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...years Richard Dreyfuss has been hoping for a Shakespearean role, but now that he finally has the chance to play Richard III, he has to do the king as a queen. In Neil Simon's new film The Goodbye Girl, Dreyfuss is cast as an aspiring actor ordered by his wacky director to play Richard as gay. "I'll be getting a lot of phone calls from irate history professors," says Dreyfuss. But he is enjoying his role. Says he: "It's a happy movie. It has no Jaws or Midnight Cowboy...
...Inserts are close-ups, garish interludes in the process of the whole." So explains Richard Dreyfuss as The Boy Wonder, a washed-up wunderkind silent-film director. Inserts, the film, is also a garish interlude, examining the transformation of an accomplished and talented young movie-maker into a drunken pornographic film director. The story itself involves the efforts of The Boy Wonder to finish shooting a porno flick in the course of a single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images...
Primarily, Inserts revolves around the character of The Boy Wonder, and as The Boy Wonder, Dreyfuss succeeds remarkably given his limitations as an actor. Dreyfuss' performance is, of necessity, a studied one. Dreyfuss is not an actor who commands the screen, lacking the presence of a Brando, a Newman, or even a DeNiro. He does not have that brooding presence that would be more suitable for the part, but his performance as The Boy Wonder is one of his best. Generally, he manages to avoid the idiosyncratic gestures--the nervous cackling laughter and the sardonic grin--that even at twenty...
...been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality of his impotence. When he does in fact, through the guiles of the seductive Miss Cake, get his "rope" to "rise" he simultaneously deflates his compulsion to make films. Nonetheless, Dreyfuss's success is not completed, for while his inability to cope has been conquered on a symbolic level, there is still a lingering doubt about real life...
...United Artists press conference in Chicago, Dreyfuss called Inserts the best one-act play that he has ever read, considering it better than Albee's Zoo Story. While this is gross exagerration, Inserts is in fact one of the better film dramas to come around in a long time, an example of dramatic power and momentum glossing over flaws. But despite the advertising claims, Inserts shows degeneracy as it is--undignified...