruy), Saturday, 16 August 2003 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

Saw that one in the theaters. Ah, memories.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 August 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link

"their main goal is swiping soul"?

s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 17 August 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
I saw California Split last night!

Best actor ever! Hands down!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link

... you'd have to marry Barbra Streisand tho - and, ask yourself this, do you really wanna do that?

Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

elliott gould was NEVER crap.

stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

i wouldn't kick her money out of bed.

stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

It certainly didn't harm Elliott's career

Den Dadaismus in seinem Lauf hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf... (Dada), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

elliott gould was NEVER crap.

I think I agree with you!

Gould, being who he is, would applaud and forgive my change of mind!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I be Elliott Gould now??? PLEASE!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Saw that one in the theaters. Ah, memories.

How many times and in just how many theatres did you see it Ned?

beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Elliott Gould was pretty embarassing in The Big Hit. Or at least embarassed.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

btw, if you haven't seen The Big Hit, see it now. loopy.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Just sell your soul to Bill Cosby and you can be!

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Elliott Gould plays the same slightly bemused, slightly offended, somewhat laconic dude in every goddamn picture ever. He may be miscast in roles, he may pick shitty scripts from time to time, he may be distracting, but it's impossible to say he's crap, because you either have to discount everything he's ever done or say that he's great in everything.

If this is debatable, please do not let me know.

Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

(no one tell girolamo that it's very debatable)

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

This thread keeps reminding me of that Simpsons where the teenaged Barney is told "I wouldn't go to the prom with you if you were ELLIOTT GOULD!"

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Gould outside Roseland a few years ago, looking very confused in the midst of a pre-concert Hole crowd.

My best friend's look and style so recalls EG in Long Goodbye that I occasionally call him MARLBORO!

>the loungy guy who plays terry lennox

Former Yankee pitcher (and author of Ball Four) Jim Bouton.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

GOULD!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ELLIOTT GOULD!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

GOULD!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

WHAT A WOOKIE!

Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

GOULD RUSH!

THERE'S GOULD IN THEM THERE HILLS!

GOULDFINGER!

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

GOULD!
Always believe in your soul
You’ve got the power to know
You’re indestructable
Always believe in,because you are
GOULD!
Glad that you’re bound to return
There’s something I could have learned
You’re indestructable,always believe in

adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

adam, you're solid gould

s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

GOULDS (We're All)...

Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...
I was TOTALLY WRONG about something on this thread!!!!!


AND IT WAS THIS:

He even makes Donald Sutherland (a pretty decent actor, but no icon)

Sutherland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

How good is LITTLE MURDERS??? (thanks milton)


SO good.

a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't stand Donald Sutherland or Elliot Gould, but at least Sutherland was in a good film or too (and Kiefer was in Freeway and uh nothing else, but YEAH Freeway.) What a crappy pair of actors.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

sutherland = hotchie motchie. they just don't make em like that anymore.

jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 June 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link

sutherland can either be icky or TOTALLY HOTTT

"... you'd have to marry Barbra Streisand tho - and, ask yourself this, do you really wanna do that? "

YESSS!!!!!

tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 23 June 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

HOTCHIE MOTCHIE

a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Gould. And I even, once, liked Cosby.

That Max Devlin thing looks awful, though.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

sutherland = brilliant. aside from naming his son kiefer, anyway

mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread needs more Gould & Sutherland photos

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

& Alan Arkin as Lieutenant Practice from Little Murders:

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/diatribe/images/2004/jun4/littlemurdersmilkglass.jpg

milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 23 June 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Question: Was Elliot Gould used on the sample on a DJ Shadow song?
If so, do you know what it was a sample from?

Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Gould made the most of his teeny role in "Bugsy."

