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

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

amazing.

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

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

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.

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.

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

anyone catch the nod to that in wendy and lucy

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

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

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.

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.

no

Corrected: Elliot Gould was never always 'crap'

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

lol

SB alex

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

i heard he just sb'd them back

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4e69cc5a2bf70018310827c634737c3/tumblr_mpdrm2fSa51r7r8e0o1_1280.jpg