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
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
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."
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
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
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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
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
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
http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4e69cc5a2bf70018310827c634737c3/tumblr_mpdrm2fSa51r7r8e0o1_1280.jpg
― discreet, Friday, 12 July 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link
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
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.
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
part two! (more Walsh and Segal in this one)
http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/california-split-40-years-later-interview-elliott-gould-george-segal-joseph-walsh-three-parts-2
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 19:13 (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
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