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
The Goulden Age by J. Hoberman

Gould recently tried to turn [Sid] Caesar on to Sacha Baron Cohen, but the older man couldn't deal with Cohen's vulgarity. Gould rhapsodizes over the Marx Brothers—"If Duck Soup were made today it would be recognized as an improvisational masterpiece"—and recalls his friendship with the elderly Groucho. Once "when I was in my long-hair-and-overalls period, I changed a lightbulb over Groucho's bed. He said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.' " Asked if he sees himself in any younger stars, he answers "Adam Sandler" without pause.

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Could one make a case for Gould as the seventies' Robert Mitchum?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to hear it! :o

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:35 (seventeen years ago) link

cuz they both played latter-day philip marlowe?

s1ocki, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

no, that wd make them both the '70s Mitchum. I know Bob smoked a little weed, but c'mon.

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Look at his eyes. Mitchum smoked a LOTTA weed.

Oilyrags, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Laconic, self-effacing, indifferent to niceties like "good' and "bad" scripts, only nominated once for an Oscar, underrated, re-discovered icon.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

so good
http://www.road-dog-productions.com/weblog/altman-californiasplit.jpg

gershy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.arnadal.no/film/actors/images/gould_elliott.jpg

gershy, Sunday, 9 September 2007 03:59 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

I saw California Split last night!

Best actor ever! Hands down!

-- adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Link

s1ocki, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:35 (sixteen years ago) link

the fleetwood mac of actors?

omar little, Friday, 7 March 2008 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link

i like the comparison but it doesn't quite work on account of gould's massive jewishness and the mac's massive goyishness. close tho

s1ocki, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:16 (sixteen years ago) link

second only to warren oates in my book

gershy, Friday, 7 March 2008 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Christine McVey

gershy, Friday, 7 March 2008 04:34 (sixteen years ago) link

"i wouldn't go out with YOU if you were elliott gould!"

J.D., Friday, 7 March 2008 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link

mac's massive goyishness

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

gershy, Friday, 7 March 2008 06:44 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Movie veteran ELLIOTT GOULD has designed a new line of Nike bags under his real name, Elliot Goldstein.
The M*A*S*H star has been wearing Nike products for years - and now the sportswear giants have decide to honour his commitment by giving him his very own bag line.
And the thrilled star, who turns 70 this summer (Aug08) decided to use the name he was born with for the honour.
He says, "Sometimes Nike will give some of their products to me. I don't endorse them, there's no business and they just asked me if I wanted to design a bag.
"The bag I designed is the Elliot Goldstein 38 - the year I was born. It's just a shlepping bag. It's a bag to carry my gym stuff in."
But Gould admits his new bag is far from perfect: "One of the zippers broke right away. It's a one of a kind bag just like me."

gershy, Thursday, 1 May 2008 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.simpsonspark.com/images/whitepages/gould_elliott.jpg

Just Do It.

C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link

OMG i want that so bad

s1ocki, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link

It's just a shlepping bag

gershy, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

http://gothamist.com/2008/04/28/elliott_gould_t.php

^^ crazy interview, plus he looks like dennis farina

s1ocki, Thursday, 1 May 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I brought two pictures with me to New York; one is Letters from Iwo Jima and the other is A Hole in the Head, Richard Ledes’s first picture. So, you know, I need to stay within focus and stay within the frame and just be sensible about all this. But I don’t have any plans. I have a plan to replace my fucking hips. I spoke with Jack Nicholson and told him I didn’t want to see The Bucket List. I’m not a big fan of Rob Reiner. I respect Rob Reiner to some degree but, you know, Rob Reiner, whatever. I just didn’t want to see The Bucket List, it seemed so formulaic to me.

I mean, some of this is awesome and all, but...is he.. senile?

G00blar, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link

not wanting to see Bucket List is common good sense

sexyDancer, Thursday, 1 May 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

August Brooklyn retro:

http://bam.org/film/series.aspx?id=198

It takes some guts to program Harry & Walter Go to New York!

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

that's it

i'm coming down for california split

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

oh shit, long goodbye q&a?????

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link

ha, I MISSED THAT!

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

for Little Murders too!

