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...things seemed to pick up. He got a summer job in Hit the Deck, which led to a chorus job in Irma La Douce, which led to an audition for lead understudy in I Can Get It For You Wholesale, which led to that girl who stole the show, Barbra Streisand...
Elliott got more than he hoped for. He not only got the job, he got the lead, and Barbra got him. The show was not a hit, but Barbra won high praise for her role, and Gould's relationship with the compulsively over-achieving Brooklyn girl went on. He moved into her apartment over a seafood restaurant on Third Avenue. A year and a half later, they entered into a marriage that came perilously close to finishing Elliott. Barbra made it big in about as much time as it takes to get to Coney Island on the subway. At times...
...good portion of his time was spent bolstering Barbra. "He did help me a lot when we were married," she says now, "but mostly he kept my feet on the ground. At the same time, I wasn't considerate enough of his problems." Those were considerable. Explaining his struggle to deal with ego damage during the years of his failure and Barbra's tremendous success, Gould says: "First of all, I came to those years with a minimum of ego. I was fighting. The first time I saw Tarzan get stuck in quicksand, I got anxiety and used to walk...
...strain became too great, and after seven years together, the two separated. "Marriage to Barbra was a fantastic experience," says Gould. "It had a lot of chocolate souffle and things like that, but it was also like a bath of lava." Says Barbra: "It must have been very difficult for him. Marriages between people who are self-involved is hard. It's safer for actors not to be married to one another...
Gould's surge of success followed closely upon his separation from Barbra, and analysis has also seemed to add to his self-confidence. "It wasn't until the day before yesterday that I stopped being a tortured individual." he says. Curiously, both he and Barbra still cling, however tenuously, to each other and to their 31-year-old son Jason. They have not yet filed for divorce. "That technicality," Elliott says mysteriously, "can evoke a great many inhibitions." It does not inhibit him, though, from camping in his Greenwich Village town house with a quietly attentive 18-year-old girl...