Richard Dreyfuss = Sexiest Man Alive!!!!!!

As a younger person, I found his characters supremely annoying, but I've mostly gotten over it.

(there is a character in Jaws who has the same full name as me who meets a gruesome end)

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-11/470257/ROWR.jpg

it was one of those things where someone else was 'playing' him in a reading from an excerpt, and he stepped out from behind the curtain and was all 'that's not how I remember it!' (furious applause)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/8290/bendover.html

He was Leonard Smalls with less leather!!

So wrong, but so deliciously, wonderfully good.

!=

http://www.fantafilm.it/Attori/Dreyfus.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7BIR4IhNnY&eurl=

(also, gabbneb, you might want to have the mods delete that obvious google bait for beginner stalkers way up thread)

Saw a nicely restored digital print of Duddy Kravitz this afternoon. Seemed slightly more patchy to me today than when I used to watch it over and over on TV in the '70s--the lead actress is a bit bland, for one thing--but excellent nonetheless. Denholm Elliot's Bar Mitzvah film was as insanely funny as ever. Don't know if this is Dreyfuss's very best performance, but it's right in there with American Graffiti, Jaws, and Close Encounters. They had a Skype hookup with Ted Kotcheff after the film--you'd never guess he's in his 80s. He had a funny story about Mordecai Richler and Saidye Bronfman from when the film opened in '74:

Bronfman: "Well, Mordecai, you're looking well for a St. Urbain slumboy."
Richler: "And you're looking well, Saidye, for a bootlegger's widow."

Dreyfuss badly wants to do Duddy II, Ted Kotcheff says. NO.

I forgot how much Dreyfuss sweats in that movie, esp the first 20 minutes.

Screened Inserts last night. X-rated chamber film from '76 about the peep show business in the 1930s w/Dreyfuss doing excellent scenery chewing as a washed up silent film director reduced to a six picture deal filming porn in his living room for producer Bob Hoskins. The rest of cast is as follows: Veronica Cartwright, Brian Davies, Jessica Harper (and Jessica Harper's nipples*). Would make a good double feature w/Day of The Locust.

*Seriously, she's naked for like half of her screentime.

playing Madoff on this TV thing

already did Cheney; clearly his goal is to be the bizarro Chadwick Boseman and play the most hated white American men of the early 21st century.

he was great as Cheney

As long as all the most hated white American men all have the same general proportions and age, it should work out nicely for him.

could branch out beyond the borders -- how's his Aussie accent for Murdoch?

or sepp blatter in a FIFA scandal dramatization

I'd like to see Whose Life Is It Anyway? again sometime, see if it holds up.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/actor-richard-dreyfuss-slams-small-dicked-donald-trump-and-his-celebrity-supporters/

Good interview:

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment/richard-dreyfuss-madoff

In re: thread title. Eh. Last year I saw Dreyfuss in a 1980 movie, The Competition and he had a sort of boyish charm in that, which some might find sexy. But his co-star Amy Irving, now she was one attractive young woman in 1980!

Bumping the above interview, just because it's especially good.

This is the Best Twitter

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Inserts with RD as a 1930s porn director playing in NYC this week

http://www.cinepassion.org/Reviews/i/Inserts.html

one time at a party I paid a drug addict $50 to let me hunt him with a paintball gun. It was was a fun and funny thing that everyone enjoyed, but if you take it out of context and talk about it on a podcast nowadays people wouldn't see the humor lol

— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) July 24, 2022

Fun City Editions is debuting Duddy Kravitz on Blu later this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ADWjL42OGc

just watched The Goodbye Girl, and he was so dorky. I liked it, but it felt like such a 1977 film. Marsha Mason and the 10-year old Quinn Cummings were the stars of that show

that was the movie he won the oscar for, though

The Goodbye Girl, 1977, was nominated against Annie Hall for best actor, best actress and best picture at the 1978 academy award. He won best actor, but Annie Hall won the other two awards

I guess maybe it was also an acknowledgement of his role that year in Close Encounters of the Third Kind