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

LM is the one w/ the Onion "afterparty"

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link

i kind of shudder at that

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link

anyway, this is as good excuse as any for a long-delayed nyc trip... if im not broke as a joke by then

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link

so I just shrug and move about life, kinda like a less sexy Eliot Gould.

-- burt_stanton, Friday, July 18, 2008 12:06 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

carne asada, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link

very excited about this.

lauren, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link

i bet you are!

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

we should have an EG party if i can come

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

i'm going to have to plan august weekends away around this, esp. if you're going to be coming down.

haha, xpost

lauren, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

what would be a good EG food to eat? besides cat food

s1ocki, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link

lucky charms (or is it trix)? a la california split?

lauren, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link

I think it was Lucky Charms.

we should have an EG party if i can come

required: turtlenecks and mutton chops

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link

btw I would recommend advance ticket purchase for the Q&As, even tho BAM will almost certainly have this in the big upstairs theater (maybe 500 seats?) as opposed to the one that usually shows the Cinematek fare.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link

oh, definitely. those are going to draw big crowds, i assume.

lauren, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link

i love elliot gould in the silent partner.

Jordan, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to work for Mark Rydell's sister, so I'd like to ask Gould if he was as big a dick as she thought he was.

who's seen Getting Straight or Busting? I haven't, or the Bergman film.

lol at one Harry & Walter show at 9:15.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link

so jealous of new yorkers right now

G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link

do we need to make plans for BAM?

Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 July 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link

still seriously considering htis.

s1ocki, Friday, 25 July 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

busting is the one i'm most interested in, i think..

lauren, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, esp as it's not on disc...

More likely to go to the Little Murders of the Q&As as I've seen TLG at Film Forum last year.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link

wish I could be there for that. I've seen that film five or six times but never in a room full of other people.

Milton Parker, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link

i have only seen the long goodbye out of all of these :x

impudent harlot, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I know my dad used to watch his doctor sitcom.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 July 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link

who's goin Friday?

Dr Morbius, Monday, 4 August 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link

ok i scrolled through this fairly quickly but why has nobody mentioned just excrutiatingly how bad he is in 'friends'?

or something, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link

common courtesy?

s1ocki, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link

arghhhhhhh i would fucken love to be there this wknd for this.

anyone wanna fly me down?????? and then back again for california split?

s1ocki, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link

out of town when he's doing the Q+As :(

impudent harlot, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link

I want to do him

I know, right?, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link

not sure he'd be into that though

I know, right?, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

some of us have never seen "Friends."

Dr Morbius, Monday, 4 August 2008 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link

He was good in Friends in the bit where he loses his glasses and drives through a neighbourhood nativity scene. "The newspapers thought it was a hate crime."

James Morrison, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm assuming nothing from his last 20 years has topped Bugsy

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

anyone wanna fly me down?????? and then back again for california split?

In exchange for TIFF credentials? (j/k)

what should I ask EG about Godard quitting Little Murders?

Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link

tonight's q&a is sold out, he's doing 2 for Long Goodbye.

Dr Morbius, Friday, 8 August 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link

so who went? how was?

s1ocki, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link

he's pretty nutty.

mizzell, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link

the best thing he said was roughly this:

When I went to kindergarten at PS 247 here in Brooklyn, the teacher told my mother that I had some kind of intellience because I was the only kid in my class who knew that he definitely did not know the difference between the right side and the left side of my body.

mizzell, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link

intelligence, rather

mizzell, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

He's philosophical, I'd say. Worked in 2 Streisand allusions w/out saying her name.

When walking in midtown NY w/ Godard while trying to secure him to direct Little Murders, Elliott told JLG that if he was going to produce LM with him directing, Godard had to show up "seasonally" to deal with the US suits. Godard replied that whenever his wife and child asked for his love, he told them to go fuck themselves. Gould: "Well, Idon't think I'm there yet, Jean-Luc..."

