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Summer vacations, young Elliott performed in the Catskill borscht belt. He would win dance contests during the Champagne Hour, doing the mambo with his mother. "When an entertainer needed a stooge," says his father, "Elliott would be the one they'd choose. He could do a dozen dialects???German, Italian, Jewish, all of them. Then he performed one summer for three weeks in summer stock. He had the second lead in a pre-Broadway show at Woodstock, Some Little Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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