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

I think it was Lucky Charms.

we should have an EG party if i can come

required: turtlenecks and mutton chops

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.

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

i love elliot gould in the silent partner.

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.

so jealous of new yorkers right now

do we need to make plans for BAM?

still seriously considering htis.

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

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.

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.

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

I know my dad used to watch his doctor sitcom.

who's goin Friday?

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

common courtesy?

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

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

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

I want to do him

not sure he'd be into that though

some of us have never seen "Friends."

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."

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

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors3/Gould_MJ288538750_150x200.jpg

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?

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

so who went? how was?

he's pretty nutty.

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.

intelligence, rather

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.

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

haha

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

fuck, i need coffee

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.

"Hey, man, that's cool."

It's OK with him

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

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.

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.

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

Getting Straight tonight.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

ya it is amazing.

amazing ya

ya