He also said he played basketball in boxing shoes cuz he didn't know the difference.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link

when asked about the differences between Altman and Bergman:
"Robert Altman knew who Dave DeBusschere and Bergman didn't."

mizzell, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

haha

Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link

"Robert Altman knew who Dave DeBusschere was and Bergman didn't."

fuck, i need coffee

mizzell, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I love how for the first half hour of the Long Goodbye you can't understand a single word Gould is saying, it's just one long grumble.

burt_stanton, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

"Hey, man, that's cool."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

It's OK with him

Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link

i watched little murders after reading about it in this thread,christ it was strange!

really enjoyed it overall,parts of it were hilarious,although it did sometimes veer a bit too close to a monty python sketch

robin l, Monday, 11 August 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link

I had forgotten about the satiric arias (Lou Jacobi as the judge, Sutherland as stoner minister, Arkin as bananas detective, Gardenia on police statism).

When Gould said that prior to his 7-minute one-take monologue he smoked a joint, one on-cue "WHOOO" from audience. There's always one.

Dr Morbius, Monday, 11 August 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Gould: "Well, I don't think I'm there yet, Jean-Luc..."

ha!

Godard directing this would have almost been too much. Keep remembering the Q&A you guys. Someday I'm going to watch the commentary on the DVD.

Milton Parker, Monday, 11 August 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link

http://blog.spout.com/2008/08/09/elliott-gould-takes-brooklyn/

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Getting Straight tonight.

Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link

so I did not detest The Touch at all. A good brief review:

http://www.cinepassion.org/Reviews/t/Touch.html

Dr Morbius, Friday, 22 August 2008 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

check out Little Murders, 1971. the best Gould movie ever

watched this last night - pretty good, dragged in a few places and suffers from its roots on the stage, but lots of good performances and one or two really funny monologues. Eeriest thing to me was that everybody in it really LOOKS like a Jules Feiffer drawing (ie, great casting)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link

(but no way is it the best Gould movie ever! wtf)

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link

one month passes...

apparently he was in the first London On the Town in 1963

gabbneb, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link

The al davis version of the long goodbye poster rules. I ordered one to frame for my bedroom.

TOMBOT, Friday, 5 December 2008 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link

ya it is amazing.

s1ocki, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

amazing ya

TOMBOT, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link

ya

s1ocki, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link

amazing.

TOMBOT, Friday, 5 December 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Busting is a very strange movie - lolz @ Gould and Berretta dancing together while attempting to pass as gay in a gay bar

Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link

totally reactionary politics, a young Michael Lerner, many MANY shades of brown...

Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link

y'know, Gould's doing his laconic-NY Jewish-smartass routine, Beretta is the hardass - but they're VICE cops, so its not like they're taking down murderous drug dealers or something, they spend most of their time trying to entrap expensive prostitutes and beat up hapless homos while simultaneously bucking the corrupt "brass". the tone is really strange.

Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link

B.J. Novak from the Office reminds me of a young Elliot Gould.

And I love the Long Goodbye because it seemed like there were a couple of pointless and languid scenes w/ Gould's character running errands of no importance. More movies need to show their character buying cat food in the middle of the night imo.

Cunga, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link

^^^ haha yes. love the muzak version of the theme playing in the grocery store

Sarah Palin's Word Put Together Instructor (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link

anyone catch the nod to that in wendy and lucy

1p3 freely (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2983000060_93a6c600af_o.jpg

velko, Saturday, 25 July 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link

watched some more of Busting last night - so weird/goofy. Beretta and Gould spend an inordinate amount of time in a public bathroom trying to "catch a pervert", except it all seems kinda gay... I mean two guys standing in a stall talking to each other, ummm.... then there's the part where they can't get a warrant from a judge because its the middle of the night, so they go to the suspect's house break-in, find some armed hoods, and proceed to chase them into a crowded open-air market. So Gould and Beretta are exchanging gunfire, telling the bystanders to get down and everything but... its like 4 in the morning, why are there all these people at the grocery store? Then Gould lambasts some fellow cops who fail to help by calling them "pigs"!

so wtf

also this movie is very brown

girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link

And I love the Long Goodbye because it seemed like there were a couple of pointless and languid scenes w/ Gould's character running errands of no importance. More movies need to show their character buying cat food in the middle of the night imo.

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By far my favorite scene in Bullitt is the part where McQueen goes and buys all the TV dinners at the supermarket/convenience store.

Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Couldn't someone change the title of this forum? when i did a google search for 'the Long Goodbye' this thread came up, I think it's a shame especially since Elliott Gould was never 'crap'- some of his films have been clunkers but who hasn't had those.

Serge, Thursday, 13 August 2009 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link

no

heavin' flho (s1ocki), Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

Corrected: Elliot Gould was never always 'crap'

it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link

Godard replied that whenever his wife and child asked for his love, he told them to go fuck themselves

lol

Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link

SB alex

heavin' flho (s1ocki), Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Alex replied that whenever his wife and child SB'd him, he told them to go fuck themselves.

Anatomy of a Morbius (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link

i heard he just sb'd them back

heavin' flho (s1ocki), Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link

six months pass...

watched the silent partner, it's ok. elliot is kinda a blank slate in it, even moreso than usual. christoper plummer is solid and creepy

johnny crunch, Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

When not working, Gould spends much of his time studying the Torah. He is a favourite student of some of Los Angeles' most eminent rabbis and a friend of Chabad and the Lubavitchers. "I'm an unorthodox Jew in the way I live but I have a deeply felt reverence for the ultra-Orthodox," he says.

So what does it mean to him to be a Jew?

"I just accept it. My trips to Israel remind me that there you're free to be a Jew and it's great to be free to be a Jew. I like to be free to be what I am. I find that in this world there's very little that I can depend on. There's almost nothing. But I really appreciate - and not to be pretentious - the law, the Torah."

http://www.thejc.com/arts/arts-interviews/42716/interview-elliott-gould

buzza, Friday, 7 January 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Thanks buzza for posting that link, Elliott is what it means to be a Jew, compassionate, educated, i love that he truly loves Israel.

bobo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link

I know my dad used to watch his doctor sitcom.

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^this. the originalE/R. I used to watch with my mom when I was a young kid (ie some time in the late 80s) like, on WGN, or something. First encounter with Elliott Gould, who seemed awesome back then. Had little to no inkling that he was in some great 70s movies then.

Also had little to no inkling that he was in Little Murders, a movie I've been wanting to check out since Dave Sim credited it as the inspiration for the finale of Church and State.

standards r. poor (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link

(hope I didn't trivialize your revive, bobo)

standards r. poor (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link

hey bobo, i found this article which covers some of the same ground. gould seems like such a great guy.

http://www.midnighteast.com/mag/?p=1697

buzza, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

Anyone ever seen Move, one of his 4 movies in 1970? He's doing a Q&A at "Jew Wave" when they show California Split:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/hollywoods-jew-wave

Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link

Hollywood’s “Jew Wave” forever changed the landscape of mainstream American movies and blazed the trail for such Jewish stars of today as James Franco, Natalie Portman, Seth Rogen, and Adam Sandler.

this makes me sad

The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 3 November 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link

only thing(s) i remember from Move are Paula Prentiss' boobs

buzza, Thursday, 3 November 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

a couple years old, covers some familiar terrain, lots of stuff about The Long Goodbye:

http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2009/05/long-goodbye-elliott-gould-remembers.html

can you believe they put a man otm (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 2 July 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1byABFXyao

buzza, Saturday, 7 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link

holy shit I had no idea Bujold was in Noah's Ark.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 July 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...
one year passes...

He is playing "the gushy, gay neighbor" on the new Fox sitcom Mulaney.

son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

Elliott, George Segal and California Split screenwriter Joseph Walsh yakking nostalgically about all sortsa things with Kim Morgan:

EG: [Working on MASH] sometimes Bob would get flustered. We were fighting the clock and he has got to do it a certain way by a certain time otherwise you go into golden hours. And I remember the scene in MASH — and it was actually around that scene that Sylvester Stallone, who I’ve only met a couple of times, said he doesn’t admit that he was ever an extra in any movie but he admits that he was an extra in MASH. And when I told that to Bob he said, “No. I don’t accept that Sylvester Stallone was in my movie. I don’t accept it.”

[Everyone laughs]

EG: So that day we have a really complicated, delicate crane shot and we’re fighting time for lunch. And, you know, it’s all the surgeons are working triple shifts and we’re talking non sequiturs and there was the script and then we go to lunch. We were at the Fox Ranch out in Malibu, and Bob said to me, “Why can’t you be like someone else?” And I had my lunch on a tray. And he pointed to Corey Fischer, you know, and said, “Why can’t you be like him?” Who was a part of The Committee, an improvisational group that Altman hired. And I shook my lunch, I threw it up and I said, “You motherfucker. I’m not gonna stick my neck out for you again. You know and I know where I come from. I know precision, I know repetition. You’ll tell me what you want and that’s what you’ll get.” And he said, “I think I’ve made a mistake.” I said, “I think so.” He said, “I apologize.” I said, “I accept.” And that’s when Paul Lewis the production manager for Getting Straight came out to meet with me for the movie which was my next picture. And Tarantino said it’s a part of his library. He’s got Getting Straight there.

KM: Yes, he loves that movie.

GS: What had Ingmar seen you in that got his attention?

EG: He had studied … but Getting Straight. He said, when he saw Getting Straight.

GS: I’ll be damned.

JW: Oh, so that’s how Ingmar Bergman came about?

EG: Yeah, also I was really hot. So, you know, I mean …

KM: What was it in Getting Straight that he responded to so much?

EG: He said it was a scene in Getting Straight — there was something where my character was in such a rage. There was just a rage in me. It would almost be like me facing the Tea Party right now, you know. There was just a rage and an insult and Ingmar said to me, “You showed great restraint in that scene.”

JW: Taking an American actor, that was a big deal at the time.

EG: Oh God, yeah, everybody in the universe was up for it. [For The Touch] I almost didn’t do it. I said, but how can I say no. You know, let’s see if I can …

KM: You almost said no? To Bergman?

EG: Well, here’s the deal. I was making a living for my family for the first time. And you know, and I didn’t understand anything. We had Begelman and them but they were in it for what they could get out of it. I didn’t know. I didn’t understand myself. I didn’t know anything about meaning. You know, if I could do something for my family but even then you get to the family. You’re more educated formally than the rest of us, George? Dartmouth, right?

GS: Columbia.

EG: Columbia? I met somebody who was at Dartmouth. I have his card. I like to get it clear.

JW: I’ve got a few dollars on Columbia.

GS: Oh right, yeah.

[Everyone laughs]

EG: So that sort of worked out. But it was tough. Oh yeah, making a living. I don’t know how I’m gonna act with the best actors in the world with Bergman. I mean, Bergman didn’t write scripts like we do with indication of direction; it’s like a novella. I thought, oh my God, I can’t expose my ignorance to that, but I can’t say no. So they had him call me in the West Village. [Does Bergman voice] “Hellloooooo. Little Broooootherssssss.”

JW: What did he say?

EG: [Bergman voice] Liiitttttlle Brottttthhhherrrrrr.

JW: Little Brother?

EG: Little brother. He called me that. And so my hair stood up. And I thought, oh, I can trust me with him and him with me. It’s like I talk to a dog or a baby. And so I came. And, whoa, that was really interesting.

http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/california-split-40-years-later-interview-elliott-gould-george-segal-joseph-walsh-three-parts

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link

Thanks for the share. It's neat that Gould mentions being in Irma la Douce on Broadway. Somewhere I've got a souvenir program (not a Playbill) from the original run with a couple of photos of him in the chorus.

Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link

huh I've never seen Getting Straight

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link

Watched a couple of years ago--didn't like it at all. The film-within-a-film in The Exorcist is almost like a parody of Getting Straight and The Strawberry Statement and other campus films of the era.

clemenza, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link

GS is complete on YouTube as of two days ago

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:24 (nine years ago) link

oh man, that interview is so good. next time i'm in LA i'm going to go to canter's in hopes of running into Elliott Gould.

tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link

I know it's the ace deli in Hollywood, was thinking bout it last time

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link

my biggest celeb encounter there was rodney bingenheimer, which is pretty small potatoes, I think

tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link

Barely potatoes at all

Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link

:( I would love to meet Rodney

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 18:59 (nine years ago) link

feel like he was everywhere i went for a while in the late 90s.

tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link

Peckinpah said, Elliott. You do read between the lines, don’t you? And I said, Sam, I live between the lines.

tylerw, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link

"You know that Steffi Graf has quite a tush. I'm just saying it's right there!"

piscesx, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:46 (nine years ago) link

Old Jews Scoping Tush

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link

is The Touch even available? I could barely stand 10 mins of The Serpent's Egg.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 03:02 (nine years ago) link

It's available to those of us in cinephile cities when programmers schedule it every 5-10 years. Don't take away my last reason for living here.

(there's a $99 VHS on Amazon, go to it)

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link

The hell's your problem the last 24 hours? Did you get holly in your Cream of Wheat?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link

I HATE CHRISTMETRIUS

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link

fortunately cheap rent is also something NYC's got an abundance of

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link

hahaha what decade

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link

either a very bad joke or you dont know anyone who barely lives here

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link

that joke is still funny. Why, some of my best friends live on the Upper East Side.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link

thx for mentioning The Serpent's Egg -- now i realize there are TWO Bergman stars in The Long Goodbye's jail cell scene.

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:23 (nine years ago) link

part three!

KM: The improvisation continues through the entire film … with the elephant.

EG: Oh sure …

JW: When Elliott rubs the trunk. That was a continuation of what you guys created. Yeah, I wrote almost all the scenes in the movie including all the interior scenes. But the one scene that happens to be my favorite scene in the move, the seven dwarves, I didn’t write it! I said in Telluride, that one scene was my favorite scene, and I didn’t write it!

EG: Yeah, but it’s so the spirit of your script … I remember when Joey first went out to California and a few of us, didn’t we chip in a few dollars to help you get out?

JW: Yeah, I think you did.

EG: And then I got a letter from Joey saying, “It’s really tough out here. It’s really tough to get work. I’ll tell you how tough it is: it’s so tough out here that Bambi is having to do The Yearling.”

http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/california-split-40-years-later-part-iii-interview-elliott-gould-george-segal-joseph-walsh-three-parts

things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/612/23165019631_96a4b1cd17_n.jpg

Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 November 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link

I want that on a T-shirt

doug watson, Friday, 20 November 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link

Well thats what i made it for

Οὖτις, Friday, 20 November 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link

Outstanding

doug watson, Friday, 20 November 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link

a+

doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link

would buy

please don't shampoo your eyes (stevie), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link

get the shirt mill going for Christmas, i know a college freshman who wd buy

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link

the impetus for this was an offhand comment my wife made about wanting an Elliott Gould t-shirt so I was like sure that's easy and did up the design, but now I'm thinking maybe I should make a bunch. although I have no idea how to do that.

Οὖτις, Friday, 20 November 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link

(I don't have a silkscreen print press or anything)

Οὖτις, Friday, 20 November 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link

is that cafepress thing still around?

skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbduUCvUEAAVRYG.jpg:large

Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link

u sellin these homie?

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:15 (eight years ago) link

it was so nice to see him in Ray Donovan. and he was awesome in it too.

scott seward, Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link

I'm thinkin about it, maybe make a small limited run but I haven't worked it out yet. this was just the first one.

xp

Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 February 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link

I would buy the shit our of one

SCROTUS (stevie), Friday, 19 February 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link

two

I guess I'm torn between figuring out how to fulfill individual orders one at a time vs. printing a bunch in various sizes and just hoping people buy them and I don't lose money

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 February 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link

cool shirt!

μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 19 February 2016 19:07 (eight years ago) link

A thought: You could accept "pre-orders" for a specified period of time, then once you know what you're committed to delivering print them in batches. That way you could economize on the more popular sizes by ordering in bulk.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 19 February 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link

I'm going to make at least one more for a friend, but all I did was buy a shirt (duh) and take my design to this place on Haight St that does custom shirt printing, which cost like $30. So that plus the cost of the shirt would be somewhere around $40 per, and who's going to pay $40 + shipping for a t-shirt? That seems crazy, but maybe idk the market here.

xp

Οὖτις, Friday, 19 February 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

well let's see if this works

http://www.zazzle.com/shakeyshirts/products

Οὖτις, Friday, 4 March 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link

No shirts on sale!

pantsuit aficionado (stevie), Saturday, 5 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link

does this work? this website is fucking garbage

http://www.zazzle.com/elliott_gould_tee_shirt-235817597516456131

Οὖτις, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:16 (eight years ago) link

I'd get one, but with postage and exchange, I'd be up around the budget for Whiffs. Looks great, though.

clemenza, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link

ten months pass...

dunno what yr spoiler sensitivity is re: the premise, so if there's any don't click, but this is one of my favorite thread titles/OPs: his head is a silver egg

difficult listening hour, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link

lol

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link

I just watched The Long Goodbye the other day. EG is the best.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link

OK wait I just saw the Solid Gould shirt. WANT.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:46 (seven years ago) link

I was never able to get my stupid Zazzle profile to work but I can send you the artwork file if you want (I just took it to the local t-shirt print shop)

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link

really? :D Ooh I might even get it on a tote bag or something. It's great.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link

sure webmail me

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link

looks like the Zazzle thing does work now? idk let me know if anybody orders (or tries to order) one!

Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link

I was about to but the color I want is all sold out.

The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 9 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link

Who? was not v good, unfortunately. Wacky robotman premise aside there's just tons of repetitive exposition, w Gould doing his best to be a suspicious FBI hardass, but the plot is generally inert.

Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link

ten months pass...

never knew about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glimpse_of_Tiger#Film

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link

god, i love stories like this

"Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link

Warner Bros. reworked the film, changed the lead from a male to a female, cast Barbra Streisand ironically Gould's ex-wife and Ryan O'Neal and it became What's Up, Doc? Said director Peter Bogdanovich, "The only thing we took from “A Glimpse of Tiger”—and I don’t remember it very well—was the idea that the leading character had been to a lot of different colleges. He or she is very well-educated in a lot of different areas. And we put that into Barbra’s character."

WOW.

Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link

really, that connection is tenuous at best

i mean WUD? is clearly more of an adaptation of Hawks screwball comedies

ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

have never seen Busting and i can't afford/make this; it's on amaz0n tho

also Peter Hyams makes me wary

http://metrograph.com/film/film/2456/busting

brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link

It is interesting, sorta, but the politics of it are super-gross

Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link

Gould, Robert Blake and Allen Garfield might be the schlubbiest cast I've ever heard of.

Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

In a one-to-one swap of Blake for Ned Beatty, Nashville wins that round.

clemenza, Thursday, 5 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link

the cast is great, but the premise (virtuous vice cops busting junkies, prostitutes, hippies etc.) is very reactionary/wtf

Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 March 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

“Harry And Walter...” is a real folly but I enjoyed it. Exquisite production design, great cast and I belly laughed a few times so it gets love. Gould and Caan are fun together and on their own.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 30 May 2021 08:21 (two years ago) link

Elliot Gould is on cameo and that makes me sad.

Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 30 May 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link

Oh wow that *is* sad. Ass-backwards time we’re living in.

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 30 May 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link

gould is a legend and v hottt

plax (ico), Sunday, 30 May 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link

i feel like this last point is under appreciated

plax (ico), Sunday, 30 May 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link

Not by me!

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Sunday, 30 May 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link


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